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Taglines and Pick-Up Lines · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with our radio. We are here, we are back. It's
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Speaker 1: an off week though for the almost famous podcast. What
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Speaker 1: up ass? Hey Ben? Yeah, it's gonna be a fast
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Speaker 1: show today. We have Bachelor headlines. We're gonna go down
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Speaker 1: memory lane a little bit. But there was no episode,
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Speaker 1: so you know, um we got we got not much
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Speaker 1: to say, we got a lot to say. Life still
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Speaker 1: keeps going. Life still keeps going. It is gonna be
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Speaker 1: a good episode. We're good at these off days. We
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Speaker 1: actually have Renee from Batch Bracket. She won this last
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Speaker 1: go around on the Bachelorette and so she's gonna be
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Speaker 1: joining us today. That was her gift in her project.
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Speaker 1: Just makes me feel weird. Yeah, it makes me feel
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Speaker 1: weird too, But we're excited to meet her. It's it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be fantastic. Ashley. I do want to tell you
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Speaker 1: about something. I'm up to you right now. Okay, in Florida. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm in Florida. I've been talking about this golf tournament
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Speaker 1: for a long time. People are probably over it, but
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Speaker 1: that's okay. I'm here now. It's practice round day and
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Speaker 1: I'm staying in a really nice hotel. It's called the Wave.
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Speaker 1: It's at Lake Nona and the futures upon us. You
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Speaker 1: know why because both restrooms in my yes, my hotel
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Speaker 1: room has two bathrooms, which is very fancy. Um, they
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Speaker 1: have heated toilet seats. I had heated toilet seats in
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Speaker 1: my last hotel room, which uh, funnest seemed weird until
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Speaker 1: I experiencing multiple times and I was like, wait a second,
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Speaker 1: this is something to incorporate into a house. One day
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Speaker 1: it is, and then the toilet seat lifts as you
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Speaker 1: walk up to that. Yes, it is. Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is how uh that other
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Speaker 1: you know, person of people live And I ain't hating
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Speaker 1: it for a bit. This feels good. This is something else. Um.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, hey, we are gonna go through bachelor Head.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna through some bachelor's sayings. We're gonna bring Renee on.
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Speaker 1: But before we do, let's take a break with the
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Speaker 1: almost serious podcast. Actually, we're running through some of the
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Speaker 1: former Bachelor's like titles today just to remind people the
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Speaker 1: sayings going into this season. We're going to compare them
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Speaker 1: and see who's maybe like the best and the worst.
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Speaker 1: I've always had an issue with mine. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I've ever told you why, but I've always had
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Speaker 1: an issue with mine. Um, but we'll start with Clayton's here.
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Speaker 1: Clayton's is everyone loves an underdog. Do you feel like
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Speaker 1: Clayton was an underdog? No? I think the word the
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Speaker 1: word underdog is a really nice way of saying somebody
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Speaker 1: who we didn't know. Yes, somebody that you you haven't
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Speaker 1: watched yet. Uh, mine was. And I'm sure I've mentioned
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Speaker 1: the podcast before. This really played with my head a lot.
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Speaker 1: My headline was the Perfect Ben, which when you first
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Speaker 1: see it would be sweet. And when I first saw
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Speaker 1: it the first time, I was like, wow, Like that
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Speaker 1: is really crazy that they would think that the perfect
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Speaker 1: because it's but I took it as a compliment, and
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Speaker 1: then over time I realized that all it did was
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Speaker 1: set myself up for failure, Like all it did was
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Speaker 1: setting me up to be um to fall short of this,
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Speaker 1: And over time it really started to mess with me. Hey, Ben,
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Speaker 1: years probably stuck with you more than any other catchphrase.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it got followed like it it was
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Speaker 1: like teased throughout the season. M And I just think
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Speaker 1: that people refer to you by that more than any other. Well.
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Speaker 1: The the interesting thing with that too is I just
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Speaker 1: took a three day intensive like counseling session, and one
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Speaker 1: of my weaknesses is that, like, I won't forgive myself
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Speaker 1: unless I reach perfection, and you never reach perfection, so
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Speaker 1: you never forgive yourself. And so then to have this
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Speaker 1: as your tagline, well it was not exactly healthy, but
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Speaker 1: it's okay. We got peters, which is expect turbulence. I
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Speaker 1: thought that one was really good, really good, especially for
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Speaker 1: the season it was. It was perfect for that season.
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Speaker 1: A couple more here Nix's fourth times the Charm. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he hated that so much. I like it though,
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Speaker 1: Uh it was okay. Final one maybe, uh, just the
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Speaker 1: hardest one of them all, like the one that just
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Speaker 1: I mean even the profile, the picture of it is tough.
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Speaker 1: But Colton Underwood's was what does he have to lose?
