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Girl Dad Vibes with Charles Ling · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back to the Apple Stairs Podcast. It's
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  Speaker 2: Ben and Ashley and today we are so excited to
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  Speaker 2: have one of the very favorite people from the Golden
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  Speaker 2: Bachelorette on. We didn't have him on during the season
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  Speaker 2: and now we are wondering why he's not in Paradise.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Charles Lang. Hi, turn it out
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  Speaker 2: to thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Charles, why are you here with us? You should
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  Speaker 2: be in Paradise.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a kind of a decision between
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  Speaker 3: me and the Sophia, my daughter self form what I
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  Speaker 3: have reason. Yeah, maybe maybe another program in the future.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's kick it off there, let's talk about Paradise.
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  Speaker 5: You, Ashley said, you're one of the favorites from the
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  Speaker 5: Golden I would actually consider you, and I think Ashley
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  Speaker 5: Wood as well, one of the favorites of all time
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  Speaker 5: from any show ever.
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  Speaker 4: I think people thank you could not enough of you.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you just mentioned that the decision to not be
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  Speaker 5: in Paradise was a decision between yourself and your daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Yet your daughters were very supportive of you going on
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  Speaker 4: the Golden Show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so what's changed because your experience there was so positive.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is just personal choice. I hate to
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  Speaker 3: say why. This is the beach and we both think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we look much better and more handsome. I'm
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  Speaker 3: prettier in formal dresses, okay, rather than like the youngsters,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they have fun and kind a little bit
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  Speaker 3: while at the beach.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, that makes sense. Now. When we first
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  Speaker 2: heard that you weren't amongst the rumor to be in Paradise,
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  Speaker 2: I thought, oh, well, maybe he's going to be the bachelor.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be the Golden Bachelor, because,
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  Speaker 2: like we said, no one has been so endearing. But
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  Speaker 2: but you're not the bachelor either. Were you in talks
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Not really to not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Not your knowledge, so that your name may have been
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  Speaker 2: thrown around the producer rooms.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, as you know during almost that when we
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  Speaker 3: were wrapping up last year, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: requests and the cheers, you know, quote unquote hope you
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  Speaker 3: know Charles will be one of the few to be
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  Speaker 3: the final candidates for the new program. But this is
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  Speaker 3: what it is. I think there are reasons probably we
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  Speaker 3: need to pick another young handsome man.
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  Speaker 4: You know, well they could have picked you.
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  Speaker 5: You fall into that category, young and handsome Charles. This
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  Speaker 5: experience for you obviously was unexpected because this show didn't
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  Speaker 5: exist a few years ago. Right now that it's done,
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  Speaker 5: you are removed. It's been a bit since the show
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  Speaker 5: has aired. Looking back, what are your emotions and thoughts
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  Speaker 5: on the whole experience.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would say one word, if I can summarize,
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  Speaker 3: is amazing and or a little bit beyond my expectation.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, the show was much better on my part.
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  Speaker 3: As you probably heard during the program or after the program.
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  Speaker 3: I was very ignorant about that program before I started.
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  Speaker 3: So sometimes when you don't know anything, you really bring
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  Speaker 3: yourself to the full level to the program. And recently
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  Speaker 3: at a birthday party in our gym, they remind me
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  Speaker 3: to give a talk on this, you know, and I
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  Speaker 3: told them, you know one thing. They thought, we have scripts,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Charles doesn't have to think, just read or memorize.
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  Speaker 3: I said, now that's not the case. The beauty pot
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  Speaker 3: is spontaneous, you know, and also surprises because so we
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  Speaker 3: didn't know what question will be what program either you know,
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  Speaker 3: one on one or group date and any other activities
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  Speaker 3: around mentioning or of the mention we will not do
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  Speaker 3: at all in advance, so it's just ready come out
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  Speaker 3: as you are not prepared it yet. You know. I
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  Speaker 3: think maybe there's the beauty. The audience loved it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes when I look at it back, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of shocked what I said at this at
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  Speaker 3: that particular moment. If you ask me to repeat, I
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  Speaker 3: doubt I would be able to do that. Honestly, that's
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  Speaker 3: really really beauty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the feelings that you get inside the bachelor
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  Speaker 2: bubble when love is the only thing you can concentrate
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  Speaker 2: on exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the one of the episodes just give you example,
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  Speaker 3: the men tell all. I think that episode and I
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  Speaker 3: just came back in the return from the trip. I
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  Speaker 3: was worried. But one is the you know, the I'm
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  Speaker 3: different zones. Two is I might be tied thirties. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't speak that much English in a sense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the previous two or three months, so I was worried.
