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SPECIAL EPISODE: Grocery Store Joe · 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 our radio. My least favorite episodes are when Ashley
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Speaker 1: is gone. It's not fun. It is not we do
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. This person has been loved by many,
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Speaker 1: seen for a very short period of time, smiles and
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Speaker 1: the world lights up. We know him as grocery store
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Speaker 1: Joe is in studio. Joe. Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, glad to be here. Joe. What's
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Speaker 1: your last name? Holy cow? What's up with your season?
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Speaker 1: Or I guess Becca's season? And all of these names?
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean Joseph Anthony Mobley. It's Italian. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's beautiful, it really is beautiful. But your names.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what's Becca's last name? Uh? Cool? Friend? Right? Friend?
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Speaker 1: You're closer. You're closer than her second or her third
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Speaker 1: place finisher. So um. I mean I only I only
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Speaker 1: lasted a day, so I can only know so much. Joe,
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Speaker 1: this is you know, I don't get it. I'm sitting
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Speaker 1: here preparing for this podcast. We've talked to most of
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Speaker 1: the people that came off The Bachelor, um, from winners
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Speaker 1: to losers to second place people to who the heck,
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Speaker 1: are you used? And for some reason, as I'm getting
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Speaker 1: prepared for this, I get a little nervous because I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to you and you were literally gone day one.
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Speaker 1: Why is that? I think I'm I think I'm really
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Speaker 1: good at being bad at this, Like I just I
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Speaker 1: don't know, because it was I was horrible at first.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean I think, I just I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I'm good at sucking at things. I don't mean it was.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I was very nervous. I was extremely I
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Speaker 1: got out of the limo and I freaked out, like
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Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't even like make a sentence, and
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Speaker 1: that was like, but they edited to make it look
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Speaker 1: like you could talk just fine. Right, Yeah, Well I
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Speaker 1: I walked up and said, I forgot everything. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, Well, I think that's I mean, so that's you,
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Speaker 1: Like you've literally, in your failures, turned into I'm not kidding,
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Speaker 1: one of the most endearing people that America has ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Well thank you. Well that's not a couple of minute
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Speaker 1: I'm saying in your failures like I'm it's it's just
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Speaker 1: it's after me too. I wasn't expecting it, you know,
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Speaker 1: after that first after going when when I went home,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, no one's gonna remember me. That was
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Speaker 1: it so long? You know, I mean, what is it.
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here again preparing for this and talking to
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Speaker 1: you makes me nervous. I mean, like, it's not you
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Speaker 1: sucking at this. There's something about you, Joe that's like
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Speaker 1: oddly endearing for everybody involved, and yet nobody can put
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Speaker 1: their finger on it. Yeah, you're a good looking dude. Great,
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Speaker 1: good for you, but there's something about who you are
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Speaker 1: as a person that has attracted the billions to grocery
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Speaker 1: store Joe. You know what I think it's I think
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Speaker 1: people watching, everybody would be nervous in that situation because
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Speaker 1: it's nerve wracking. And I think I do a pretty
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Speaker 1: good job of showing that I'm nervous. Like I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't try to hide it, like I knew, like
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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be awkward on TV because I'm not
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Speaker 1: used to having these cameras in front of me, and
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of pressure. And even even just approaching
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Speaker 1: a beautiful woman like Becca, I'm like, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: in a suit. I don't wear suits like ever, so
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Speaker 1: I'm like I was just I don't know, I was nervous,
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Speaker 1: and I think people could appreciate that. Are you nervous
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Speaker 1: right now? Um? I mean a little bit, not like
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Speaker 1: I was the first night. So some people when they
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Speaker 1: get nervous. I was looking this up right now and
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Speaker 1: Google a lot of people when they get nervous talk more.
