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Frankie Friday with DeAnna Stagliano · 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 on our radio.
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Speaker 2: It's the Almost Famous podcast. Ashley and I are here
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Speaker 2: on this Friday, and we're gonna start to do something
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Speaker 2: not different but exciting.
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Speaker 3: This time of year.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna be your one stop shot for all things
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Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation, but as we prepare for one of the
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Speaker 2: most anticipated seasons in recent memory, we're gonna be your
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Speaker 2: one stop shot for everything Taylor Frankie Paul because she's
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Speaker 2: got a season coming up as our next bachelorette. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna bring you around on all the latest news. And
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Speaker 2: today we've got somebody very special, the star famously Available,
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Speaker 2: also former bachelorette, and someone's celebrating something that all of
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Speaker 2: us get to celebrate at least once a year. It's
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Speaker 2: her birthday. Deanna, Welcome back.
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Speaker 4: I swear I should just come on at least once
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Speaker 4: a day, if not twice a day, because you guys
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Speaker 4: just make me feel good and there's no reason to
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Speaker 4: make me feel this good or to make one that's
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Speaker 4: not true.
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Speaker 2: That's not true. Don't ever say that about you. Always
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Speaker 2: deserve to feel good.
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Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 5: Thanks, that's always so complimentary. I'm like, you're making me
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Speaker 5: feel awkward? Here are you just saying it to say it?
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Speaker 4: He means it?
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Speaker 6: Look, I know he does. He's a very sincere man.
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Speaker 4: He's got a baby, so he has nothing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I gave up all once you have a baby,
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Speaker 2: just become like a more like mushy, like sentimental man.
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Speaker 4: Man. See what he said, They're actually a man. He's
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Speaker 4: talking about women with two children.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 5: So, Dianna, you are a fan of the Mormon Wives.
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Speaker 5: So were you excited about the announcement of Taylor Frankie, Paul,
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Speaker 5: do you think this is a good decision? I will
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Speaker 5: open up this conversation since its entire podcast is going
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Speaker 5: to be surrounded by Frankie by what do I always
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Speaker 5: want to call her Frankie though.
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Speaker 4: But I think Frankie is okay. So when we got
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Speaker 4: to meet Frankie, we all know that, right, I was like,
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Speaker 4: what do we call her? Is she one of those
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Speaker 4: all three names kind of people? Like, how do I
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Speaker 4: how do I address the metal in the room? I
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Speaker 4: don't know, but that it was totally okay to call
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Speaker 4: her Frankie. So yeah, I watched the Mormon Wives, So
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Speaker 4: I don't know. You guys have been on The Bachelor
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Speaker 4: and The Bachelorette. I had two thoughts, right, Okay, this
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Speaker 4: is the last ditch.
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Speaker 5: Effort to save this which I'm down for save it.
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Speaker 5: And I thought this was a good choice for saving it.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I thought an interesting choice. So I'm rooting for
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Speaker 4: her because listen, we've all got a wrap sheet, some
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Speaker 4: a little thicker than others, but who's counting. And I
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Speaker 4: also just like, love, love, like why not give her
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Speaker 4: a shot? So she's not everyone's cup of tea. And
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Speaker 4: she's had a very interesting go at reality television. And
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Speaker 4: what I can respect about this woman is that she
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Speaker 4: doesn't hide it the good, the bad, the ugly, like
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Speaker 4: she is who she is through and through. And I
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Speaker 4: can appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: We're going to call this segment leading up to her
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Speaker 2: season Frankie Fridays. We're really excited for it because there's
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Speaker 2: a lot to break down during Frankie Fridays. And I
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Speaker 2: think two things can be true. I mean, I would
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Speaker 2: be shocked. I would put all my money on it
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Speaker 2: that at some point in some production room they said
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Speaker 2: we got to save this franchise, like we got we
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Speaker 2: don't have a lot of like runway here it's kind
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Speaker 2: of make or break time. So I think it's one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent true that this was a last ditch effort.
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Speaker 2: I also, and I'm curious to hear you like the
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Speaker 2: two of you kind of because it hasn't been discussed
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Speaker 2: yet if if it is a last stitch effort, if
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Speaker 2: this is their home run to try to bring an
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Speaker 2: audience back in. I understand the success of the Mormon
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Speaker 2: Wive show. I understand that it's a part of the family,
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Speaker 2: But why Taylor Frankie Paul. I'm not saying it's a
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Speaker 2: bad choice. I'm just saying, with all the people that
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Speaker 2: are available in the ABC family and the Disney family,
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Speaker 2: why was she the one that they said this is
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Speaker 2: our home run hit.
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Speaker 6: Well, she's like the lead of the show.
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Speaker 5: I would say, if it weren't for her and her
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Speaker 5: expose on these Mormon wives swinging in Utah, then they
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Speaker 5: would have never even had a show. And then she's
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Speaker 5: one of the only single girls on the show. Is
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Speaker 5: there only like one other single girl on the show.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and she really is not. I mean, this is
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Speaker 4: the kindest way possible, She's not it. Out of the
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Speaker 4: two it would be Taylor Frankie Paul, Like, she is
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Speaker 4: obviously the most entertaining, so why would they choose someone
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Speaker 4: who is not as entertaining? Or if you're looking at
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Speaker 4: it from an EP perspective, you have to pick someone
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Speaker 4: who can carry a show, who is nice enough, who's
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Speaker 4: attractive enough, who has enough of a personality to carry
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Speaker 4: a show.
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Speaker 5: Definitely, she was the obvious choice from that show. Now,
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Speaker 5: is there any other.
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Speaker 6: In the hula?
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Speaker 5: ABC Family? Can't think of anyone that's on with Kardashian
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Speaker 5: right now.
