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Almost Famous OG: Bunk Bros · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everybody, welcome back to the Almost Famous OG podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am Bob Guiney.
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  Speaker 2: Today I'm without my co host Trista Sutter Nay Wren,
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  Speaker 2: but I am telling you we are having a good
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  Speaker 2: time here in Lake Tahoe. We are at the Lake
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  Speaker 2: Tahoe House and we have been having a very very
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  Speaker 2: fun week. I was gonna say a weekend, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a Wednesday, right, Yeah, Today's Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been a very fun week a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: So we are podcasting from the Verbo Summer House in
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  Speaker 2: Lake Tahoe. Procrastinators rejoice. The early bird is not the
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  Speaker 2: only one who gets the worm. Verbal offers last minute
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  Speaker 2: deals for private vacation rentals, and we scored a sweetheart deal.
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  Speaker 1: Here in Lake Tahoe. We're having so much fun, and.
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  Speaker 2: Today I am super fired up because my next guest,
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  Speaker 2: or my guest here on the next hour of the
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  Speaker 2: Almost Famous OGS is my buddy Ryan Sutter. And many
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  Speaker 2: of you may not know, but Ryan does not grant
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  Speaker 2: many of these interviews. It's tough to get them, tough
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  Speaker 2: to nail him down. He's a busy, busy man. But
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  Speaker 2: he was willing to come and hang out with me
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  Speaker 2: and talk with me, which I love. Ryan is my
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  Speaker 2: oldest and dearest friend from this whole Bachelor Shenanigan's franchise
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  Speaker 2: that started so many years ago and has basically ridden
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  Speaker 2: the atrista Ryan Coat Trail Coat Tails all the way
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  Speaker 2: to twenty three years later. Yes, I mean it really
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  Speaker 2: has right, it's pretty spectacular. A lot of people don't
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  Speaker 2: know this, but Ryan and I were in the same
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  Speaker 2: bunk area and our incredible mansion there in Malibu.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere that I've never been able to find.
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  Speaker 2: When all the guys moved into the mansion and we
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of fun in that house.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that was a very good time.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what.
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  Speaker 2: Are you what are some of your first memories of
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  Speaker 2: when I mean, I know you probably recapped that night,
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  Speaker 2: the first night many times, getting out the limo and
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  Speaker 2: everything else, But what are the when we moved into
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  Speaker 2: that mansion that next morning and it was kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: what is going on? And you looked around that room?
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  Speaker 2: What were you thinking?
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I don't like it's all it's all kind
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  Speaker 3: of a blur. I don't know. If it's a blur
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  Speaker 3: or I've just gotten so old that like I've forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: But somewhere in between those two things, I honestly remember
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  Speaker 3: it being a really positive experience too. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we always had a really good time. And in fact,
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  Speaker 3: I always tell people like we would get the card
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  Speaker 3: to go on a date and there would be some
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  Speaker 3: level of excitement because you're going with Trista and some
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  Speaker 3: level of disappointment because you were leaving all of these
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  Speaker 3: like hanging out with So it was it was, I
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  Speaker 3: think different than it is today where really everyone got along.
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  Speaker 3: I think I told I told you this when we
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  Speaker 3: were hanging out just a few days ago that people
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  Speaker 3: want to know who you got, Like where was the
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  Speaker 3: conflict and where was all this stuff happening? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I literally liked every single person on that show, and
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  Speaker 3: we had a great time, and it was like we
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  Speaker 3: were in this big fraternity house. Yeah, just throwing parties
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  Speaker 3: and you know remember when we took Jack's bed outside
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  Speaker 3: all this stuff was it was just super fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, obviously it got serious as guys
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  Speaker 3: sort of started to go away, right, and then it
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  Speaker 3: became way more focused on on Trista. But the initial
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  Speaker 3: whatever that was weak or two was super fun.
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  Speaker 2: It was Man, I remember it so well too. It's
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  Speaker 2: like that that was and it really set the bar,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I think it was obviously, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: most successful season probably ever of the show. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's kind of interesting because they, I think wanted
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  Speaker 2: or expected conflict amongst us, and they just didn't get
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  Speaker 2: it no matter how hard they tried. And I was
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  Speaker 2: telling the story the other night about getting pulled out
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  Speaker 2: of the hot tub and being told, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: stop trying to coach people on not talking smack when
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  Speaker 2: the cameras. I'm like, look, dude, I'm from Detroit, Like
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, we even know what the hell I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing here. And if I go, if I'm nice this
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  Speaker 2: person's face and that's on camera, then I'm stabbing in
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  Speaker 2: the back. I'm gonna get so much greef from my friends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. But everybody was. We were all
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  Speaker 2: like that, and I knew, like I knew if I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting there on camera and they would say, well so
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  Speaker 2: and so said this about you. And I remember to
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  Speaker 2: this day Jason Carbone going, Ginny, just take the bait
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  Speaker 2: once in a while. I'm like, no, I know he
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  Speaker 2: didn't say that. I know he wouldn't say that we're buddies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you guys are gonna get me say anything.
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  Speaker 2: And it was so funny because we were kind of
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  Speaker 2: in this experimental pod. They never had a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: dudes living in a house together up until that point,
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  Speaker 2: and we were the first run.
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  Speaker 1: And we did like you said it best. It was
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  Speaker 1: a frat hoouse. We'd party.
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  Speaker 2: We'd grant our buddy Jack, he's a firefighter from Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: We took his he went to sleep early, poor dude,
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  Speaker 2: biggest mistake he ever made in his life. We'd take
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  Speaker 2: his entire bed and put it in the yard. The
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  Speaker 2: sprinklers come on.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting suck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, just doing dumb, fun stuff that
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  Speaker 2: guys do to bond. We talked about doing our Sentry
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  Speaker 2: Club thing where we did a one hundred shots of
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  Speaker 2: beer and a hundred minutes. And Trista comes home from
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  Speaker 2: her date and she's looking around the house and it's
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  Speaker 2: in shambles. I'm on the roof with an apron, sweeping
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  Speaker 2: cans under the ground. Jamie Blythe is eating dog food
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  Speaker 2: out of the bag.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I passed out on my bed and
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  Speaker 3: she came in and like rubbed my back. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 3: I woke up like embarrassed that I was the one
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  Speaker 3: that had passed out from the hundred shots of beer.
