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Listening to Our Hearts with Ryan Neal · 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 her radio. I cannot stop laughing right now, you guys,
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Speaker 1: I wish you could have heard, uh, the conversation that
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Speaker 1: existed for about a minute and a half before the
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Speaker 1: podcast started. It's Ashley just screaming into a mic a
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Speaker 1: thousand different opinions about listen to your Heart. But we're
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Speaker 1: gonna save it because we need to bottle all of
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Speaker 1: that opinions, all of her energy, so that we can
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Speaker 1: talk about it with all of you. Hey, guys, Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's another week of the Almost Famous podcast. It's also
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Speaker 1: the very first week that we're gonna be covering the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor's new show on ABC. Listen to your Heart? Ashley?
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Speaker 1: What's up? Girl? Hey? What's up? Not much? I know
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Speaker 1: that we have a lot to talk about when it
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Speaker 1: comes to Listen to your Heart, but I think it's
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Speaker 1: only best. First off, how are you doing? Uh? And
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Speaker 1: how is your dad doing? Your dad is a a doctor.
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Speaker 1: He's an anesthesy stesiologist. Why I had a hard time
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Speaker 1: saying that today. He's a big deal in his profession.
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Speaker 1: I know he has been self isolating, quarantine himself in
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Speaker 1: the basement, and it was hard for you last week?
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Speaker 1: How is that going? Just catch us up. Well, my
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Speaker 1: dad is amazing. He is the head of his group,
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Speaker 1: his anesthes a group, so he hasn't really been um,
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Speaker 1: really indirect contact with with corona um patients at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: But there are like a hundred and fifty at his
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Speaker 1: hospital right now. Um, they're sending more of the younger guys,
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Speaker 1: anyone who's like not at high risk. My dad's you know,
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Speaker 1: sixty four, um. But he is the president of his group,
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Speaker 1: so he makes decisions um on behalf of the whole
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Speaker 1: anesthesiology group of over like a hundred people, and of
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Speaker 1: course coordinates with the hospital. So that's what's really you know,
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Speaker 1: the big stuff on his plate right now. Lots of
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Speaker 1: important decisions. He calls it downstairs in the basement his
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Speaker 1: um like it's like not headquarters, but what would you
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Speaker 1: call it if it was, um like the army. You
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Speaker 1: had your like basically spunker down there. So it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: like all these conference calls and stuff like that, but
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending him what you did,
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Speaker 1: and uh, the sweet girl in our town that sent
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Speaker 1: it over to the hospital for all the talks. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: that's no problem, but he really is. Uh. We'll start
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Speaker 1: out this podcast like we've done others, and we just
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Speaker 1: want to say to any first responders out there, anybody
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Speaker 1: that's an essential workplace and that is serving those in
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Speaker 1: need right now, thank you. From the grocery store checkouts
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Speaker 1: to the doctors to uh your garbage pick up, all
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Speaker 1: of those people are doing incredible things during a really
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Speaker 1: crazy time. And so just from the almost famous podcast,
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Speaker 1: if you know, if you know somebody who is still
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Speaker 1: working and somebody who is um investing a ton of
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Speaker 1: their time and helping us right now, please just say
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Speaker 1: thank you. You don't have to say it from Ashley
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Speaker 1: and I, but just say thank you to them. I
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Speaker 1: know they will need it. I know that there is
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Speaker 1: a lot of chaos, but as usual, we want to
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Speaker 1: think those people. We want to love on those people.
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Speaker 1: But we also want to continue to bring you the
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Speaker 1: highest quality pop culture and bachelor focused content, and that's
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do today. Hey, this is an episode
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Speaker 1: about listen to your heart. But before we get started, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: let's take one break and when we come back, there's
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Speaker 1: some hot topics in Bachelor Nation that I know we're
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Speaker 1: dying to discuss. Hey, we'll be back with the almost
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Speaker 1: famous podcast first episode of Listen to Your Heart Bachelor
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Speaker 1: trending topics. Hey, before we bring on our very special
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Speaker 1: guests who are going to talk to us about the
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Speaker 1: new show that The Bachelor's created, Listen to Your Art,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through some of these topics that are
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Speaker 1: heating up the news line. Chris Harrison Denice Kelly's claim
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Speaker 1: that Bachelor producers locked her in a closet for three hours.
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Speaker 1: If you remember the reference that happened on our Podcasting
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Speaker 1: in Depth podcast with Peter Weber, she mentioned that Bachelor
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Speaker 1: producers locked her in her closet, Um, Ashley, what do
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Speaker 1: we know? Well, I know that when she said that
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Speaker 1: on the podcast last week, that she was referring to
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Speaker 1: an i TM to an interview room. You know, they're
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Speaker 1: usually small, padded rooms, UM, that you sit in for
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Speaker 1: sometimes hours doing an interview with And she was saying
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Speaker 1: that they strategically put her in the interview room UM
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Speaker 1: at certain times that she couldn't interrupt, and they kept
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Speaker 1: her in there longer so that, you know, she wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have as much time with Peter. I understood what she
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Speaker 1: was saying, and I could have clarified during the podcast episode,
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Speaker 1: and I know you could have two been but I
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Speaker 1: guess we didn't. We were kind of really excited to
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Speaker 1: have Kelly on there. We didn't want her to stop
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Speaker 1: talking or to you, like we were kind of like
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Speaker 1: calling her out at all. So what Chris is saying
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Speaker 1: is correct. Chris ends up saying that Kelly, of course,
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Speaker 1: was not locked into a closet. What she must have
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Speaker 1: been referring to in that moment would have been an
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Speaker 1: interview room, which you know sometimes like a happened in
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Speaker 1: like um walk in closet type rooms. It wasn't even know.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even like, hey, I don't want her to
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Speaker 1: stop talking. As much as I think both of us
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Speaker 1: were like, hey, we know what she's referring to. This
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Speaker 1: isn't this isn't like, this isn't even a thing. I
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Speaker 1: didn't even catch it because I was like, oh, when
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Speaker 1: she says closet, she's just like saying a room. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't like an actually like closet area. I get it.
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Speaker 1: I get why she said it. I understand why Chris
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Speaker 1: Harrison wanted to give some clarity to the whole situation.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't locked in the closet, she was locked in
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Speaker 1: a room. Hey, Bachelor at waste production options amid uncertainty
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Speaker 1: over Claire Crawley season. Obviously, with the COVID nineteen sweeping
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Speaker 1: over the globe, the Bachelor has paused production on The Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: which should be filming right now, Ashley, as the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: producers come out and say Bachelorette is weighing options, what
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Speaker 1: do they mean. Yeah, they're thinking about renting out a
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Speaker 1: whole entire resort for about five weeks during July and August. Um,
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Speaker 1: it would be kind of like Bachelor in Paradise or
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Speaker 1: Bachelor Winter Games as far as the size of the
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Speaker 1: production and the size of the resort. And when I
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Speaker 1: heard this, I go, oh, five weeks of filming. That's
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Speaker 1: about three weeks less than what the normal Bachelor Bachelor
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Speaker 1: I would get, which made me a little bit sad
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Speaker 1: for Claire. But then I started thinking, Okay, well, if
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Speaker 1: you cut out the travel time, and you cut out
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Speaker 1: all the time so you have to like walk around
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Speaker 1: and shoot footage looking pretty in a foreign city, um,
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Speaker 1: you're actually probably going to get just as much time
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Speaker 1: with the guys as you would during your normal season.
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Speaker 1: So I have the opinion of this as somebody who's
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Speaker 1: been the Bachelor before. There's nothing that sounds better to
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Speaker 1: me than at five hours expedit experience. I am happy
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Speaker 1: for Claire. She's gonna be able to feel and see
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Speaker 1: and experience the things that she wants to while at
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Speaker 1: the same time not having a bunch of the dragging,
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Speaker 1: tiresome weeks that typically exists. So I think this is
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Speaker 1: a great idea. So even in l A, when you
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Speaker 1: have dates in l A, you gotta get ready, you
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Speaker 1: go take the limo like an hour hour and a half.
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Speaker 1: That's travel. Then there's a whole bunch of hurry up
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Speaker 1: and wait. And I do think that doing it at
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Speaker 1: one resort is going to take away a lot of
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Speaker 1: the stress and travel and she could be more well arrested. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like it uh that that. I do feel like
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Speaker 1: this is a a pro uh for Claire. I would
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Speaker 1: love to see this happen, and I would also be
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Speaker 1: intrigued to see what kind of connections can be made
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Speaker 1: in five weeks. Who knows. I mean with Claire, she's emotional,
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Speaker 1: she wants to find somebody. I don't think it's you know,
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Speaker 1: a crazy idea that she could find her match in
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Speaker 1: five weeks. Honestly, if it's if it is like Paradise,
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Speaker 1: there's been more successful couples of ratio wise coming on Paradise,
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Speaker 1: right the main franchise. Speaking of Paradise, an investigation into
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Speaker 1: whether or not Bachelor in Paradise is happening this year.
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Speaker 1: We don't know, but Cosmopolitan has an article that says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we wonder if Bachelor in Paradise can even exist with
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Speaker 1: the current environment that we have. Yeah, so you guys
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Speaker 1: can go and read the Cosmo article. There's no there's
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Speaker 1: like no facts about it. It's all speculation and based
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Speaker 1: off of my reading of it and the fact that
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Speaker 1: they're probably going to be filming The Bachelorette in July
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Speaker 1: and August and it will be airing in the fall,
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Speaker 1: makes me feel like this Paradise is definitely not going
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Speaker 1: to happen because if Claire's season starts um airing in September,
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Speaker 1: so it'll air from through September to you know, let's
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Speaker 1: say late October, early November or something like that, UM,
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Speaker 1: and then normally The Bachelor starts filming in late September
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to forego or delay a
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Speaker 1: Bachelor season in lieu of having a Bachelor in Paradise season.