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Speaker 1: The most people here as I was research and seemed
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Speaker 1: to by studies, found to talk more than than they
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Speaker 1: kind of shut down. You shut down, and there's something
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Speaker 1: about you, Joe. We're gonna get a little deep here
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Speaker 1: for a second. When you shut down, you get away
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Speaker 1: with it. Like for me, I feel like if I
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Speaker 1: just sat and stopped talking like you do and giggled
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Speaker 1: and smiled and just sat there, I would come off
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Speaker 1: as the weirdest, creepiest, most odd person alive. But there's
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Speaker 1: something about you, Joe that you do that you get
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Speaker 1: away with doing nothing, and people love you. Now it's great.
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Speaker 1: I'm jealous. I mean it's a good I guess I'm
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Speaker 1: very envious. Yeah, I don't know why it works. I
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Speaker 1: really don't. I'm shocked by all this. Okay, So what
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Speaker 1: was your expectation expectations when you want onto Bachelor. You
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Speaker 1: knew you were going to be nervous. Let's just walk Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is this will be fun. Because what a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't know about mine Night one on The
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Speaker 1: Bachelor is Caitlin and Burt will say the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I got to the limo and froze, and I wasn't
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Speaker 1: smooth enough to say. I forgot everything I said. I
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Speaker 1: literally tried to talk and couldn't could not get two
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Speaker 1: words out. I said something along the lines of, um, Caitlyn,
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Speaker 1: nice to meet Britta like, and I like, that's how
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Speaker 1: it went it. And I walked inside and I thought,
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Speaker 1: and then you don't really talk too much on night one.
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Speaker 1: I was laying in my hotel room that night, because
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Speaker 1: you go back for a couple of hours just to
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Speaker 1: get some rest because it's so late, and I was
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Speaker 1: I had my head in my pillow, and I was
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Speaker 1: so embarrassed because I knew I was done. I knew
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Speaker 1: I was done. I knew I was gonna be going
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Speaker 1: home soon. I knew this was over for me. I
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Speaker 1: was nervous too. So anyways, that's my night one, one
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Speaker 1: of the most nerve wracking things I ever done. You're
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Speaker 1: prepping right So you're in a hotel, preparing to go
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Speaker 1: over the mansion, hearing to walk down the limo. What's
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Speaker 1: going through your mind? Walk us through that whole night
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Speaker 1: for us? Okay, So I wake up. I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was watching some baseball. I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: just take it easy, be yourself. Um, You're gonna be nervous,
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Speaker 1: but be okay with that. And just you know, my
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Speaker 1: I was just gonna I didn't want to do any
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Speaker 1: gimmick when I got out of the limo. I didn't
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Speaker 1: That's not me. And I just was gonna be honest
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Speaker 1: and tell her. I was just really, um, I'm really
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Speaker 1: looking forward to meeting you. You know, she looked beautiful.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to tell her that, and that was my goal,
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Speaker 1: and I was just hopefully. I figured I'd be able
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Speaker 1: to come across myself. Um. I wanted to make her
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Speaker 1: laugh and I thought it'd be okay. So I'm good, Like,
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Speaker 1: I feel confident, I'm ready to go. We line up
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Speaker 1: to getting that limo and this is the first time
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Speaker 1: you're seeing the guys and everything, and I just and
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Speaker 1: I'm still like in the limo, I could feel my
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Speaker 1: nerves coming. I'm like, all right, you're really nervous. And
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Speaker 1: when I get really nervous, I get like I can't
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Speaker 1: I really can't speak, like it's hard. Like I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I get it. And then I like, I feel my
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Speaker 1: nerves go away as I'm about to get out of limo.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, beautiful, this is gonna that's your
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Speaker 1: body playing a trick on you. Yeah, yeah, they got me.