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  Speaker 3: Not a big drinker, one hundred chots of beers, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it, a lot of beer, and so, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, I'm so sorry. I'm just really drunk.
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  Speaker 1: And she's she was like, no big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously she forgave me.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, she clearly forgive you. I remember so
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  Speaker 1: many things in that show.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a really fun experience because, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I don't think many of us or any
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  Speaker 2: of us knew what we were getting ourselves into. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like there had been another season for us to
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  Speaker 2: watch and take cliff notes, you know. And so we
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  Speaker 2: came in and we kind of made it whatever we
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make it. And I was telling this story
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  Speaker 2: earlier about the producers came to me one day at
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  Speaker 2: the first day we're there and they're like, so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how I got selected, Like, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think everyone's gonna want to eat today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I think we're gonna want Mexican and uh,
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  Speaker 1: Marguerita machine would be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some Tito's. At the time, it was a great
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  Speaker 2: goose for me. I'm like, some great goose. Maybe fourteen
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  Speaker 2: a half gallons of vodka, maybe one taco. We'll split it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be fine. But I remember, it was just such
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  Speaker 1: a different world.
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  Speaker 2: And and you're right about the date cards, because I
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  Speaker 2: do recall. I was never mad when I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: a date card. I was so excited for the guys
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  Speaker 2: that did. And then when I was on a date card,
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  Speaker 2: I was excited to go, but I was also bummed
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't be hanging out with my buddies, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it was genuinely that you described it best.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a real feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And I think it Actually it's interesting having
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  Speaker 3: talked to you after all of these years and found
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  Speaker 3: out your path to the show was very similar to mine,
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  Speaker 3: and that neither of us really wanted to go on
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  Speaker 3: the show initially, or didn't believe the show was real,
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  Speaker 3: or thought we would be right for the show. And
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  Speaker 3: I almost wonder if that played in our favor somehow,
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  Speaker 3: like the production team or the casting producers were like, well,
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  Speaker 3: these guys they don't want to be on the show,
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  Speaker 3: we need to get them on them.
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  Speaker 1: They thought it was a play, so they just kept.
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  Speaker 3: They were persistent with us, which worked out for us.
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  Speaker 3: And then I always tell people, had you not ended
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  Speaker 3: up on the show, I don't think I would have
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  Speaker 3: ended up lasting as long as I did.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Well, it's true, like you mentioned that they come
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  Speaker 3: came to you for menu suggestions and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: but I was fortunate enough to get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: group dates with you, and your personality is one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and eighty degrees from mine, and so I could ride
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  Speaker 3: your sort of like you you just sort of carried
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  Speaker 3: the day and I could sort of just ride in
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  Speaker 3: your wake. And then I could have the time that
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  Speaker 3: I had with Trista, where I'm okay in that sort
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  Speaker 3: of situation, but in a group type of like I
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  Speaker 3: don't entertain people, and I don't tell stories and jokes,
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  Speaker 3: and I can't sing and all these things that you
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  Speaker 3: can do. So it was awesome to have you there
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  Speaker 3: to do all of that heavy lifting, which I think
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  Speaker 3: allowed me to just sort of be myself. And then
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  Speaker 3: that is eventually what Trista ended up falling for and
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  Speaker 3: ended up working out for me. I owe a lot
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  Speaker 3: of just getting to that point to you. And it's
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  Speaker 3: it's true. I've told people that from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 3: It just the way it all worked out for me
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  Speaker 3: was really fortunate because I just like things just lined
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  Speaker 3: up well for me. Yeah, I didn't have to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that work myself. I could just be
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  Speaker 3: myself on that show. And that's really all I know
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  Speaker 3: how to be.
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  Speaker 2: So and that's what she was looking for for someone
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  Speaker 2: to yeah, be excuse me, to be genuine and be
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  Speaker 2: someone who was really and and the one thing I
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  Speaker 2: remember about you right out of the gates and it
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  Speaker 2: was like, I mean we had a fast friendship obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but I remember I remember being on a group date
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  Speaker 2: and I remember saying to Trista. I mean I think
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  Speaker 2: she remembers this because I remember saying this. I was like, so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, are you getting along great with everybody? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gettng with it. I'd be like, you know, Ryan
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  Speaker 2: is like he's writing poetry, he is spending time, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I was like your wingman, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: like still technically supposed to be trying to date her,
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  Speaker 2: right yeah, but I but she and I we were
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  Speaker 2: friends right out of the gate, and it was like
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  Speaker 2: and I and I and I knew that and of
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  Speaker 2: course she's beautiful, and of course, you know, but it
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  Speaker 2: was like we had this great friendship and I was
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  Speaker 2: watching your relationship progress in a way that mine wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember it was more one of those things
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  Speaker 2: where I was like, it's got to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the guys here, and in my opinion, it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be him, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt that way very early on.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember thinking to myself, like it was never
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  Speaker 2: a competitive environment for the guys. We were never like
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  Speaker 2: looking at each other like, oh, that dude sucks, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It was always like I remember, Russ was the only
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  Speaker 2: guy that we all were kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what's up with Russ? And the reason why was because
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  Speaker 2: he showed up with a gift from Tiffany's on night
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  Speaker 2: one and none of us thought of it.
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  Speaker 1: He was just smarter than us.
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  Speaker 2: And we were we were a little irritated with that dude.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, you know, And but thank you,
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  Speaker 2: that's a really sweet thing.
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  Speaker 1: Of you to say.
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  Speaker 2: And I and I've always loved our friendship because I
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  Speaker 2: feel like there's a several that have kind of you know,
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  Speaker 2: permeated the show, and and and over the years have
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  Speaker 2: continued to stay intact. And we don't talk much, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and Jamie blythe I don't talk much with Jamie anymore,
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  Speaker 2: but we still when we talk.