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Speaker 1: And he's dressed up in the same shirt that uh
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Speaker 1: four year old virgin was dressed up. Do you think
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Speaker 1: they had to get rights to that? Yeah? I don't.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they did, but my goodness, this is a
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Speaker 1: tough like all these others are kind of like, you know,
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Speaker 1: smoldering and like you look in their best and then
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Speaker 1: you have colden, like holding a rose staring up into
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Speaker 1: the sky. It is really funny. I remember when that
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Speaker 1: came out. I was like, oh my god, of course
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Speaker 1: they did. There are a couple more. You don't want
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Speaker 1: to go through them. I don't think we should go
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Speaker 1: through them all, but I think we should at least do.
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Speaker 1: Jesse Palmer's host of The Bachelor, so he says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: his is the Giants quarterback is making a play for ladies,
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Speaker 1: but it's a whole new game because one of them
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Speaker 1: is his spy. Oh wait, so when somebody asked, has
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Speaker 1: the show change? I would use this as an example.
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Speaker 1: His tagline is an explanation for his season. The New
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Speaker 1: York Giants quarterback is making a play for ladies, but
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Speaker 1: it's a whole new game because one of them is
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Speaker 1: a spot sounds like a movie. It's because one of
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Speaker 1: them is his spy. It's it seems ridiculous. Well, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's really interesting to go through all these If you
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Speaker 1: get a chance, listeners google The Bachelor's uh like cover sayings,
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Speaker 1: go through them all there. Some of them are funny,
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Speaker 1: some of them are really long, some of them don't
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Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Some of them really do,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like, uh, it does kind of show
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Speaker 1: how much the show has changed over the years, because
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Speaker 1: now we just have taglines. We used to have like
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Speaker 1: a paragraph. Yeah, well, can we just say christuls is
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Speaker 1: because I was on that season traditional period, classes, period,
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Speaker 1: all American period. I like it. I'm looking at the picture.
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Speaker 1: He's dressed up like it's a rose ceremony, but he's
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Speaker 1: got his shoulder up against a barn and it kind
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Speaker 1: of throws me back, and I have all the feelings
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Speaker 1: again and I like it. Ah, so good. Hey, actually
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Speaker 1: I do want to add we were talking about Nick.
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Speaker 1: I just spent the weekend with Nick and Natalie. Yes Angeles.
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Speaker 1: That pizza that he made for you that you guys
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Speaker 1: both showed off on Instagram looked incredible, Ashley, I AMTI.
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Speaker 1: You know, Nick and I have had our journey and friendship. Right.
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Speaker 1: It went from like, hey, he came on Caitlin's season.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really know a lot about him. I just
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Speaker 1: kind of stayed out of the drama that just didn't
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Speaker 1: really pay much attention to it. UM mostly just ignored him,
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Speaker 1: and then over time we got kind of like competitive,
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Speaker 1: Like there was envy and there was a little jealousy
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Speaker 1: on both ends for both of us, and now really
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Speaker 1: good friends and like I really love Nick. I've gotten
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Speaker 1: to know Nick. Nick is still Nick. And Nick will
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Speaker 1: tell you that. Like there's moments where like he'll disappear
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Speaker 1: onto his phone for an hour and a half when
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Speaker 1: you're like in the same room and as you're like,
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Speaker 1: well this is cool, like I don't know what, but um,
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Speaker 1: Natalie is incredible, like the perfect compliment to him. She
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Speaker 1: brings out the best in him. It was so good
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Speaker 1: to spend I mean, I stayed at their house. Their
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Speaker 1: house is awesome. I stayed there, so I got to
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Speaker 1: spend all day with him. In the evening and then
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Speaker 1: Nick made this pizza as you're referring to, actually I'm
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Speaker 1: not playing and and like it was one of the
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Speaker 1: best bites of pizza I've ever had. When he was
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Speaker 1: cutting through it on your Instagram story, I was like
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Speaker 1: that crunch of that crisp. I like you to box
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Speaker 1: that up and send it to me. Yeah, next time
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Speaker 1: you're with him, you have to have him make it
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Speaker 1: for you. Going he takes it very serious, like he
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Speaker 1: he's he kind of explained it, what like it would
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Speaker 1: take me a couple of times to learn how to
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Speaker 1: do it because Natalie wants to learn how to do it,
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Speaker 1: and he would just rather do it himself because I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not playing. He's mastered it like that, the
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Speaker 1: like the thing crusted, the ingredients on top. He gets
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Speaker 1: everything from Italy, Oh he does. I mean that's key.
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Speaker 1: When Jared was in a pizza making stage, he didn't
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Speaker 1: do so much of the crispy thin crust. It was
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Speaker 1: more of like a Napoleon, you know, Napoleon pizza, and
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Speaker 1: we would get all the ingredients from Italy. It's just
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Speaker 1: so critical if you guys don't know what Italy is.
