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A Decade of Love with Desiree & Chris Siegfried · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley i Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's Almost Fau podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are here today with two people who met on
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  Speaker 3: this show and are celebrating an anniversiary. It's Dezen Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having us, Thank you for being here. So
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  Speaker 4: you guys today we're recording this January seventeenth, and tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: January eighteenth, is your ten year wedding anniversary.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations, thank you. Yeah, we made it ten years.
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  Speaker 4: Such a successful bachelor couple. Are you guys number two
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  Speaker 4: in line with Trista and Ryan.
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  Speaker 5: No, there's well, I mean there's the picts.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the Meds next, Okay, yes, Count and Sean Katherine
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  Speaker 4: a year before you Ben and Catherine.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're the course. Yeah that's not.
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  Speaker 3: As cool like being second was going to be awesome
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  Speaker 3: and now you're like, yeah, we're four, yeah a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Do you guys have big plans for the tenure.
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  Speaker 5: No, we don't because we just had Noah, we're kind
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  Speaker 5: of in the thick of a newborn, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 5: be going to Hawaii at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 5: So we're like, let's just and we'll just plan on
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  Speaker 5: that being some sort of you know, celebration that's.
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  Speaker 4: Counts.
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  Speaker 3: That brings up my first question because I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: make this about me for a second.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We are like a month away, less than a month
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  Speaker 3: away from our from the very first.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wow, we have the most kids.
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  Speaker 4: You don't John and Catherine too or tired with you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, John and Catherine have second?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, second.
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  Speaker 3: I tonight, actually, Jessica and I are going for a
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  Speaker 3: very nice dinner day because we kind of assume it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be one of our last before babies here.
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  Speaker 3: Give me any advice you have. You have three, and
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  Speaker 3: so it changes a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I bet.
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  Speaker 3: But when you guys look at your relationship, keeping any
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  Speaker 3: type of like romance or just you time together, how
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  Speaker 3: do you two do it?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you not?
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  Speaker 6: You just ask.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't understand the joke for a second. I think
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  Speaker 4: that is the most perfect way of saying it.
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  Speaker 6: We definitely utilize family.
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  Speaker 7: We moved back from Seattle to Portland area, and we've
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  Speaker 7: got her parents now live here, My parents live here,
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  Speaker 7: my brother lives here, and so if we need a break, thankfully,
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  Speaker 7: we like our family and they're willing to watch the
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  Speaker 7: kiddos awk keep talking. It's gonna get hard. It's definitely harder, right,
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  Speaker 7: but it's also super fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you tired right now?
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  Speaker 7: So I'll let you know a little secret. I feel great.
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  Speaker 7: I feel great. That is sleeping in the baby's room.
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  Speaker 7: So I feel great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a strategy. Actually, I don't think we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about this yet. That was advised to Jessica and I,
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  Speaker 3: and that Jessica was the one that said she wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do. It's the sleeping arrangement. She wants me to
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  Speaker 3: sleep in a separate room for the first like five weeks,
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  Speaker 3: and we're gonna do like a shift thing, like I
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  Speaker 3: get six hours straight asleep, wake up care for the
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  Speaker 3: baby for like four or something whenever she knows that
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  Speaker 3: hopefully you know, the baby doesn't need to be feeding,
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  Speaker 3: and get like she's going to get four solid hours
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  Speaker 3: of sleep uninterrupted and then like we're going to kind
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  Speaker 3: of do that for through the evening. Could because her
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  Speaker 3: philosophy was like, there's no use of us both being tired.
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  Speaker 3: One of us should be tired, but the other one
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  Speaker 3: should like try to get as much rest as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Everybody?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that was perfect.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because we you know, this is our third and
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  Speaker 5: we didn't do that with our other because we didn't
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  Speaker 5: really did we have an extra room, babe, I don't
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  Speaker 5: even remember if definitely didn't have a bed in the
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  Speaker 5: baby's room and we I mean we had a guest room,
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  Speaker 5: but I guess we just didn't utilize it. And so
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  Speaker 5: with the third, I was like, I can't handle when
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  Speaker 5: we both aren't getting sleep because then like you're both
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  Speaker 5: just honestly at your worst and kind of like short,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, it just causes tension that's not necessary.