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  Speaker 1: We pick right up where we left off, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like the things about that, you know, Jack,
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  Speaker 2: even Jack like Jack's son played football and he was
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  Speaker 2: he was on the recruiting list for Michigan State. And
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  Speaker 2: I was able to kind of look into that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit and see, you know, are they going to
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  Speaker 2: grab him?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've stayed in touch with him.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I randomly will get a strange message from Charlie, sure,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean not very often, but he'll be like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about you. I hope you're doing great,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And uh, And so it's always been kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting. There's there's some no I have never heard
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  Speaker 2: from since the day the show ended, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: like Greg.
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  Speaker 1: Who was one of the hometowns. Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 1: from anything?
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  Speaker 3: No, It's such a unique guy and talented guy too.
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  Speaker 1: Erry talented guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, physician and right, Yeah, that's funny when when you
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  Speaker 3: were talking about you talking to Trista and us sharing
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  Speaker 3: things like I remember when I wrote the poem that
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  Speaker 3: I eventually read to her. I think it did or
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  Speaker 3: not Disney Sea World, and then it turned into a
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  Speaker 3: song at our wedding, which was amazing. I asked you
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  Speaker 3: about it. I was like hey, and I just felt
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  Speaker 3: super comfortable with you. I'm like, hey, I know, I
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  Speaker 3: know we're trying to get the same girl here, but
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  Speaker 3: what do you think of this poem that I wrote,
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  Speaker 3: like in and you were super honest with it. You
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  Speaker 3: read it and gave me your opinion, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's just it just I think is testament to your
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  Speaker 3: character that you could separate the fact that we were
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  Speaker 3: And I hate the word like competing for a girl.
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  Speaker 3: I also hate the world like word like or the
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  Speaker 3: concept of like I won this, like I somehow won
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  Speaker 3: a wife right out of this thing. I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like it's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Like a process.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you won the you won the Batcheorette, good job,
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  Speaker 2: was a wife? I knocked down the most up things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and it's just I feel lucky and even
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  Speaker 3: when we're talking. This morning, I came in to get
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  Speaker 3: dressed or whatever, and I was like, you know, Bob
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  Speaker 3: and I, despite the fact that our personalities are probably
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty degrees different, are very similar people
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  Speaker 3: like I think we have a lot of similarities. We do,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's probably why we've been able to
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  Speaker 3: get along so well. And truthfully, when I get invited
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  Speaker 3: to these maybe I shouldn't say this on iHeart, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm always like, it was Bob going to be there,
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  Speaker 3: because if he's going to be there, then I'll go.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise I don't know most of the other people, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm more reluctant to go. But I always enjoy
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  Speaker 3: catching up with you, whether it's with a microphone in
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  Speaker 3: my face or at the pool in the morning drinking coffee.
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  Speaker 2: Always this morning I was, yeah, I mean for everyone listening.
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  Speaker 2: So this morning was an interesting morning. My son face
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  Speaker 2: timed me at what would have been four thirty in
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  Speaker 2: the morning here to tell me he was so excited
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  Speaker 2: to go to camp and everything, and my luggage still
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  Speaker 2: hadn't arrived. Damn you a Delta, But Delta, they're my oline.
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  Speaker 2: I love them, but I kind of use that as
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  Speaker 2: my motivation. I was like, Okay, I'm awake, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna go right And so I was calling Delta on
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  Speaker 2: the way there, and I was just bound and determined
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  Speaker 2: to get my bag. And then I got back and
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  Speaker 2: it was still super early, and I did have my suitcase, thankfully,
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  Speaker 2: and you and I just had a chance, just the
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  Speaker 2: two of us to sit out there and talk for
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  Speaker 2: about an hour. And and I loved it too, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I loved actually realizing how much we have in
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  Speaker 2: common with a lot of that stuff, because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times we don't even get the opportunity to really
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  Speaker 2: download with each other. We're just like, oh, hey, what's up, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: how you been Okay, great, Well, I'm gonna do this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're at dinner with four hundred people and we're
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  Speaker 2: not talking to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And so I appreciated that too, And I loved that too.
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  Speaker 2: You Actually, you and my wife Jessica have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of similarities in how you like are with crowds. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like she's great, she loves talking people, she loves but
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  Speaker 2: she loves in a more of a one on one situation.
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  Speaker 2: She gets a little intimidated when there's more people, and
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  Speaker 2: and so that's kind of where I stepped in and
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  Speaker 2: be like, hey, I got this, you know. But but
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  Speaker 2: I do remember when we were talking about your poem,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember thinking to myself that that was really
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  Speaker 2: a huge moment for me, because I remember thinking, he's
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  Speaker 2: sitting here spending time writing poetry and I'm out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to get guys to do twenty shots of beer, Like.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell's the difference here?
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  Speaker 2: Right? But you're and you were at this different place
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  Speaker 2: that I don't know that I was capable of getting
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  Speaker 2: to with anyone at that place, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It could have been Trista, It could have been my
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: wife now, it could have been can, It could have anybody.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I just don't think I was prepared emotionally for that journey.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: And you were there, and you were there because it
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: was her, Yeah, because I don't think. I don't think
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: you would have been there if it wasn't her, But
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: because it was her, you allowed yourself to go there.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: You have that you're such a sincere person and you
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: just don't care about all the other bs. And it's
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: all I've always said that about you like the guy
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: from was that People magazine? Who was that guy that
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: was here today?
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: So I was saying to that guy today. He was like,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: you know, so what do you think about all of this stuff?
