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In The Friendzone with Jonathon Johnson and Lea Cayanan · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Before I get two carried away.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to give a shout out to the
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  Speaker 2: for a spin along the coast and.
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  Speaker 1: Back at the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Unwined in the living room at the Portafino Pores self
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  Speaker 2: served tap wall, the soak in and breath taking coastal
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  Speaker 2: sunset the Portafino Hotel and Marina, where coastal charm meets
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  Speaker 2: endless discovery. Okay, let's dive back into the Bachelor in
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  Speaker 2: Paradise reunion.
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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, almost famous podcast. Guys, I'm so excited to have
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  Speaker 2: you on Leah. You look so different than what I
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  Speaker 2: saw you on your LOREX.
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  Speaker 1: You switch show.
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  Speaker 3: Few outfit changes, you know, you got to keep.
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  Speaker 1: Them guessing you do.
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  Speaker 2: And Jonathan, my guy, always looking good but I love
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  Speaker 2: the shoes, appreciate it outfit. You know, that's okay. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't bring a wardrobe change either. I haven't changed since
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  Speaker 2: the planes. I feel disgusting. But guys, I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 2: been asked this question a million times. You're both absolutely
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  Speaker 2: beautiful people, very kind. I've gotten to know Jonathan over
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  Speaker 2: over the last year or so. Le it's our first
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  Speaker 2: time meeting. But I don't understand why why isn't there
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  Speaker 2: a love connection here? I mean, honestly, I look at
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  Speaker 2: the two of you, I'm like, what a perfect couple?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what's the deal?
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  Speaker 4: Really? What it is?
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  Speaker 3: He actually is so in love with me, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just he's scared of it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. I understand letting him, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, explore what he has to explore. Yeah, no, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just kidding. But we are such good friends, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I think when I was in the setting
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  Speaker 3: of Paradise, mind you, we've met before, yea, and nothing
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  Speaker 3: has ever happened. I've never like been like hate Jathan.
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  Speaker 4: Like you know whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that when I was there, I was
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  Speaker 3: just so intent on like being in love and finding love,
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  Speaker 3: and Jonathan, I think was the only one remotely, like
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  Speaker 3: I was remotely my type that i'd pursue. Actually, I
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  Speaker 3: take the back, I'd never pursue a man, but.
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  Speaker 4: That i'd be interested in pursuing.
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  Speaker 5: The options were limited to you came in and it
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  Speaker 5: was either me or realistically, yeah, they touch.
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  Speaker 3: On, like I love him to death, but he's just
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  Speaker 3: not my type, right, But yeah, I think we've just
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  Speaker 3: always been good friends and yeah, I don't know, and
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  Speaker 3: he's just tripping because I'm like, amazing you are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean honestly, I mean, come on, buddy, No, No.
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  Speaker 5: That's the big thing too, is like, and I know
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  Speaker 5: this question is going to come of why did you
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  Speaker 5: friend zone people? And it's like, well, if I don't
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  Speaker 5: feel a romantic connection towards somebody, well I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to just kick them to.
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  Speaker 1: The curb and be no.
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  Speaker 5: First of I'm not going to pretend to waste somebody's time.
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  Speaker 5: But also, like, I see how incredible of a person
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  Speaker 5: you are inside out, You're beautiful, Like I want to
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  Speaker 5: be on your side for everything.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I want to.
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  Speaker 5: Do is burn the bridge and then be like absolutely
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  Speaker 5: not never going to happen immediately off the rip, and
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  Speaker 5: then that's it like, I want to still be on
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  Speaker 5: your side and be there for you and be a
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  Speaker 5: friend that you can lean on if it's not going
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  Speaker 5: to work out romantically. So like when my friends owned
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  Speaker 5: it's because I actually care about everybody on the damn show,
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  Speaker 5: but people look at it as a negative. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I could have just been the bad dude, really not
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  Speaker 5: wasted anybody's time, just been like, don't even talk to
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  Speaker 5: me right right?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, that's not me. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to sit here and that amiable guy. You like people,
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  Speaker 1: and you obviously are hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're out there entertaining everybody, quick to smile
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  Speaker 2: and make everybody laugh. I'm just saying iought I thought
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  Speaker 2: you know that there was something there now, Leah, before
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  Speaker 2: coming to Paradise, did you kind of like how they
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  Speaker 2: always ask everyone, like, you know, who do you want
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  Speaker 2: to meet here? Did you have anyone that you named
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  Speaker 2: that you wanted to meet that that did show up
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  Speaker 2: or and you were disappointed in what happened there.