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Speaker 1: It's like an Italian grocery store that's really only in
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Speaker 1: major cities. Yeah, look at it. It's great and so yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was all around in a terrific dam
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Speaker 1: very thankfully let me stay with them and uh and
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Speaker 1: just we had a tremendous time together at their house.
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Speaker 1: They welcomed me in with open arms. It was great.
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Speaker 1: So how was the dog? Ah? So good? Jeff is
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Speaker 1: Jeff is a sweet, sweet pup, very cuddly, very loving.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I think being with Jeff made me even
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Speaker 1: more excited to get our dog. Is it happening in
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Speaker 1: less than two two weeks? I think is getting a dog? Guys,
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Speaker 1: if you didn't know, Ben hasn't had a dog for
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Speaker 1: a way over a decade because he was traumatized by
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Speaker 1: the loss of his childhood dog that he didn't think
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Speaker 1: he could do it again. And now he's gonna find
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Speaker 1: the love and another dog. I was pressured. I definitely
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Speaker 1: think my wife was like, hey, we should get a dog,
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Speaker 1: and then I was like, yeah, that's a good idea.
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Speaker 1: And then she's like, hey, no, like we should get
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Speaker 1: a dog, and um, yeah, I just love my pups
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Speaker 1: so much growing up that I just didn't want to
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Speaker 1: feel that pain again. But I am getting excited to
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Speaker 1: have something around us. We got the update that the
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Speaker 1: we should be reading about a week or two, and um,
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Speaker 1: I'm obviously down here in Landa right now, but that's
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Speaker 1: a big update in my life, Ashley. Before we get
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Speaker 1: into bachelor headlines, I got some messages this week wondering
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Speaker 1: how you're doing living at home. How is it going
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Speaker 1: so far? It's good. I'm going to bring Jared in
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Speaker 1: here now, what's up? Buddy, What up? Bro? How you doing?
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Speaker 1: I thought that, you know, Ben asked how living at
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Speaker 1: home was? I was here for ten days without you,
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Speaker 1: and then today we had to do a lot of
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Speaker 1: work together, so much fun, and then tomorrow we have
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Speaker 1: more work and then you leave me again and then
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Speaker 1: you go back to work at all for thirteen hours
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Speaker 1: a day. How are you doing? We're doing well? Is
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Speaker 1: that the question? It's a very leading question leading the witness. Um,
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Speaker 1: how are we doing? We're doing well? I mean it's
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Speaker 1: more than Jared's going to have a mental break out.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna have a Mariah carry overworked hospital stay? Is
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Speaker 1: that what happened to Mariah carry out? She went to
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Speaker 1: the hospital for being overworked? Why is that? Well, let's
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Speaker 1: but like let's describe it for the listeners and myself
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Speaker 1: because I don't know, like why, Jared are you feeling overworked?
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Speaker 1: I know the success of Audreys is something I was
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Speaker 1: even telling Nick and Natalie about how incredible it is
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Speaker 1: to see how much coffee you guys are buying from us,
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Speaker 1: Like that's a gift to us, and I hope it's
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Speaker 1: a gift to you. Um, but you know, then having Ashley, Uh,
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Speaker 1: there with their family, Like, where are you at emotionally
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Speaker 1: and mentally prepping, you know for this next stage life? Dude,
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Speaker 1: I'm an owner of a you know, a restaurant. I'm
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Speaker 1: just riddled with anxiety. That's what we do. That's what
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Speaker 1: the business is all about. Anybody who's listening and works
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Speaker 1: in the restaurant industry, you know, it's just like, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you just constantly feel like you're keeping your head both
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Speaker 1: water so you're not drowning. This is what you've craved
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Speaker 1: for all the yeah that we that you weren't working,
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Speaker 1: and still I'm still glad of doing it. But obviously
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Speaker 1: there's a line, and that line is when you're working
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Speaker 1: a hundred hours a week. But I digress, dude. First
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Speaker 1: of all, your coffee is a huge gift. People are
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Speaker 1: loving it. I love serving your coffee. People love the
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Speaker 1: story of it, they love the taste of it. They
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Speaker 1: love that there's a bachelor twist in there. So it's
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Speaker 1: it's it's all positive, which has been awesome. People, like
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Speaker 1: we talked about in the email, people want to buy
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Speaker 1: the coffee for their for you know, their home. So
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Speaker 1: it works out really well and it's getting better. I
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Speaker 1: can feel it. Getting better, you know, we're getting more
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Speaker 1: structured and knock on wood, a lot of people have
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Speaker 1: come in and said, wow, it feels like your business
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Speaker 1: has been running for years, which has been extremely nice,
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Speaker 1: and that a lot of preparation, a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of passion has gone into that. But
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Speaker 1: this was his first time away from the shop as
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Speaker 1: it's been open. Yeah, so I've obviously been texting my managers.