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, that's the house that Tristan Ryan belt.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it really is. I mean because the Bachelor franchise,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: you know, that was so early in that whole thing.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: They had zero success so far, sure had it not
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: been for the two of you. And then the televised wedding,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: which you know a little known fact, and I remember
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: this Oprah was was was the one who wanted to
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: do the wedding, and then ABC was like all of
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: a sudden, like, oh no, We're going to televise a wedding,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: you know, And I remember that being a thing. I
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, this is amazing. It like
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a bidding word for the wedding. But of course, you
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: know that was it was. It was just a really
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: cool moment, and it was like you know that I
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: remember the wedding was so next level stuff and you
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: guys handled it, you know.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: And yeah that was all Trista. I mean, so much
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: of this is her. She's been the sort of face
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: of that bachelorette franchise for a while. I mean, there
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: have been so many good bachelorettes. Yeah, for her to
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: sort of be the first one, you know, I got.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I just took this promotional test and we had to
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: in for the fire service, and we always we've always
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: focused on leadership, and someone told me that leadership isn't
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: about getting followers, it's about going first. And I always
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: really liked that. I was like, oh, you know, that's
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: kind of what she did in this case, because she
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: took a ton of criticism and heat and it wasn't
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: as bad as it is now where it's there. The
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: social media world was not nearly what it is.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: There was chat rooms back then, right, yeah, and she
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: couldn't stay off of theme, and I was like, just
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: don't go on them, because you would be want there'll
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: be one hundred nice things, and that one because because
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I made the mistake of going in there a few
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: times too, and there would be one hundred nice things,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: and that one person sitting behind a laptop saying something
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: mean and that was sticking your head for weeks and
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: make you second guess everything.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's crazy.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: It was horrible and so so yeah for her to
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: do that, to take on this challenge, and then the
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: wedding was a whole another spectacle that both of us
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: just sort of so it seemed like it was going
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to happen obviously, and so we both just said, all right,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: this probably isn't how we dreamt our wedding to be,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: but let's make the most of this. And it turned
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: out awesome, Like we had a great time. We just
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: sort of let it happen. And there were bumps in
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the road obviously, like I think there probably are for
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: everyone's ding, sure, And so it was it was everything
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: she could have imagined with all of the people like
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Mark's garden play riding like eight bazillion flowers, and all
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: our friends were there, the guys from the firehouse were there,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: and nobody had to drive home and it just was
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: a super fun weekend turned out too. It was awesome. Yeah,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: it was really awesome. So that I mean, again another
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: like snippet from our conversations off the air, like it
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: it was, but it was so long ago that I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: don't even really relate it to my life anymore, Like
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: it was just like a totally different time where with
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: like the helicopters flying over and all of that sort
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: of press that followed that. That process of getting married
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: seems like it didn't even ever happen. All I really
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: remember is just getting married and now having this great
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: family that we have and all this life that we've
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: built from that moment. But that's been the blessing of
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the Bachelor for me. Trist has been able to stay
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: relatively connected with it for well, since she was on it, yeah,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: or we were on it. I've been sort of intentionally
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: removed from it, and it's worked out really well for
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: both of us. Like it's just been the ideal sort
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: of life for us, and it's it's we're we are
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: super grateful for it and super fortunate. We feel super
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: fortunate for all the friendships that we've had and the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: experiences that we've gotten to take advantage of because of it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: We got we got to live like the lifestyle of
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the rich and famous there for a little while, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: then we got to go back to normal life. And
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I think that's the blessing that a lot of people
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: either don't get to have. They just never get to
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: go back to normal life, or they go back to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: normal life, but they still really wish they were rich
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: and famous, right, And that's a tough battle to fight.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Also, that's an internal battle for that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're just fortunate enough to be sort of
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: found this kind of really great middle ground and are
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: existing within that. And it's been, I mean, knock on
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: what it's been great and hopefully continues to be.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely no, I think you put it perfectly. I often
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: say that when people will say, you know, why we're
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Tristan and Ryan so successful and these other couples can't
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: make it. And I do think a lot of it
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: has to do with making the decision to move and
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: go back to Colorado.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You never quit your day job, you know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I know you changed some things a few different times,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: but you've always stayed true to who you are. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Trista embrace that too, you know what I mean. And
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: so yeah, she still of course, you know, dabbles here
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and there and does the things that she can do,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and of course the podcast that we do together and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: everything else. But I think for the most part, it
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: was like I can I can move to la like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: everybody else does, you know, and see if I can
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: become you know, the new Ben Affleck and the new
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you know, Jennifer Lopez or I can go home and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'll take what comes when it comes. And you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I actually went through that after the show too, because
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: there was just all these opportunities and but I had
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: to make a decision. I was like, I'm never going
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to quit my day job because my fear was and
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: this was this was really something I kept waiting for
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the other shoot to drop. I'm like, I'm not gonna
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: be flavor of the Month forever, and they're going to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: find a cheaper, funnier, younger, better looking version to me
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: in the next Bachelor, and you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Know, and and they did.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Jesse Palmer came along, you know, and all of a sudden,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, he's already in a broadcaster,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you know, creat like a guy.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Quarterback, and he actually started no.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It was like they you know, but I just kept thinking,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: like so, I'm like, if I don't put all my
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: eggs in that basket, then I can be happy, you know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And it took time for me to find the right person.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: But once I finally didn't, you know, we've got a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: family of our own and everything else, It's like, you
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: can still You're right, you can still kind of have
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: both worlds coexisting, but you've got to make the decision
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on which side of that fence you want to be on. Yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and I think that the younger people now, with all
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the social media opportunities and things like that that didn't
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: exist when we were on the show, probably find it
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: harder to decide what's more important. Yeah, you know, because
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: they wanted the fame part of it. We didn't know
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: that that was going to be a byproduct of what
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we were doing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: We didn't know what we were doing.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I specifically remember when you sat in there with a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: psychologist or psychiatrist, I can't remember which one she was.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: She said, this is going to affect your life for