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  Speaker 5: And so I was like, you know, I'll just go
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  Speaker 5: in the baby's room because we have a murphy bed
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  Speaker 5: because it used to be a guest room, and so
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  Speaker 5: it's actually been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you'd recommend it.
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  Speaker 5: I would recommend it. I've even been trying to transition
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  Speaker 5: back to our room and like I'm just not sleeping
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  Speaker 5: as well because the monitor like will go off and
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  Speaker 5: he's like faking me out with like rolling over, like.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, the fake out to the monitor's actually the kill
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  Speaker 4: to me. I still have this like every day. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: how how old is your youngest? He'll be six months
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're still in it too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I Jared and I haven't been as good this
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  Speaker 4: time around because he kind of he kind of falls
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  Speaker 4: asleep during feedings. So I take them. I just take
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  Speaker 4: the nighttime.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I just make the nighttime Chris, so
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  Speaker 5: that Chris can so that Chris can handle the other
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  Speaker 5: boys because he wakes up earlier, He makes breakfast, he
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  Speaker 5: does all the things so that I can just sometimes
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  Speaker 5: get a little extra sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the one who preferred to sleep in, agreed
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  Speaker 4: and catch up that way.
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  Speaker 2: So interesting, This is so fun the time of life.
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  Speaker 3: Look at us, We're holding babies, talking about babies, and talking.
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  Speaker 2: About this wild show that you two met on.
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  Speaker 3: Now, before we dive into your story, I think we
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  Speaker 3: should all comment as much as we feel comfortable about
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  Speaker 3: the topic I'm about to bring up. But my wife
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  Speaker 3: last night, who doesn't really follow the show and has
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  Speaker 3: very little interest in the show, goes, what is this about?
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  Speaker 2: Because she loves these people.
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  Speaker 3: There was a headline about Trista and Ryan having marital problems.
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  Speaker 3: Do we know anything about this? Is this a story?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Is this just like rumors?
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  Speaker 4: What do we say this is it residual from the
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  Speaker 4: holes she spoke outside yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Did she really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't understand because obviously I love them both
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  Speaker 5: and follow them both, but I didn't even understand where
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  Speaker 5: the it first came from. Like why did people speculate?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, because he was writing these very weird posts on
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  Speaker 4: Instagram while she was away filming Special Forces about her
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  Speaker 4: like being away from the family for so long, but
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  Speaker 4: her needing to like do and do this for herself
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  Speaker 4: and explore and challenge herself. And it was all cryptic
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  Speaker 4: because nobody really knew it was Special Forces. He was
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  Speaker 4: like writing diary entries online.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was probably doing that because she would see it,
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  Speaker 5: or because they probably didn't have their phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was trying to be like sweet, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like Chris does like nice notes and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: love like language to you to like make sure that
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  Speaker 3: you he's thinking about you exactly.
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  Speaker 4: But then we have confirmation here from our producer it
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  Speaker 4: was just a recirculated rumor from those whole Special Forces
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  Speaker 4: good diary entries.
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  Speaker 3: Let's shut it down here on the Almost Favorite podcast
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  Speaker 3: because just to works.
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  Speaker 5: With Almost they've got a strong relationship.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good, I love it. Okay, now onto YouTube, Ashley
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  Speaker 3: take it away.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you guys, what has been the Yeah, kind
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  Speaker 4: of like still in the baby thing. You've been married
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  Speaker 4: ten years now thanks to the show. What was the
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  Speaker 4: difficult point of your relationship? Was it coming off the show?