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  Speaker 3: Yet you know, at the end of the show, my
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  Speaker 3: daughter Sofya came to me Dad, you know, wonderful, wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't see anything any word more or less just perfect.
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  Speaker 3: I was flattered and I was very happy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the best compliment from the best person that
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  Speaker 5: could give you that compliment. Right, So talk about Sophia
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  Speaker 5: for a second. Was she a fan of the show
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  Speaker 5: going into your season or she know much about it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, she knew. She knew a little bit more than
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  Speaker 3: I did, and she wasn't nervous, to be honest, at
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  Speaker 3: the very beginning, and she was nervous while I was
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  Speaker 3: over there. Later on, she joked with me and said, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: guess what. My sister and I we thought you might
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  Speaker 3: send home during or after the first row ceremony. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't tell you because you might change your mind. I said,
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  Speaker 3: oh boy, had you told me this, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: if I were to go or not. So that's a
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  Speaker 3: good part, you know, when you don't know anything, you
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  Speaker 3: really perform as it is and not nervous at all,
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  Speaker 3: and just just you know, be myself. Yeah, it was great,
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  Speaker 3: and talking about that. You know, even as of today,
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  Speaker 3: I still bump into so many fans and a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: One day, I joke with a lady in the store,
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  Speaker 3: I said, after many months, how come you stirban me?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Charles, you know you were a favorite, and
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  Speaker 3: so on and so forth. Yeah, and this this morning,
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  Speaker 3: I was at the at the Cafeteriri and the young
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  Speaker 3: man who served me a company, he said, Charles, you know,
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  Speaker 3: my my parents loved you on the show. Guess what said?
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  Speaker 3: And I told them that Charles came to our shop.
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  Speaker 3: They were so happy, so I sent my best regards
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  Speaker 3: to them too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Charles, we know that you were born and raised
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  Speaker 6: in rural China and you came to the US with
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  Speaker 6: twenty dollars in your pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about this story.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you know, probably historically when we talk about
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  Speaker 3: a rich country versus pole country, you know, and in
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  Speaker 3: those days, you know, China was not really open to
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  Speaker 3: the outside and the people just collected very very basic
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  Speaker 3: accelary in local currency. And when we, for myself was
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  Speaker 3: accepted by one of the universities with scholarship, yet you know,
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  Speaker 3: there was no stipend. So quite a few of us
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  Speaker 3: who were able to come to study in the States
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  Speaker 3: either twenty dollars or forty dollars, probably not more than that.
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  Speaker 3: And was I nervous, of course, yes, you know, your
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  Speaker 3: twenty dollars. But on the other hand, in those days,
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  Speaker 3: twenty dollars you can do a very lot of things,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with twenty dollars here it's unfortunately there's only
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  Speaker 3: a couple of coffin now today, you know. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: with twenty dollars in pocket and studied my education and
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  Speaker 3: then you know, you find some work here and there,
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  Speaker 3: and as you know, the environment, well, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: are managed. You know, human beings say, you know, very
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  Speaker 3: very powerful in a sense, like a sponge, you know
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  Speaker 3: in the river. You really can explode at a certain
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  Speaker 3: level when you are pushed to a certain degree. That's
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  Speaker 3: you know what happened. And I'm not very rich yet,
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  Speaker 3: but hoping, oh well, you know one day I'm working
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  Speaker 3: on it. Yeah, but yeah, it was only twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Was a little bit nervous, But that was not that nervous,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because I trust myself and I believe myself.
