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Insider Knowledge · 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 i R Radio. We are back, yes, back to
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Speaker 1: the podcasting game with the Almost Famous podcast. I'm Ben,
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Speaker 1: I'm Ashley, and today is pretty much a day of
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Speaker 1: all hot topics. There's a lot of good, juicy bachelor
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Speaker 1: news this week. Yeah you know, well yeah, when I
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Speaker 1: opened up the rundown and we started prepping for this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying yeah, you know know, it's it's unfortunately we
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Speaker 1: have a guest, um, but we didn't try to book
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Speaker 1: a guest this week because there's so many headlines to
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Speaker 1: run through that it felt like this would fill the
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Speaker 1: whole podcast. And honestly, it's nice to get to sit
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Speaker 1: here and talk to you Ashley about these and update
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Speaker 1: everybody in Bachelor Nation. But before we get in the
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Speaker 1: hot topics, before we even get started, we want to
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Speaker 1: find a better way to connect with all of you, um,
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Speaker 1: a healthier way, a more streamline way. And so, with
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Speaker 1: the help of the team behind the scenes at the
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Speaker 1: Almost Famous Podcast, which is a great team, we have
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Speaker 1: created the Almost Famous Instagram page. And what I really
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Speaker 1: want to get out of this Instagram page is feedback
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Speaker 1: from you guys on what we're covering how we're covering
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Speaker 1: it like I want you guys do on each episode,
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Speaker 1: just let us know your favorite moments, the moments you
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Speaker 1: could do without. That way we can create a better
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Speaker 1: podcast for you. So go and follow. There's no posts
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Speaker 1: yet because we're gonna wait until after this episode to post,
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Speaker 1: but go ahead and go follow Almost Underscore Famous podcast.
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Speaker 1: Here's one thing I'm gonna say right now that I
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Speaker 1: think is going to be a fan favorite. There is
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Speaker 1: an Instagram page out there called the Real Ashley I
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Speaker 1: and it is fantastic. It is one of my favorite follows.
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Speaker 1: I get excited anytime there's a post on it. Those
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Speaker 1: are going to transfer over to the Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: page because I want everybody to see the Ashley that
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Speaker 1: I see and love on a day early basis. I
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Speaker 1: do love the account. My sister runs it. It's just
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Speaker 1: me being the most rob me you can ever imagine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is the best. So that's gonna be on there.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna post about the guests coming on, about hot topics.
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Speaker 1: I'll share some like super insightful workout videos because I
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Speaker 1: know you all asked me at a time, like well,
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Speaker 1: how do you just stay so strong and fit and buff,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a you know, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: a skill that I have. So I'll post those. He said,
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Speaker 1: that's so sarcastically that it actually didn't sound sarcastic. Not
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Speaker 1: that your body that looks great. You're the most in
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Speaker 1: shave healthy man. But I don't know if that's your expertise, right, No,
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Speaker 1: it's not my expertise. Um, So anyways, Yeah, go follow
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Speaker 1: almost underscore famous podcast. Don't ever forget to keep emailing
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Speaker 1: us at Ben and Ashley at i heeart media dot com.
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Speaker 1: With that, Ashley, let's just go ahead and take a
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Speaker 1: break here at the beginning. Let's take a drink of water.
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Speaker 1: Let's collect our thoughts because we have Bachelor hot topics
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Speaker 1: to run through. Hey, I'm a J. McLean, and I'm
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Burke and I am Renee. Ah. You don't know,
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Speaker 1: but you will know on our new podcast, Pretty Messed Up.
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Speaker 1: He's the pretty, I'm the mess and Renee's the up.
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Speaker 1: He is the I don't think. I don't think everything.
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Speaker 1: If we do, you better not do it on camera. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're fighting right now? Is this fighting
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Speaker 1: that we fight all the time. Then yeah, we fight constantly.
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Speaker 1: That's our way of communication. I don't think we'll ever fight,
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Speaker 1: you know, even though we are very similar personalities, which
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Speaker 1: a lot of times it doesn't work. I think, take
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Speaker 1: off those sunnies disconnection. Oh you can blink. I have
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Speaker 1: been teaching him also, not just a smile, but to blink.
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Speaker 1: We doesn't look like a psycho killer when we dance
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Speaker 1: live on TV. I can't wait for the podcast. There
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Speaker 1: are so many stories about a J's honesty at the
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Speaker 1: run times. You know, obviously a lot in the public
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Speaker 1: has been said about me, my journey through recovery and sobriety,
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Speaker 1: my ups and downs, my highs and lows, um, but
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Speaker 1: there's still so much left that not a lot of
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Speaker 1: people know about. And you know, I've compared myself to
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Speaker 1: an onion because there's a lot more layers to me
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Speaker 1: than anyone really knows about a Funyan exactly. I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to do the podcast because I can just call
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Speaker 1: him out and Renee can give me advice on how
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Speaker 1: to handle him. Sometimes because all I hear is the
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Speaker 1: tuk tuk tuk talk talk, excuses, excuses, excuses, and careful
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Speaker 1: listen to pretty messed up on the I Heart Radio app,
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Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the Bachelorette season is up, han Us, It's coming up
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Speaker 1: quicker than we could ever imagine. We're excited for it.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I have had Ashley people who never watched
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Speaker 1: the show say they're excited for this year because there's
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Speaker 1: been so many storylines coming out of this season. There's
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Speaker 1: so many unknowns and potentially Ashley, from what we hear,
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Speaker 1: there could be multiple love stories to celebrate. Yeah, that's right,
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Speaker 1: that's right. The first story coming out of the Bachelorette
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Speaker 1: this year is a household dame already, Dale Moss. Dale Moss.