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Speaker 1: Uh So now I step out of the limo. I
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Speaker 1: think I started talking and then I stopped, and then
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Speaker 1: I walked up to her and I'm like, let's just good. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm like I forgot everything. I was gonna say, my
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Speaker 1: name's Joe. I hate myself right now. And then I
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Speaker 1: walked away. I'm like, yeah, you know, and then the
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Speaker 1: whole like I couldn't enjoy Like that first night's not
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Speaker 1: enjoyable anyways for anybody, I don't think, just because it's
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Speaker 1: just so hectic and it's so new and there's cameras
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Speaker 1: everywhere and nobody really knows what's going on. But I
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Speaker 1: just couldn't get out of my head. I was like
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Speaker 1: that feeling you said when you went back to the hotel.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I was just so upset with myself, so
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Speaker 1: I couldn't even when I spoke to her on our
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Speaker 1: one on one I was just too nervous. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: so Joe, I think everybody's I mean, actually I'm It's
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Speaker 1: just me. This is my interview anyways, I can do
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Speaker 1: what I want. So you go back to the hotel.
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Speaker 1: You're kicked off Night one. Um, you realize that you
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Speaker 1: failed straight up. This this was you know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to say you'll learn from your failures. Failures
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Speaker 1: are turning the great things. I'm sure it will good
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Speaker 1: for you look at you now, but at the time,
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Speaker 1: you're soaking in failure and misery and heartbreak and rejection
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Speaker 1: from Night one. Right, everybody's worst nightmare when they go
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Speaker 1: on the show. You're gonna go home night one? You
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Speaker 1: sit there, what is your mindset? I remember you talked
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Speaker 1: to Chris Harrison. You said something like, you know you
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Speaker 1: had to call your buddies and be like it's not good.
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Speaker 1: But from did you carry this like weight for months
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Speaker 1: knowing that this all ended so quickly? Not really, because
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at getting over things quickly. Like I
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Speaker 1: was really upset, um, But like then when I got
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Speaker 1: home in Chicago with St. Patrick's day the next day,
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Speaker 1: so we all went out and I'm like, I know
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna look bad, but I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be on TV for what you know, when they
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Speaker 1: when it gets edited in commercials, I'm gonna be on
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Speaker 1: TV for a couple of minutes. I'm gonna look a
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Speaker 1: little goofy and that's it. Um. So I got over
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Speaker 1: it pretty quickly, and then there would be moments where
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, man, you know, I wish I I
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Speaker 1: wish I just didn't screw that up, Like I wish
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Speaker 1: it would have run a little better. Why did you
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Speaker 1: want to do this in the first place? I was wondering, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: slightly person to ever want to go on the show?
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm just being honest. He's so much better
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Speaker 1: than I. Oh yeah, I mean I was so embarrassed.
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Speaker 1: I would have held onto that guilt for that shame
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Speaker 1: for so longgoing. All my friends are gonna laugh at me,
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Speaker 1: my family, Joe, you just cruise on by. You are
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Speaker 1: a lot better man than I am. Yeah, why do
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Speaker 1: you want to do this? So I was I was
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Speaker 1: at Whole Foods, I was shopping, I was walking out
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Speaker 1: in a lady approach. We just said, you want to
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Speaker 1: try out for the Bachelor. So I'm like, I could
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Speaker 1: be the next Bachelor. I'll do that, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't even think I gotta
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Speaker 1: go on the Bachelor. And I'm like this perfect um,
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Speaker 1: But I just I don't know. I feel like everything
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Speaker 1: kind of happens for a reason. I'm single, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: why not give it a try, you know, I you know,
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Speaker 1: I haven't met that one in Chicago. And I thought this,
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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe don't let your nerves stop you. No, No,
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Speaker 1: Like I yeah, I know I'm gonna be nervous, but
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Speaker 1: that's just something I have to deal with. That's just
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Speaker 1: who I am. Real quick, we got a backcheck because
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Speaker 1: I know our listeners are gonna freak out. Um, why
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Speaker 1: were we shopping at Whole Foods? Do you own a
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Speaker 1: grocery store? So I owned the grocery store that was
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Speaker 1: that was on the South side of Chicago, and it's
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Speaker 1: like an hour from where I live, and it's it
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Speaker 1: was just a smaller store. And I was just I
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Speaker 1: was actually going to Whole Foods to get like the
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Speaker 1: hot foods, like I just want to clear that up
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Speaker 1: because I knew people would freak out. It's a big thing.