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  Speaker 3: I think when I was initially talking to the team
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  Speaker 3: about coming on, I was very much like I think
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  Speaker 3: a handful of these men are handsome, but I'm definitely
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  Speaker 3: a personnally gal and I want to kind of get
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  Speaker 3: to know someone face to face because you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can only see so much on the screen. Sure, So
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  Speaker 3: I think I just walked in very open. I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: specifically looking for one person. Yeah, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah I was. I think I was just very open.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, and how about you? How about you, Jonathan?
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  Speaker 5: So I literally the exact same thing. That's what I
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  Speaker 5: told you guys last time we spoke, because I was like,
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  Speaker 5: it's not like a physical thing for me, Like I
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  Speaker 5: know what's done behind the camera to show these people
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  Speaker 5: in different line. I want to meet somebody for who
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  Speaker 5: they are in the moment right and then make my
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  Speaker 5: decision there. So I tried to stay away from meeting
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  Speaker 5: people at the show, all my best behaviors, just going
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  Speaker 5: open minded.
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  Speaker 1: And you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't say like for the producers, there wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: I want to meet these three people.
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  Speaker 5: I think it pissed them off actually, because they're like
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  Speaker 5: pushing it. We want to help you out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they give us a clue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the things I think is kind of interesting,
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  Speaker 2: and this is because I obviously was watching the show
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  Speaker 2: at home with everybody else was there were these times
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  Speaker 2: when you think, oh my god, there seems like there's
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  Speaker 2: so much tension right like, like, for example, you and
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  Speaker 2: Dale right like A lot was made of the fact that,
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  Speaker 2: though editing sometimes would show you almost looking like you
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  Speaker 2: were trying to interfere in Dale and Cat's relationship.
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  Speaker 1: But then I see you and Dale today.
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  Speaker 2: You guys seem fine, but are you fine?
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  Speaker 1: The connection with Cat lasted of whole three days.
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  Speaker 5: And I knew after twenty four hours when Dale showed
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  Speaker 5: up her reaction. She was standing this close to me
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  Speaker 5: as Dale walked up. Oh my god, it's like as
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  Speaker 5: Cat does. Yeah, I'm sitting there and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 5: didn't get this reaction. I was like, now that I
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  Speaker 5: don't even want it. I don't get that same reaction,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So from that point on, realistically,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, dude, I'm not gonna shoot my shot
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  Speaker 5: a cat Like, yeah, I still had like that in
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  Speaker 5: the back of my mind, like, hey, I still do
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  Speaker 5: like this girl. I'm not going to just completely write
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  Speaker 5: it off because yeah, I'm not the obvious pick to her.