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  Speaker 3: You know, things will get much better and better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you might not be I don't I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know your personal finances, Charles, but you might not
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  Speaker 5: be rich financially, but it sounds like you're rich in
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  Speaker 5: all the best ways. You have a lot of love
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  Speaker 5: and support around you. You shared this story during the
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  Speaker 5: show about your wife who has passed away. When you
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  Speaker 5: went on the show, right, you sat down with Guy
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  Speaker 5: in a very you know, I would use the word
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  Speaker 5: famous or known moment. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: watched it and related to it and felt it emotionally
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  Speaker 5: and then felt maybe somebody has been something similar. They
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  Speaker 5: felt your emotions with them. What made you? I think
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  Speaker 5: we saw the conversation, but what made you actually say no,
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  Speaker 5: now's the time I want to talk to somebody about this.
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  Speaker 5: I want to I want to voice whatever it is
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  Speaker 5: I've been feeling for all this time. What made you
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  Speaker 5: make that step, especially in this environment?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was very, very hard. And when I
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  Speaker 3: was in the mansion and interacting with other men, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we talked. We all of us at first probably hesitated.
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  Speaker 3: We were not sure it is the word vulnerable, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whether to what degree we should share ourselves. But as
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  Speaker 3: we opened the mall and a more, and one day
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  Speaker 3: I was sitting in you know this guy we were talking,
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  Speaker 3: I said, the doctor guy. You know, one scene really
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  Speaker 3: really bothered me. I still couldn't figure out what really
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  Speaker 3: happened to my wife when she fell and there was
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  Speaker 3: little bit of blood here and there. So he thought
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  Speaker 3: for a while, and from his perspectives and his experience,
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  Speaker 3: he said, maybe this is what happened, as I explained
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  Speaker 3: in the program. And after that I was really really relieved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it was such such a moment that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, it's kind of turning point. And I
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  Speaker 3: was sad on one hand, but on the other hand,
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  Speaker 3: and I found answer, and that also I began to
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  Speaker 3: have more courage to move on and open it. As
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  Speaker 3: Sophia said, Dad has changed. He really has changed after
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  Speaker 3: the program, and people can tell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that it was worth the experience just to let out.
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  Speaker 3: And also when I talk to other people now, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think one part is in the program itself, but
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  Speaker 3: also after the program, a lot of people come to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Charles, you know, we're sorry what happened to you.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time they said this program really
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  Speaker 3: helped them too, you know, linked to a lot of
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  Speaker 3: themselves or their relatives. They said they really should have
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  Speaker 3: the courage and openess like you did. You know, so
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  Speaker 3: you really influenced other people, you know, not only look
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  Speaker 3: at back, but have to you know, open up yourself
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  Speaker 3: and move forward. As we use the analogy as if
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  Speaker 3: you know, we are riding a train. You know, it
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  Speaker 3: was a sad part at one stop. But on the
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  Speaker 3: other hand, you know we've got to you know, prepared
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  Speaker 3: and move on. So that I think probably encouraged and
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  Speaker 3: help a lot of people, you know, in front of
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  Speaker 3: the TV. For those who didn't have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: meet with me yet, there are quite a few people
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  Speaker 3: after the show they had a chance to meet me
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  Speaker 3: here and there at the output at the train stage.
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  Speaker 3: You can't leave it, you know. I was stopped at
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  Speaker 3: the painstation in New York. You know, as soon as
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  Speaker 3: I got off, I think about eight or ten people
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  Speaker 3: from Texas they were waiting for me, and they had Charles,
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  Speaker 3: and now I know we talked yeah, and then other
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  Speaker 3: people in high Charles. Even the surprise thing is that
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  Speaker 3: barely anyone's like I asked me saying, are you Charles. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's a Charles. So it's it's it's affirmed. It's just
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  Speaker 3: I mean, no doubt this is Charles, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: one from the show that I mean, I feel really
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  Speaker 3: really proud of myself in a sense, but also you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel happy for the audience. You know where we
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  Speaker 3: can communicate in that perspective.
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  Speaker 5: Charles, I got I got a fan here who would
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  Speaker 5: love to also meet you.
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  Speaker 4: My wife Jessica. Jessica, can you come in here for
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  Speaker 4: a second.
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 4: When he can come.
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  Speaker 3: Oscar, don't be shy.
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  Speaker 4: She's not going to be show.
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  Speaker 5: We just had a new little baby girl, Charles, and
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  Speaker 5: so oh congratulations they're out there playing.
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  Speaker 4: This is my wife, remember Charles from the show, Charles,
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  Speaker 4: I'm your biggest bed.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, this is the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 3: I told you, Charles. Yeah, this is real, Charles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hi, Whitney says.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Hello, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: Is that good?