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  Speaker 4: Was it the first kid, the second kid, the third kid.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I feel like it might be different
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  Speaker 5: answers for each of us.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for me, it was definitely coming off the show,
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  Speaker 5: because it was like, it's just a lot, as you
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  Speaker 5: guys know, it's just a lot to deal with people
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  Speaker 5: and the expectations and the pressures and like, while you're
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  Speaker 5: also navigating a new relationship, Like that's a enough in itself,
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  Speaker 5: So to have all the other like eyes on you,
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  Speaker 5: it was really really difficult for me because I'm also
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  Speaker 5: like super introverted and reserved and I don't like people
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  Speaker 5: in my business, which you know that made it hard
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  Speaker 5: with being public. But I don't know. I think for
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  Speaker 5: me that was the hardest because it was also navigating
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  Speaker 5: a new relationship and I was in a new location
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  Speaker 5: trying to meet new people. Chris was busy with work,
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  Speaker 5: and so when you come off of the show, You're
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  Speaker 5: now introduced to each other's like daily quirks and also
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  Speaker 5: daily stresses. And I think in any relationship, regardless of
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  Speaker 5: coming off the show or not, like you're still working
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  Speaker 5: on like how each other communicate and all of those
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  Speaker 5: different things. So yeah, definitely right off the show.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember when Dad's and I first got off
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  Speaker 7: the show. We would be we'd be going on walks
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  Speaker 7: in Seattle around this certain lake, Green Lake, and I'd
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  Speaker 7: have to be like, don't read comments right of what
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  Speaker 7: people post, because it really got to hurt. You know,
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  Speaker 7: people are people are psychoed with what they say, and
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  Speaker 7: so that was definitely a stressor.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 7: For me, you know, we were we moved in together
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  Speaker 7: right away. I was at the beginning stages of my career,
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  Speaker 7: which is, you know, sales and it can be stressed.
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  Speaker 7: So just balancing like having someone around twenty four to seven, right,
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  Speaker 7: and a relationship engaged, having the social pressures around you.
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  Speaker 7: But I think mostly just like starting off in your
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  Speaker 7: career and you're like, all right, we're engaged. Here we go,
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  Speaker 7: let's rock and roll. You're moving into the city, and
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  Speaker 7: I want to make it as comfortable as possible. That
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  Speaker 7: part was kind of probably the hardest part.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting to me and tell me if I'm crazy
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  Speaker 3: here and Ashley, I think you'll be the one that
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  Speaker 3: with the biggest opinion on this.
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  Speaker 2: The Bachelor does this.
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor and Bacherette kind of have this very if you
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  Speaker 3: look back on it, similar kind of vibe for like
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  Speaker 3: six seasons, right, So there's like a six season span
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  Speaker 3: where so many things feel similar, the people feel similar. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the governments, generations. You very much get to
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  Speaker 3: see a very like clear identifier of of what the
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  Speaker 3: generation looks like from the show. Because I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 3: your story and Chris, like, you never stopped really working.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you obviously went on the show, but you
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  Speaker 3: continued your career. Mesnick did the same thing. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know necessarily what Sean did at the time, but you
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  Speaker 3: all kind of have feel like you had this same philosophy,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm on the show to meet somebody. I've met somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Uh now, let's make this thing work beyond kind of
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  Speaker 3: let's do all these other things on top of it
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  Speaker 3: that could be distracting to this relationship. Would you agree
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  Speaker 3: with that statement that that kind of marked your time
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  Speaker 3: on this show? And the people kind of that were
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  Speaker 3: around you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 7: One of the biggest things that we we attribute our
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  Speaker 7: success to is getting out of the lime light pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 7: right Like we you know, a lot of people, you know,
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  Speaker 7: their credit or fault, they'll they'll want to move to
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  Speaker 7: LA They'll want to get into the limelight, and it's like, look,
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't famous before or famous that like Z list, let's.