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Speaker 1: I think we're going the bus. This an assumption on
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Speaker 1: my part looking at the timeline. I think they're going
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Speaker 1: to have to resume Bachelor in Paradise. And the thing is,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have one season of the Bachelorette um
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Speaker 1: to choose from when it comes to the guys part
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Speaker 1: of the cast, and then you're gonna have two seasons
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Speaker 1: of the Bachelor's Girls for Bachelor in Paradise, which means
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Speaker 1: that the cast will be amazing um as far as
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Speaker 1: like drama e quality goes. But it's going to be
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Speaker 1: really hard for the girls to get cast on that
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Speaker 1: show because there's gonna be such a selection to choose from. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think, and there's so many great women
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Speaker 1: for the Paradise show, uh, coming off a Peters season
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Speaker 1: that I don't think we're gonna have any trouble kind
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Speaker 1: of recruiting them to be here next year as well.
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Speaker 1: I think we have a deep cast. Who it really
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Speaker 1: really hurts is uh the Hannah's season of men. I
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Speaker 1: think they might get pushed the side because I have
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Speaker 1: a feeling that the Clear season will be great. Hey, uh,
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Speaker 1: this is a big headline one that we've watched. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there's the rest of these are massive. Um. Chris Harrison said,
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Speaker 1: Hannah Brown has been shipping herself with Tyler Cameron for
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Speaker 1: quite some time. Well, Chris has obviously, uh not been
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Speaker 1: shy during this Quarantine He's been out talking to people
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Speaker 1: and promoting the show and and doing his live show,
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Speaker 1: and I've enjoyed it. I enjoy seeing him and Lauren together.
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Speaker 1: But he does say that Hannah Brown has been shipping.
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Speaker 1: This Is this a positive comment? Where is this coming from?
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Speaker 1: It's a positive comment. He basically said, it looks like
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Speaker 1: things are working out for them. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: define their relationship for them. I don't exactly know what's
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Speaker 1: going on, but based on the looks of it, I'm
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Speaker 1: happy for her because as this is something that I've
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Speaker 1: I've known that she's been wanting for a while. Next
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Speaker 1: topic is how there Cameron says stranger showed up as
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Speaker 1: his house from Hawaii hoping to join Quarantine crew. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is pretty weird. Yeah, explain, I mean we saw
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Speaker 1: that on Instagram stories. I was falling along. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how they found his address, nor do I understand
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Speaker 1: why they thought they were invited in. I never saw
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Speaker 1: the person. So explain what we saw an experience in
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Speaker 1: what we think this was. So of course, we've seen
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Speaker 1: Tyler and Hannah and the quarantine crew putting a lot
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Speaker 1: of content out on social media on TikTok, and it
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Speaker 1: seems like someone figure out its address and people and
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Speaker 1: it's and it's out there for some woman from Hawaii
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Speaker 1: to fly during a time like this to Florida, stand
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Speaker 1: outside his house by the fence, I think, and with
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Speaker 1: her dog in two suitcases, asked to be invited into
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Speaker 1: the quarantine crewse house. Truly nuts. Tyler, of course goes
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Speaker 1: on to kind of like beg his following for a
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Speaker 1: little bit more privacy and respect. It was also interesting
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Speaker 1: that Tyler said that his brother called him to tell
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Speaker 1: him what was going on at their house, which begs
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Speaker 1: the question where was Tyler? Yeah, it does beg the question.
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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the thing is, all of us who
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Speaker 1: have been on the show have had experiences, uh that
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Speaker 1: we either talk about or don't talk about, that we
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Speaker 1: share or choose not to share. It's not uncommon for
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Speaker 1: people to show up or people to sit outside of
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Speaker 1: a house. Um, it just feels like now more than
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Speaker 1: narrow ever, we're highlighting when this happens, and especially during
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Speaker 1: the current during a quarantine time. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: they showed up at what their expectations were, but it
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Speaker 1: happ been um but not crazy. I mean, Tyler is
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Speaker 1: not the only one that has happened to, but Colton
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Speaker 1: Underwood might be the only person this has happened to.
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Speaker 1: Colton has been in the headlines recently, um, multiple times,
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Speaker 1: I mean the last two weeks. Think about the stories
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Speaker 1: that we've seen Colton's name pop up. He uh, he's
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Speaker 1: been around. It says Cassie Randolph gave Colton Underwood a
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Speaker 1: quarantine haircut, and it's really something we saw pictures. There's
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Speaker 1: zero chance that this wasn't on purpose. So I don't
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Speaker 1: get why this is a story. Oh well, first off,
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Speaker 1: I think the photos are photo shopped. If you guys
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Speaker 1: go to Colton's Instagram, type in Colton haircut into into Google,
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Speaker 1: you'll see what we're talking about. He's basically has the
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Speaker 1: old man haircut. Where the hair the Homer Simpson, you
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Speaker 1: know where the hair only oh, it's not Homer, but
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Speaker 1: you know that haircut that dads have because the only
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Speaker 1: grow hair on George Costanza. There you go, perfect, perfect.
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Speaker 1: His hair looks like George Costanza right now. But I
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Speaker 1: believe it's photoshopped. The funny thing is, since this haircut
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Speaker 1: was documented on Instagram, not in its entirely Okay, Basically,
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Speaker 1: they show how bad Cassie is with the with the
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Speaker 1: scissors or what is it called what was the little
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Speaker 1: shavers called trimmers, So they show how bad she is
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Speaker 1: with it, and then he comes with this very photoshop
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Speaker 1: looking picture, uh, showing his bald head with the hair
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Speaker 1: on the sides. And since they posted this, I think
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Speaker 1: it's like five days ago. Colton hasn't showed himself on
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Speaker 1: his Instagram on on Cassie's Instagram without the top of
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Speaker 1: his head blocked by an emoji or something, and everything
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Speaker 1: else that he's posted on his Instagram has been prerecorded,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see if it's an actual haircut or not.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think so he does this for fun
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Speaker 1: for yeah, of course. Yeah. Well I saw that he
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Speaker 1: claimed that it is real, so like he is claiming
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Speaker 1: that it's real. Here's my thought is if it is
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Speaker 1: like you would have had to take a straight razor
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Speaker 1: to make it that shiny and smooth, like he would
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Speaker 1: have had to shave that to the scalp. And so
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what's going on here,
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Speaker 1: uh except that, yeah, if it's photoshop and he's claiming
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Speaker 1: it's real, then you know, is it a headline? Is
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Speaker 1: it just supposed to be funny? Who knows? But it's
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Speaker 1: it happened Batchel Nation. It's now time for us to
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Speaker 1: break down the very first episode of Listen to Your Heart.
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Speaker 1: And who better to do it well than one of
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Speaker 1: DAT Nation's most favorite people, Ashley I can Eddie, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're a part of this too, Come on, it's it's
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Speaker 1: the first week, first episode ever of The Bachelor Listen
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Speaker 1: to Your Heart. Ashley and I were very pessimistic when
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Speaker 1: it comes to our expectations for this show. We thought,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we really got to talk about this,
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Speaker 1: but once again, the Bachelor surprises us. Chris Harrison and
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor crew. I would say I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: it a on a scale of A to F. Actually
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a B. But I think you
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Speaker 1: might have a little stronger opinion and I want to
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Speaker 1: hear why. Okay, well I'm gonna say the b plus now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give it an a yet, but
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Speaker 1: I just really enjoy these characters seemed very warm right
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Speaker 1: off the bat, like I was really connecting to them quickly.
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Speaker 1: Of course, during packages, I was like, still can't believe
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Speaker 1: I'm watching this, And I want to be honest with
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Speaker 1: you guys about um how hesitant I was towards this show,
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Speaker 1: because I think that a lot of you out there
16:49
Speaker 1: listening to this may not have watched it, and I
16:53
Speaker 1: want you guys to go on Hulu and give it
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Speaker 1: a whirl because it's the previews don't do it justice.
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Speaker 1: I just love the fact I don't. I can't exactly
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Speaker 1: put my finger on it, but it gives me the
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Speaker 1: feelings that American Idol used to where like somebody opens
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Speaker 1: their mouth and sings and you're like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: goose bumps, and then it gives you the the relationships
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Speaker 1: and the romance that you want from the Bachelor. So
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Speaker 1: it's a really fun um melting pot for me. That's right. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the next chapter in the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: franchise history. It's gonna it's gonna be something we talked
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Speaker 1: about for the next few weeks. It's gonna be something
17:36
Speaker 1: we break down. Uh. One of the things that they
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Speaker 1: intro from the very beginning is they're really leveraging the
17:42
Speaker 1: celebrity guests that will be on this show, from Jason
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Speaker 1: Mraz to Kesha to Tony Braxon to and Andy Grammer
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Speaker 1: to Pat Mona, Haan, Ashley Simpson, Ross, Evan Ross, Rita
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Speaker 1: Wilson Jewel and I mean, they got a huge list
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Speaker 1: of celebrities and musicians come on and do this. So
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Speaker 1: I read all of this weeks in advance and I thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: is this is gonna be, uh, you know, like kind
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Speaker 1: of like a voice Um type show. We're just gonna
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Speaker 1: be seeing the whole time. But there was the element
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Speaker 1: of love thrown in, and so far it's worked, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, love really was the storyline and in at
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Speaker 1: least in the first episode. Music, in my opinion, took
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Speaker 1: a back seat, even though it was there, but it
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Speaker 1: took a back seat to the love. Oh yeah, So
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Speaker 1: that's why I think you guys are gonna like it
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Speaker 1: more than you think you are, Because the previews show
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Speaker 1: like a lot of it seems corny. It seems really
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Speaker 1: really cheesy. But then when you watch the first episode,
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, this is just like watching Bachelor in Paradise,
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Speaker 1: and I'm starting to learn about these people and I'm
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Speaker 1: getting to know them quickly, and I'm attaching myself to
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Speaker 1: my favorites quickly. Actually, So let's walk through this for
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Speaker 1: a few minutes on what we saw on the show.
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Speaker 1: From your experience as not only a music fan but
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Speaker 1: also some body who has participated in multiple Bachelor's shows,
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Speaker 1: Let's walk through what you think is going on here.
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Speaker 1: First off, we meet, uh, the twenty single men and women.