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Speaker 4: I think they had a list of people. I heard
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Speaker 4: some rumors about who they were looking at to make
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Speaker 4: the next bachelorette.
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Speaker 3: Brooks Nader, Yeah, Brooks.
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Speaker 4: Nader was on the list, Taylor Frinkie, Paul, there was
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Speaker 4: another one I can't remember, you know what, And I bet,
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Speaker 4: like what it came down to at the end of
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Speaker 4: the day when ABC was looking at or Warner Brothers,
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Speaker 4: whoever makes the decision, it probably came down to numbers,
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Speaker 4: how much money they were going to come out of pocket,
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Speaker 4: who they were going to pay, and then it just
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Speaker 4: came down to a popularity contest who they thought was
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Speaker 4: going to be the best of the show. And just
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Speaker 4: from knowing, you know talking to a few producers on set.
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Speaker 4: I believe the show will go on. I don't think
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Speaker 4: it's like a matter of it getting canceled, right, because
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Speaker 4: I love it too, Ashley. I want it to keep going.
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Speaker 4: But I think it is a matter of a last
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Speaker 4: ditch effort and figuring out what works. So they've done
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Speaker 4: several bouts of cleaning house over there, and I think
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Speaker 4: they're just trying to figure out what works this day
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Speaker 4: and age, you know what I mean. They've seen a
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Speaker 4: real decline in ratings over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 4: and I don't know if it was just people aren't
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Speaker 4: watching the show anymore. I don't know if it's because
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Speaker 4: with social media and the way the show has changed,
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Speaker 4: no one really believes it anymore, or are they just
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Speaker 4: not picking the right leads.
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Speaker 6: Probably a combination of it all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I think the leads have definitely been in question, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think we've talked about it here, Ashley
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Speaker 2: and myself have really discussed, well, if this is such
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Speaker 2: a a tipping point for the show, the leads that
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Speaker 2: they're choosing have been confusing, and I think Taylor, Frankie
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Speaker 2: Paul it makes more sense than most of these they've
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Speaker 2: chosen recently. However, I do wonder how will she relate
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Speaker 2: with that forty to sixty demo in the Midwest, And
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Speaker 2: I think you would be one to bring a great
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Speaker 2: perspective to us. I haven't met her, I don't know her.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen the secret lives of Mormon Wives. Does
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Speaker 2: she have that ability to relate to them to where
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Speaker 2: they're like, I want to watch her fine love every week.
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Speaker 4: Here's the thing. I believe that there are people who
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Speaker 4: have watched the show from season one. They don't care
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Speaker 4: what happens. They can't stop watching it. It's their thing.
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Speaker 4: They watch it with a group of people, or they
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Speaker 4: watch it with their daughters, or you know, for whatever reason,
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Speaker 4: they're watching the show and they're never going to stop.
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Speaker 4: So it doesn't matter how much people have complained about
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Speaker 4: her becoming the next bachelorette. They're going to watch. I
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Speaker 4: haven't watched in years. I'm absolutely going to watch. This
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Speaker 4: is either going to be really amazing or it's going
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Speaker 4: to be a train wreck that none of us can
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Speaker 4: look away, you know what I mean. I think the
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Speaker 4: really cool piece is that even when we see Mormon Wives,
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Speaker 4: Taylor Frankie Paul shows up as herself every single time.
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Speaker 4: I don't know her personally. Is that who she really
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Speaker 4: is when she's off in Utah drinking flavored Coca cola
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Speaker 4: and with her kids. I don't know, but either way
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Speaker 4: it works. She's entertaining and makes the show entertaining. When
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Speaker 4: I met her, she was the nicest person, you know
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Speaker 4: what I mean. I don't imagine she's going to come
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Speaker 4: on to set and show the worst version of herself
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Speaker 4: by any means. But she walked into a room of
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Speaker 4: a bunch of leads from the television show, and like
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Speaker 4: side note, they had this part you guys and Ashley,
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Speaker 4: I know you've been on several seasons, and then I
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Speaker 4: know you've been a lead. But there was this moment
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Speaker 4: we're all kind of standing there. It was a little
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Speaker 4: Handmaid's Tale, but you know, standing there and they've got
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Speaker 4: us all lined up, you know what I mean, and
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Speaker 4: we're waiting to welcome Taylor into the room. And I
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Speaker 4: just had this moment where I kind of looked around
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Speaker 4: and I thought, how freaking cool is this? Only there's
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Speaker 4: less than thirty of us? What is there? Twenty seven
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Speaker 4: bachelorettes something like that almost everyone was there, and I
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Speaker 4: had this moment where I looked around the room and
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Speaker 4: I thought, we're all different in our own individual way,
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Speaker 4: but how freaking awesome that we're all standing in the
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Speaker 4: same room. For the most part, I think everybody really
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Speaker 4: likes each other. I don't do a whole lot of drama,
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Speaker 4: so I don't know, but I just saw how freaking
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Speaker 4: beautiful like we all show up, We show up for
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Speaker 4: each other. We're all there. We're happy, you know, to
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Speaker 4: celebrate her and film again and be in the same room.
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Speaker 4: But it's a very small percentage of people that can
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Speaker 4: say that they do that, that they know what we've
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Speaker 4: all been through and that we can share this experience
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Speaker 4: while also each of having our own different individual experience.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I'm just old and sappy, but
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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, we're so blessed.
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Speaker 5: Well, this is just mind boggled at the amount of
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Speaker 5: people that showed up and how they convinced everybody to
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Speaker 5: show up. Because there are some people on this list,
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Speaker 5: I guess I should go through the list and tell
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Speaker 5: me if we us out on anyone on the date
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Speaker 5: that you guys are a part of I'm assuming it's
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Speaker 5: a date. Let's ask some preliminary questions. Was it a date?