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Speaker 1: You're not faithful, you know, you turn your back on
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Speaker 1: the things you love, that kind of stuff. I just
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Speaker 1: don't want that for you. Okay, Joe. Now you're on Paradise.
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Speaker 1: Um you're you leave Chicago, which, by the way, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to Chicago for a Cubs game tomorrow, big Cubs fan.
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Speaker 1: Um yeah, so I'll give a little blessing there when
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Speaker 1: I when I land in the Wendy City for you. Um,
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Speaker 1: So you leave Chicago to go back to Paradise. At
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Speaker 1: this point, America has fallen in love with you. Chris
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Speaker 1: Harrison is a huge fan of you. You have continued
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Speaker 1: time over time on your moments on TV to make
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Speaker 1: people just go that Joe guy. Here is something different
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Speaker 1: and special about him showing up the Paradise were you're
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Speaker 1: nervous as nervous, what were your feelings? Well, first I
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Speaker 1: was shocked even asked me to go on Paradise. You know,
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Speaker 1: Um I was still nervous there. But you do you
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Speaker 1: get you get more confidence as like this, My social
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Speaker 1: media like was getting a lot bigger and people were
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Speaker 1: like loving me so I had that going in there,
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Speaker 1: and I knew I was gonna be nervous, but I'm
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Speaker 1: always I feel like I'm better the second time around.
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Speaker 1: So you know, when I walked up I met Chris Harrison,
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Speaker 1: I was nervous, but I was able to speak, and
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Speaker 1: I knew that's all I had to really do. I
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Speaker 1: would have loved for you. That would have been one
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Speaker 1: of the best scenes on TV ever. If you froze
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Speaker 1: talking to Chris Harrison, Like if you got nervous to
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Speaker 1: talk to Chris and you couldn't get your words out
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Speaker 1: because you're so anxious and excited to talk to Chris.
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Speaker 1: That has been good. Yeah, they should have did that.
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Speaker 1: I should have nice, Um, And so we watched you
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Speaker 1: on this this season. So far, this has been a
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Speaker 1: great season of Paradise. Your love story is one that
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Speaker 1: we're all tracking. You've you've kind of bounced back and forth.
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Speaker 1: Can you give all of our listeners a little recap
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Speaker 1: of your love story to date in Paradise? Um? Yeah, sure,
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Speaker 1: So I was taught. I was I was I was
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Speaker 1: talking to Tia, Crystal and Kendall Um, but Kendall was
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Speaker 1: the only one I was really um interested in that
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Speaker 1: first night, and she but why do you talk to
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Speaker 1: the other thing? Well, I Joe, Well I just got
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Speaker 1: there and I figured let me, you know, talk to everybody,
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Speaker 1: see what it's like. Plus I was working. I was
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Speaker 1: working out some nerves anyways, you know, get loosened up
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Speaker 1: for the you know, for the super Bowl. I get it.
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Speaker 1: Get some practice. And so so you started talking to Kendall.
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Speaker 1: Is there a spark immediately? Yeah? I think so. Um,
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Speaker 1: we were able to She's very easy to talk to,
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Speaker 1: She's very beautiful, and we we just would laugh at everything,
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Speaker 1: like we wouldn't even really talk about anything. We were
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Speaker 1: just laughing the whole time. So there was something there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get I've watched you too. Um, And you know,
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Speaker 1: when you watch on TV, I've always said that the
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Speaker 1: backs are does a great job at telling the story,
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Speaker 1: but there's those small details that have to be left
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Speaker 1: out because there's so only so much time that they
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Speaker 1: can put on TV. When we watch your story with Kendall,
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Speaker 1: so far, what we've seen is a lot of giggling,
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Speaker 1: a lot of kind of like funny, odd comments that
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Speaker 1: make the viewer like confused. But yet again, you and
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Speaker 1: Kindle both have this ability to talk about the oddest
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Speaker 1: things like having picnics and cemeteries, and people respond with, going,
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Speaker 1: isn't that sweet? If I said that on TV? If
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Speaker 1: Ashley I Connetti said that on TV, if really any
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Speaker 1: other person I know said that on TV other than
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Speaker 1: Sean Booth, the world would freak out. How have you
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Speaker 1: never been on a picnic? YEA, that's weird, isn't I
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Speaker 1: just never as weird as Kendall. Remember when she told
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Speaker 1: her she likes to go to cemetery with and read
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Speaker 1: a book with an apple. I was like, that's weird too,
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Speaker 1: But how have you not been on a picnic? You
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Speaker 1: own a grocery store? I just I don't. I'm from
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Speaker 1: the city. It's just something we never even thought about doing.