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: probably up to three months, so just be ready for
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: that impact. And it's been twenty something years and it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: still sort of impacting. And the first several years were
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: like you like, it was a major impact on your life. Yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to be on Like to be in the grocery store
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: with the guys getting groceries for the shift and there's
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: you and your wife on People magazine. Yeah, this is weird.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: It is weird.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: That was actually a because I mean, I don't think
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: we don't see the magazines like we used to write.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: But I remember that was a big thing for me
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: because I was I'd be at the grocery store and my.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Mom loved it, right, So my mom would walk up.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: My mom would be in like the chicken section and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: be like, Bobby, this woman's a huge fan of yours.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I'm like, how does she know?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: What do you?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Mom? Are you walking up going?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Are you gonna go chicken breast or thighs? That my
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: son's Bob Guinea's over there? Like how is how does
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: this person even know I'm here? I walked Bastard twenty times.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: She didn't recognize me. But I remember like seeing especially
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: when things like when Nostella and I were splitting up,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: and I remember seeing the cover of the magazine with
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the rip down the middle and it was like, you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And I remember calling the executive editor US Weekly and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Like, why would you do that? Yeah, you're my friend,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Like why would you She's like, well, no, it was
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: just we just did it to you know sell.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, that hurts my feelings, like, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting paid millions of dollars. I guess in
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: my mind that would have been okay to take a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: pot shot, but why.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Did you do that to me? Like I'm the normal guy,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: So I remember that that did change life for a while,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and that had to be really tough for you because
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you went right back to the firehouse.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fine until the show started airing, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: then I had to take six months off of the
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: firehouse because people would pull fire alarms and people would kidding,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: would take be taking pictures while you're on medical calls,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: and it was a huge distraction. Yeah, So the fire
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: chief suggested that I take six months off, and he
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: was right, and so that was when we planned our
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: wedding and it ended up working out great. Yeah, but
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: but yes, hugely impactful there for a while. And you're
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: just when you're just constantly taking pictures and constantly sort
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: of and there was a great there was a good
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: side of it too, like we got to do a
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: kind of ton of really cool events and like I said,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: we got to live in this really sweet cabin and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: on Veil Mountain for a while. So there were there
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: were definitely some benefits to it, but it was an
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: adjustment just to try to find some privacy in your life.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: And yeah, and you know, always being nice. Like both
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Tristan and I realized the only reason why people wanted
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: to take pictures was they we they enjoyed the experience.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: And we heard a ton of really positive like I
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: watched this with my right after I had my child
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: in the hospital, or I watched it as my mom
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: like she was passing away or something like that, all
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: of these stories that are really touching, and.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can't ignore them when they're talking to you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You know, you're listen. The only reason why we're able
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: to enjoy the things we're doing are because of these
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: people who all they want is a picture.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah that takes two seconds.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, we'll do that. And so we've always felt
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: that way, and we've we were blessed with a positive,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: a mostly positive impression coming off of that show. So
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: people have always been super supportive and nice, and that's
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: been easy to handle.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right, cause I'm sure I used
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to hear stories about like guys like you know, I
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: don't know if they were the villains of the season
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: or something like that, but they would go into a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and people would mess with them and stuff like that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: That just never happened to me.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You know, I think I got the sun kissed of
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: being on the season with the two of you and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you two finding love, and then my season people seem
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to like And it wasn't successful from a relationship perspective,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: but it was successful from the standpoint of I was
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: nice to everybody, they were.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Nice to me, and there was no scandal. It was like,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you know, that kind of stuff.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: So it was easy to come off of a good
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: at it like that, you know, as opposed to perhaps
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: one of the others. But well, I love I know
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: that this isn't something you love to do with these
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, but I love that you're here. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: love that you're willing to do this with me. We
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: are also here, of course, for a pickleball tournament, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I will tell you I had an early pick. I thought,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: you know, well, let's see, I think Trista suggested this.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, we should do the iHeartRadio Pickleball tournament.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, clearly someone has played pickleball, right, because
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't necessarily suggest something I didn't know how to do.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: So I told Kenyon, I'm like, Canyon, I think I
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: think the Sutters are going to be pretty good. I'm like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: first of all, Ryan's the best athlete I know. Secondly,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Trista suggest us at this, so I have a feeling
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: they're coming in strong.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: We need to practice. We've never done this before.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So two weeks ago at our at our family's lake house,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: we got like our friend has like a basketball court.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: We put the net over the thing and we're in there.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: She everyone's trying to teach us the rules, and I
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: was just I didn't understand the kitchen because they didn't
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: have that kind of layout, so I didn't even know
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: what they were talking about. And then the bouncing of
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the ball, letting it bounce twice was the hardest part
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for me, like remember to do that?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: But I felt like we got we got pretty good.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: So then we get out here and uh, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: we had some stiff competition. However, I think it's important
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that we let people know. Well, first of all, who was.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: You are the champions. Trista and Ryan Sutter won the
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Pick a Ball Championship. First and foremost, congratulations, you were
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: a worthy competitor. I was very appreciative that during our
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: matches you were coaching us on how to play the game,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: which was super nice, like up Bob the next time,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: you know, rushing that when you're not serving, And that
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: was awesome because as we end up having to play
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: each other twice, yes, yeah, and the first time I
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: think we almost got shut out. I think it was
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: eleven to one, and the second time a much better,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: much improved game, much closer eleven to three, but still
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Much closer than the score indicase.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you guys when you guys got on a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: heater serving and it was just like sheeeze, pets, we can't.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: But who would you say from the standpoint of like
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: watching everybody play, Because I expected I expected Golden Gary
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to be pretty good. Yeah, and he brought his own rackets,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: his own paddles. I guess you'd call him. I'm like
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: anybody who's traveling with paddles. That dude's serious, right, He
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: had special shoes.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Court shoes, yep, tort shoes.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Who were you expecting to be tough competition and who
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: were you surprised by?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Well, if I'm being honest, I wasn't really totally sure