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Speaker 5: Was it a guidance thing? You had a scene on
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Speaker 5: the upcoming season.
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Speaker 4: We had a scene. I'm going to say because I
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Speaker 4: don't know exactly how much I can share. At first
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Speaker 4: they were keeping us really mum, and then all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden, next thing, I know everything was on social media. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: Nation website, so I know it's out there. So we
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Speaker 4: filmed a scene that is going to air. It's a special.
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Speaker 5: I'm assuming you also won't be able to say, like
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Speaker 5: where in this season it'll fall, so I'll skip that.
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Speaker 5: These are who This is the list of who's there. Trista, Ali, Caitlin, Hannah,
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Speaker 5: Katie Thurston, Desiree, Charity, You, Rachel Lindsay, get back to that, Rachel, Rekia,
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Speaker 5: back at Kufrian, Tasha, Joan, Andy Orphan, jojo Emily Maynard,
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Speaker 5: and Ashley Ubert. Now hold on a second, and.
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Speaker 2: The only I just want to mention the people were
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Speaker 2: missing is Meredith Phillips from season two.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Meredith was there? Gabby Winley, No, I.
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Speaker 3: Have Jen Scheffed from season three? Was she there?
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Speaker 5: Jen?
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Speaker 4: Did not make it?
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Speaker 3: Jillian Harris from season five.
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Speaker 4: No, Unfortunately, her husband just had surgery. She had FOMO
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Speaker 4: and was texting all of us all day long.
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Speaker 2: Sure, I can't imagine her wanting to miss that. Claire
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Speaker 2: Crawley from season sixteen Claire didn't make it, Michelle Young
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Speaker 2: from season eighteen, Gabby Wendy from season nineteen, and Jen
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Speaker 2: Tran from season twenty one. Those are the ones who
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Speaker 2: were not able to come right.
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Speaker 4: You're exactly right then.
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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, Let's go back to the fact that Begaku
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Speaker 7: and Rachel Lindsay, who have distanced themselves with the franchise,
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Speaker 7: we're both there, which makes me think, like, why what
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Speaker 7: was about this?
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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know, because I was super happy
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Speaker 4: that everybody came. I know that certain women have drama
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Speaker 4: with one another, but I will say that there was
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Speaker 4: no drama that day. Everyone did a really great job
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Speaker 4: of just being together and enjoying what it was, and
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Speaker 4: it was all of us coming together to film a special.
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Speaker 4: Becca comes to things. I know she has distanced herself
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Speaker 4: from the show, but she still comes to things, and
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Speaker 4: she actually brought her husband and her baby and they
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Speaker 4: hung out with us all day. And Becca's delightful, so
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Speaker 4: I know she's distanced herself, but she still comes to things. Rachel.
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Speaker 4: I was really thrown off by because we have a
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Speaker 4: group chat that we're all on and we just check
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Speaker 4: in periodically or if somebody's got something or going through something,
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Speaker 4: or it's a birthday or whatever, we all kind of
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Speaker 4: chime in periodically, and Rachel pretty much silences that and
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Speaker 4: then pops in, you know, whatever she wants, right, And
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Speaker 4: so when she showed up, I just like wrapped her
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Speaker 4: in my arms and just like whispered in her ear.
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Speaker 4: I was like, I'm so glad that you came, because
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Speaker 4: I know it's not her thing anymore. I know she's
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Speaker 4: worked really hard to distance herself from the show for
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Speaker 4: a number of reasons, but I just was really glad
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Speaker 4: she came because again, it's about a scenario. And listen,
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Speaker 4: we all laughed all day. I'm joking about the Handmaid's Tale.
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Speaker 4: But like the girls, when they listen to this, they're
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Speaker 4: gonna die, because all day we were like under his eye.
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Speaker 4: That's what it felt like, all of us in red outline,
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Speaker 4: handing around, lining up, smile, ladies, look pretty, do this,
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Speaker 4: and we're all like, there's so much more to us
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Speaker 4: than this, you know what I mean, but we get it,
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Speaker 4: like they know what they're doing. It works. And here
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Speaker 4: we all all are lined up in our red and
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Speaker 4: you know, but I'm.
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Speaker 6: Just lined up in red. You're all wearing red.
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Speaker 4: We're all wearing red.
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Speaker 6: Oh so that that really makes a handmaid's tally.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Literally, they're trying to get us to hold straight faces
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Speaker 4: and smile. And I look at Katie and I'm like
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Speaker 4: under his eye and she's like, we're just like died
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Speaker 4: laughing because that's what it looked like. And it also
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Speaker 4: was that kind of scenario where they've got all of us,
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Speaker 4: you know, lined up and we're all just smiling and
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Speaker 4: looking pretty, you know what I mean. And we're there
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Speaker 4: to play a role and fill apart, and you know,
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Speaker 4: for the most part, we all know that, but you know,
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Speaker 4: and then it's this twisted part where you're like, well,
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Speaker 4: you know, the show couldn't have gone on without you,
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Speaker 4: So we are a key part of the show, but
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Speaker 4: also we play a part too, Like that's just how
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Speaker 4: it is. So anyway, Rachel came, I gave her a
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Speaker 4: big hug, and I told her I was so glad
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Speaker 4: that she came. That she came and that she was
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Speaker 4: really a part of the show all day long. She
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Speaker 4: didn't just sit behind the scenes and not interact with
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Speaker 4: anybody and not be a part of the show. Like,
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Speaker 4: she really showed up and she was herself and she
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Speaker 4: was a part of the episode. So I was thrilled
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Speaker 4: that she came.
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Speaker 5: We've been trying to get Emily Maynard on our podcast
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Speaker 5: for years. She was one of my favorite leads. She
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Speaker 5: apparently also doesn't respond in the group chat, but she
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Speaker 5: was there.