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Speaker 1: They probably hate me because I'm like, how's it going,
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Speaker 1: how's it going? What are you guys doing? Our customers happy?
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Speaker 1: Everything going well? And uh, but hey, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do? I'm paying the bill, so I get to
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Speaker 1: do whatever I want. Really, but I aggress. As as
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Speaker 1: for Ashley and I were doing well, I think it's
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Speaker 1: just been I'm feeling a little guilty because I've been
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Speaker 1: away and this is the last couple of weeks that
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I are going to be a couple before
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Speaker 1: we have a child in our life, and it's just weird.
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Speaker 1: It's weird. I think he realizes that we're having a
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Speaker 1: child in a couple of weeks. Oh, I realize it.
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Speaker 1: But I've talked to a couple of guys that just
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Speaker 1: feel like they weren't really connected to their kid until
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Speaker 1: they were born, because it's like, my body's not changing.
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Speaker 1: You're just you know, achy all the time and can't
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Speaker 1: breathe and complaining, so nothing really changes there. He um
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Speaker 1: doesn't even care about feeling my belly, though I care
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Speaker 1: about feeling your belly. It's just I feel the kid.
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Speaker 1: I almost said his name. Um. I feel him kick
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, that's cool, and then I'm done.
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Speaker 1: He's well, it's like how long, you know, It's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's cool. It's so crazy, all right, I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go now. It is interesting, Jared, And I think
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Speaker 1: I'll be similar to you. I have friends who have
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Speaker 1: had kids and they've been like obsessed with the process
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Speaker 1: of pregnancy and like, well, like I feel I've seen
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Speaker 1: them connected and like listening to the baby right and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff. And for me, I think I'll be
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Speaker 1: similar to you or it's like this is crazy and awesome.
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Speaker 1: But I really think there's going to be a moment
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Speaker 1: after that baby is born. I would expect where I
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Speaker 1: finally feel like, oh my gosh, I'm a dad. But
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Speaker 1: right and you know, right now, I don't think there's
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Speaker 1: anything like abnormal to to what you're feeling. Yeah, I've
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Speaker 1: heard it many times. It's just right now, it looks
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Speaker 1: like Ashley just you know, went ham at dinner and
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Speaker 1: is really bloated. Is this funny that I used to
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Speaker 1: like when we get back from dinner and then I'd
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Speaker 1: pull my shirt down and I'd look at the alien.
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Speaker 1: I look like I'm seven months, I used to say.
15:49
Speaker 1: I used to say I looked seven months. And now
15:50
Speaker 1: we know that that is a huge job eight weeks.
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Speaker 1: Now we know what seven or eight months looks like.
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Speaker 1: Um um, yeah, So oh, so you're gonna go back
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Speaker 1: to the shop. You're gonna go back to Audrey's. When
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Speaker 1: are you coming back to spend time with Ashley before
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Speaker 1: the baby is born? Probably? You know, I'll come back
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Speaker 1: the first week in February at some point and just
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Speaker 1: stay down here until until the little little gag comes.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to come back before then, and there's
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Speaker 1: a there's a little well, no why the first week
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Speaker 1: and making sure like if you're if you're, if you're not,
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Speaker 1: you know, by February three or fourth, I'll be back.
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Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about this now, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to see you for it's only the seventeen and
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Speaker 1: then you're not going to come back until I'll come
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Speaker 1: back sooner then I don't know. Actually, this is what like,
16:51
Speaker 1: this is what gets This is what we're all scared of.
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Speaker 1: We're not scared of anything. I mean, listen, you're giving
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Speaker 1: birth in an incredible hospital down in Virginia, Virginia. We're
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Speaker 1: running a business and have a new house in Rhode
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Speaker 1: Island that nobody lives in, nobody lives in right now,
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Speaker 1: which I find more about this, honestly, the shop than
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Speaker 1: the house. I don't really care about the house. But um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're doing what we can and this is
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Speaker 1: what people do. You know, we're going to make it through.
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Speaker 1: I don't love this is what people do. This is
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Speaker 1: what people do. Do I laugh at myself too much. No,
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Speaker 1: it's good that you laugh at yourself. Um. I just
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Speaker 1: want to also say that I'm learning something new today.
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Speaker 1: I believe that Ashley is wearing a like belly shirt
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Speaker 1: as it while she's pregnant. I've never seen that done before,
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Speaker 1: but Jared, one of the gifts of actually being pregnant
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Speaker 1: has been how much I've learned and grown as a man,
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Speaker 1: prepared like as she's you know, sat here every week
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Speaker 1: with me. Is that a belly shirt you're wearing? It is.