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: who all was coming to this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Thing, so I don't really know who I was expecting
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: to be good. But when we got there, Gary was
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: one I knew you would be good. Yeah, I thought
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Ben would be pretty good.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yep. I didn't realize he had had bue need that. Yeah,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I didn't it a little bit. Yeah, Deanna was Dianna
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: was probably the one that surprised me the most because
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: she had never played and we played her. I want
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to say, we played them first, Ben and her, and
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: she was hitting the ball over the place. And then
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: by the end of it, kind of like you and Canyon,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Like the the improvement was was noticeable, right like you guys,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you figured it out really quickly and became pretty proficient,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Like within a few games.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I thought Deanna easily wins the award for me for
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: funniest funniest player. Oh you know, like every time she'd serve,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: she was doing like the Serena really was like that ah.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And then she'd when she hit the ball, it would
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: either be a grunt or she'd just yell the worst
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: cuss word you've ever heard in your life.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And I was like, it would.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Make you laugh and you couldn't even return the ball,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: and you're like, damn it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, she was good.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: She was enjoying it, and I think you hit the
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: nail on the head with with Why we won is
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: because Trista. Trista planned this whole thing out.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Trista has been playing pickleball for years in like
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: leagues and stuff.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: She knew all the rules.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: She knows all the rules, and she's very competitive. I
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: don't know if people know this about her, but she
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: does not like to lose, no mean, and so it is.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I thank god I was on her team because if
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I was not, and God forbid, we would have beaten her.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: It would have been awful.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Kenyon also is incredibly competitive, and it was kind of
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: funny when because we kept coming up against each other
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: for the finals. The finals match was between the Guineas
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and the Sutters, and we get up there.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And Kanyon is like, she the first time we played,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: was super competitive and ready to go.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Second time we played, she was like, We're never gonna
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: beat them. I'm like, hey, I can't have that attitude. Okay,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: you need to fire up. And I was like, yeah,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: what I love about pickleball? And I do think this
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: is actually kind of a universal things. I've seen it
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: in movies seeing everything. It does make couples like argue more.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, yeah for sure.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Because I saw you guys a couple times. She's like
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why are you back there? And
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you're like what And you just hit like a winner
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and she'll be like, well you could have. You should
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: have hit it from up here. You're like, I just
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: hit a winner. Like, no one hit, no one hit
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the ball back.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I will let one ball go thinking she was going
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: to hit it. Apparently that was my responsibility.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, I rushed the net too soon.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Glad I know now, or I'd never do that again.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's she's relentless on me when we play together.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Oh god, it's I enjoy seeing that side of her sometimes. Yeah,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: it's surprising because she's not normally like that. She's normally
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: pretty subdued and a sweetheart. But when she gets into
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: anything competitive.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: He's competitive man. Yeah forget, she was a competitive dancer.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: She I know, Blakesley does that now your daughter is
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: in now, It's like you know that stuff that that
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: is that is a very difficult sport and a very
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: grueling sport to be conditioned for and everything else. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: you put in all that time and effort, You're not
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: doing it to come in second.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You know, so I get it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You know, my sister was a competitive cheerleader growing up
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and competitive dance and stuff, and I remember they were
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I mean it was they worked hard on that story.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Those routines did not you know, choreograph themselves, you know
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: what I mean.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Tristan was a little bit of a tomboy growing up.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: She played soccer and softball, and she was an athlete,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: so she has that in her. Yeah, both of our
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: kids do. Blakesley has that. I told you Max, Max
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: has it. It's buried a little deeper in Max. He's
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: he's more of a stoic type of kid, but also
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: super hard worker, competitive in that regard. But he doesn't
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: lose his temper as easy as his mom man, probably
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: his dad. Yeah, he does a good job.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He's an improved version of Yea.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: He's got the management.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Stuff's important, you know, it really is. I mean he's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: got that down. So, yeah, I did notice the few
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: times i'm that Max, he is very quiet, very very humble,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: just sits you know, sits back kind of I think
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: gets that from you, right, like.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: From the reality perspective.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and but yeah, I mean I know he's a
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: really good hockey player, and and you know, I'm sure
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: probably everything he does he's probably pretty good at because
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: he's got two very athletic parents, you know, and it
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: kind of comes by default if nothing else.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I think he's getting his genes from somewhere. I don't
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: know for sure if it's Trista and I, but maybe
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: it's Trista's grandfather was World War two vet. Like, I
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: think some of it's coming from him because he's he's
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: of that greatest generation, and Max has a lot of
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: those kind of old soul, old soul qualities. He's matured
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a lot over the last few years. He's really grown
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: up as a person. I'm super proud of him. Again,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: knock on wood, he's home home alone. He probably throwing
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: some sort of giant kger at our house. They're going
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to come home to you. And I'm gonna regret having
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: ever said this, but both of our kids have been
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: really awesome. It's really strange to get to this point
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: in your life where you can see your kids like
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: they're close to moving out of our house and that's
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: just going to leave us these as these empty nesters,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: which one makes you feel so old, it does, And
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: two I don't know what it's going to feel like.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: That Max's room is down in our basement where our
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: little home gym is, and so I go down there
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: and it's like smells like Max. It's like feels like Max. Yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And I don't know what that's going to be like
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: when there's no Max down there anymore. So I am
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: trying to really soak it up.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: We just took a sweet backpacking trip the other day
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: for his eighteenth birthday, and those moments have become way
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: more precious than the closer he gets to leaving. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: so it's this whole parenting journey is crazy, like sort
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: of the stage you're in is a super fun stage
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: with your kids that are like really exciting and they're
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: facetiming you and all that sort of stuff. And I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: writing these long text messages to my son or something,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: and I get I get an expect like a response
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: back that's just like good, but.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's all I get is good.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: So one of my best buddy's sons, he has an
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: eighteen year old and the sixteen year old, both boys,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: and he's like and he's he's like that, like he's
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: he's always been like the best friend dad and he
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: does all the sports with him and you know, and
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: he's like, God, you know, I used to think, man,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: these kids just never stop talking, right, And he's like.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: And now I can't get him to talk to me.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: He's like, and it breaks my heart.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: He's like, we'll have these conversations going and he'll just