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Speaker 4: Emily, God bless her. She will look you dead in
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Speaker 4: the face, Ashley and be like, I don't even know
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Speaker 4: where my phone is half the time. She's got so
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Speaker 4: many children, she's got so much going on. She still
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Speaker 4: has like a Yahoo an AOL email address. Like we
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Speaker 4: all laugh at Emily because she is so removed, But
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Speaker 4: when she is there, she shows up, and she actually
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Speaker 4: brought her daughter, Ricky, and she's so funny. But you
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Speaker 4: know what, You're right, she has no time for any
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Speaker 4: of this stuff. You know, she talks about her experience
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Speaker 4: about being the Bachelorette and her time on the show
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Speaker 4: and all of that stuff, but she's just in a
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Speaker 4: different place than of her life. She has so many kids,
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Speaker 4: Like she's busy at all times, Like she never responds
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Speaker 4: to messages, hardly, ever, hardly ever.
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Speaker 3: Am I crazy to think that she's about to become
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Speaker 3: a grandmother as well?
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Speaker 4: She is, She's.
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Speaker 6: About to become a grandmother, a thirty nine year old grandmother.
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Speaker 6: How was Ricky? I heard that she is not enjoying pregnancy,
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Speaker 6: so relate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she is a beautiful, beautiful grandmother. Yes, and Ricky
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Speaker 4: looks stunning. She was cute. She came and joined us
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Speaker 4: for dinner.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm with you though, and ash I mean, goodness,
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Speaker 2: I forget Ashley was not elite. She like has that
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Speaker 2: like you know, it's it's hard to even process that
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Speaker 2: she wasn't the lead of the show. And so actually,
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Speaker 2: I'm not meaning to leave you out of this. It's
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Speaker 2: confusing to me.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, leave me out. That's the very sweet compliment.
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Speaker 2: It's it's not a secret if you listen to the show.
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Speaker 2: It's been years since I've had any touch with this franchise.
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Speaker 2: And there's reasons for that, you know, change of staff,
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Speaker 2: but also the fact that I've started a family and
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Speaker 2: you know, my life does not revolve around this show.
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Speaker 2: But I've never once asked or tried to distance myself
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Speaker 2: from the franchise because I'm very thankful for it in
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Speaker 2: every way, and I would do anything I could that
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Speaker 2: might help them or fill a five minute time block
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Speaker 2: on a show that they need. But I get what
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Speaker 2: you're saying. There's been moments like that for me. Weddings
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Speaker 2: really have been that, I guess the only time I've
16:53
Speaker 2: met other bachelors, or maybe on a golf trip that
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Speaker 2: I plan, But there's moments where you look around the
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Speaker 2: room and you say, this is like, how incredible that
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Speaker 2: this is where my life went, not only because of
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Speaker 2: the fact that there's cameras there and that they've like
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Speaker 2: pampered us or whatever. It made us feel like stars.
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Speaker 2: When you know, I come home and I wear sweats
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Speaker 2: all day and set it at a computer. That I think
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Speaker 2: is like mostly ninety five percent of what leads now
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Speaker 2: do with their lives when they're off the show. But
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Speaker 2: I think it's incredible when they get back together again,
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Speaker 2: because there is something special about each and every person
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Speaker 2: they've chosen as a lead that makes them different, that
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Speaker 2: makes them feel the season that they needed to fill.
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Speaker 2: And so what I'm really interested in because I believe
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Speaker 2: you could talk about this, and I know there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of things you can't talk about, but you got
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Speaker 2: a room full of these people again for X amount
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Speaker 2: of hours. One I think I would have like I
17:51
Speaker 2: would be too excited and I'd probably like word vomit
17:55
Speaker 2: for an hour of my life just to get everything
17:57
Speaker 2: out or ask every question I want to ask. But
18:00
Speaker 2: if there's like a few moments that stand out to
18:03
Speaker 2: you from this experience, maybe there aren't on camera that
18:07
Speaker 2: are just in the in the corners, in the silence,
18:09
Speaker 2: What moments stand out to you with this group being
18:12
Speaker 2: together again.
18:13
Speaker 4: I'm with you, Ben, It's not like I've purposely distanced
18:17
Speaker 4: myself from the show. It's just like I know my role.
18:21
Speaker 4: It's not the center of my life. It has changed
18:23
Speaker 4: the trajectory of my life and where I have gone since,
18:27
Speaker 4: and I'm really really grateful for it. But I don't
18:29
Speaker 4: live and die on The Bachelorette and The Bachelorette. I
18:32
Speaker 4: don't need that connection to like keep up with the
18:34
Speaker 4: show or to say I'm I'm attached to the show
18:37
Speaker 4: for any reason. I genuinely go to these things. I like,
18:41
Speaker 4: genuinely love most of the women I love all of
18:44
Speaker 4: the women, but I would just naturally gravitate towards certain
18:48
Speaker 4: ones who I would say, outside of this show, outside
18:51
Speaker 4: of social media, are actually my friends, right that I
18:55
Speaker 4: keep in touch with, that I speak to, that know
18:58
Speaker 4: who my children are, you know what I mean, That
18:59
Speaker 4: are a part of my life. And so for me,
19:02
Speaker 4: any excuse to visit these people and spend time with them,
19:06
Speaker 4: I'll do it. So if ABC is going to buy
19:08
Speaker 4: a special and bring us all in in film, you
19:11
Speaker 4: have to pay me, I'll be there. I love these women,
19:13
Speaker 4: I just want to hang out with them for the day,
19:15
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like that's it. Yeah, So
19:18
Speaker 4: I would say filming is just how you normally know
19:21
Speaker 4: it is. They bring us all in, and I think
19:23
Speaker 4: looking across the room, I get the feeling that none
19:26
Speaker 4: of us view each other differently. You put us all
19:30
Speaker 4: in a room, no one sits around and is like, oh,
19:31
Speaker 4: I got more ratings than your season did, or oh
19:35
Speaker 4: I've had this lucrative TV career. Since that's not the way,
19:38
Speaker 4: at least me anyway, I'm only speaking for myself. Like
19:42
Speaker 4: when we're all sitting in the room and the cameras
19:44
Speaker 4: aren't rolling and we're all hanging out and talking about
19:47
Speaker 4: our kids and showing pictures and talking about our experience
19:49
Speaker 4: of what life is like. And you know, several of
19:51
Speaker 4: the girls are pregnant. It's just a bunch of girls
19:54
Speaker 4: being friends in the room and we're seriously just like
19:57
Speaker 4: pumping each other up. We're laughing that we're all in
19:59
Speaker 4: red sweatsuits looked like the Handmaid's S Tale. But we're
20:01
Speaker 4: also like, fuck, you look so beautiful today. Your makeup
20:04
Speaker 4: looks great, your hair looks great. Like we just genuinely
20:06
Speaker 4: love each other. So for me, that's really the best
20:10
Speaker 4: part of having an experience like that. And I think
20:13
Speaker 4: because you know, if you're looking at a production standpoint,
20:16
Speaker 4: because production has changed, they are also really driving that.