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Speaker 1: We just took an Instagram and we needed something that
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Speaker 1: really showed off the size of the belly. I feel
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Speaker 1: like your belly is always out though. Yeah, it's because
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Speaker 1: nothing really fits right now. I'm like a dry us.
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Speaker 1: It's out. Yeah, the belly is just always out. It's
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Speaker 1: a look. It's a good look. Jared uh continued, Best
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Speaker 1: luck at Audrey's. We have a guest coming onto the
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Speaker 1: podcast who won the Batch Bracket, So we've got to
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Speaker 1: say goodbye to you. You're the man. You're crushing it.
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Speaker 1: Keep it up, You're gonna be a great dad. Will
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Speaker 1: just keep us update on everything going on in your
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Speaker 1: relationship in your life the next few weeks. Thanks Jared
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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thanks buddy, love you season. I uh
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Speaker 1: as we think of break here because we're gonna come
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Speaker 1: back whenever renee from the Batch Bracket on. I just
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Speaker 1: felt like our audience got to listen in on a
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Speaker 1: very good conversation between a husband and a wife, and
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Speaker 1: for that, I am appreciative. That is some authentic husband
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Speaker 1: wife chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, hey wait, how does
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Speaker 1: it feel to be calling her wife? Did I ask
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Speaker 1: you this already? It feels weird, it feels awesome some
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Speaker 1: like you feel very like very strong, Like it's so awesome.
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Speaker 1: Like when you're on the phone and you're like with
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Speaker 1: on the phone with somebody who's like business wise or
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Speaker 1: like I don't know, construction or something, and you're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I have to check with my wife. I have to
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Speaker 1: check with my husband. You're like, oh, like that's something
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Speaker 1: you take seriously. How to check with my girlfriend my boyfriend?
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Speaker 1: You're like, that's cute. See, this is like for real,
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Speaker 1: this is the decision. Hey, it is for real, and
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Speaker 1: we have the real winner of the batch bracket up next.
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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? I'm Peter Webber. You may know
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Speaker 1: me as the Bachelor, but I'm also a pilot and
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Speaker 1: I'm super happy to be guest hosting How Men Think.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to attempt to answer all your questions and
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Speaker 1: solve the fascinating question of just how men think. Let's
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Speaker 1: get into it. This is How Men Think? An I
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Speaker 1: your podcast. Hey Renee, welcome to the Almost same As podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for playing bats bracket and dominating. Thank you, thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here. Man,
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Speaker 1: you crushed it. You just destroyed the batch bracket I did. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my friends won't play with me anymore. Was there any
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Speaker 1: week that you feel like you're stumped at what to
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Speaker 1: respond with? There were some weeks towards the beginning where
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Speaker 1: you know, it was really hard with like the way
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Speaker 1: they do points. Um, it was kind of just like
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Speaker 1: anyone's game. Towards the end, I feel like it gets
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Speaker 1: a little easier once it's narrowed down. But um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's always the first week is the toughest when
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Speaker 1: you don't know anyone yet and anyone could do anything.
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Speaker 1: There's not too much you know, past stuff to work
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Speaker 1: on too, no past clues we really want to find
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Speaker 1: out about you. Um. Also, but it brings up something
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Speaker 1: that we find very interesting. We talked about many times
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Speaker 1: since our original winner came on. What was your strategy?
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Speaker 1: Because you did do so well, how did you continue
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Speaker 1: to not only pick good weeks, but like keep up
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Speaker 1: the pace and beat everybody? Yeah, so my strategy. So
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Speaker 1: I I was honestly, um, not even able to watch
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Speaker 1: the full episodes, like I was working a ton, So
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Speaker 1: sometimes I could only even just watch the previews before
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Speaker 1: I had to set my bracket, and so I would
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Speaker 1: really just look at those. Um I'm in a discord
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Speaker 1: group of some people who are really awesome at slew thing. Um.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I would read the Bachelor subreddit. Uh and yeah,
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Speaker 1: just really looking at the previews and trying to like, see,
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Speaker 1: you know, who's in the shops for next week, so
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Speaker 1: some s thing. Okay, did you sense Nate winning from
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Speaker 1: the beginning? Um? Yeah, yeah, I had a feelings. Interesting
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Speaker 1: why some of us never expected Nate? Yeah, did you
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Speaker 1: see spoilers? I try not to read like specific spoilers,
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Speaker 1: more just like like slew thing, like people figuring it
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Speaker 1: out from shots of you know, from the previews and stuff. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it was more just like um, when like uh
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Speaker 1: preview footage would come out, there were like a ton
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Speaker 1: of shots of Nate I don't know, and they just
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Speaker 1: had really great chemistry. I had a feeling. Now, Um,
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Speaker 1: tell us about you, So are you a big Bachelor friend?