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: go mm mmm, and he's like, I'll be like, how
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: was school today?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Good? What'd you do?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Who you talking to nobody?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: He's like, come on, man, give me something, you know,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: and he's like, it's just I don't know what the
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: duke because I don't want to be the I don't
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: want to be too pushy. But at the same time,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to carve out moments because I know he's
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: leaving for school and yeh, he's at that exact same
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: stage as you and I. And it's interesting because that
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: makes me almost really want to cry, because right now
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Grayson will talk to me and Blake will talk to
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: me until I can't literally take it anymore. Yeah, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be the dad that's like I
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: read something once that they said, h never if your
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: kid ever asks you to like pick him up and
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: carry him.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Never say no, yeah, because you never know the last
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: time they're gonna want you to carry them.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: So I'll be on a walk with the boys and
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: they'll be like, Daddy, carry me, and I'm like, in
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: my mind I should be saying like, nope, you need
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: to keep walking, build your and I'm like, okay, I
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: snatch him off to carry what are you doing. I'm like,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: he might not want me to carry him anymore tomorrow.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm missing this.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: You never know when it's the last time. I used
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: to do this thing called the leaf with my daughter Blakesley,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: where I would hold her up and I would like
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I would like rock her back and forth as I
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: brought her back down into her bed and drop her
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: and she loved it, like loved it. And I remember
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: doing it one time and I'm like, oh god, she's
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: like getting kind of big. I don't know, I don't
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: know if I can do this much longer anymore. And
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I distinctly remember the time she asked me and I'm like,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you just you've just grown up too much,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Like I can't do it.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: And he just never crushes me.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Know when that last one is yeah, you so want
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: to go back to those days where you could like
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: swing them in between you and do like things like that,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: and and you know, instead Max is talking about like, Dad,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: I benched to twenty five today, and I'm like, I'm
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: damn twenty five and so like, and Blakesley is just
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: all over the dance floor and look doing these like
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: these dances that make a dad uncomfortable.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: It's like, so you think you can dance style that
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: she does?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Right? Yes, I've seen some of those routines before, and
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: then I've seen when Trista posts them, and I'm like,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: that's like, it's like a grown.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Up my sixteen year old daughter.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You probably looking around. If anybody's like staring at her,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I'll kill them.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: The one side of me is like, how is she
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: doing that? It's it's amazing the way that she can
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: move and and remember these dances and just like they're
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: also talented. The other part of me is like, dang it,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: she's grown up way too fast and she sixteen looks
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: twenty two up there, and I just don't like it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: It just she has a boyfriend now and all these
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: sorts of things.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: How does that make you feel?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I actually thought it would be worse. It's not that bad.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Her boyfriend's pretty cool and he makes her happy, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: there's times when he's kind of a dick, and then
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: we have to sort of be like I have to
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: be like listen, Blake, he's a sixteen year old boy.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: He's going to be kind of like, this is just
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: how it is. I was the same way. Yeah, it's
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: going to be. You just have to put up with it. Yeah,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: you know, so, I'm but I'm like, but don't put
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: up with it, right, Yeah, but don't you expect.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: But don't let him do that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: You ever get Yeah, that's good, it's crazy. I mean,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: it's it's fun.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I challenges I got every time you turn around.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Yep, I remember. I remember, like every single phase of
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: our kids growing up, was like, oh, I wish they
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: would never leave this phase. And then they go to
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: the next phase. I'm like, oh, I wish they would
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: never release this. So it just keeps getting better. Different,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: for sure, but it's it's fun to watch them grow
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: into their own people and and wonder how they're going
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: to turn out.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: That's such a Yeah, that's a really cool perspective. I
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: love that there's this thing I saw on Instagram not
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: too long ago, and it's the dad from Modern Family,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: you know, the guy that was on Married with Children
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Ed I can't think of his name, and he was
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: giving a speech to the whole family and he was
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: talking about, you know, I exactly what you just said.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Like he was talking about, you know, the little baby
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: in my arms. And then I'm like, oh, I hope
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: she never goes up. The next thing, you know, she's
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: become a toddler and she's talking and saying her first words,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: and he goes all the way through the whole thing.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: He's like, but I never had a chance to miss
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: the old one because the new one showed up, you know.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: And he's like, and I fell in love with her
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: too as well. You know. It's sort of interesting, you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: from a parenting perspective, as I'm watching my boys grow
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: and I'm loving where they're at right now, and I'm
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: missing where they were. And I think being an older
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: dad too, like I'm fifty four with a six year
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: old of four year old, you know, I'm already the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: grandpa showing up at t ball and I feel like
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: it's one of those things where I'm really trying to
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: savor these moments because I've heard from my friends whose
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: kids are older that you need to you know.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: So that's great advice.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: So thank you.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: All Right, So we got a few minutes left before
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: we wrap this up. So I want to talk about
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the one thing that we've talked that I've always said
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I loved about you was you never quit your day job.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: He came on the show that back then, they made
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: us very one dimensional people, right, even Ryan the firefighter.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I, however, because we were bunkmates, knew more
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: about you. And I remember saying to the producers, why
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: do you keep bringing up the fact that I was
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: a backup quarterback at Michigan State, which essentially means I'm
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: a party planner. But then you've got a guy who
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: played in the NFL, and all you keep talking about
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: is that he was a firefighter, Like this dude was
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: a beast and it would drive me crazy. And I'm like, you, guys,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I get it. He's humble, he's not talking about but
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: he's a next level athlete.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I digress. I won't get into that one,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: but they want to talk about some of this stuff.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: So I was thinking about this the other day. You know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: one of my other buddies a firefighter and he was
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: a paramedic for a period of time as well, and
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: my father was a police officer. Always had the best
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: stories of things that would happen, and they'd be like, oh, yeah,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: you know, this happened, this happened, and you should have
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: seen this, but you know whatever, And it wasn't like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: they were talking about people specifically, but they were talking
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: about moments. Like, for example, my dad's partner for a
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: long time in the force was a guy who was