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  Speaker 6: Go as famous almost Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 7: So we weren't you know, really looking for that before
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  Speaker 7: and then it happens and you're like, well, I don't
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  Speaker 7: need to move to pursue something that I wasn't trying
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  Speaker 7: to pursue before. So we we thought that removing ourselves
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  Speaker 7: from that situation, right, like getting into normal lives and
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  Speaker 7: seeing if that would work was probably one of the
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  Speaker 7: biggest reasons of our success. We didn't chase something that
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  Speaker 7: we weren't comfortable with at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a clear conversation that the two of you
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  Speaker 3: had together, Like do you remember having those conversations?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? On the show, Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we talked about like location and like where we
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  Speaker 5: would go.
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  Speaker 7: It was kind of a big thing because they kind
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  Speaker 7: of made it a thing. We were like, Chris has
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  Speaker 7: an ultimatum, like will she move? And it was a
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  Speaker 7: big question that I had to ask her because I'm like, look,
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  Speaker 7: I can't move to California. I've got this thing that
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  Speaker 7: I think might work out in Seattle. Are you willing
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  Speaker 7: to move? And so there's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 7: hype around that, right.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I think I think honestly, we didn't really
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  Speaker 5: need to talk about like, oh, hey, do you want
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  Speaker 5: to be famous after this, because like we both didn't
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  Speaker 5: even like expect like we had no expectations going into
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  Speaker 5: the show, and like we also like didn't want that,
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  Speaker 5: like fame was never a driving thing, Like I honestly,
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  Speaker 5: it was a surprise I even got on the show.
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  Speaker 5: Like my friends were so shocked because I'm not, like
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  Speaker 5: I just never have ever wanted that attention. I don't
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  Speaker 5: even like attention in small groups. So it was really
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  Speaker 5: interesting and I think it just that's a testament to
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  Speaker 5: why it worked, because we weren't pursuing out side attention,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and there wasn't that competitiveness for attention that
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  Speaker 5: I think happens now where like the lead and whoever
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  Speaker 5: they choose, like there's a lot of opportunity, and if
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  Speaker 5: they aren't in that opportunity together and one is getting
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  Speaker 5: maybe more attention, like it can cause I think some friction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the comparison to today too.
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  Speaker 3: I think with a lot of contestants leads coming off
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  Speaker 3: the show, it's kind of looking at whether is what
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  Speaker 3: others have done? And to some people's credits, they've done
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  Speaker 3: incredible things based on the show. And now you have
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  Speaker 3: that example of people who have made a living, made
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  Speaker 3: a career, made a name for themselves, and they came
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  Speaker 3: from the show.
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  Speaker 2: But that also sets a whole new.
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  Speaker 3: Standard, right, we don't all look around and say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's kind of doing the same thing. I have to
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  Speaker 3: pause here, Chris, this is a question for you. Dos
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  Speaker 3: just did something I don't even.
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  Speaker 7: Know what was?
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  Speaker 4: Says she did a great job at it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, kangaroo pouch while she's talking without looking. Is there
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  Speaker 3: ever a moment? Because I'm in this right now with
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  Speaker 3: my wife, seeing her just carry a baby and care
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  Speaker 3: for this baby that's still inside of her and think
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  Speaker 3: about this baby and talk to this it's wild and
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm falling more in love with Jessica. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't even want to say it that way. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: like in more in awe. I think at this point, like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my goodness, how in the world did I meet
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  Speaker 3: somebody who's able to do this? And actually, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: Jared has these moments with you, so to go to
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  Speaker 3: you too.
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  Speaker 2: But Chris, going.
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  Speaker 4: Back to sorry, he feels like that with me with
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  Speaker 4: the children when he sees me with the children, not
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  Speaker 4: when I was pregnant, No moments of that when I
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  Speaker 4: was pregnant. He's like, can this thing come out of her?
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  Speaker 2: Chris?