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Speaker 1: It was like never an option. It was never like
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Speaker 1: what do you want to do tomorrow? You never made
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Speaker 1: a sandwich and took it to the beach. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't get it either. I mean, but but here's the thing, Amy,
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Speaker 1: this is the truth. Like that's odd. It's different. Ask
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Speaker 1: it with the like checker blanket, but like, you never
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Speaker 1: just made a sandwich and took it to the park.
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Speaker 1: That's a picnic. If a sandwich I would eat it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a good point. Picnics are weird because you guys
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Speaker 1: like make food and then wait a couple of hours.
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Speaker 1: But the thing is Amy Joe is always gonna win.
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Speaker 1: Like I guarantee you after this podcast, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get some email saying please stop being so mean to Joe,
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Speaker 1: and I'll say, how does that mean to Joe? They
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Speaker 1: still say you picked on it for not having a picnic,
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Speaker 1: and I'll say, stop taking Joe side on everything single
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Speaker 1: thing in the world. Like, this man has the biggest
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Speaker 1: support system of anybody I've ever heard of. Here's what
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Speaker 1: we love him for it. I think he's a great dude.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big Joe fan. I can't reveal any details
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Speaker 1: on this, but I have been in a public place
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Speaker 1: where Joe was in the same public place he and
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Speaker 1: I know what it's like to be a night one
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Speaker 1: person compared to being you, like more people know you.
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Speaker 1: So many people were like grosser Joe, watermelon Joe, Trader Joe,
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Speaker 1: like they were freaking out. It was really I think
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Speaker 1: it might be the teeth. He's got some teeth. Smile
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Speaker 1: for your audist or Orthodonis should really get like some
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Speaker 1: sort of call from you because they did an excellent job. Hey, Amy,
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Speaker 1: real quick, can you can you get up in there
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Speaker 1: and take a nice close picture of Joe's smile. I
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Speaker 1: want to post that on social media for this podcast. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: please do that, just talking. Yeah, get up in there,
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Speaker 1: real close, as close as you can. Why it's keeping
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Speaker 1: it clean. I have a lot I try and give
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Speaker 1: me like a real big let's check that tartar line.
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Speaker 1: We need to make sure I'm drinking. I'm drinking coffee
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Speaker 1: right now. Look good for you. Hey, you know, Joe,
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Speaker 1: I am a big fan of you. Not only you're
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Speaker 1: a Midwestern guy. I'm from Indiana, um, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: super close you. You're great, dude. Uh, there's a reason
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Speaker 1: why people love you. I think you. I feel like
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Speaker 1: you're going to carry the weight for a while on
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Speaker 1: this franchise of the guy that everybody's going to be
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Speaker 1: a little confused by because you're only on for such
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Speaker 1: a short amount of time, also saddened by because we
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Speaker 1: didn't get to watch you more, and a huge fan
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Speaker 1: of everybody's gonna be a huge fan of you because
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Speaker 1: you really are the type of guy that kind of
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Speaker 1: draws people in. Like Amy was saying, as we were
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Speaker 1: prepping for this podcast, you can't say where you're at,
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Speaker 1: but if she lives with you and she's been out
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Speaker 1: with a lot of people from this show in public,
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Speaker 1: the attention and love that you get is beyond anything
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Speaker 1: a lot of people have ever seen. And it's deserved, man,
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Speaker 1: it's really deserved. You say things go well because I
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Speaker 1: I see the spark with you and Kendall obviously on
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Speaker 1: the episodes we've seen. If things go well, would you move?