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Speaker 1: Have been watching for a while, where you from I'll
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Speaker 1: just tell us about you so people can understand who
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Speaker 1: our champion is. UM. Yeah, so I'm from Boston. I
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Speaker 1: actually I have not been watching for all that long.
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Speaker 1: My mom was has been a big fan for forever.
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Speaker 1: I've probably only watched the past. I think Ari's season
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Speaker 1: was the first season I watched UM, but I've only
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Speaker 1: been doing the slew thing since Matt's season. I was
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Speaker 1: just board during the pandemic. My friends were like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're starting a league for money, and I was like, cool,
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Speaker 1: I got nothing better to do, let's let's do this.
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Speaker 1: And it turns out I was pretty good at it.
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Speaker 1: A league for money? How much did you win amongst
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Speaker 1: the friend group for this, I think I won like
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Speaker 1: three dollars the first Yeah for you the first time. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I've played with some of my friends, uh, like two
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Speaker 1: or three seasons until they realized I was just winning
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Speaker 1: and they were like, you know, let's let's not do
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Speaker 1: this for money anymore. There we have the number one
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Speaker 1: Bachelor bracket player in the country on this podcast right now.
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Speaker 1: We didn't even really know that. We knew she was good,
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Speaker 1: we didn't know she was great and she is great. Hey,
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Speaker 1: before we let you go, Um, really just I mean,
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Speaker 1: you have over a hundred thousand people that will be
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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. What is it in your life
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Speaker 1: your most passionate about anything? You want to share, anything
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Speaker 1: you're into that you want to bring attention to. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you have the stage at your moment if you want
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Speaker 1: to say anything, Man, put me on the spot. Huh.
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Speaker 1: I mean, woof, I'm gonna say shout out to my
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Speaker 1: boyfriend's music project, Veins Veins. Can we look it up
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Speaker 1: on Spotify or Google? Yeah, Spotify, v A I N
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Speaker 1: E S. He's fantastic. Um, that's what we're working on
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Speaker 1: right now. So good plug. Yeah yeah, well I have
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Speaker 1: the audience. That's that. I'll shout out awesome, Thanks Renee,
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Speaker 1: thanks for playing and thanks for rocking the game of course,
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Speaker 1: thank you. So Ashley, it's time for a Bachelor headlines. Yes, listeners,
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Speaker 1: it's time for Bachelor headlines with their resident expert. Yeah
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Speaker 1: you like that you always comment on that? Is that's
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Speaker 1: a compliment? You know that? Right? Yes? Do you want
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Speaker 1: to be like I feel like you're an expert. I
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Speaker 1: feel like you care. Um, so a couple of headlines
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Speaker 1: a day. I do want to preface this was say, um,
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Speaker 1: with the passing of Clint Artless. Uh, it was shocking.
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Speaker 1: It was texted about all over. I actually called Jared
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Speaker 1: as soon as I saw the headline come through. There's
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Speaker 1: gonna be some headlines about Clint's passing today. There's still
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Speaker 1: not a lot of um information on it. But I
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Speaker 1: want to I want to say this. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you ever got to be around him actually, but um,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was obviously on the season with with
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Speaker 1: me during Caitlyn's time as the bachelorette. I did not speak.
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Speaker 1: I cannot say I spoke to Clint more than um
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Speaker 1: A handful of times after that season ended. We had
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Speaker 1: a text thread. We did some fantasy stuff, but like nothing,
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Speaker 1: um serious. Was he there for a week on your season? Forget?
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Speaker 1: Was he let me used during episode two? I think
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Speaker 1: he was there for two weeks and he obviously kind
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Speaker 1: of came off that and it's like a villain or
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Speaker 1: he was kind of in the JJ realm where him
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Speaker 1: and JJ you know, had their things. Yeah, funny villains.
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Speaker 1: And then Clint went home. It wasn't the best uh
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Speaker 1: look for Clint during the season. But this is what
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Speaker 1: all of us and I was talking to Nick about
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Speaker 1: this too when I was with him. Took away from
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Speaker 1: from knowing Clint. Clint wasn't incredibly intelligent, insanely creative, an
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Speaker 1: amazing painter. He painted a picture if you remember that night,
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Speaker 1: that was iconic. It was of Chris Harrison. H and
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Speaker 1: he he was. He was almost intimidating because of his curiosity,
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Speaker 1: his intellect, his ability to respond because he just knew
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Speaker 1: so much. Um And I know the people around him
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Speaker 1: were impacted by him for some very similar things. He
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Speaker 1: was a leader, he was creative, very protecting, very loving.