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  Speaker 3: Is ever a moment for you? I mean, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: there is. Well you sit back and you're like, how
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  Speaker 3: in the hell did this work out the way it did?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm watching so many things I love and this
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  Speaker 3: woman care for these things, like just walk us through
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  Speaker 3: what your emotions are as you watch does do stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that? And you meant on the show, yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the whole the whole female having a baby
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  Speaker 7: thing is just absolutely insane, right, yeah, And you know,
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  Speaker 7: does you know to her credit is I don't want
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  Speaker 7: to say a warrior because I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 7: the right word, but she's had she's had three natural
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  Speaker 7: births and she's had two of them at home, and
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  Speaker 7: just to like see that gives me a greater appreciation
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  Speaker 7: for her and her strength, right and her ability to
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  Speaker 7: just you know what what Ben and I would say,
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  Speaker 7: sack up right like she is. It's so impressive that
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  Speaker 7: she can do this, and yeah, I mean, I am
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  Speaker 7: definitely will be the word I'm. I think it brings
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  Speaker 7: me closer to her, just because the fact that she's
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  Speaker 7: i mean, on the daily, she's right now helping with
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  Speaker 7: three boys, right, like I'm at the office up you
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  Speaker 7: know more now, but she's taking care of three kids.
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  Speaker 7: I get home and it it seems like everything's controlled right,
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  Speaker 7: and it's just it looks great.
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  Speaker 6: And then she'll be like she'll she'll give me the
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  Speaker 6: yes or no.
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  Speaker 7: She's like, no, today was nuts or yeah, today's going fine, right,
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  Speaker 7: And just to be able to manage all that, right,
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  Speaker 7: it's it's attractive and it's I'm just impressed because me. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: So for me after baby number one, when we had
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  Speaker 7: baby number one.
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  Speaker 6: I would lose it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would lose my mind, like because I don't
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  Speaker 7: do really well with loud noises unless it's like music.
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  Speaker 6: So everything but music or everything.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and so you know, Asher would We had a
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  Speaker 7: rough time with Asher at the beginning where he would
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  Speaker 7: cry a lot and we just kind of figure it out.
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  Speaker 7: And then maybe this is a good piece of advice
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  Speaker 7: if you want it right with maybe one if baby
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: cried a lot, do not just say I know you
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: got this, well, yeah, he.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Can't handle like the You know what, I think it's
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: hard for fathers because men want to control, like, you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: like you want to be able to help, You want
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: to be able to fix the problem. You want to
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: be able to like problem solve, and you can't really
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: do that with a newborn. You know. It's typically the
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: newborn wants to the mom, they want to feed, they
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: want all of that. And I think it's you know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: there's like that overwhelmed that can bubble up because you're
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: just like, I can't control this situation.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: So so true.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: There's one thing I would actually hundred percent suggest is if.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Like I would go into the other rib and be like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: all right, I'm gonna go try and help them right
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: as sure, And then I couldn't figure out I couldn't
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: get him to call them down, so you put them
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: on the ground. You never put them on a table.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: You never put them up high. You always put them
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: on the ground because they can't roll off of anything
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: when they're on the ground. But I used to be
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: like ground, you'll carpet whatever, and I'd buy, I can't
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: do it. I can't figure it out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes the answer is just mom, mom, you know.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: And there was an awesome post the other day, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: this kind of links back to what you what you
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: said about like how we kind of just pulled out
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: linlight and then today it's a little different. We were
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: on the cusp of social media, so like, yeah, we
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: didn't have that social pressure as much. It was twenty thirteen, right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: and so I mean things were just getting going, so
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: we didn't have the same social pressures as I would
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: say people do now and maybe want to go on
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: the show too to gain something.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: But this post I saw was great. It was like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: I forget it's.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Like dad vibes or I don't know which one it is,