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  Speaker 5: But after like two days of her just being pretty
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  Speaker 5: locked in on him. I was like, dude, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: about this. So like those moments where I pull her
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  Speaker 5: for a chat to check on her is because a
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  Speaker 5: similar situation like it didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: But as a cat, I'm still going to be there
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  Speaker 1: for you individual and a friend. Yep. And it looked
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  Speaker 1: more as if like.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so hanging on this fact that like, oh maybe
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  Speaker 5: me and Kat and it's like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, well, I mean, no one, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: no one would blame anybody on the show for all
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  Speaker 2: the women are beautiful. You know, you're on a beach,
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  Speaker 2: you're having beverages, you like, you know, sunsets and all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I totally get it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was it was kind of interesting how
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  Speaker 2: the show played up that tension a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it was it was funny because I think the
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  Speaker 2: first time it happened is when they asked me, if
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  Speaker 2: you know who do you want to be the next
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  Speaker 2: bashion I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, what's gotta be? My guy? Jonathan? Yeah? Right, So
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I see what's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be a really good one, unless you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the love connection here happens which you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: come on, come on, all right, So anytime after filming
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  Speaker 2: away from the cameras that you two thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we could give this a shot, Like, did you
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  Speaker 2: guys ever explore that conversation?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'll never get crossed our minds to even like
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  Speaker 5: we were both knew, like it wasn't even a think,
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  Speaker 5: like a thought that like, hey, should we talk about this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: I also think from that very first conversation that we're
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  Speaker 3: the confrontation that we had where I was like, do
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  Speaker 3: you ever even potentially see something here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And I pressed him for a yes or no and
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  Speaker 3: he said no, And I said, okay, perfect, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I have my information because my husband would never.
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  Speaker 4: Right, no, never in a million years.
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  Speaker 3: My husband would be like, oh my god, her, like
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  Speaker 3: I love everything about her, this is like this is it?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Mine was a gray area too, where I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a little bit more slow to the role, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm like I don't want to be like, no, it'll
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  Speaker 5: never happen because like, dude, we can be friends for
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  Speaker 5: five years and I could just be like you're an idiot,
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  Speaker 5: dude conversation and then I don't want to I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to say that, and obviously, like five years is
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  Speaker 5: like dramatic, like that's too much to like and then
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  Speaker 5: tell somebody your confess your familis. But people have done it,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like shut a friend zone
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  Speaker 5: and then you try to get out. But I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, that could end up being my reality
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  Speaker 5: one day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, but she needed that.
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  Speaker 2: Jared and Ashley, I yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what happened with those So I was.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I don't want to put myself in a hole
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  Speaker 5: before I know for sure, but she really just needed
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  Speaker 5: an answer, and like, I'm not going to waste her time,
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  Speaker 5: so I just went with no, because I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to have you wait for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just know the energy that I will be approached with,
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  Speaker 3: and I know how I want to be pursued, and
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  Speaker 3: I know my worth and my value and I'm not gonna.
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  Speaker 1: God, I love this.
• 8:28
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• 9:06
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Sean.
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  Speaker 2: So Sean comes in with the Parliament of Paradise and
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: it's basically coming after the platonic relationships, right, and he's
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: just having a pow wow with anybody that listened. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't very very sly about it. I mean it was
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  Speaker 2: really kind of obvious. How did that make you feel? Because,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it seemed like you guys kind of.
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  Speaker 5: He tried to plot with me at one point. Yeah,
• 9:29
  Speaker 5: about the Sean like he was he wanted to get
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: rid of, like Spencer. He's like, none of those will
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  Speaker 5: be my biggest Did.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: He call you guys to a meeting and and you
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: guys showed up, You're like, no, we're not doing that, Okay, Yeah,
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: because you guys are on his shopping were.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: In our own little world just like around like having fun. Yeah,
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: we didn't know about.
• 9:48
  Speaker 5: Bailey and Jeremy. We did know that Jeremy made the
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: phone call. We didn't know any no kidding.
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  Speaker 3: On our own different show.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: We weren't like better seat than you. Yeah yeah, oh
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: my god, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I think because we were on a couple like people,
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  Speaker 3: we were like out of gameplay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, no, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of irrelevant, which is totally okay, But.
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  Speaker 1: We were friends. Like she was a girls girl, she
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: was there for all the girls. I was the guys.
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  Speaker 5: I was there for a lot of the guys, well,
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  Speaker 5: the guys that were in the relationships that happened, like
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  Speaker 5: Jeremy and Spencer. Spencer's my best friend from the show,
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  Speaker 5: so like I'm sitting there being them, there for them
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  Speaker 5: through everything, and they're like, okay, well we want to
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: protect him too, like that's our guy.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: So we kind of got by by game our friendships
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: so long, you know what I mean. Yeah, it was
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: great if you would have won.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: In fact, I mean you would have probably made it
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: to the finals if you would have won the last challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, because once.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: The Parliament came back and they made their votes, they
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: probably would have rather had you guys in that mix,
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: I would guess because you might be able to eat everybody.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was an interesting twist. I thought you
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: guys did a really great job the thing. I you know,
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: I can't help, but wonder you keep hearing all these
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: rumors that Kat had a iPad or a following or
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: something like that. It came up tonight people kind of
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: going at her about it. Did you guys hear that
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: at all? Because you said you weren't hearing the other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear any of that?