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Speaker 1: The one thing that I did not enjoy, which I
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Speaker 1: get why, is most first episodes we really get to
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Speaker 1: know everybody that's showing up to the mansion. We definitely
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Speaker 1: did not get to know that now, Like it felt
19:21
Speaker 1: like they were rushing in characters at the very end,
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Speaker 1: being like, and here's this person, and here's this person
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Speaker 1: without really ever getting to know them. It was very
19:29
Speaker 1: clear to me who was going to be staying and
19:31
Speaker 1: who was going to be going after the first episode
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Speaker 1: based on who they were showing, very very clear was
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Speaker 1: anybody eliminated from the group of people that had packages.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, and normally we see packages from
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Speaker 1: people who are eliminated Night one. I agree, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's the thing is they haven't yet, I don't
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Speaker 1: think figured out the character development. It felt like they
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Speaker 1: had too many people, uh for a first night, especially
19:56
Speaker 1: with the format that they're trying to do it in. Uh.
19:59
Speaker 1: Here's the thing we lost. Probably the one character I
20:02
Speaker 1: was most intrigued by when it comes to just entertainment
20:05
Speaker 1: was the dude with a funny guy that was like
20:08
Speaker 1: just cringe E Like cringe is the best way to say.
20:12
Speaker 1: I wanted him around a little bit more, just because
20:14
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to add an element of like, uh, intrigue.
20:19
Speaker 1: But here's the part that they're going to struggle with,
20:21
Speaker 1: which is the same thing they struggled with it Winner Games.
20:24
Speaker 1: Was drama will will not come from competition within the house.
20:28
Speaker 1: It seems like it's going to come from inside relationships,
20:31
Speaker 1: Like there'll be relational drama, but there won't be I
20:34
Speaker 1: don't like you. I don't like you, which I actually,
20:37
Speaker 1: as a viewer appreciate more because I don't want to
20:40
Speaker 1: see two people fighting. It's not fun for me. I'd
20:43
Speaker 1: rather see the drama come from Hey I love you
20:45
Speaker 1: or I like you and you don't like me. Totally,
20:48
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the only drama, and that is my
20:50
Speaker 1: favorite kind of drama. Yeah, it is. Well, so we
20:53
Speaker 1: see all them, we see every show. To the mansion,
20:57
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison introduces himself. He introduces the show. We have
20:59
Speaker 1: as an idea of what the show is gonna be,
21:01
Speaker 1: it's gonna Can I just say that before watching this episode,
21:05
Speaker 1: I think you and I both agree that we were like,
21:08
Speaker 1: how did Chris do this show? I can't believe Chris
21:10
Speaker 1: agreed to do this show. And then I watched it
21:13
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, now I get it. Yeah,
21:15
Speaker 1: I mean I I do believe his role on this
21:17
Speaker 1: show will be even smaller than it is in the
21:19
Speaker 1: Batchlo and Batchelor, right, but it works that he's there.
21:23
Speaker 1: H So all the contestants show up. Chris Harrison introduces himself.
21:27
Speaker 1: The mansion is wide open. Uh. We we understand the
21:30
Speaker 1: concept of the show is it's gonna be a dating
21:32
Speaker 1: show to pursue love through music and to highlight a
21:36
Speaker 1: bunch of really talented musicians. One of the things that
21:38
Speaker 1: we learned very quickly was that there's gonna be musicians
21:41
Speaker 1: from all different genres of music and different talent levels,
21:45
Speaker 1: different different experience, et cetera. But there were a few
21:49
Speaker 1: people that really stood out to me. Actley, I know
21:51
Speaker 1: the people that sit up to you and and we'll
21:53
Speaker 1: save I think your favorite uh for you to announce
21:57
Speaker 1: here as I throw to you because we have him
22:00
Speaker 1: on the podcast today. Actually, somebody I really appreciate it
22:02
Speaker 1: and enjoyed was Gabe. I don't think Gabe got enough play.
22:07
Speaker 1: I really want to see more of ja of Gabe.
22:10
Speaker 1: I think he's a good looking dude. He seemed nice,
22:13
Speaker 1: but we just didn't see a lot of him. Another
22:15
Speaker 1: one that stood out to me, I think was Trevor.
22:19
Speaker 1: I was a Trevor fan. I think he showed himself
22:22
Speaker 1: to care, which is big. And the finally, the one
22:25
Speaker 1: that stood out to me was Jamie. I think Jamie
22:27
Speaker 1: is is definitely gonna struggle because she's gonna get the
22:30
Speaker 1: most attention from the guys. I think that's gonna be
22:33
Speaker 1: hard for her. But those are three that stood out
22:36
Speaker 1: to me right away. What about you, Yeah, I was
22:38
Speaker 1: definitely thinking that Jamie. The way that they edit her
22:40
Speaker 1: from her package to being the first one in the
22:42
Speaker 1: mansion that she is definitely going to be one of
22:45
Speaker 1: the major players of this season. And I think that
22:50
Speaker 1: the love triangle between her, Trevor and Ryan is going
22:54
Speaker 1: to be the biggest storyline. I think she's gonna go
22:58
Speaker 1: back and forth a lot um. It definitely seemed like
23:02
Speaker 1: she had the most physical chemistry with Trevor, but I
23:04
Speaker 1: think she's going to have more of an emotional connection
23:07
Speaker 1: with Ryan throughout the weeks. What do you think? I mean,
23:12
Speaker 1: I just don't see how Ryan sticks around for that. Like,
23:14
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like Ryan's the type of guy that's
23:16
Speaker 1: gonna just like get He's not going to be broken
23:19
Speaker 1: up with ones and want to come back into the mix.
23:22
Speaker 1: And if he does, I think you're gonna see a
23:25
Speaker 1: lot of heartbreak come alongside of it. I mean, here's
23:29
Speaker 1: the thing. Actually, you're a big Ryan fan, and we
23:31
Speaker 1: have Ryan on the huge Ryan fan guy. Ryan will
23:35
Speaker 1: be coming on Ryan Neal from the Bachelor Nation Listened
23:39
Speaker 1: to Your Heart will be coming on the almost famous
23:40
Speaker 1: famous podcast today. Later on the episode, we'll talk to
23:43
Speaker 1: him about everything Listen to your Heart, You guys, I
23:48
Speaker 1: feel like Ryan is the guy. And I'm going to
23:50
Speaker 1: keep bringing up my obsession with American Idol because like
23:54
Speaker 1: it was real big chapter in my life. Guys, like
23:56
Speaker 1: it was my life. It was what made me look
24:00
Speaker 1: for like every week was I got a present on
24:03
Speaker 1: Tuesdays and one days Wednesdays back in the day because
24:06
Speaker 1: of American Idol and getting to see my favorite perform.
24:10
Speaker 1: It was just a present. And now I feel like
24:14
Speaker 1: watching Ryan perform is going to be kind of the
24:16
Speaker 1: same way, Like I just love that kind of voice
24:19
Speaker 1: that he has, and there's like a certain drama and
24:22
Speaker 1: uh like Broadway appeal to him that I also am
24:25
Speaker 1: really into. So yeah, big big Ryan supporter over here.
24:30
Speaker 1: And of course I understand the appeal that Trevor has.
24:34
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the episode, I was like, Oh,
24:36
Speaker 1: Trevor's the hot guy in the house. I got it,
24:37
Speaker 1: Trevor's talk guy. Everybody's gonna want to be with Trevor.
24:40
Speaker 1: And then I got to know Ryan Moore and hear
24:44
Speaker 1: his voice and I was like, oh no, no, never mind,
24:46
Speaker 1: dark Horse right there, and uh and Katie Perry uh
24:50
Speaker 1: was once in love with Trevor. If you remember that
24:52
Speaker 1: a few years ago on American idol. Uh Trevor was
24:55
Speaker 1: the man who made headlines because Katy Perry made it
24:57
Speaker 1: very clear that she thought he is uh something something else. Well, Ashley,
25:03
Speaker 1: are our listeners will have now watched uh the episode. Uh,
25:08
Speaker 1: they have now processed if they like it or not.
25:12
Speaker 1: UM and and there isn't a lot of behind the
25:14
Speaker 1: scenes right now. This is like every season. It's the
25:16
Speaker 1: first episode. We we know we're getting out of it. Now.
25:20
Speaker 1: Tell our listeners what they should be. What are you're
25:23
Speaker 1: hoping they can look forward to for the rest of
25:25
Speaker 1: the season. What what storylines are you watching? What things
25:29
Speaker 1: are you engaging into? What drama are you possibly interested in?
25:34
Speaker 1: Before we bring Ryan on the podcast. I think there's
25:40
Speaker 1: not gonna be a ton of movement with the couples.
25:42
Speaker 1: I'd say like maybe two or three couples move around.
25:46
Speaker 1: I think that Jamie is probably going to get some
25:51
Speaker 1: news next week that Trevor is kind of a player
25:54
Speaker 1: and the kind of guy who has cheated in the past.
25:58
Speaker 1: And she said that she was, you know, always with
26:01
Speaker 1: cheaters in her relationships and it was something that she
26:04
Speaker 1: was trying to get away from. UM. I think she's
26:07
Speaker 1: gonna try to get back with Ryan, and we'll see
26:10
Speaker 1: how that goes because Ryan is now with Rudy if
26:16
Speaker 1: you call it, with Rudy having gotten her rose. I
26:20
Speaker 1: think other couples to watch out for include Julia and
26:26
Speaker 1: and Sheridan. I really liked them. They were cool. Sheridan
26:29
Speaker 1: seems like super sweet melon Gabe. I think Gabe has
26:34
Speaker 1: a great voice. Can't wait to hear from more from him.