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: a nervous eater. Right, so they walk into a scene
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: and the fireman I already be on the scene of
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: the paramatics, and the guy would be like getting the
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: report from the lady as to what, well my husband
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: fell down, dah dah, and he would he would look
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: around and he one time saw a thing of almonds
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: and he's he grabbed he goes, do you mind if
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I and he's like, no, gover ahead, and he's eating
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the almonds while the firefighters are taking care of the
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: man who had fallen or whatever. And she's like, oh,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: thank god, I'm so glad you're eating those almonds. And
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, I love almonds and she goes. I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: my husband all he does is just suck the chocolate
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: off him and put him back in that bowl. My
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: dad to this day, I mean, my dad would just
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: laugh and laugh telling me that story.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I had heard of one hundred times, but it was
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: never not funny to me.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, any circumstances like that, when you look
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: back and you think about all the years you've been
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: on the forest, and especially with the experiences I'm sure
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: you've had. You guys are in a mountain community, you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot that goes on in those in
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: those communities. I'm sure a lot of tourism, a lot
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: of things like that where you get called out for
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: some silly stuff. Any funny stories that you think, like,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: when you look back on him, you're like, this is
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: just like you couldn't write this.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, it's it's hard to come up with
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: anything specific. I do remember when they legalized marijuana and Colorado,
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: you had this influx of forty somethings who hadn't probably smoked,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: they probably smoked joints in high school, and they're like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: all right, and so they started taking because instead of smoking,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: people were just ingesting these like dummies of us. Yeah,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: and it's kind of like doing shots where you're like,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like this is doing anything. I'll have
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: another one. And then all of a sudden and there
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: was it was still this kind of weird Am I
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: in trouble? Am I not in trouble? Because this used
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: to be illegal and I'm not legal, And so we
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: would show up to these just way overly paranoid forty
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: somethings that would be like hiding behind things. Yeah, so
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I remember that as a phase of the first service.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: It was kind of kind of funny. But the beauty
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: of my job is like, right now, I'm on I'm
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: on Rescue one in Denver, which is a pretty serious
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: We go to just about everything and we see a
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: lot of pretty terrible stuff, but we also see a
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: lot of good stuff. And then when we're back at
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: the firehouse, the there's always like things. There's like there'll
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: be like a personality like yours, or there'll be a
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: couple of guys that can are just so good at
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: finding humor in the day, and it's never it's never
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: about the call, like we're never making fun of like
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: a person or like you said anything like that, but
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of making fun of each other, you know
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: each other's mistakes, or like we have this one guy
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: who has big teeth, and we have this one guy
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: that has a big nose, and like the banter back
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: and forth much most of it far too inappropriate to
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: say in a public forum, But it's just that is
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: the beauty of the job is that you go to
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: work with a bunch of people that are your friends,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: and you you go and you do these you accomplish
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: these tasks that sometimes turn out really well and sometimes don't,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: but you always come back to this group of people
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: that you really love and care for and that support you.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: And I think that's what keeps people coming back. It's
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: it's like the job is the job, and it's fun
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: and you feel there's some purpose and some it's a
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: there's a rewarding aspect to the actual job of a firefighter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but ninety percent of the time we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: We're hanging out with each other training and cooking and
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: all these sorts of like sort of household type things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and that camaraderie and friendship is really special. Is what
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: makes the job really special and so there probably are
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  Speaker 3: a million different memories like that that hopefully someday I'll
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: be able to like sit down and really recall, yeah
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  Speaker 3: and remember. But just the overriding impression and the reason
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  Speaker 3: why I've been at this job for like almost thirty
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  Speaker 3: years is because of that component of it.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, which I'm sure is an extension of your sports
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: years and everything else. Right, it's kind of that same
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: type of camaraderie and bonding and sure kind of like
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: what we had in the Batsrette house, you know, honestly
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: it really is.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, dude, I love you, man.
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  Speaker 2: I always love when we get to get together like this,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: and I always love when we get to hang out
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: a little bit. And I obviously spend a lot more
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: time talking with your wife than I do with you.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: But I've always really cherished these moments, and I treasure
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the time we get to spend together. And thanks for
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: always being such a good friend to me, and for
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: being supportive of all that, for always being cool with
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: me walking the red carpet with your wife, and you
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: and my wife are hanging out at the end with
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: cocktails waiting for us. So but I love you, buddy,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you I appreciate you making the.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Time to come and be a part of the show.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are really gonna enjoy
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: getting to hear you talk a little bit about the
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: things that you have taken away from this experience, because
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: it is a unique one. Even though there's been thirty
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: some seasons of it, it's still a pretty unique thing.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: For people to get to go through. I'm glad I
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: got to go go through it with you.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Bob Bla. Likewise, I'll love you too.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I love you, buddy.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: We have had a great time here today, of course,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: catching up with my great friend Ryan Sutter.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I think what we're gonna do right now.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: You know, we are in this incredibly beautiful Lake Tahoe
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Verbo mansion. It's called the River House in Lake Tahoe.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: It is absolutely unbelievable.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Verbo's Last Minute deals are live on the Verbo app
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: and website showing track Tveler is nearly three hundred thousand
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: discount properties.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Take a book within thirty days to check in.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you right now, if you can
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: get yourself to Lake Tahoe, get to the river House,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: you will lose your mind.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: It is absolutely beautiful.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: There's several destinations with plenty of last minute booking options,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: including Hilton Head, South Carolina, Cape cod Massachusetts.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going there soon, San Diego, Portavarda, which.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: I love, and of course right here Lake Tahoe, inside
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: our lovely Verbo. Fighting these deals is simple with the
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Last Minute Booking filter and industry first for vacation rentals.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Discount of vacation rentals are also labeled with a last
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Minute badge that displays the total amount travelers can save
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: on their bookings. Very helpful when you're planning your budget
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: and when you know you got a bunch of couples coming. Plus,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: travelers never have to second guess the total cost or
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: worry about hidden fees. Verbo displays all mandatory fees in
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: the upfront price. Thank you, Ryan Sutter, this has been
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: an absolute blast. I appreciate you being here and thank
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: you all for listening to the Almost Famous podcast with
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Bob Guinea and Trista Sutter nay Rehn.
• 45:57
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