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Speaker 1: And it is a loss to Bachelor It's a shocking
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Speaker 1: loss to Bachelor Nation, losing Clint. I met Clint twice,
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Speaker 1: one at the Mentel all and then one one time
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Speaker 1: at JJ's wedding. Actually and yeah, nothing but nice things
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Speaker 1: to say about him. Um And like you said, my producer,
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Speaker 1: my friend, one of my best friends who's a producer,
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Speaker 1: that the exact same thing. She just like that was
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Speaker 1: like a very intriguing guy to be around. He was
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Speaker 1: so smart, he was so creative and artistic, and Jared,
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Speaker 1: you know, he he kept in touch with him in
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Speaker 1: a similar sort of way like big group messages fantasy
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Speaker 1: football and stuff like that. But everybody who actually spent
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Speaker 1: time with clintson to really like being around him. Um,
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Speaker 1: so so sad. Don't know again like how he passed,
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Speaker 1: but we did get some quotes um this week. This
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Speaker 1: one's from his sister Taylor. It says, with a great sadness,
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Speaker 1: it's with the sadness to tell you that my family
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Speaker 1: has lost my best friend and older brother, Clint on
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Speaker 1: the morning of January. Please respect our families privacy as
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Speaker 1: we cope with this great loss. Uh Nick went on
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Speaker 1: Twitter and said, a very kind, unique and talented person
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Speaker 1: just heard of the passing of Clint. UM got to
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Speaker 1: know him a little bit over our time on Caitlin season,
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Speaker 1: and I will always enjoy our time and conversations. Caitlin
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Speaker 1: Brusso also got on Instagram story and said, this is
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Speaker 1: an insta Instagram story. I did not think i'd be
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Speaker 1: doing tonight. Clint, who was on my season in The Bachelorrette,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say tragically, he's tragically passed thirty four
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Speaker 1: years old. I'm not sure what happened, how it happened. Um,
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Speaker 1: even though things didn't didn't end the best on the
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Speaker 1: best terms for us. From his time on the show
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Speaker 1: to today, I have heard nothing but incredible things about
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Speaker 1: that person. From his here's, his students, as coaches, as teachers,
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Speaker 1: his friends and family. Clint was very well respected in
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Speaker 1: this world. UM. She also says that she doesn't know
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Speaker 1: much about how you know, the circumstances around his passing.
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Speaker 1: It's none of my business, she said. UM, this s
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Speaker 1: Insan story is literally just to say to anyone who
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Speaker 1: knows him who might follow me, UM, that I am
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Speaker 1: so sorry. It's such a huge loss, and honestly I'm
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Speaker 1: just besides myself with this news. We also have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of an update from the police in his town.
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Speaker 1: It said that he was found He's found dead at
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Speaker 1: a private residence Tuesday, January eleven. UM. They confirmed that
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Speaker 1: is Clinton and that um there is no foul play
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Speaker 1: and suspected as of right now, but the matter is
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Speaker 1: currently under investigation by the police. Our thoughts are Within's family.
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Speaker 1: We will respect their privacy, UM, but we just wanted
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Speaker 1: to give a tribute to somebody within Batchel Nation, a
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Speaker 1: part of this family that has unfortunately passed away way
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Speaker 1: way too early. Well, there's no easy way to switch gears. UM.
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Speaker 1: And to switch subjects. But we are going to con
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Speaker 1: continue with Bachelor headlines, and the next one is Bachelor's Cassidy.
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Speaker 1: Tim Brooks Slams Clayton Are the Bachelor compares side Peace
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Speaker 1: drama to Sally Carson. This according to US Weekly article, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so this is like the silliest thing I've ever seen. Well,
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Speaker 1: she got on Instagram and spoiled her season. She talks
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Speaker 1: about her own elimination on December one, before her season
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Speaker 1: even started airing. This is what she says. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was saying last week that Cassidy didn't seem like
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Speaker 1: that much of the villain to me, and that was like, en,
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Speaker 1: she seems like a real villain. Cassidy. Well, now that
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Speaker 1: I've seen these videos that she posted on January, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: oh no, no no, okay, So Cassidy is um she's trouble.
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Speaker 1: This is what she says. I love getting ready for
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Speaker 1: dates nowadays because it's literally just me in the mirror, like,
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Speaker 1: wait a second, this man should be so effing lucky.
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Speaker 1: And then I remember that, wait a second, even though
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Speaker 1: I'm about to be on national television, men still treat
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Speaker 1: me like but that's okay, that's all right, because not
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Speaker 1: for long, not for effing long. She continues to say, Anyways,
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Speaker 1: I think I'm going to be a great influencer. Again, guys,
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Speaker 1: this is before her season even premieres. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm really entertaining. You're entertained, right, you buy anything I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you? Right, even if it's complete both I think. So, wait,
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Speaker 1: don't answer that it's yes. I mean, it's pretty obvious.