26:36
Speaker 1: Same with Brie and Chris. We heard Chris at the
26:41
Speaker 1: piano a lot, and he's awesome, but we still haven't
26:44
Speaker 1: heard breathing yet. And she said that she was going
26:47
Speaker 1: to try to woo him with her voice. And let's
26:51
Speaker 1: see one other couples. We don't know much about Becca
26:56
Speaker 1: and Danny at all. They totally flew under the radar
27:00
Speaker 1: in this episode. And then we got to see what
27:02
Speaker 1: happens with Matt, because Matt was with Rudy the entire
27:06
Speaker 1: episode until she totally called him out on basically having
27:11
Speaker 1: bad bachelor behavior because the guy spoke too soon about
27:15
Speaker 1: the moves that he was going to make. As far
27:16
Speaker 1: as who's going to take on the date, and we
27:19
Speaker 1: see Cheyenne, who we didn't get to know at all,
27:23
Speaker 1: pick Matt. So there's gonna be a couple of people
27:25
Speaker 1: in the house that we don't know who They're going
27:27
Speaker 1: to end up with a couple of singles floating in there. Well,
27:31
Speaker 1: just give a quick quick overview here the couple's coming
27:34
Speaker 1: out of this episode where Savannah uh and Brandon, mel
27:37
Speaker 1: and Gay, Becca, Danny Bree, Chris Cheyenne, Matt, Julia Sheridan,
27:42
Speaker 1: Jamie Trevor, Rudy, Ryan Well, Ashley. Final question for you
27:48
Speaker 1: as this season continues, how much of it do you
27:52
Speaker 1: want to see the love stories? And how much of
27:54
Speaker 1: it do you want to see music? Uh? And then
27:57
Speaker 1: at the same token, how many of these people are
28:00
Speaker 1: legitimately talented musicians? Because you do know music well and
28:04
Speaker 1: you love music well. How many of these people do
28:06
Speaker 1: you believe are very talented? I think there are probably
28:09
Speaker 1: twenty of people in the house that are very talented,
28:13
Speaker 1: Like not the kind of talent you're going to see
28:17
Speaker 1: at your local pub playing on a Saturday night. You know.
28:21
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple i'd say exceptional talent amongst
28:26
Speaker 1: this crew. I would agree. Well, Hey, to sum it up,
28:29
Speaker 1: Ashley and I both will continue watching Listen to your heart.
28:33
Speaker 1: Uh we uh I can't say I am a fan yet,
28:36
Speaker 1: actually would say she's a fan. I'd say I'm on
28:39
Speaker 1: just walk in the line between Hey, this is gonna
28:41
Speaker 1: be good or hey, I don't know yet. But most
28:44
Speaker 1: people I've talked to you have really enjoyed the show.
28:47
Speaker 1: They've they've actually really bought in and found it entertaining.
28:50
Speaker 1: And what better time to explore a new kind of
28:53
Speaker 1: binge show than during a time that we're all in
28:56
Speaker 1: self isolation. I mean it works out well. Hey, Actually, actually,
29:01
Speaker 1: you and I can talk about Listen to your Heart
29:03
Speaker 1: all day. We can go back and forth on expectations
29:06
Speaker 1: on what we assume is going to happen, on the
29:09
Speaker 1: love stories that might exist. But I mean, who better
29:12
Speaker 1: to talk to than Ryan Neil. You're, you know, one
29:17
Speaker 1: of yours, one of my favorites, one of Bachelor Nation's favorites.
29:21
Speaker 1: Let's bring him on the podcast. Right after the break.
29:24
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Ryan Neil talking everything Listen to your Heart,
29:35
Speaker 1: all right, guys, I'm very very stoked we have Ryan
29:38
Speaker 1: Neil on the podcast. I was so excited. I've looked
29:42
Speaker 1: at our rundown yesterday and I thought that we had
29:45
Speaker 1: the guy from Idol um, you know, Oh my god,
29:49
Speaker 1: what was his? What's his? Trevor? I thought Trevor was
29:52
Speaker 1: on the podcast today and I was like, oh, okay, doh,
29:56
Speaker 1: we have Trevor. That makes sense, like he was on
29:57
Speaker 1: American Idol ABC, Like they're going to throw that one
30:00
Speaker 1: in first. But then I saw like an hour ago
30:03
Speaker 1: that we had Ryan, and I was like, Oh my god,
30:05
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fan girl so hard right now? Hi, Ryan,
30:08
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, don't you want the energy? Am I
30:14
Speaker 1: overwhelming for you? No? No No, no, it's uh, it's it's
30:18
Speaker 1: welcoming for sure, you know, being cooped up, not being
30:20
Speaker 1: able to talk to too many people, not like a
30:24
Speaker 1: zoom caller, so you know, a zoom caller. Okay, yeah, Um.
30:28
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the way that you like being
30:30
Speaker 1: alone a little bit later, but right now, we're recording
30:33
Speaker 1: this on Monday, guys, you know, we get the screeners. Um.
30:36
Speaker 1: I want to tell Ryan that his life is going
30:38
Speaker 1: to change in a matter of hours. How do you
30:40
Speaker 1: feel about that? Yeah, I'm ready for everything. I think.
30:45
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I'm truly ready
30:47
Speaker 1: for I mean, you guys would know better than I do,
30:49
Speaker 1: for sure. But um, yeah, I mean, whatever whatever comes
30:52
Speaker 1: of it, what do you expect tonight to look like
30:54
Speaker 1: for you on social media? You know, obviously I think
30:58
Speaker 1: I'll probably get more allowers. I've already kind of started,
31:02
Speaker 1: um to see that increase a little bit, So probably
31:06
Speaker 1: that probably more d M s and you know, weird
31:10
Speaker 1: weird d m s and whatnot. So yeah, now do
31:14
Speaker 1: you do you know how many girls are going to
31:16
Speaker 1: be tweeting at you and at Jamie that she made
31:20
Speaker 1: a horrendous decision in picking Trevor over you. I mean, yeah,
31:27
Speaker 1: we'll see. I don't know it was it a horndous
31:30
Speaker 1: decision though. It was a horrendous decision, and I hope
31:35
Speaker 1: that we get to see her admit to this mistake
31:38
Speaker 1: later in the season. I'm sure we will. But I
31:41
Speaker 1: just got to talk to you about your amazing Actually, yeah,
31:46
Speaker 1: why was it a horrendous decision? Because Ryan is just
31:52
Speaker 1: seems like the genuine nice guy. They had a great
31:56
Speaker 1: like conversation flow. I felt comfortable for her are talking
32:01
Speaker 1: to you. I felt a little bit nervous when she
32:03
Speaker 1: was talking to Trevor. I'm thinking that Trevor is like
32:07
Speaker 1: he's just he's got player written all over him. He's
32:09
Speaker 1: too smooth, but like you are endearingly smooth, like you
32:14
Speaker 1: have it, like you have it Okay, And Trevor is
32:19
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that you think he's like the
32:23
Speaker 1: he's winning the race of course in the beginning, but
32:25
Speaker 1: you are the ultimate underdog and the far more talented person.
32:31
Speaker 1: You are so much more talented than him. I felt
32:34
Speaker 1: so bad for him when he tries to sing like
32:37
Speaker 1: the other John Mayer song after you sing Gravity on
32:40
Speaker 1: their date, because you slayed it and he sounded like
32:43
Speaker 1: your average guy in a bar like that isn't a star.
32:47
Speaker 1: That's a smooth guy at a bar. Um did he
32:51
Speaker 1: sing a John Mayer song? Oh yeah, Oh you don't
32:54
Speaker 1: even know yet. In private time, you guys are information. Hey, Ryan,
33:00
Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but Ashley is
33:02
Speaker 1: a fan of you. Hey, I'm likewise, Okay, are you
33:09
Speaker 1: a Bachelor fan? I saw that you said somewhere on
33:11
Speaker 1: social media that you were like, I know this is crazy,
33:14
Speaker 1: but I am now a part of Bachelor Nation. I
33:18
Speaker 1: said that because I don't want to hurt any feelings here.
33:21
Speaker 1: But I've I've never seen a full episode prior to
33:25
Speaker 1: coming back from the show. I watched like the last
33:27
Speaker 1: three or four of of Peter season. Um, but that's
33:30
Speaker 1: not like a knock on the show. I'm not like
33:32
Speaker 1: a big TV guy in general. Um, to be honest,
33:35
Speaker 1: like I'll have like Hulu or Netflix sometimes and the
33:39
Speaker 1: other times my TV is literally like unplugged. So I'm
33:42
Speaker 1: not a big follower of anything in particular. So yeah,
33:45
Speaker 1: it was crazy for me to do this. You're the
33:48
Speaker 1: kind of guy that has a home studio and spends
33:50
Speaker 1: all this time in the home studio and you like
33:52
Speaker 1: being alone with your music. I do, Yeah, I do. Um,
33:56
Speaker 1: it's a it's a but also like I'm a I'm
33:59
Speaker 1: a hermit in some ways, but I love going out
34:02
Speaker 1: and being with a ton of people and like dancing
34:04
Speaker 1: and just just letting loose and having fun. So um,
34:08
Speaker 1: I'm kind of bipolar in that way. Okay, Um, I
34:11
Speaker 1: need to tell you before I like get down to
34:13
Speaker 1: actual serious questions that the produced. I talked to two
34:17
Speaker 1: producers after watching the show, telling them that I really
34:20
Speaker 1: liked it and I'm gonna I've been honest this entire podcast.
34:23
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to like the show. I thought I
34:25
Speaker 1: was gonna have to watch it for work, but I
34:27
Speaker 1: truly enjoy it. Is like The Bachelor meets American Idol
34:30
Speaker 1: and you, watching you sing in that studio made me
34:35
Speaker 1: feel like I was watching a contestant on American Idol
34:38
Speaker 1: back in American Isles heyday, because there's something different about
34:42
Speaker 1: American Isle now. It just doesn't do it the way
34:43
Speaker 1: it did for me. And like the odds and you
34:48
Speaker 1: just you're somebody that I got very musically excited over.
34:52
Speaker 1: You have the most amazing voice, and you, Um, I'm
34:58
Speaker 1: very picky about my music and very picky, right, Okay,
35:06
Speaker 1: so I'm very picky about my music. But when I
35:09
Speaker 1: do I find a voice that I like, like, I
35:11
Speaker 1: love it, like I get really passionate over it. So
35:14
Speaker 1: watching you sing gravity for that first time, like you
35:17
Speaker 1: opened your mouth with my mom and I were like,
35:19
Speaker 1: holy sh it, this kid, he's got it all right,
35:21
Speaker 1: But enough flattery, I just well, actually not not yet.