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Speaker 1: Would she move? Are you going to try and date?
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Speaker 1: Would you be open to that? Like do you like California? Well,
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Speaker 1: if things go well, you know, we would. I think
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Speaker 1: we would have to we would have to talk about
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Speaker 1: possibly splitting that up a little bit. But I love
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Speaker 1: California and Chicago winters are ruined. The worst place in
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Speaker 1: the world, it really is. That's the most beautiful place
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Speaker 1: in the summer, the worst place in the one I
17:58
Speaker 1: wouldn't blame you forgetting now that. But Joe, you don't
18:01
Speaker 1: seem like the kind of California guy to me, Like,
18:03
Speaker 1: I think being a Chicago guy has a certain amount
18:07
Speaker 1: just a Chicago person has a certain certain amount of
18:09
Speaker 1: grit to it. Could you handle the California lifestyle. You
18:15
Speaker 1: know what, I don't know really early here, like five
18:19
Speaker 1: thirty is no problem for us. It is definitely a
18:21
Speaker 1: different lifestyle. Um, but I am more laid back. I
18:24
Speaker 1: mean it is more that laid back lifestyle. But I'm
18:27
Speaker 1: I think I'm laid back. Do you like taxidermy, Yeah,
18:30
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it at all. Like
18:35
Speaker 1: when yeah, I think Kendall last, She's like, did you
18:37
Speaker 1: ever see a dead body? I'm like, yeah, you know,
18:39
Speaker 1: I think she thought I was going to be like,
18:42
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's so crazy. Did you see your
18:44
Speaker 1: grandma or something? My uncle? Yeah, I mean I saw
18:47
Speaker 1: my uncle's that I walked in on, my uncle that
18:50
Speaker 1: passed away. Uh, as well, So I'm with you on that, Joe.
18:53
Speaker 1: It's not it's not something that you really want to
18:56
Speaker 1: live through again. But its body my great grandma. Yeah,
19:00
Speaker 1: it was like an open casket. That's a very strange thing,
19:03
Speaker 1: which this is I'm talking different than just opens. Yeah. Yeah,
19:10
Speaker 1: we were pretty close. I like walked in the house
19:12
Speaker 1: and he was same. It was pretty bad. Yeah, this
19:15
Speaker 1: is traumatic. It was so okay, Joe. This is a
19:19
Speaker 1: good segue then, because somebody asks you. So there's two
19:22
Speaker 1: things that the ways look at this. Somebody asks you,
19:25
Speaker 1: like Kendall, because I've experienced the same thing as you,
19:28
Speaker 1: I know it still sticks with me today walking in
19:30
Speaker 1: on that um. Somebody asks you that that you can
19:33
Speaker 1: view it two ways. One of two ways. Either once
19:36
Speaker 1: she really cares and wants to hear that because she
19:38
Speaker 1: knows it's traumatic, she knows it will affect your life
19:41
Speaker 1: long term. Or two it's just an odd question and
19:44
Speaker 1: you take it as an odd question that's a little
19:46
Speaker 1: bit offensive and a little bit weird. When Kendall asks
19:49
Speaker 1: you this, how do you take it? Initially? I take
19:53
Speaker 1: it as her showing off her personality that she's not
19:56
Speaker 1: scared to talk about anything. And I think to see
20:00
Speaker 1: how I would play with that, and and I didn't
20:03
Speaker 1: want to bring up like that's a that's something that's
20:07
Speaker 1: was a really like sad thing that happened to me
20:09
Speaker 1: in my life. And I didn't want to talk about
20:11
Speaker 1: that on the show the first day. And I didn't
20:13
Speaker 1: think she was pushing for that. I think she was
20:15
Speaker 1: just being fun and silly. And I didn't take an
20:18
Speaker 1: offensive at all. There's not I don't I don't really
20:19
Speaker 1: get offended too easily. Yeah, I get that. I kind
20:23
Speaker 1: of looked at it as you're right, like playing showing
20:26
Speaker 1: off a personality. She kind of has this way tell
20:28
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, because we're watching we're all fans
20:30
Speaker 1: of the show. You know, I don't know Kendall really
20:32
Speaker 1: at all. She kind of has this way of saying,
20:34
Speaker 1: how far can I creep you out? Until you stand
20:37
Speaker 1: up and stop getting creeped out? And then I'm just
20:39
Speaker 1: a really cool, funny person that you're actually gonna enjoy
20:41
Speaker 1: being around because we can talk about anything. Is that her?