20:21
Speaker 4: You know, I realized producers have a job to do
20:24
Speaker 4: and I'm sure if they needed to get somebody to cry,
20:25
Speaker 4: they would go to great lengths to do it. But
20:27
Speaker 4: I would say for the most part, in the last
20:29
Speaker 4: several years that I have gone on to set and
20:31
Speaker 4: have had to film anything, the vibe on set is
20:34
Speaker 4: just different. The production is different, the producers are different.
20:38
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like and again, I was on the
20:40
Speaker 4: show so long ago when I walked on set. They
20:42
Speaker 4: were willing to like cut throat, to do whatever it took,
20:46
Speaker 4: and it just doesn't feel like that anymore. So I'm
20:48
Speaker 4: really thankful for that. They did a really good job
20:52
Speaker 4: of kind of breaking us up into smaller groups to
20:56
Speaker 4: film with Taylor. So for the most part, you know,
21:01
Speaker 4: they take some of the newer girls and put them
21:03
Speaker 4: with Taylor, then they take some of the other girls
21:05
Speaker 4: who have had a lucrative career afterwards they put them
21:08
Speaker 4: with Taylor, and then there's kind of the rest of
21:11
Speaker 4: us who are just like, I don't know, you know,
21:14
Speaker 4: talking about random things. But the most fun to me
21:17
Speaker 4: was like after filming was done, they arranged for us
21:20
Speaker 4: to have this really awesome dinner and it was just us.
21:23
Speaker 4: They put us in a private room where we were
21:25
Speaker 4: all just ourselves, and it was just a whole night
21:29
Speaker 4: of like just like girls hanging out and laughing and
21:34
Speaker 4: being together. Oh the TikTok frenzy.
21:36
Speaker 6: I listen, Yeah, I had fomo.
21:40
Speaker 4: Actually you would have fit in so well.
21:42
Speaker 6: I'm glad, I but like, no, I'm not asking to
21:45
Speaker 6: have been there. It was for you guys.
21:46
Speaker 5: Only to say that, like it was like, oh, my
21:49
Speaker 5: friends making funny things after alley.
21:52
Speaker 4: This would have been night up your alley. So we
21:54
Speaker 4: were like every five minutes if there was a break
21:57
Speaker 4: in any kind of filming. We were filming tiktoks, and
22:02
Speaker 4: everybody at our group text was like throwing ideas fun
22:05
Speaker 4: things that we should do. So I don't know how
22:06
Speaker 4: many we filmed, just an exhausting amount of tiktoks, and
22:10
Speaker 4: poor Meredith, like she doesn't do any social media. She
22:12
Speaker 4: was like, I don't know, just put me wherever you
22:14
Speaker 4: need me and tell me what to do. I'm ready
22:15
Speaker 4: to be done with this, you know. But it was
22:17
Speaker 4: a lot of fun, and I would say that given
22:21
Speaker 4: the filming, we were able to each go into our
22:23
Speaker 4: room and like turn it on and put on our
22:24
Speaker 4: game faces and be like, just tell us what you need.
22:26
Speaker 4: We would rather just be hanging out with each other,
22:28
Speaker 4: and then when the cameras were done, we were able
22:30
Speaker 4: to just laugh and film a bunch of tiktoks and
22:32
Speaker 4: have a great time. And then by the end of
22:34
Speaker 4: the night most of the girls went to bed and
22:36
Speaker 4: it was me and Trista and Caitlin Bristow and one
22:39
Speaker 4: of the producers at a bar until midnight. And just
22:42
Speaker 4: laughing our faces off.
22:43
Speaker 3: The shock that Kaitlyn closed down a bar.
22:46
Speaker 4: Uh shocked, and we got to laughing because people were
22:51
Speaker 4: like it just became this ongoing thing. People were asking
22:53
Speaker 4: us why we were dressed like that because we didn't change.
22:56
Speaker 4: We just kept our reddit. So we just looked like
22:59
Speaker 4: a cult moving around the bar in Woodland Hills, you
23:03
Speaker 4: know what I mean. And so finally it just became
23:05
Speaker 4: every time somebody came up, like what are you guys doing,
23:07
Speaker 4: and we just became this ongoing Oh we played dodgeball
23:10
Speaker 4: and they were like really, and I was like, absolutely.
23:14
Speaker 2: There's nobody that recognized, like this isn't the paparazzi never
23:17
Speaker 2: showed up I have. I mean, I would shock that
23:19
Speaker 2: the paparazzi didn't show up.