35:24
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cut off yet because I talked to
35:26
Speaker 1: two producers after the show and one said that when
35:30
Speaker 1: she found you at the auditions, she goes, oh wow,
35:34
Speaker 1: that's like the next Harry Styles and she's she could
35:38
Speaker 1: be right. Okay, she could be right, and then the
35:40
Speaker 1: other one said, oh, Ryan, he's such a great guy.
35:44
Speaker 1: He's like too way too sweet to be on reality TV.
35:47
Speaker 1: So you got two really nice compliments. Awesome, very awesome. Um,
35:54
Speaker 1: so tell us about how you got involved in trying
35:57
Speaker 1: out for the show. I even heard of it, yeah,
36:02
Speaker 1: last um, I believe it was last August. I was
36:05
Speaker 1: just kind of sitting at home and I, you know,
36:07
Speaker 1: just like had a random comment on one of my
36:11
Speaker 1: Instagram videos um from someone, and it basically just said, hey,
36:19
Speaker 1: you know, I'm part of a team casting for a
36:21
Speaker 1: new ABC show next year. We think you'd be a
36:23
Speaker 1: good fit. And I'm like, all right, you know, I
36:26
Speaker 1: didn't even really pay too much attention to it. I
36:28
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be as social media what whatnot.
36:31
Speaker 1: And so I googled his name and I'm like, oh,
36:34
Speaker 1: like he had an IMBD pays. I'm like, oh, it
36:37
Speaker 1: seems legit. So he emailed me um and then next
36:41
Speaker 1: thing you know, he's like, hey, where's the nearest market
36:44
Speaker 1: to you? The nearest like big market and so for
36:46
Speaker 1: me being a Detroit person, um, it was Chicago. So
36:49
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, can you come out in a few
36:52
Speaker 1: days to Chicago and you know, meet us up and
36:55
Speaker 1: see where things go. I'm like, God, for sure. UM.
36:58
Speaker 1: I had a wedding that weekend up north the Michigan
37:00
Speaker 1: My buddy Mike and I came down. It was about
37:03
Speaker 1: a six hour drive and met them up in a
37:06
Speaker 1: hotel room and sang some songs for them, interviewed and
37:10
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, would you like would you like to
37:12
Speaker 1: come to l A. And to be honest, at that moment,
37:15
Speaker 1: I had already kind of made it. UM. I was
37:18
Speaker 1: very proud. I hadn't. I didn't think I would. I
37:21
Speaker 1: thought they'd be like people at this hotel and just
37:24
Speaker 1: like craziness. UM. And they asked me to go to
37:27
Speaker 1: l A. And that was a month later. UM went
37:30
Speaker 1: out to l A, did that whole thing, interviewed, played
37:34
Speaker 1: for them. UM. And then a month after that I
37:37
Speaker 1: got a call that that I made it. That's awesome. UM.
37:42
Speaker 1: I figured that you probably were like, great, Like I
37:44
Speaker 1: want to get my music out there. This will be
37:46
Speaker 1: really great for my career. But how did you feel
37:49
Speaker 1: about the love component of the show. Yeah, I you know,
37:53
Speaker 1: since it was a new concept and it's you know,
37:55
Speaker 1: never happened before. UM, I was a little unsure off
37:59
Speaker 1: the bat um, just with it being attached to the franchise,
38:02
Speaker 1: and I, you know, it's The Bachelors, a part of
38:04
Speaker 1: American folklore now for the past almost two decades, so
38:08
Speaker 1: it's familiar with the concept. But I didn't know how
38:10
Speaker 1: this show would work. UM. And I'm at a point
38:13
Speaker 1: in my life where I was really looking for somebody
38:16
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of my life with and hopefully
38:18
Speaker 1: vibe musically. And that would be cool because I've never
38:20
Speaker 1: dated a musician. UM. You know, I thought that would
38:24
Speaker 1: be great, so I said, why not, UM, and just
38:28
Speaker 1: kind of went for it. Now, you've been in music
38:33
Speaker 1: for about nine years, right, UM, I mean I've been playing. Yeah,
38:39
Speaker 1: I've been playing most of my life. UM. I started, yeah,
38:42
Speaker 1: playing guitar like fifteen years ago, and then kind of
38:45
Speaker 1: writing songs after and just kind of picking up various
38:47
Speaker 1: instruments along the way. Has it been how you've made
38:50
Speaker 1: a living? Um? Not fully yet. So up until this
38:55
Speaker 1: past December, I was working UM for an optimologist UM
39:00
Speaker 1: doing eye testing on patients, so people would come in
39:03
Speaker 1: and if they had like black Homer and Maco degeneration.
39:05
Speaker 1: There's a few different tests for that and I basically
39:07
Speaker 1: take pictures behind people's eyes. So that's what That's how
39:10
Speaker 1: I was making my living for the past few years. Um,
39:14
Speaker 1: I got my degree in I T and communications, so
39:18
Speaker 1: I've worked in hr UM but all along, you know,
39:21
Speaker 1: gigging at night and you know, doing that whole thing.
39:23
Speaker 1: So it's only been since December that I've really I've
39:27
Speaker 1: been doing it full time. You could say, now the
39:30
Speaker 1: girl you diated a girl and you broke up recently.
39:32
Speaker 1: You were together for two years. Yeah, we broke up
39:36
Speaker 1: last Um, it would be like fifteen months or something
39:39
Speaker 1: like that. Has she reached out to you since finding
39:42
Speaker 1: out that you were on the show? No, she probably
39:46
Speaker 1: will after she sets tonight episode. And then the girls
39:50
Speaker 1: that are going to go after you, I don't know.
39:53
Speaker 1: We'll see what kind of personality type were you hoping
39:56
Speaker 1: to find the house. We obviously see that you hit
39:58
Speaker 1: it off with Jamie and I'm rooting for you and
40:01
Speaker 1: Jamie hard, but um, was there anyone else that had
40:04
Speaker 1: your eye that first night or was it going to
40:06
Speaker 1: kind of be Jamie all the way? Yeah? You know
40:10
Speaker 1: it's funny, I um, well for me, you know, walking
40:15
Speaker 1: in the house and with me being the first guy.
40:18
Speaker 1: That was a complete trip. I mean I was not
40:20
Speaker 1: expecting that at all. I was expecting a bunch of
40:22
Speaker 1: people and walking into almost like a mini party already.
40:25
Speaker 1: So walk in the place is vacant, and she was
40:28
Speaker 1: the first person that I saw, and immediately I had
40:31
Speaker 1: a connection with her. Um. You know, physically, she's beautiful,
40:35
Speaker 1: she seemed really peppy, outgoing. Um, So that was an
40:39
Speaker 1: instant attraction for me. And she seemed like a lot
40:41
Speaker 1: of fun. Um. But there was also you know, as
40:45
Speaker 1: as the days went on, Um, I had a connection
40:48
Speaker 1: with Rudy as well. She's really cool. We do see
40:51
Speaker 1: that Rudy gives you the rose at the end of
40:54
Speaker 1: the episode, so I'm wondering if that was just a
40:56
Speaker 1: platonic rose or that's gonna turn into something. Yeah, well
41:01
Speaker 1: we'll find out. But um, Rudy, I think myself and
41:06
Speaker 1: Rudy have such similar musical influences and styles and and um,
41:13
Speaker 1: we we've really closely musically. Um. So, so do we
41:19
Speaker 1: see people end up like breaking up and getting with
41:22
Speaker 1: somebody else because of their chemistry on stage and their
41:25
Speaker 1: music chemistry versus just like their romantic chemistry in the house.
41:30
Speaker 1: Do we see people like changing their yeah, their couples
41:33
Speaker 1: just because they have better chemistry on stage than they
41:37
Speaker 1: do with the person that they coupled up with romantically
41:40
Speaker 1: in the house. Right, Um, I guess you'll have to see. Right,
41:46
Speaker 1: we've only seen one episode so far. So um, once
41:49
Speaker 1: the music kind of gets rolling a little bit more,
41:51
Speaker 1: I think you'll it gets interesting. I can ahead tell
41:54
Speaker 1: you that for sure. Now I've got another couple of
41:57
Speaker 1: questions for you, But first I want to throw it
41:59
Speaker 1: over to Ben because I can't dominate this interview fully.
42:04
Speaker 1: Um right, I really only have a couple of questions
42:07
Speaker 1: if we could sit down and chat. I mean, so
42:09
Speaker 1: here's the thing, uh, from very untalented person to very
42:13
Speaker 1: talented person. I have one question for you. Is it
42:17
Speaker 1: weird to sit down with somebody typically in your life,
42:22
Speaker 1: and within the first couple of days of knowing them,
42:24
Speaker 1: say Hey, I wrote you a song, I'd like to
42:26
Speaker 1: play it for you. Or is that a thing that
42:28
Speaker 1: musicians do? So funny you ask that because I never
42:33
Speaker 1: liked I've never done that, Like, I've never even with
42:37
Speaker 1: past relationships, I would never even play them like a
42:41
Speaker 1: song one out like one on one. The smaller the crowd,
42:44
Speaker 1: the more intimidating, the more weird. He's not a jet guys,
42:48
Speaker 1: He's not a jed. I was. I've never been the
42:52
Speaker 1: guy to be like, hey, hear me play, you know,
42:55
Speaker 1: like that's I shy away from that more than anything.