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: but they said, like, you know, baby isn't crying because
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: they're mad at you. Baby's crying because they need you
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: and that's the only way they can communicate, right, or
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: like baby's not intentionally staying up all night to like
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: make us upset. It's because something's going on and their
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: only way to communicate is to call you out or
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: cry again, right like so, And it's such a short
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: window of time until you know, you can start picking
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: up on their cues and figuring out what's going on. Right,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: it's you know, I don't know, Ashley likes maybe six, eight,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: ten months, and then you're like, Okay, this is probably
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: what's going on. And then once they can start talking
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: and like communicating, it just gets better and better. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: I thought it was a good post to kind of
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: bring back into perspective, like it's not baby's fault, like
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: they're just that they're upset.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: It's that they don't know how to community with us.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: And then we're like why.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Are you priving her? Like why won't you go to sleep?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: It's like because they want you or they want mom.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: They don't only known mom for their entire life.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I also saw this is this helped when when the
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: boys were younger too, was like even with marriage, it
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: was like, it's not what the kids do, it's how
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: you react to it that really can affect communication in
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: a marriage. It can affect the way you see your partner.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: It can affect obviously the children themselves, But I don't know.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I always thought that was good because it goes along
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: those same lines of you know, it's not them, it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: how you are reacting to it that can cause the
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: stress or cause the you know, the little like snapping
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: at each other, you know, because it's just out of frustration.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: So it's like, how do you handle frustration? How do
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: you handle noise? How do you handle the overwhelmed the
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: lack of sleep?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: And you know, I think we all have to work
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: on ourselves in those areas, especially patients.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I got like a one month to figure this out. Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, you can't really train yourself for this.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: You won't know until you're in it. Yeah, it's like
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: on the ground training, you know, boots on the ground.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Like you'll be totally, you will be fine, but you
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: and just will feel the friction that you've never felt before. Yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Jared and I like never had like a single like
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: we would never even bicker before kids.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Mhm. I bickered just for fun.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I think it's just like I feel like sometimes I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: just like I need the bicker. What am I looking
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: for here, let me find something.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Don't do that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: During this you might see a side of her that
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: you've never seen before.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I've seen it, mom and Bay comes out.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Now, Wow, Hey, we only have a few more minutes
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: with you here, but we do want some rapid fire questions.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I'm always interested in this. So we've been doing this
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: thing on the Almost SIMSS podcast. It's been really fun.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: We've been interviewing past bachelor's leading up to Grant season
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: of the Bachelor. So we've had bachelors from way back
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: twenty plus years ago to you know, more recent bachelors,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: and we've just been talking to him about their experience,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: what the show's done for them, what the show's experience.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: We've talked a lot about what the show's done for you.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: But the big question I'm always curious about, because I
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: never did, really, have you two watched your season back?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: He first has, and it doesn't. That's a very funny switch.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: No, I know you haven't watched it back since twenty thirteen, fourteen.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: We haven't gone back on iTunes. No, yeah, of course not.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: No.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: During though, I mean, yeah, you had to blog about it,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: and so every happy couple we would decide if we
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: were going to watch the episode together or not, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: you'd be like, yeah, we're not gonna watch this one, right,
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: or yeah, let's watch this one.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I kind of even then chose not to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: watch a lot. Uh, it was more clip it clips
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and scenes. But you guys haven't gone back, Like there
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: hasn't been a moment or desire or even a conversation
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: of like should we just go back and watch like
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: this episode or this moment?