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  Speaker 3: This is the coolest thing. Thank you, me too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, me too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to see you. Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Charles. You have a lot of gears under your belt
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  Speaker 2: as being a girl dad. As Ben is just one
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  Speaker 2: for the past three months through four months, what is
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  Speaker 2: your advice to him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, be let them be themselves, but at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, you use your sense. You need to
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  Speaker 3: guide them sometimes you need a guidance. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: they've grown up, if this is their question, and I
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  Speaker 3: have a kind of a limit, you know. I directed
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  Speaker 3: them only to certain degrees and the level. Rather, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a boss, you know, to them. And as a
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  Speaker 3: father also I treat as a close friend in a sense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes ask a lot of questions, what they want,
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  Speaker 3: how they are treated, and what are their dreams. If
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  Speaker 3: they have any requests, I always try to fulfill them.
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  Speaker 3: I just give you one example of I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's related or not. When Sophia was in middle
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  Speaker 3: school and we had a new house, and one day
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  Speaker 3: she said, Dad, I want to paint my room the
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  Speaker 3: sitting like a Disney World. She's a great painter, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I gave her credit. She's very, very artistic and talented.
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  Speaker 3: Guess what. The mother said, No, you're going to ruin
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  Speaker 3: the house. Then she came to me. I said, Sophie,
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  Speaker 3: what is your ideas? After hearing what she said, I
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  Speaker 3: just priyed and then quietly I said, go ahead, let's
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  Speaker 3: go by some paint, do what you want. Just one
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  Speaker 3: promise if things do not work out well, you will
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  Speaker 3: help me to change the dry wall. She said, that's
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  Speaker 3: the dumb deal. I'm not sure many Dad would be
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  Speaker 3: willing to do that. There's a risk to ruin the room,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of them are chaos. But I think
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  Speaker 3: this is the kind of dream and the kids have it,
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  Speaker 3: we should fulfill support them. So I'm the kind of
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  Speaker 3: dad like this. Anything it's reachable, possible, I always say yes.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be hard for me to ever say
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  Speaker 5: no to my daughter. I can tell that right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think my dad ever told me.
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  Speaker 4: Now, was it your two daughters who signed you up
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  Speaker 4: for the show?
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  Speaker 6: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Literally not that they signed up, but the younger one, Sophia,
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  Speaker 3: she kind of talked it over to me and talked
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  Speaker 3: to me to sign it, and we decided very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I make a decisions very quickly for certain things.
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  Speaker 3: So it happened this program. I didn't hesitate, and we
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  Speaker 3: just jump on the wagon and then move down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Charles, some of your guys are down in Costa
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  Speaker 2: Rica filming paradise. I'm sure they're going to start heading
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  Speaker 2: back soon, and I would love to know if you
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  Speaker 2: have some in mind that you think might be finding
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  Speaker 2: a love match down there.
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  Speaker 3: One thing, unfortunately, I don't know how many young ladies
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  Speaker 3: when over there. When you when I use the word
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  Speaker 3: of young ladies, you know, is it a lot or
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  Speaker 3: only a few?
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  Speaker 2: I think there'll be equal amounts.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's nice. I'm sure definitely that if that that's
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  Speaker 3: the case, definitely will be happy stories after they come back.
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  Speaker 3: We have a chat group, you know, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: there'll be photos and even cases, roses, so on and
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  Speaker 3: so forth. And I'll be happy if something you know
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  Speaker 3: closer to you know, engagement, you know, we'll be together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be happy for them.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be happy for them too.
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  Speaker 5: And obviously you're not down there, as we've mentioned before,
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  Speaker 5: but you are in the real world where you know,
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  Speaker 5: potential partners do exist. Still, are you dating? Are you
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  Speaker 5: interested in dating? If so, how is it going for you.