42:57
Speaker 1: So um yeah, this was this was a really different
43:00
Speaker 1: experience for me, and I didn't know how I would
43:02
Speaker 1: I would take to it, And that's almost one of
43:04
Speaker 1: the reasons why. Another reason I did the show is
43:06
Speaker 1: just to kind of open up more and and learn
43:08
Speaker 1: more things about myself and push myself in that way
43:10
Speaker 1: because I'm very closed off in that way and kind
43:13
Speaker 1: of keep my music to myself. Um my EP is
43:15
Speaker 1: literally called up my sleeve because I keep you know,
43:17
Speaker 1: all my feelings and stuff, um just kind of buried
43:20
Speaker 1: until it's like ready. So um yeah, it was very
43:24
Speaker 1: difficult for me off the bat, but I think as
43:26
Speaker 1: time went on it was um, you know, I learned
43:28
Speaker 1: more about myseluff and to open up more. Yeah, because
43:31
Speaker 1: you know, it is the thing I watched and I
43:32
Speaker 1: was like, hey, I've never thought about this, and like
43:34
Speaker 1: if I knew of one of my friends saying hey,
43:36
Speaker 1: I wrote my girlfriend a song and I have some
43:38
Speaker 1: friends human musicians, Like I think I would even be like,
43:41
Speaker 1: are you sure, like just let's let's look through this,
43:45
Speaker 1: Let's think through this first. But it is the interesting
43:49
Speaker 1: thing about this show, was it? I mean, it is
43:51
Speaker 1: the show like it opens you up, as actually was saying,
43:54
Speaker 1: you know, not only is there insane amounts of talent
43:57
Speaker 1: on this show, but it opens you up with the
43:59
Speaker 1: environ am to play music for each other, with the
44:02
Speaker 1: connection of love, like so so they're so intertwined in
44:05
Speaker 1: this experience. I think to close off my thoughts and
44:08
Speaker 1: I'll just let Ashley kind of take it from here.
44:10
Speaker 1: Is uh, Ryan, you know you're you're obviously a smart guy. Uh,
44:14
Speaker 1: you're talented, You're not. Uh, It's not an isolated to
44:18
Speaker 1: you here. There's a many smart, talented people on this show.
44:21
Speaker 1: Uh that we've seen. Was it give us a little
44:24
Speaker 1: taste because we've we've all been on the show or
44:27
Speaker 1: Lash and I have. Was it an awkward social environment
44:31
Speaker 1: at all? To have all of you artists who typically
44:34
Speaker 1: hold things closer to your chest, who are also very talented,
44:37
Speaker 1: living in this house trying to impress each other. Just
44:40
Speaker 1: give us an idea of what it was like. Living
44:42
Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, you know what. UM. To be honest,
44:45
Speaker 1: I think it it almost made it easier that we
44:47
Speaker 1: all were musicians because that was like an initial an
44:50
Speaker 1: initial icebreactor. UM. We talked about our influences and like
44:54
Speaker 1: where we play are we playing in bars? Were playing
44:56
Speaker 1: at clubs? Like you know, do we have a band? Um?
44:59
Speaker 1: And then once we all start started to sit down
45:01
Speaker 1: and just kind of jam with one another. It that
45:03
Speaker 1: made it so much easier as opposed to UM. You know,
45:07
Speaker 1: I can't attest for this, but you know on on
45:09
Speaker 1: the shows you guys have done where everyone you could
45:11
Speaker 1: be a dental hygennas, you could be a pilot or
45:14
Speaker 1: a construction worker. You know, there's no like middle ground. UM.
45:18
Speaker 1: So I think it was a little bit easier for
45:20
Speaker 1: us to kind of find that initial chemistry UM, you
45:23
Speaker 1: know myself even with the guys like it was, it
45:26
Speaker 1: was really cool to have that um companionship UM with
45:30
Speaker 1: with with everyone there and just kind of talk music.
45:33
Speaker 1: And that made it a lot easier, especially for the
45:35
Speaker 1: first night, because I would have been more intimidated if
45:37
Speaker 1: we were just kind of like random people thrown together. Ryan,
45:40
Speaker 1: great job after week one, Uh, I'm a fan of
45:44
Speaker 1: you as well. I haven't seen actually this giddy since
45:47
Speaker 1: she kissed her now husband in Paris, So, uh, this
45:51
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun for me. I love every
45:52
Speaker 1: second of this. Okay. So I was gonna say, going
45:56
Speaker 1: off of what you were you were saying, is that
45:59
Speaker 1: it wasn't awkward for you guys because you had something
46:02
Speaker 1: to bond over, something in common already. When I saw
46:06
Speaker 1: your date with Jamie, I was like, this is like
46:07
Speaker 1: the least awkward date I've ever seen in Bachelor Nation
46:10
Speaker 1: history for the first date, because you guys had like
46:13
Speaker 1: something to accomplish together. You're like, okay, let's do this song.
46:17
Speaker 1: It wasn't like, all right, so we gotta figure out
46:20
Speaker 1: what to talk about from scratch because we have nothing
46:24
Speaker 1: to talk about in our surroundings like a regular date. Yeah,
46:27
Speaker 1: and and it almost wasn't like a I'm going all
46:31
Speaker 1: out to try to like impress this Girl's like we're
46:34
Speaker 1: working together as a team to you know, impress the
46:38
Speaker 1: viewers or whoever's there in the room or whatever. So
46:40
Speaker 1: it was like a like the team aspect of it
46:44
Speaker 1: helped me a lot, because if I was just going
46:46
Speaker 1: on a random date to you know, who knows and
46:50
Speaker 1: just trying to uh, you know, finingle that it would
46:53
Speaker 1: have just been a little bit more awkward for me.
46:55
Speaker 1: So now that I had we had the music UM background,
46:58
Speaker 1: and we could really speak our language on a date,
47:00
Speaker 1: that was really cool. It was the date itself was
47:04
Speaker 1: like I mean, for me, it was crazy. It was
47:06
Speaker 1: just evident that it's so much less awkward for you guys,
47:09
Speaker 1: because for us on bachelor dates, you don't even know
47:13
Speaker 1: how to start a conversation. Because when you're like at
47:15
Speaker 1: a bar or something, you can even talk about the
47:18
Speaker 1: surroundings or like make jokes about something. But on the Bachelor,
47:22
Speaker 1: you're sitting in the middle of a desert on a
47:24
Speaker 1: picnic blanket and you're like, I don't know what to
47:26
Speaker 1: talk about, right, Yeah, I wouldn't do well in that situation,
47:30
Speaker 1: I don't think UM. So it was nice to kind
47:33
Speaker 1: of always have that musical element behind us, kind of
47:36
Speaker 1: um guiding us along the way. It was it was cool.
47:39
Speaker 1: Now what was We're just like Chris Harrison didn't exactly
47:41
Speaker 1: tell us how the show works in the beginning. He
47:44
Speaker 1: told us that, you know, everybody has to couple up,
47:48
Speaker 1: and the people that aren't in couples at the end
47:50
Speaker 1: of the week get eliminated, very much like Paradise but
47:53
Speaker 1: they but he never mentioned that people would be coming
47:56
Speaker 1: in and out, Um, that there'll be new contestants and
47:58
Speaker 1: that is that something that happens, because we've seen the
48:01
Speaker 1: scenes for the next episode that a girl walks in
48:03
Speaker 1: and she starts talking smack on Trevor. And I'm not
48:07
Speaker 1: sure if that's a girl who's just coming in to
48:09
Speaker 1: start drama or whether this is a girl that's a
48:11
Speaker 1: musician and she's going to be now part of the
48:14
Speaker 1: group and somebody an option for somebody to give a
48:16
Speaker 1: rose to. Right. So, every time we saw Chris it
48:22
Speaker 1: was I don't know about you guys, but it was
48:23
Speaker 1: always bad news. Oh he's very terrifying when you're actually
48:27
Speaker 1: on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean super surreal
48:30
Speaker 1: just seeing him in person and being close to him.
48:33
Speaker 1: And then you know, when he comes in the room,
48:34
Speaker 1: it's kind of like this dark clouds, like, oh, what's
48:36
Speaker 1: gonna happen? And then and then yeah, every time he'd
48:42
Speaker 1: say something like now what you know, he'd throw this
48:45
Speaker 1: monkey wrenching in the situation. Um, and yeah, the first episode,
48:48
Speaker 1: I think he mentioned that people are going to go home,
48:50
Speaker 1: and then as time progresses, the stakes get higher. Um,
48:54
Speaker 1: and you know the look on our faces after he
48:56
Speaker 1: announced his news just it's just it's crazy because he
49:02
Speaker 1: throws stuff in the situation and we just completely out
49:04
Speaker 1: of left field, not expecting it, and it makes the
49:07
Speaker 1: situation a lot harder, a lot more pressure as time
49:09
Speaker 1: goes on. So, um, yeah, it's it's definitely gonna be
49:12
Speaker 1: something fun to look forward to. So based on what
49:14
Speaker 1: you're saying, it sounds been right like it's um similar
49:18
Speaker 1: to Winter Games, where we didn't have people coming in
49:21
Speaker 1: and out, but there were certain stakes that needed you
49:23
Speaker 1: met each week in order for you to stick around. Yeah, definitely,
49:26
Speaker 1: I mean I think it sounds a lot like it.
49:28
Speaker 1: And that's that's the thing that is intriguing about the
49:31
Speaker 1: show to me is there are are there's activities, there's
49:35
Speaker 1: a purpose to being there outside of love, even you know,
49:38
Speaker 1: like it's a very clear thing with The Bachelor, Love
49:41
Speaker 1: is the purpose. Now we get that people might go
49:43
Speaker 1: on for other reasons, but with Winter Games, which was
49:47
Speaker 1: a competitive event event, and then with you know, listen
49:50
Speaker 1: to your heart, there is too really motives to be
49:53
Speaker 1: on the show. Let's not be crazy, Ryan, you went
49:56
Speaker 1: on the show not only to find love, We're not
49:58
Speaker 1: gonna say you didn't, but also to build a platform
50:03
Speaker 1: to increase your career, which is music. And I think
50:06
Speaker 1: that's a great thing and something that we just should
50:08
Speaker 1: own and not act like it's not the case. Anybody
50:15
Speaker 1: on the show that tells you otherwise is lying. You know.
50:19
Speaker 1: There there's there's there's a certain aspect to being asked
50:22
Speaker 1: to be on a TV show, which is such an honor. Um,
50:25
Speaker 1: that's like why which why would you turn this down?