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Speaker 1: Is she making Is this like a whole tongue in
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Speaker 1: cheek monologue. It's so over the top it almost seems
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Speaker 1: like she's making fun of other influencers who have come
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Speaker 1: from the show. She also goes on to say to
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Speaker 1: Um to address cloud chasers in her d M s
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Speaker 1: insinuating that men are trying to get with her now
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Speaker 1: because she's about to be on TV. She says, men
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Speaker 1: are trash. So let's go back for a second and
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Speaker 1: remind you that Sally, of course, was that girl who
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Speaker 1: went to Colton's room. Colton, Oh my god, we're all
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Speaker 1: doing it, aren't We went to Clayton's room and said like,
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Speaker 1: I can't be here. I was recently engaged. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel right. He wanted to give her a rose. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is. This is Cassidy addressing this on on this
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Speaker 1: resurfaced video. She was, I realized that I am normally
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Speaker 1: being dramatic, but you as in Clayton, We're gonna give
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Speaker 1: Sally a rose even though she was engaged last week.
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Speaker 1: This is actually ironic and I kind of like the
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Speaker 1: fact that she pointed this out. She was a Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: I've someone a few months ago and I got sent home. Okay, No,
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Speaker 1: it's cool. I get it. I get it. I get
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Speaker 1: what we're made of here. I get this stuff that
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Speaker 1: this stuff is happening, Go fuck yourself. Clayton Eckard. This
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Speaker 1: is what she on Instagram this past week. Um, I
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Speaker 1: think that there's a little bit of a point she
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Speaker 1: gets in trouble for having like a friends with benefits
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Speaker 1: at home, because we know that this week she was
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Speaker 1: called out, you know, for having a guy at home.
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Speaker 1: We debated it on last week's episode whether it was
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Speaker 1: kosher or not. But this is It is funny that
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Speaker 1: he eliminated one girl with a fiance but wouldn't really
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Speaker 1: eliminate the girl who just hooked up with somebody casually.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that she goes on Instagram this past
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Speaker 1: week says says, f you Clayton. I mean that's really
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Speaker 1: not tasteful. Um. But also she also um spoils the
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Speaker 1: show by saying she gets eliminated. Do you remember Ben
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, we were like, is she
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Speaker 1: going to get eliminated for this or is she going
35:53
Speaker 1: to hang around for a few more weeks? Well we
35:54
Speaker 1: have our answer. She literally spoiled the show, which is
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Speaker 1: contractually just bad in general, just not a good look. Um.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot there, a lot of sayings, a lot
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Speaker 1: of things going on. She's not happy. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how she exits, what she does
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Speaker 1: when she exits, and to see how much we hear
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Speaker 1: of Cassidy as time moves on. Now, Um, who knows,
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Speaker 1: we might not see much of her. We might see
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Speaker 1: a lot of her, but it's it's hard to tell.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine that even bring her to Paradise after
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Speaker 1: she spoiled the show like that. Yeah, she probably just
36:36
Speaker 1: she probably just did not book her ticket to Mexico. Well,
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Speaker 1: we only have one other headline today. Katie Thurston and
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Speaker 1: boyfriend John Hersey reunite with bachelorette Michael A. Her quote
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Speaker 1: is Katie's quote is this feels like a nightmare. Yes,
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, so that seems it seems weird, right, but
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Speaker 1: it was apparently anything but off word. She was joking
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Speaker 1: when she said that that she was on a group
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Speaker 1: date basically, um, with Michael and her new boyfriend John.
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Speaker 1: Feels like a nightmare. Um, but that's just what she
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Speaker 1: captioned her picture. It was a selfie. Uh yeah. So
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Speaker 1: they were just like hanging out sunset meal in Mexico
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Speaker 1: and they it wasn't just it wasn't just them. Also,
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Speaker 1: Luke Stone was there and um, it was just it
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Speaker 1: was all fun. So not really a nightmare. But Katie
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Speaker 1: is a jokester. They were together in Mexico, they hung
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Speaker 1: out a big group setting. Um, it looked like they
37:41
Speaker 1: had a good time, and that's something that's always fun
37:44
Speaker 1: when you can kind of break through the awkwardness and
37:48
Speaker 1: just have a good time together as people will. Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's all we got for today's episode of the Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous Podcast. Thank you for listening, thank you for joining us.
37:56
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back here next week, Yes we will.
37:59
Speaker 1: It's a huge episode. I'm not gonna tell you why,
38:01
Speaker 1: but it's a big episode. A lot going on, and
38:03
Speaker 1: we're also gonna be breaking down Clayton's next episode as
38:07
Speaker 1: the Bachelor. We'll be back with the Almost Famous podcast
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