23:21
Speaker 4: Not a single person was like, oh you are Trista,
23:25
Speaker 4: you are Caitlin Bristol. No one recognized us. We had
23:28
Speaker 4: these people believing that we were on a dodgeball league,
23:32
Speaker 4: that I was the captain, that we each had our role,
23:35
Speaker 4: and that we played there in Woodland Hills. We had
23:37
Speaker 4: a whole story going.
23:39
Speaker 5: You guys are the prettiest dodgeball team ever. All right,
23:54
Speaker 5: well it must be asked, is Taylor now part of
23:58
Speaker 5: the group chat?
23:59
Speaker 6: And we'll she really able to hang with this group
24:03
Speaker 6: down the road.
24:05
Speaker 4: I'm a little worried for her. She walked into the
24:10
Speaker 4: room of all of us, and I tend to think
24:13
Speaker 4: that we are the most friendly, most welcoming group of women.
24:16
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I'm biased, but she almost looked
24:19
Speaker 4: like a deer in headlights, like like only smokes, Like
24:22
Speaker 4: you could just tell that she was really overwhelmed, really overwhelmed.
24:27
Speaker 4: I believe that production on the Bachelorette is really different
24:31
Speaker 4: from production on The Mormon Wives. From what I gather
24:34
Speaker 4: is like on Mormon Wives, there's a lot more producing
24:39
Speaker 4: around drama because it feeds viewers and it's so what
24:47
Speaker 4: I gather is that she came on to set like
24:49
Speaker 4: already with six walls built because she was like, Okay,
24:52
Speaker 4: how bad is this going to be? How bad is
24:55
Speaker 4: And I don't think it's been that way for her,
24:56
Speaker 4: but I think she also she goes from one reality
24:58
Speaker 4: show to this, and I don't know if she's found
25:02
Speaker 4: her path quite yet, you know what I mean, Like
25:04
Speaker 4: this is a dating show. You are meant to find love,
25:07
Speaker 4: and there's probably you know, also the other piece of
25:09
Speaker 4: look at the toxic relationships that she has had on
25:12
Speaker 4: television that have aired for everyone to see, and now
25:15
Speaker 4: she gets to walk into the situation where hopefully she
25:18
Speaker 4: finds love, if nothing else, hopefully she just realized that
25:21
Speaker 4: there's normal, nice guys out there, you know, I hope,
25:24
Speaker 4: but she genuinely looked terrified.
25:30
Speaker 2: I also hope, and I think this is something that
25:33
Speaker 2: I bring up that was life changing for me really
25:36
Speaker 2: in that season. I hope she also realizes there's really
25:39
Speaker 2: great like normal women that are a part of this
25:42
Speaker 2: as well, like that, hey, this is weird, this is crazy.
25:46
Speaker 2: This is a new show, and all these women have
25:49
Speaker 2: done it also, and I like them, Like they're fun,
25:52
Speaker 2: they want to have a good time, they're laughing with
25:54
Speaker 2: each other. When I was filming The Bachelor and the
25:59
Speaker 2: couple of the older showed up, that was huge for
26:02
Speaker 2: me to be like, wait, I would kick it with
26:04
Speaker 2: these dudes, like I'd kick it with Souls and Mesnik
26:07
Speaker 2: and you know, Sean Loh, Like they're nice guys and
26:11
Speaker 2: so that's big.
26:12
Speaker 4: I hope she felt like that, Ben like when she
26:14
Speaker 4: walked in and even when the cameras were rolling she
26:16
Speaker 4: was like, thank you all for being here, like, thanks
26:18
Speaker 4: for coming in, you know what I mean. She It
26:20
Speaker 4: wasn't like she walked into the room and then ran
26:22
Speaker 4: out when the cameras weren't rolling. She stood in the
26:25
Speaker 4: room with us and introduced herself to each of us
26:29
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and said and thank us
26:30
Speaker 4: for coming, and asked for advice. She shared a little bit,
26:33
Speaker 4: you know, of what's what's going on in filming for
26:37
Speaker 4: her and where she's at. So my hope is that
26:40
Speaker 4: she'll join the group chain Ashley when it's all said
26:43
Speaker 4: and done, and then we just let her know. She
26:45
Speaker 4: can also silence it.
26:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is the biggest texture in it? Trista for sure,
26:57
Speaker 2: she's like, but she needs to she's the cultivator of
26:59
Speaker 2: the world.
27:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does always respond, She's very good at responding.
27:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm setting up a dinner day with Tristera
27:09
Speaker 2: right now actually as we talk on my phone, because
27:11
Speaker 2: she's we need to get together again. This sounds so special. Leaving,
27:21
Speaker 2: did you feel like fulfilled or did you feel like
27:25
Speaker 2: there was something missing?
27:26
Speaker 4: No, I my heart was like of like joy and
27:31
Speaker 4: fulfillment was like pouring out of me, you know, if
27:34
Speaker 4: we filmed the day before my birthday. So it was
27:38
Speaker 4: also like the girls were happy birthday, you know what
27:40
Speaker 4: I mean. Everybody likes to get birthday wishes, you know
27:42
Speaker 4: what I mean, and everybody made a point to say
27:45
Speaker 4: happy birthday. But it also just like my meter for
27:49
Speaker 4: just like being full, like my heart was overflowing. I
27:52
Speaker 4: really loved seeing all of the women, and I genuinely
27:54
Speaker 4: love everyone and it was great to catch up. I
27:57
Speaker 4: really spent my day talking to a bunch of different
28:00
Speaker 4: people and hearing about their lives and how they're doing
28:03
Speaker 4: and what's new in their life. And then you know,
28:04
Speaker 4: I just have the ones that just like sit close
28:06
Speaker 4: to my heart, like Desiree. I mean, she's just like
28:09
Speaker 4: man like. I just love her. She is very underrated
28:13
Speaker 4: as a bachelorette. She's just of a human being and
28:16
Speaker 4: she is kind and we've always had a really special friendship.