50:28
Speaker 1: You know unless you act like a complete idiot. I mean,
50:31
Speaker 1: it couldn't really be bad for you. Um, or maybe
50:34
Speaker 1: you can. I don't know, I'm speaking out. It's like
50:36
Speaker 1: you guys know, like I said, better than me, but no,
50:38
Speaker 1: pretty much if you're not an idiot, it goes pretty well. Yeah, right,
50:43
Speaker 1: So you know, there there is that aspect of course, Um,
50:46
Speaker 1: but I truly think that the majority of the people
50:48
Speaker 1: were there, um really hoping to find someone that they
50:52
Speaker 1: can connect with and share musical lasting relationship with. So
50:56
Speaker 1: um it was good in that aspect that I think
50:58
Speaker 1: the majority of people were um, quote unquote there for
51:01
Speaker 1: the right reasons as well? Are there right reasons on
51:04
Speaker 1: your show? Is that a Is that a term that
51:06
Speaker 1: comes up? Um? Oh yeah, Chris said it all the time. Chris,
51:11
Speaker 1: did you know that that that came out not so
51:14
Speaker 1: much in our conversations. I think as time went on
51:16
Speaker 1: people kind of mentioned it a little bit more. But um,
51:20
Speaker 1: you know, my I don't know. I don't know if
51:23
Speaker 1: I had like a core crew, but I would say,
51:25
Speaker 1: like the people that I communicated most with on the show, Um,
51:29
Speaker 1: we're all like in it for you know, good good
51:33
Speaker 1: mix slit like obviously you know they're going on the
51:36
Speaker 1: shows is could potentially help you, but at the same
51:39
Speaker 1: time not just doing it for that. So um yeah,
51:42
Speaker 1: I think it was a healthy balance. Okay, great, I
51:45
Speaker 1: got a couple more questions for you before I let
51:47
Speaker 1: you go. I know I could probably pound you with
51:49
Speaker 1: questions for the next hour, but you'll come back, right,
51:53
Speaker 1: You'll come back. Even though I was, you know, too
51:55
Speaker 1: much of a fan girl on you. That's welcome any times.
52:01
Speaker 1: This is not the first time you've been quarantined or
52:03
Speaker 1: isolated to yourself. You also went to Note and you
52:05
Speaker 1: went to Nova Scotia and tell us what you did there,
52:09
Speaker 1: that's right. So I was living in Nashville, UM for
52:12
Speaker 1: about a year and a half, and when I moved
52:14
Speaker 1: home to Michigan, I had always had this kind of
52:17
Speaker 1: fantasy of doing like a Bonnie Bear type renting a
52:20
Speaker 1: cat beIN in the middle of the woods and just
52:21
Speaker 1: writing music and doing that. So initially, you know, I
52:25
Speaker 1: live in Michigan and I was looking up north and
52:27
Speaker 1: it was really pricey in the summer months to rent
52:30
Speaker 1: a cabin for a month, and I was just kind
52:32
Speaker 1: of I moved the Airbnb map around and I was
52:35
Speaker 1: cool with going to the desert for us whatever. So
52:38
Speaker 1: I kept moving around. I saw this little plot of
52:40
Speaker 1: land out in the Atlantic and I was like, oh,
52:43
Speaker 1: what is that? And it turned out to be Nova Scotia. UM.
52:46
Speaker 1: I contacted the family and long story short, they were
52:51
Speaker 1: living in Costa Rica at the time, renting out their
52:53
Speaker 1: place and I was initially supposed to go there for
52:56
Speaker 1: one month, and so I drove. It was about twenty
52:59
Speaker 1: two hours. Um, all my gear, I've literally took my
53:01
Speaker 1: whole studio with me and um, you know, I took
53:06
Speaker 1: a took a boat a ferry over and then uh
53:09
Speaker 1: set up for about a month, and then as it happened,
53:13
Speaker 1: the owner of the house needed to come back to
53:16
Speaker 1: fix the roof, and so there was like a little
53:18
Speaker 1: guest corridor space that he was living in at the time,
53:21
Speaker 1: and so I thought he was going to be there
53:23
Speaker 1: for maybe a week, maybe two tops. He ended up
53:25
Speaker 1: saying there for six weeks, and for that inconvenience, that
53:29
Speaker 1: couple gave me an additional six weeks for free. So
53:33
Speaker 1: I literally stayed in this I mean it was a
53:35
Speaker 1: beautiful house and on the private lake in the middle
53:38
Speaker 1: of the woods, like ten minutes from the ocean, for
53:41
Speaker 1: the cost of like the nastiest motel of all time.
53:47
Speaker 1: It was. It was crazy, like it was such a
53:49
Speaker 1: surreal experience, and that's kind of what got me started
53:52
Speaker 1: producing my own music. And I learned a lot about
53:54
Speaker 1: their um just by myself and just kind of in
53:57
Speaker 1: that solitude. Did you eat so much locks in cream cheese?
54:00
Speaker 1: Will there? No? Actually, I don't think I ate that
54:03
Speaker 1: at all. Oh, you know that that's what they're known for.
54:07
Speaker 1: I ate like a lot of lobster, and and we went, um, yeah,
54:12
Speaker 1: it was just cool. That guy taught His name was
54:14
Speaker 1: Jean Marcus from France and we had like fires and
54:16
Speaker 1: just the coolest guy um and we'd hang out and
54:21
Speaker 1: you know, I thought we saw a UFO one night.
54:23
Speaker 1: It was pretty gnarly, but yeah, it was a really
54:26
Speaker 1: I learned a lot about there, about myself and just
54:29
Speaker 1: really got to focus on my music and you know,
54:31
Speaker 1: and put out the e P after that, which was
54:34
Speaker 1: which was fun. All right. Well, last question, who do
54:37
Speaker 1: you look up to? Who? What artists you look up
54:40
Speaker 1: to vocally and performance wise? Yeah? So growing up where
54:46
Speaker 1: I did you know Motown was such a big um
54:51
Speaker 1: I can see on your Instagram. Yeah, I think I
54:56
Speaker 1: think all time my favorite artist was probably Stevie wonder
55:00
Speaker 1: Um and like Marvin Gay kind of conformation of those guys.
55:02
Speaker 1: But I think more modern would be John Mayor. I
55:05
Speaker 1: started writing songs because of him. And as you'll see
55:09
Speaker 1: in this episode, Um, I mean for the viewers, we
55:14
Speaker 1: don't know what dates we're gonna go on. We're giving
55:16
Speaker 1: these cards and and it's it's all uh, you know,
55:19
Speaker 1: it's all a surprised. So we walk into the studio
55:21
Speaker 1: and we're told we're going to Capital and we're like, wow,
55:23
Speaker 1: this is crazy. And so Jamie and I are talking
55:27
Speaker 1: in the in the car before, like who do you
55:29
Speaker 1: think it could be? And and I'm like, like John
55:32
Speaker 1: Mayor and uh, because you know, being out in l A,
55:35
Speaker 1: I know he lives there. And and so we opened
55:38
Speaker 1: up the door and Gravity starts playing and like my
55:41
Speaker 1: whole body just it was just an incredible experience. And
55:45
Speaker 1: the week before that, I watched this documentary on John
55:49
Speaker 1: making his first album called Room for Squares, and the
55:52
Speaker 1: producer of that album is John Alaysia, who ended up
55:55
Speaker 1: being in the room at that time with Michael Travis,
55:59
Speaker 1: John's old guitar player, and I'm like, dude, I've known
56:01
Speaker 1: you for like fifteen years, like I know who you are. Yeah,
56:04
Speaker 1: it was nice to see you know who was in
56:06
Speaker 1: that room to recognize them. Yeah, really awkward if not um,
56:10
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was That was one of the coolest
56:13
Speaker 1: moments of my life for sure. And I told him,
56:15
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I was watching your documentary last week,
56:17
Speaker 1: like this is just unbelievable. So yeah, John's a huge
56:21
Speaker 1: influence on music. Would you say you got musically excited
56:24
Speaker 1: in that moment? Oh my god, dude, that was like
56:29
Speaker 1: the silly I almost thought I died And it was
56:32
Speaker 1: just like in heaven. I was dreaming at that point.
56:35
Speaker 1: It was like the producers nailed it in terms of
56:37
Speaker 1: I don't know if they knew that I was going
56:39
Speaker 1: to be going on this day beforehand, like I'm sure
56:41
Speaker 1: they did. I'm sure they did their research, but it
56:43
Speaker 1: was it was just too perfect in how that was
56:47
Speaker 1: set up and me being a first date and getting
56:49
Speaker 1: this extravagant date with Jamie and to perform with John
56:52
Speaker 1: and it was it was insane. Yeah right, I'll tell
56:56
Speaker 1: you what I was pumped for you. One of the
56:58
Speaker 1: things is my fianced is a huge Frank Sinatra fan,
57:02
Speaker 1: and um, and yeah, we've We've talked Ashley. I've talked
57:06
Speaker 1: about it many times. And if if you take everything
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Speaker 1: else away, Now obviously Ashley is married from the show
57:11
Speaker 1: and has a wonderful husband, and the show has been
57:14
Speaker 1: great to me in so many different ways. But if
57:15
Speaker 1: you take nothing else away, you can look back on
57:19
Speaker 1: your experience being on the Bachelor, and if you're there
57:21
Speaker 1: for any length of time, you're gonna have experiences that
57:24
Speaker 1: will last you a lifetime. That will be stories that
57:26
Speaker 1: you tell when you're on your rocking chair at seventy
57:29
Speaker 1: and I saw that date for you, and I was like,
57:32
Speaker 1: if this isn't the coolest thing that has ever happened
57:34
Speaker 1: to Ryan, I want to live his life because this
57:36
Speaker 1: seems awesome and that, you know, we still talk about
57:41
Speaker 1: that to this day. People in the group chats like,
57:44
Speaker 1: we're gonna be telling our kids about these experiences that
57:46
Speaker 1: we've had. And for me for that to happen and
57:48
Speaker 1: it be so specific to who I am as a
57:50
Speaker 1: person in my background, it was I can't explain it.
57:54
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable to go through. Well, Ran, we are
57:57
Speaker 1: excited to see you become a star starting tonight. Thank
58:01
Speaker 1: you so much. I really appreciate you guys. You know,
58:03
Speaker 1: being the first on the on the podcast, it's such
58:05
Speaker 1: an honor. Um, you guys seem so cool and um,
58:08
Speaker 1: I really want to thank you. You know. The future,
58:13
Speaker 1: I'd love to hang out with you guys. Call Corona.