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: And actually I was closer with Kat. She didn't have
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: an iPad, she didn't have a computer.
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: They searched your bags, right.
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: Or I think that they were like they were trying
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: to figure out if she had it during the holding,
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: which is like when you first get to Costa Rica. Okay,
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: but I don't I don't know. I don't think she
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: had anything.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, if you're there in
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  Speaker 2: the holding thing, ey, I mean, I might get in
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: trouble for this, but.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: You're not on the show yet. You haven't even medine
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: who's there yet? So who cares if you're texting somebody.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: And there's no Wi Fi?
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: And if you asked the front desk.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: For wi Fi, which I did at one point.
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: They'll tell on you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and then production called me and was like, hey,
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: did you ask for the WiFi? And I was like,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: yeah that mind you. This is when I was allowed
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: to have my.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Phone right right right.
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  Speaker 4: It's different still.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: The time, but yeah, you there was no way, like
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: I couldn't even call or text anyone. There's no white
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: what why Yeah.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so it's to be a waste for her
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: to have that anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Plus, I mean, to be fair, I felt like she
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: and Dale really created a real relationship. I really did
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: like watching it from home, I mean, and then seeing
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: them out there today, like, you know, they had this
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: kind of like nice couple, dumb thing going on when
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: she was getting kind of fired up and he's like,
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: it's okay, just calm down, don't take the bay.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: You know. I thought it was interesting.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: It was a nice dynamic, you know, to watch that
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: as a married, old, married dude seeing people kind of
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: like police each other in a nice way.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: It was kind of nice to see you.
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: I was like Jeremy and Bailey too that At one
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: point Jeremy's like can I say it?
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  Speaker 1: And Bay was like no, not real.
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like it's just gonna make you look bad
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: in this moment. That's a reaction. We need you to
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: be like more proactive, not reactive. Sure, and Bailey knew
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: the objective and Jeremy like almost almost slipped up and
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: it was like can I and she's like no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's got to be interesting because it's like,
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, I could never have been
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: on a show like this because I get so my
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: feelings get so hurt so easily. If I think that
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  Speaker 2: someone who's my friend is like going to vote me off,
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  Speaker 2: I'd lose my mind.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Right, But you guys were sort of.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Constantly on the chopping block, even though you were everyone's
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  Speaker 2: best friend, because the mindset was, oh, we keep the
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: real couples, which I don't know why that's the mindset.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Because one of the money's introduced. The money is a
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: different show, like what us.
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  Speaker 4: To versus everyone else?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to fight everyone and then they would just
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  Speaker 3: vote us out real quick, like Sean.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: But Sure, we were trying to just coast on by.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: Be very neutral, not be very polarizing, like let's just be.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't make any like we just wanted to just
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: fly on the wall.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, their only choice.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: It works. I mean, and you both came off from
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: off the show.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: And I will say this as a as a viewer,
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: but somebody's been around this franchise since prettym at the beginning.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: You guys came off the show both looking really great,
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: like you did yourself a lot of favors for the
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: way you were portrayed and the way that you handled
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: yourself and and everything. I mean, you showed vulnerability, you
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: showed a lot of different size of your you know,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: your your character, and I think that was really nice.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Jonathan.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: The one thing that you obviously got a lot of
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: attention for was the night that April gave you a flower. Right,
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: so April gives you ros, it gets a bunch of
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: the goldens voted off or some like domino effect happens
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: right when that happened, where you all of a sudden
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: like Wow, maybe maybe I like older women, maybe I
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: want friends one April?