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Not really, you're not really, We're so far removed from it,
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: and I feel like you become such different people than
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: when you were ten years ago, So it's it will
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: be interesting to go back.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: We thought about, you know, we haven't even watched our
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: wedding videos because like the ro.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: We met tomorrow, I thought, I know, want for our tenure.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Oh you're so sweet. Yes, we're gonna we're going to
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: go back through. So maybe we'll also choose to go
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: back through the season.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: The proposal.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the proposal, because that's I feel like that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: the most shown snippet. So yeah, we honestly see that one.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I'm posting coming out of the limo. Somebody should make
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: this for you for your ten year a season of
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: just the two of you where everybody else is clipped
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: out in any conversation about anyone else's clips out, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: it's just.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Great. I had to do it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: I gave a presentation last week and the person who
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: asked me to present was like, you know what, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: want you to talk about your season and I'm like, man,
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: I don't. I don't think they're going to want to
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: hear about it, and he's like, it's just I promise
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: you they will. And so I did go back to
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: just pull a couple of clips last two weeks ago
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: from YouTube, and it's crazy what people put together. You're like, yeah,
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: you're like what you spent time doing it? But it's
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: it's cool. Yeah, it's cool.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: It's very sweet.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: And then I'm like, why was my why were my
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: jeans so baggy? But the.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Just and I watch our wedding video on our anniversary. Yeah, Chris,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I don't necessarily know how emotional you are.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I lose it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: So just have fun doing that, because like, there there's
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: always one moment, one speech or something that just like
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden makes me go, yep, it's over.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: It's sweet.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: You guys, should I think it's a great habit to
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: get into.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: My Mom's always like, Ashley doesn't wants to watch your
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: wedding video, doesn't want to watch you my mom. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: have to keep it special. I keep casually watch it
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: on YouTube in the background.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Instead of Blue. He's watching her as well.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, he really does like he does enjoy it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: It's very cute. But I'm like, I can't like have
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: that it has as new as like exactly his new show.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Mom and Dad love each other. That's so sweet.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I really want to issue guys the happiest of anniversaries.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: What an amazing example, what an amazing season you're in.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Keep crushing it. It's so fun to catch up with
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: both of you and just hear about your lives today.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It's it's very exciting, I think for all the listeners
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: and especially for Ashley and myself. So yeah, keep us updated, Ashley.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I just have one last thing to throw in there.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: When I last saw you, guys, it was at the
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Golden Wedding and I was pregnant and kind of just
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: like I was like, I'm and you were very very sweet.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Were you guys trying at the time.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: No, that's a good question because that was the timing
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: that was right.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: It was right after the Golden Bats we got pregnant.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I think it was.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: No, you're just always practicing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Chris is just in it. That Golden wedding must have
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: been real.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Main take then, so fun you guys to blast. I
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: was like, the older you get, the more fun you
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: have because you like don't care what like everyone else thinks,
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: and you're just like, we had a blast. It was awesome.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: That was a lot of fun. Yeah. So yeah, we
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: got pregnant right close to after that. You did?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, not weird, you did?
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: You did?
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: I think it was a conversation. We had been having
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: a conversation for the last year because you know, our
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: age gap was getting kind of further and further and
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: further with the boys, and so we're like, you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of the why we shouldn't and then
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: there was like the well, you'll never regret it, and
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: so we decided, yeah.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: And how did you feel when you found out it
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: was a third boy? You are boys? Does?
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: I'm okay with it? There? I only know boys. So
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: it's like, you know, of course we wanted to as
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: He's like he really wanted a girl.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: I wanted a girl for sure, And when we went
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: and got our first ult set, I.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Was like, ah okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: But but immediately I was like, all right, we got
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: a foursome, so we're going to be good.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so this is good.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: We'll booked a t time, we'll compete.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: See, I'm starting now with the little girl, and I
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: have a feeling I might be the girls. Yeah, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: have a feeling I might be in the opposite camp
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: where I'm like one day, looking back, I'm like, hell, now,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: hell did this act in my life?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I can see Ben having three girls because I think
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: he's Danny Tanner. Oh have three girls?
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, I love that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Well, it's your fault, Ben. I found out that it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: the demand that decides.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't know that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I was today years old when I just learned that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: So yeah, joking, you are you?
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: Are you talking science right now?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Biology in high school?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of things I forget. Ashley, Hey,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: you guys are the best. Thanks for coming on Almost
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Famous Podcast. Until next time I've been Ben, I've been Ashley.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
• 30:17
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• 30:19
  Speaker 2: To podcasts,