58:15
Speaker 1: Thing ends up and I don't know where you guys live.
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Speaker 1: Are you guys, We'll definitely see you. I'm in l A. Yeah,
58:20
Speaker 1: I'm a Denver guy. Now, Ryan, I will share my
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Speaker 1: number with you through a producer here in a second.
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Speaker 1: If you need anything from Ashley or myself, please don't
58:27
Speaker 1: hesitate to reach out. Enjoy this ride, Ashley and I
58:30
Speaker 1: always share this news. Don't let your head get too
58:32
Speaker 1: big and also don't let it get too small during
58:35
Speaker 1: this time. Just enjoy it, be yourself. Have a blast,
58:38
Speaker 1: Ryan Kneel everybody from the latest episode of Listen to
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Speaker 1: Your Heart on the Almost Famous podcast. Thanks a lot, Ryan.
58:55
Speaker 1: All Right, while you're in quarantine and you're eating, eating, eating,
58:59
Speaker 1: to get your creative juices flown in the kitchen, We've
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Speaker 1: created a new segment called What's Cooking Batch Nation? What's
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Speaker 1: Cooking Batch Nation, We're going to give you new recipes
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Speaker 1: to try each week. We would love your feedback, of course,
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Speaker 1: um at Ben and Ashley at I Heart media dot com.
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Speaker 1: This week we have Heather Martin on the podcast to
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Speaker 1: give her bread recipe that she posted on Instagram yesterday.
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Speaker 1: If you remember, Heather Martin was the girl who had
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Speaker 1: never been kissed. Well that was until the show. She's
59:33
Speaker 1: still about and around, but right now she is in
59:36
Speaker 1: self isolation like the most of us. But Heather is
59:39
Speaker 1: staying busy. Heather, what have you been up to? Um? So,
59:43
Speaker 1: I have been up to a whole lot of eating
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Speaker 1: and that's pretty much it. Guys. I literally I've been
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Speaker 1: the least reactive I've ever been my entire life. I
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Speaker 1: feel like everyone's like so productive, doing so many different things.
59:56
Speaker 1: My whole family's here is like my two sisters at home,
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Speaker 1: and so it's really really fun. So we all got
1:00:00
Speaker 1: to hang out. But all we've done is like cook
1:00:03
Speaker 1: and eat and then sleep and then cook and eat.
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Speaker 1: Train to ship. Well, you made this really good looking
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Speaker 1: bread on Instagram and we were hoping you can tell
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Speaker 1: us how to make it. Um, I just have to
1:00:17
Speaker 1: say that everybody's been baking that. When we ordered cake
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Speaker 1: mix from the grocery store, they've been out of cake mix.
1:00:24
Speaker 1: Like when does the grocery store run out of this everything?
1:00:28
Speaker 1: They literally have been out of everything. I know because
1:00:30
Speaker 1: when I was we were trying to make bread that's
1:00:32
Speaker 1: been wanting to for like so long, and the grocery
1:00:34
Speaker 1: store is out of east for like okay, so we
1:00:36
Speaker 1: had we had to um we ordered it online. Um.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: But yeah, so no this, do you have the recipe
1:00:43
Speaker 1: or do you want to make it? Or everything cooking
1:00:46
Speaker 1: with the Bachelor's it's like my infamous recipe that I
1:00:51
Speaker 1: made out of guesterday. We'ld famous totally. It's been in
1:00:55
Speaker 1: the family for decades, but no, I just found it
1:00:58
Speaker 1: on pinches. It's literally like the first thing I found
1:01:00
Speaker 1: on Pinterest. But okay, I'll I guess we'll start. Should
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Speaker 1: I start with ingredients or instructions or what? How do
1:01:06
Speaker 1: you guys want to go about it. Let's start with ingredients,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: moving into instructions, and then what I would love for
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Speaker 1: you to do, Heather is at the very end. Once
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Speaker 1: the instructions are completed, let's pretend that it's already been cooked.
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Speaker 1: Talk to our audience because this is a podcast about
1:01:22
Speaker 1: what they're going to experience with their mouth fill of
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Speaker 1: your birth all right, okay, okay, I so the ingredients.
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Speaker 1: Ever with ingredients, so we do UM, a third cup
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Speaker 1: of vegetab oil and then two say table students of
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Speaker 1: yeast baking yeast and not um brewing east because that's
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Speaker 1: what we We accidentally bought brewing yeast, which is totally different,
1:01:46
Speaker 1: but we ended up working. But it's I think it's
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Speaker 1: much better with thinking east. UM, and then a half
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Speaker 1: cup warm water and then one egg for brushing on
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Speaker 1: the bread. At the end, UM, three tablespoons of sugar,
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Speaker 1: two and half table students of salt, two cups hot
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Speaker 1: water in six and a half cups flour. So that'st
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Speaker 1: the ingredients and so it's really easy. So it's actually
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Speaker 1: like took us like fifteen minutes to actually like get
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Speaker 1: everything together before like the rising so UM, so you
1:02:12
Speaker 1: start for the instructions, you're starting like with a small bowl,
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Speaker 1: you dissolve the yeast into a one half cup of
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Speaker 1: warm water, and then you let that sit for ten minutes,
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Speaker 1: and then a separate book mixing bowl you combine the
1:02:23
Speaker 1: hot water, sugar, salt, oil, and flour mixed all the
1:02:26
Speaker 1: other so basically like all the other ingredients he combined
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Speaker 1: a super bowl and then um. Then after ten minutes
1:02:32
Speaker 1: you let you add the yeast bowl to the regular bowl,
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Speaker 1: mix that all up, and then you wait for it
1:02:38
Speaker 1: to start pulling away from the bowl to know it's ready.
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Speaker 1: So basically just mixed it up, which is like a
1:02:42
Speaker 1: regular spoon, UM, and then you let that sit for
1:02:45
Speaker 1: ten minutes. And then after that you just separate the
1:02:47
Speaker 1: dough into three pieces um, and you like roll it
1:02:50
Speaker 1: up like a jelly roll and you shape them into
1:02:53
Speaker 1: a little like French bread rolls, or you can put
1:02:56
Speaker 1: them into like a regular bread tin. We did that
1:02:59
Speaker 1: and that was easier. Um, and then uh, you grease that,
1:03:04
Speaker 1: you said, you make sure the grease the tin is greased,
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Speaker 1: and then you make three to four diagonal cuts like
1:03:09
Speaker 1: you know, like bread cuts, and then on top of that,
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Speaker 1: you brush the beaten egg on top of the dough
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Speaker 1: and then you let it rise for thirty to forty
1:03:18
Speaker 1: minutes uncovered in a warm place. So we just put
1:03:21
Speaker 1: it in um oven like fifty degrees and like let
1:03:25
Speaker 1: that sit for thirty minutes, and then you just take
1:03:27
Speaker 1: it at three seventy eighteen twenty minutes. Now, where can
1:03:31
Speaker 1: people see a photo of this? Uh, you're gonna have
1:03:35
Speaker 1: to pose it to your Instagram story. Okay, I can
1:03:38
Speaker 1: post my answer. I can send you guys a link
1:03:40
Speaker 1: if you guys can post in your notes of like
1:03:42
Speaker 1: the actual recipe. If that's easier, sounds great, Yeah, send
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Speaker 1: it to one of our producers. Thank you so much
1:03:48
Speaker 1: for the recipe. And I know that you hate this question,
1:03:51
Speaker 1: but they do say kiss the cook? Have you have
1:03:54
Speaker 1: you kissed anyone else? Since Colton? I was always the
1:03:58
Speaker 1: first question. I was waiting for this one. Um, no,
1:04:01
Speaker 1: I haven't. I still have not damn it all right, Well,
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Speaker 1: you guys, if you want to kiss Heather Martin or
1:04:09
Speaker 1: um bake give her more recipes, please reach out to
1:04:13
Speaker 1: Ben and Ashley at iHeartMedia dot com. Hey, Heather, we
1:04:16
Speaker 1: promised our audience what are they going to experience with
1:04:18
Speaker 1: their mouth filled up with your bread? They're gonna express
1:04:21
Speaker 1: you open the oven and just loss out the best
1:04:24
Speaker 1: smell of just fresh baked spread. You feel like you
1:04:27
Speaker 1: just walked into a bakery. It just is the best
1:04:30
Speaker 1: filled entire house and you just slice it. You nice warmth,
1:04:34
Speaker 1: nice soft and butter on it. The best thing ever. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's been What's Cooking Batch Nation with Heather Martin. Heather,
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Speaker 1: thank you for joining the Almost podcast of course, you
1:04:47
Speaker 1: guys congrass on the engagement. Ben, by the way, thank you, heaven.
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Speaker 1: It's so exciting. Thank you. All right, I'll talk to
1:04:55
Speaker 1: us later. By Actually, this has been a fantastic episode
1:04:59
Speaker 1: of whole new chapter for us at Almost name as
1:05:01
Speaker 1: podcast as we have broken down, uh listen to your
1:05:04
Speaker 1: Heart which is the next bachelor's show. Um, you know
1:05:08
Speaker 1: our chapter is changing as well, and what better time
1:05:10
Speaker 1: to do it, uh than during a time of self isolation.
1:05:14
Speaker 1: No better time. You guys, it's an hour and twenty
1:05:17
Speaker 1: minutes without the commercials. You should watch it. It really
1:05:20
Speaker 1: is gonna be uh an exciting four weeks. UH this
1:05:24
Speaker 1: has been an awesome podcast. Once again, we want to
1:05:26
Speaker 1: say thank you to Ryan Neil for coming on. We
1:05:28
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to the first responders and
1:05:30
Speaker 1: people continuing to work during this UH time and during
1:05:34
Speaker 1: the crisis. Also to Heather Martin for sharing her what's
1:05:38
Speaker 1: cocin batch nation um uh insights Ashley. We'll be back
1:05:43
Speaker 1: next week breaking down the second episode of Listen to
1:05:46
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1:05:51
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