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Did you have that ever come?
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: I mean I'm not opposed to slightly older. I mean,
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: if you watched the if you watched the game that
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: we played, I have hooked up with somebody twenty five
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: years older than me like what.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: It was a one time thing. It was the one time.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: It was a one time thing. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: all right, but yeah it was.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: It was a cool moment too, because they made it
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: almost cliffhanger, like, oh, Jonathan's gonna go like plead for
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: this rose from an older woman if a younger one
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: is not willing to give.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: It to him. And that was never the case.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: You know, I went into that roast ceremony like night
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: the cocktail party, so ready to go, because at that
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: point I was ready to go and I accepted it,
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: and I was like, you know, i'mna be happy for
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: my friends, everybody's and have a good night, and I'm
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: to go out on a great note.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: And I was having a great time.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: But in that time that I was having so much fun,
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: I had Leslie and April, which they didn't show the
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: one with Leslie, but come up and pull me for
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: a chat and be like, hey, can we talk. I
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: just want to see how you're doing? This is and that,
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: And in that moment I kind of knew. I was
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: like to these ladies, like meet me, do they want
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: to keep me around?
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't. It was never like a sexual and well,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: April did purr on me a bit.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: She didn't put on me a little bit, but like
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: she is, she's iconic, and she is the sweetest, like
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: she's insane, but like insanely sweet, like she means so
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: damn Well. Yeah, from that point, I was like, oh,
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: maybe there is a chance they give it to me.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: And I was like, you know what, like practice is
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: still fun. And when I realized that, like being there
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: is a positive thing, I almost like reconvinced myself that ya,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: he's saying, would be fun if I was offered a rose.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Sure, but like the expectation was like zero. Yeah, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: it did cross.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: My mind, like maybe it is a possibility that she's
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: going to give it to me, because they did both
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: pull me for chats.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Sure, crazier things have happened. Yeah, I mean, then it
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: ended up happening.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: And then it ended up I think it had to happen,
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, in the realm of the
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Goldens being there some crossover, so some extent had to happen, and.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: It would have to be her too. It had to
• 16:39
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• 16:42
  Speaker 3: And thank god, otherwise I would have never I wouldn't
• 16:45
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• 16:45
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• 16:47
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• 16:49
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  Speaker 2: dot com. All right, so a lot of couples came
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: off the show. They're not all still together, right, Which
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: couple do you think has the best chance of making
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it post paradise?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Best friends? Yeah, these are best friends.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, those are like truly.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Spencer's mind, like, oh that's awesome.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god, and you like it was the
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: sweetest thing. I remember we had a reunion with all
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: of like from all the girls from Joey season. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: all sat around, we had just gotten the text, like, hey,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: are you still single? Are you open to paradise? And
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: so we were talking about boys this night, and Jess specifically,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I remember she was sitting on my couch and she goes, yeah,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: like I really like Spencer, and I was like, Spencer
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the one, like the one that does a dog portraits,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and she's like, yeah, he just seems so sweet and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: like I really want to get to know okay, dude,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Like I could see that happening, and like, I just
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: knowing what Jess had gone through the previous season, me
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: and her had just really been sucker punch. We were
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: really some villains and I think.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: That, which is so interesting to me because neither one
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Have and now it's like the complete opposite on this season.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: So that's why I always.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Give problem should actually like think the fans be like,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: oh wait, this person was portrayed as villain, but now
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: we're seeing and you're like, oh, now you're in love
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: with them, Like okay.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It's a fickle public guy. It's a fickle public right.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: But anyways, just seeing her like come full circle, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I remember her just like in the midst of all
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: the overwhelming hate, she was just like I just don't understand,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Like I just want to be happy a lot, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: so now to see her so happy and so cared
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: for it. Oh my god, I cry all the time
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: about it because.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It just like we're getting emotional in the couch Last
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Life watching the finale.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So I will tell you guys watching the finale, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I was I was so happy for both couples, right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I wasn't one hundred percent sure because the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: way the show had been edited, what Jess's decision was