20:44
Speaker 1: Is that who she is exactly? Yeah? And I was
20:46
Speaker 1: pretty uh good at calling her out on that. I
20:48
Speaker 1: actually hung out with Kendall a few times, and I
20:51
Speaker 1: think she's pretty deep, do you know what I mean?
20:52
Speaker 1: Her sister is too. They're very like um, which you're
20:56
Speaker 1: not going to just talk about the weather like you
20:58
Speaker 1: can really talk about like stuff. Yeah, she's very intelligent.
21:02
Speaker 1: Yeah she knows what she's doing. Awesome, that's good. But
21:05
Speaker 1: here's my thing. Here's the interesting part about the show.
21:08
Speaker 1: If anybody asked me that on a first day outside
21:11
Speaker 1: of being in Paradise or on the back even kind
21:13
Speaker 1: of on the Bachelor. I guess I would be super
21:16
Speaker 1: creeped out, like really creeped out by it. It It would
21:19
Speaker 1: be a red flag on your your odd your minds
21:22
Speaker 1: in a different place than me. But you just kept
21:25
Speaker 1: going with it. Was it because you kind of knew
21:27
Speaker 1: Kindle was semi normal just from watching her in the past.
21:32
Speaker 1: I didn't even watch her in the past, but I
21:34
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just wasn't creeped out by it.
21:37
Speaker 1: That doesn't bother me. Now she would have talked about
21:39
Speaker 1: it the entire time, then I would have been like, Okay,
21:42
Speaker 1: this is clearly an obsession, and I don't know if
21:44
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with that, but I, um, yeah, I just
21:49
Speaker 1: thought for me, it was just it was her showing
21:52
Speaker 1: off her personality and I like that. It's interesting, and
21:55
Speaker 1: that's what I was looking for coming on the show,
21:57
Speaker 1: was something different, you know, That's what I was gonna ask.
22:00
Speaker 1: Are you looking for something like this or something to
22:02
Speaker 1: shake it up? Were you super excited me? At this point,
22:05
Speaker 1: you're probably already getting like Joe should be the Bachelor tweets,
22:09
Speaker 1: and so you had your mindset on what if you
22:12
Speaker 1: find somebody in paradise you no longer have the option
22:14
Speaker 1: to be a Bachelor was that? Were you okay with that? Yeah? Absolutely,
22:18
Speaker 1: I mean I think, um, the whole all the Bachelor
22:21
Speaker 1: talks to me. Of course, I've thought about it. I
22:23
Speaker 1: think I think everybody that goes on the show thinks
22:27
Speaker 1: about it because it is a possibility. Um. I don't
22:30
Speaker 1: know how I would handle it. I don't know if
22:33
Speaker 1: I would accept it, um, but I mean I would
22:36
Speaker 1: entertain the idea. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you Joe. I
22:39
Speaker 1: tell you one thing, and I mean this. I don't
22:41
Speaker 1: say this everybody think I've said it to one other person.
22:44
Speaker 1: When I'm in Chicago or you come through Denver, wherever,
22:47
Speaker 1: we can meet up at you, I just want to
22:49
Speaker 1: sit and hang out. I think you are a type
22:51
Speaker 1: of guy that we can sit down, have a beard,
22:54
Speaker 1: talk life. I'll talk about all my weird stuff and
22:56
Speaker 1: you'll listen and giggle like you do to kindle that school.