28:20
Speaker 4: So I spent the entire day with her, to be honest,
28:22
Speaker 4: like just hearing about her children, in her life and
28:25
Speaker 4: how she's doing in Trista. Of course, so I really
28:28
Speaker 4: woke up the next morning and you know, I had
28:31
Speaker 4: the girls all texting me happy birthday, and I was
28:33
Speaker 4: in my car right on my way home, and I
28:34
Speaker 4: just was like, I'm just like overflowing. This is the
28:36
Speaker 4: best birthday ever. I feel so much gratitude and joy
28:41
Speaker 4: that I got to spend the day with all of
28:44
Speaker 4: those women. And to be honest, I don't care how
28:46
Speaker 4: the filming went. I had a great time.
28:49
Speaker 6: I'm so happy for you and everyone. This is awesome.
28:52
Speaker 6: Let's see this with our often Bachelor producers. Get everybody together.
28:56
Speaker 3: We could also just do it on our own d Yeah.
28:57
Speaker 5: I know. I did it on our own in October
29:01
Speaker 5: and it was so wonderful, So we all have to
29:03
Speaker 5: do it on our own work.
29:04
Speaker 4: We need to do that. I also was like, hey, man,
29:07
Speaker 4: when you're done with Taylor Frankie Paul, if you're looking
29:10
Speaker 4: for a middle aged divorce.
29:14
Speaker 5: See the Silver the Silver Bachelorette.
29:17
Speaker 3: You locked down and then put me on a date. Man, Yeah, we.
29:22
Speaker 5: Should take it into your own hands. Set her up
29:24
Speaker 5: with your friends. Yeah, we should do that. I'd be
29:27
Speaker 5: excited to final question. I know our audience is going
29:31
Speaker 5: we have so many notes here about Taylor Frankie Paul
29:34
Speaker 5: right now, and we're going to save that to the
29:36
Speaker 5: next Frankie Friday because I believe this content can wait,
29:40
Speaker 5: and I really want to just like sit on this
29:42
Speaker 5: being our launch a Frankie Friday of you meeting Taylor
29:45
Speaker 5: Frankie Paul and getting to be a part of her season.
29:50
Speaker 5: And then next week we'll talk about some of the
29:53
Speaker 5: stuff that we've heard about her season and some.
29:56
Speaker 2: Dates, yeah, some elit dates so leaked. Yes, she means
30:00
Speaker 2: she's all over social media, so let's save that. I
30:03
Speaker 2: think this was a great episode and just a really
30:06
Speaker 2: fun conversation with you.
30:08
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you about something because I know
30:10
Speaker 4: you know Carrie Fetman and.
30:11
Speaker 3: For those listening, I love that man.
30:14
Speaker 4: Wardrobe from day one on the set, and Carrie loves
30:19
Speaker 4: nothing more than to treat us all like little dolls
30:22
Speaker 4: and dress us up the thinnest, most sparkly gowns and
30:28
Speaker 4: dresses with the highest heels that he possibly can. When
30:31
Speaker 4: I was filming, I wanted to strangle him because he
30:33
Speaker 4: put me in no less than seven inch heels because
30:35
Speaker 4: I'm short. Carrie was on set and I gave him
30:40
Speaker 4: the biggest hug and he always kisses me right on
30:42
Speaker 4: the mouth, and I was like, you must be dying,
30:44
Speaker 4: and he was like, what do you mean, And I
30:46
Speaker 4: was like, because you can't put her in high heels, y'all.
30:48
Speaker 4: She came on to set and her socks.
30:50
Speaker 5: And her ugs because she's not She's like, won't dress uncomfortable.
30:54
Speaker 4: Well, and I've never been so jealous in my entire
30:57
Speaker 4: life that she gets to film in her crocs and
30:59
Speaker 4: in her uggs.
31:00
Speaker 6: And I love that about her. I love it.
31:03
Speaker 4: I do too. She filled the all day and her
31:05
Speaker 4: ugs and her socks and did not give.
31:07
Speaker 3: A you know what, Carrie's freaking out. Carrie wanted to
31:10
Speaker 3: put me in But are you.
31:11
Speaker 4: Just And he said, I've had to let so much
31:14
Speaker 4: go this season that I can't even sleep at night.
31:16
Speaker 3: He's doing okay.
31:18
Speaker 2: He's had twenty plus years of his and he does
31:21
Speaker 2: an incredible job. He's the best out there. Two final
31:24
Speaker 2: questions for you, how much wine was consumed? And then
31:26
Speaker 2: did they have enough?
31:28
Speaker 5: Uh?
31:28
Speaker 4: You know what is so funny? A. I don't drink anymore,
31:30
Speaker 4: so it was the last thing on my mind. But
31:33
Speaker 4: B even though there was no men on set, they
31:37
Speaker 4: still counted the girl's drinks and several of the girls
31:40
Speaker 4: were really Yes, they still only let the girls have
31:44
Speaker 4: two drinks per hour. So a couple of the girls
31:47
Speaker 4: are pregnant. Becca Jojo are pregnant, and so people were
31:51
Speaker 4: going up to the bar and giving Becca and JoJo's
31:54
Speaker 4: name because they couldn't get drinks anyway, and they were
31:57
Speaker 4: trying to get more drinks. But isn't that so funny?
31:59
Speaker 4: There was not a on set, No one was sexually
32:01
Speaker 4: involved with anyone, except they were still counting the girls
32:04
Speaker 4: drinks and only letting them have two drinks per hour.