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  Speaker 3: I have not formally started dating yet yet, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's on my agenda if I can say that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of in the way to be rush, but
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  Speaker 3: not I'm not in a hurry either. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for that moment that the nice lady you
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  Speaker 3: know will pop up, and also for me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I hope you know, I'll show up, you know as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of you know, dream of or waiting for
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  Speaker 3: that particular moment, and I'm sure, you know, something would
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  Speaker 3: definitely happen, but it's a matter of time. If that happens,
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you guys know.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, keep manifesting that thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the way it should be, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was kind of nervous before the show,
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  Speaker 3: as I explained during the program. Now that that part
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  Speaker 3: is gone, and we are very transparent, you know, among
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  Speaker 3: the kids myself, so I wouldn't worry too much yet,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you know, if that really happens, I still would like
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: to seek some opinion from the daughters, you know, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: even though they may not have the final approval say
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: yeah or no, but I would respect their instinct. I'm
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: sure they are pretty smart. We just want to make sure,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: you know, she's happy and I'm happy. You know that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: That's the ultimatic goal, you know, nothing else. You know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: she can be rich or not necessary rich. You know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: she can be very happy, pretty or not necessary. That
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: pretty easy. Yeah, But the warm heart, the sweetheart, probably
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: is most important.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Charles, You've got a sweetheart, you do. It was
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: shown on national television. You might not be the next
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Golden Bachelor, but there are millions of people around the
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: world that would love to just get to run into
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: you because you know what you did. You were relatable,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: you were engaging, your kind. Thank you, and you brought
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: a really healthy perspective to the show. And for that
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: all of us thank you.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Thank Charles, and.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: This next season of life before we talk to you
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: again once you do get out there and start dating.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: What's keeping you busy today? As we kind of close.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Here, Okay, one is you know, I visit my grandkids,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: you know, as many times as I can. And also
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I spend quite a few hours in the gym. We
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: have formed a very nice group of senior people, if
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I can say, well, we dance, we exercise, we play pickaballs,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and we go out, have lunch, celebrate birthdays, so on
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and so forth. And also another hobby, as I explained
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: in the program, it's just my hobby. I try to
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: trade half an hour day, you know, when the market
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: is ripe, and I do in salt, so I can
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: read a lot of stuff in reference to that market.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I really enjot it. You know. I may make, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: quite a few hundred dollars here and there, or lose
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: a few hundred dollars here and there. But that's okay yet.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: You know, I know what I'm doing and I've been
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: doing very well, so I'm pretty pretty happy with that.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I'm very busy. And then nowadays, you know, I also
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: start by libraries. You know, I don't have particular topic
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: to study, but anything that catch my eyes, you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I would dig into that, either books or magazines on
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: and so forth. The first thing in the morning, when
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I wake up, I always call Hey, Google, you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: and then they say, oh, good morning, Charles. The news starts.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: After the news, I said, hey, Google, can you play
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: such such music? While you know, I began to, you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: make my room. So it's it's a it's a kind
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: of very routine. I'm pretty busy, but I'm very happy.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have Google play you Britney Spears, because
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: we know that it was on your bucket list to
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: see her live, and she says she's never put forming again,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: so we may all not cross that one off.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Sure, you know, no anything. Sometimes school say, oh, Chiles,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: we don't have that program, and I tease the Google,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and then another time, yes, you know, or I get
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: something on the YouTube and any other channels Also at
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: this moment, I watch NBA finals and also I watch
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: football finals. So now it's the time, you know, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: try to watch each single game moving forward.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: It's a good time. Knicks versus the Pacers. The Pacers
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: will come out on top.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Charles. I'm just letting you know right now, as an
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Indiana fan.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I'm fine. No, I respect each team. I love them all.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't have if one team loses the other,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not mad, you know, I'm all happy for their
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: great efforts and entertainment. I love it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, goodness, Charles, You're made in a factory somewhere. You're
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: like perfect, perfect, perfect man, a man that so many
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: of us can hope to be one day. Charles Link,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: thank you for coming on the Almost Famous podcast. Thank
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: you for giving up your time. Thank you for sharing
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: all of your insights and all of your knowledge. And
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I'm not kidding. My wife is was probably will always
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: be a huge.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Fan of you, Charles, along with so many others. So
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: we're wishing the best. Thank you, keeping.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Tention my best regards to my fans as well. Besides you,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: thank perfect.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: We will Thanks Charles, I love it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Bye, Charles, thank you, Thank you, well guys. Until next time,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I've been Ashley.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: And I've been Ben. We'll talk to you soon.
• 24:38
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