23:00
Speaker 1: But Joe, you're a good dude. Man. Thanks for coming
23:03
Speaker 1: on the show, like not just this show, not almost famous.
23:06
Speaker 1: We we appreciate that, but thanks for coming on the
23:08
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelor and representing this franchise in a positive
23:12
Speaker 1: way by just being yourself. You got it. Um, I
23:16
Speaker 1: really like you too. You're a great guy. Before before
23:19
Speaker 1: Joe goes, can we play a quick game, Ben, I
23:21
Speaker 1: would love to. What's the game? I'm going to say
23:24
Speaker 1: a name and Joe has to say the first word
23:27
Speaker 1: that comes to his mind. No need to be nervous, Joe, Um,
23:31
Speaker 1: that comes to your mind when I say the name? Okay,
23:33
Speaker 1: are you ready? Colton Virginia not a virgin It's gonna
23:41
Speaker 1: be sorry. I'm obviously at least emotional. Jordan the model,
23:48
Speaker 1: Um smart? Chris why they called Goose? I don't know.
23:53
Speaker 1: Chris is funny, funny. I guess I'm breaking the rules
23:56
Speaker 1: of cemetery wells wills. No, okay, that's funny. I didn't
24:02
Speaker 1: get that at first with Chris Harrison, Um, well dressed nice? Okay,
24:08
Speaker 1: that's that's the game. Becca. Um, I don't. I don't know,
24:15
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't know why. I just
24:16
Speaker 1: froze up to that. I don't know. You got why, Yeah,
24:19
Speaker 1: you still got some Yeah, I guess so, I guess
24:21
Speaker 1: I guess some issues. Yeah, I guess. I can't think.
24:23
Speaker 1: And I got a little nervous when you said her
24:25
Speaker 1: name to Hey, the good part about this show is
24:28
Speaker 1: you get a second chance. And so I've got two
24:30
Speaker 1: people for you. One is somebody that I just don't
24:32
Speaker 1: understand and don't get yet and I need to get
24:34
Speaker 1: your clear down. But this one, hey my turn, becca Becca. Wait,
24:43
Speaker 1: holy you got some issues? I think? So is it
24:47
Speaker 1: with this girl? Why I don't. Let's talk about this
24:50
Speaker 1: for a second before we move forward. This is this
24:52
Speaker 1: is a beautiful segment. Yeah, I don't know, I get really,
24:57
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess. The whole thing is it was
24:59
Speaker 1: a romantic experience for me. I was really upset about it. Yeah,
25:03
Speaker 1: all right, let's Joe third times a charm Becca? Cool?
25:08
Speaker 1: How about that? Alright? Becca Becca? No, that was good.
25:13
Speaker 1: That's fine. I'm gonna take cool. What's to stop there? Um?
25:17
Speaker 1: And the next one the one I've never understood from
25:20
Speaker 1: your season. And I don't know if you've been around
25:22
Speaker 1: a lot or not, but let's try Leo Tarzan. Alright.
25:27
Speaker 1: That can mean a lot of different things, and I
25:29
Speaker 1: think it fits Joe the grocer, Joe, what's your last name? Again?
25:35
Speaker 1: A mobiley, the Man of the Hour, the Man of
25:38
Speaker 1: the franchise. Maybe you know, it's kind of like the
25:40
Speaker 1: PGA Championship that existed. You know, last week Tiger Woods
25:45
Speaker 1: got second, but yet he is getting a lot more
25:48
Speaker 1: attention than Brute Brooks Kepka who won. It's kind of
25:52
Speaker 1: like Joe the Grocer. There's a lot of people in
25:53
Speaker 1: between night one and the last night, but Joe the
25:57
Speaker 1: Grocer has came out on top. He is winning over
26:00
Speaker 1: America with that smile and that charm. Joe the Grocer,
26:03
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the podcast, Thanks for having me.
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