32:07
Speaker 2: That's a good note if they ever invite me back,
32:09
Speaker 2: because their flask was getting shoved up somewhere and snuck in.
32:13
Speaker 6: But I also will say, I don't know if we
32:15
Speaker 6: really need more than two drinks an hour.
32:18
Speaker 4: Well, listen, Andy Gorfman was really really she all day.
32:21
Speaker 4: She was like, this has got to be a joke.
32:23
Speaker 4: You bring us all the way out here and you
32:25
Speaker 4: only give us two little tiny glasses of wine.
32:27
Speaker 6: This is a joke per hour.
32:30
Speaker 2: You get away from the kids, you get away from
32:32
Speaker 2: the husband, you have one girl's day and you're like.
32:33
Speaker 3: No, no, no, load me up to close here.
32:38
Speaker 2: You are the star of famously Available, but rumor has
32:43
Speaker 2: it that you might not be famously available?
32:45
Speaker 3: Is that true or not?
32:49
Speaker 4: The famous part is like, no, but I am available.
32:54
Speaker 4: I am I have started to see someone.
32:57
Speaker 3: Oh what does that mean for my role in your life?
33:00
Speaker 6: Last month?
33:00
Speaker 4: And means I can still date Ben? Okay, it means
33:05
Speaker 4: that I'm just getting to know someone. I'm trying to
33:08
Speaker 4: decide if I would like to date this person exclusively
33:13
Speaker 4: or I'm really struggling with because we were friends beforehand,
33:17
Speaker 4: if I'm able to move from a friendship to a
33:19
Speaker 4: romantic relationship.
33:21
Speaker 3: Of course, of course you can't.
33:23
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to see him naked?
33:26
Speaker 3: Well, see why not?
33:29
Speaker 6: It depends on how many weeks and how many dates
33:31
Speaker 6: you've been seeing him.
33:33
Speaker 5: But I feel like you should know if you are
33:34
Speaker 5: curious about seeing him naked pretty quickly.
33:37
Speaker 4: That's the thing.
33:39
Speaker 3: We got to stop here, because here's what we're going
33:40
Speaker 3: to do.
33:41
Speaker 2: We're going to jump on an episode of Famously Available
33:44
Speaker 2: next week, and we're going to talk about you and
33:47
Speaker 2: your curiosities are lack of curiosity and what has kind
33:53
Speaker 2: of happened with you and this new mystery friend that
33:56
Speaker 2: maybe or maybe not you're romantically interested in. So make
34:01
Speaker 2: sure you tune into Famously Available. We'll be back next
34:03
Speaker 2: week talking all about her love life or man, if
34:07
Speaker 2: she's gonna see him naked until.
34:10
Speaker 6: Then, I want to be on this one.
34:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can come on, Ashley.
34:13
Speaker 2: It's a very safe space.
34:19
Speaker 3: I love it.
34:20
Speaker 2: Thanks for breaking it down. This sounds so special and
34:22
Speaker 2: so fun, and.
34:24
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I was not sold on the Taylor
34:27
Speaker 3: Frankie Paul choice. I don't know her.
34:30
Speaker 2: I've never seen the show, so that was like the
34:31
Speaker 2: most judgmental without any education. It's like it's like judging
34:35
Speaker 2: us on a podcast that nobody's listened to. They just
34:37
Speaker 2: seem like a little clip and they're like.
34:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like it. It's like, listen to the whole thing.
34:42
Speaker 2: And now I'm getting more and more excited about it
34:45
Speaker 2: because I want her to find a good person. I
34:49
Speaker 2: want her to be a part of this family, and
34:51
Speaker 2: I think there's good things to come from the show
34:54
Speaker 2: no matter what and when you're on it. So thank
34:57
Speaker 2: you for giving us the perspective of all these incredible people.
35:00
Speaker 2: We'll show him back up to support her. It's a
35:02
Speaker 2: big deal. It's a big deal.
35:04
Speaker 4: I put down the production too, though. You guys, I said,
35:07
Speaker 4: if you bring back her two exes, the one that
35:11
Speaker 4: is a fame hungry. We'll call it what it is
35:14
Speaker 4: if they bring him back, like I quit, I quit, like,
35:16
Speaker 4: don't do this to this poor girl.
35:18
Speaker 6: Don't do this, oh villa, or they're gonna do it.
35:20
Speaker 6: They're gonna do it.
35:21
Speaker 5: And Ben, I think you should watch The Secret Lives
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Speaker 5: of Mormon Wives for just like in the background.
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Speaker 2: No, I think we should for Frankie Fridays too, Like
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Speaker 2: I think you and I need to prep and watch
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Speaker 2: the show for Frankie Fridays.
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Speaker 3: We need to.
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Speaker 2: I I guess I need to get educated on who
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Speaker 2: this person is and what she's about, and so as
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Speaker 2: a result, need to watch the show.
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Speaker 3: And we will.
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Speaker 2: I'll start as soon as Thanksgiving is over, like when
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Speaker 2: I'm bloated and laying on a couch. We're going to
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Speaker 2: start the show and we're going to get through it
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Speaker 2: along with all of our audience, because goodness gracious, we
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Speaker 2: have a long time till the Bachelorette, and we got
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Speaker 2: to talk about something, got to talk about something, and
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Speaker 2: we want to talk about something. Anyways, we'll be back
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Speaker 2: with the almost famous podcast. This has been your first
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Speaker 2: Franky Friday. It won't go down as the best because
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Speaker 2: I bet we have some really great things to come,
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Speaker 2: but it's definitely going to go down in our top
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Speaker 2: five because Dianna's with us and she's incredible. So until
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Speaker 2: next time, I've been Ben, I've Been Ashley.
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Speaker 6: See you guys.
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