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: going to be.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Because yeah, and it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Was like, you know, oh, well, I don't know if
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I'm ready for this, and you know that money would
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: be you know, a life changing whatever, and uh and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: he looked, I mean, the look on his face was
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: just like I have no idea what's going to happen,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you know. And she comes around the corner and it
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, thank god. I was so happy. You know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: He's like, I can always make more money. I can't
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: make another job, you know, A really beautiful line. I thought, Yeah,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: someone must have written that for him. No, I'm sure
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: he came up and he.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Seems like a pretty clever guy.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But no, I love I love that you guys are
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: so close with them and that they have such a
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: successful relationship already.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Going because talking then tonight, I I do.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Feel like they're they're the ones any others, Like, if
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you had to say, I think this next couple might
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: really have a chance.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna gree in the same one too.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: No, I was gonna say Bailey and Jeremy, which I
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: was surprised about.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Interesting, I think I think Jeremy likes Bailey more than
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: he lets on. He's like, he doesn't wear his heart
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: in his sleeve.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Well he didn't have any sleeves on the night, to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: be fair, and tank top is just exactly notice that.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: But watching him you might want to coacho on some
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: fashion choices moving forward, just saying.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I go for the traditional gentleman.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I literally had a tie on before I came with,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: like my tie clip on everything, and I was like,
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: you're doing too much, dude, like my pocket square and
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I was giving it to her to like.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And I was like, at least I kept the pocket
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: square to keep it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: You keep it kind of classy. Yeah, No, I like them.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I mean Cat and Dale. What do you think they're
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: They seem like they're doing pretty well right.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Now, good for right now.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Andrew and and Alex are great to Yeah,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I love because you guys know him also intimately.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're also different in their own ways and yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: in their own ways, And I think, like, who are
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: we to judge these couples?
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're also going based off of like who we
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: get along with the best. Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: That doesn't mean like one couple stronger, right, It just means,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: you know, we're gonna justin Spencer regardless, because those are
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: like those are people, right, Yeah, but like somebody who's
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: closer with like Andrew and Alex might be like, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: don't know, Andrew and Alex are probably the strongest, you know.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I could see that well, and they all
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to be fair, I think that, you know, there's some
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: some good couples still kicking from the show, and and
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for the two of you to start finding
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: your couple THEMS. Has there been any dating you can
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: bring us up to speed on since the show?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Come on, girl, I'm like, I can't talk about it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: It's Netflix, Okay, do you know what that's from?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I love it. But I am dating very nice.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm having a lot of fun. I'm very happy,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and yeah, well I just have to stay I will.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Well, where are you living? And where is he living?
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: He lives in la oh Okay, So.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: That keeps it simple. Very nice, Jonathan, anything on the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: horizon for you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I've been actively dating publicly now, thank god, because I
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: didn't for ten months to like make sure I portrayed
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: that like single look going in the Pardess people can
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: be brutal, yeah, and I was like fearful. So now, yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I've just been taking girls on dates. Nothing crazy, I meant,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: anybody that's just like really just made me feel I
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: don't know, Yeah, the butterfly that feeling yet, so get it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: I get it, it's coming. But actively dating again, and.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you both are such nice people and you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: both beautiful. I'm sure you're gonna find your special someone
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in no time. And I think the way people got
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: to know you guys on this show will really resonate
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: for both of you because I think you know, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: didn't even realize I never thought of you as a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: billet villain on Jonathan season.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Sorry on Joey's season. Oh, I didn't see it that way.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't see it that No, I burned it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: That's solid though, that's a that's a gangster move.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you guys, thanks for joining us on Almost Famous.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being a part of this whole thing.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad we got to have the reunions, the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Baelan Paradise reunion, and so glad that we got iHeart
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and Almost Famous to be a part of it with
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: you guys.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So thanks for coming on the show. We appreciate it,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of course, thanks for having us, BROB come on again.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: We'll check in again in a couple months and see
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: where things are at with you guy. Maybe I'll have
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: somebody at that point.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I'll say you well, brother, all right, Thanks you guys,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.