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Speaker 1: The headline reads, wants to be a father in five years.
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Speaker 1: This according to Life and Style. So Dale got on
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Speaker 1: his Instagram story this week and he did one of
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Speaker 1: those Q and A s and somebody asked him, where
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Speaker 1: do you see yourself in five years? He said, a
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Speaker 1: leading sports and entertainment host, producer of a sick documentary
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Speaker 1: or series, successful entrepreneur with a diverse portfolio, and um father. So,
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Speaker 1: of course, Pete. All are jumping to the conclusion or
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Speaker 1: not jumping to the conclusion. But people are excited to
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Speaker 1: hear that he's planning to be a father, possibly with
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Speaker 1: somebody that he may have ended up with this season.
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Speaker 1: There's there's so many unknowns, you know, best of luck
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Speaker 1: to deal mos um, best of luck and a father
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Speaker 1: is obviously a great title to have, uh an investor
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Speaker 1: in entrepreneur, all those dreams and aspirations. We wish you
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Speaker 1: upon you, Deale Moss, and we will be hearing I
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Speaker 1: think more from you here in the future. Actually, I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about this next headline and have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a conversation um kind of revolve around
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Speaker 1: the picture posted I have. I have a strong theory
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Speaker 1: that I want to share with you. But first, the
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Speaker 1: headline reads, Tasha Adams returns to Instagram after joining season
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Speaker 1: sixteen of The Bachelorette. It's been a minute, The headline
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Speaker 1: reads this, according to US Weekly, it's just still interesting
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Speaker 1: to me how she hasn't been confirmed to be part
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Speaker 1: of this past season. There, you know, she's allowed to
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Speaker 1: take a picture and pose it and say, hey, it's
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Speaker 1: been a minute. Like there's all these illusions and there's
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Speaker 1: pretty much photo evidence of it. Are they just going
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Speaker 1: to keep it a secret? And never promote her being
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Speaker 1: part of the season until her episodes start to air.
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Speaker 1: It feels that way. I mean, we're getting pretty far
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Speaker 1: into the game. It's been I mean, I guess, can
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Speaker 1: we say it's been confirmed that she joined the sixteenth season.
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Speaker 1: I mean not by ABC and not by The Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: but by all these other people we confirm it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's just confirm it and say we have no clue
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Speaker 1: what it means. We don't even know if she's the Bachelorette.
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Speaker 1: We just know she like shows up and she is there.
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Speaker 1: We don't know how it ends. I haven't heard a
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Speaker 1: lot from it. Now. Two things. My first point this
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Speaker 1: all this picture is posted after snapshots were posted from
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Speaker 1: a girl's night out at Nobu in Newport Beach, California.
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Speaker 1: I feel like No Boo is the hot spot for
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Speaker 1: recent Bachelor contestants to go to. Like it just feels.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I went there, no judgment, no oh. I
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Speaker 1: went with production at one point to No Boo because
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Speaker 1: I was out in l A And I was like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I want to go to like the cool hip restaurant
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Speaker 1: that like celebrities go to, because darnet, I feel like
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Speaker 1: a celebrity. It is the celebrity hot spot, and then
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Speaker 1: I feel like it has been for at least fifteen years.
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Speaker 1: Anybody who's anybody goes to Nobu. I've I've never been there,
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Speaker 1: and I hear that if you just get like a
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Speaker 1: set of appetizers, it's like fifty dollars. It's definitely a
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Speaker 1: place that you go to for a special occasion. Perhaps, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, Tatia is celebrating something. We have no idea
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Speaker 1: what it could be. I really don't like this. This
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Speaker 1: feels like we're like, I have no clue. I mean,
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Speaker 1: like we don't know if she has something to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: We can assume that she's just celebrating haven't become the
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Speaker 1: bachelor atte And it seems like she became the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: at on such a short notice that she probably didn't
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Speaker 1: even get to have like a goodbye dinner with her
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Speaker 1: friends and family. Here is my point, though, to the
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Speaker 1: picture posted and Bachelor Nation, I would love for you
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Speaker 1: to weigh in on this and tell me if I'm crazy.
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Speaker 1: But there is a unique glow to every single person
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Speaker 1: that becomes the Bachelor and Bachelor at when they get
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Speaker 1: off the show. Like Tasia has obviously always been beautiful,
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Speaker 1: like she is a gorgeous human, but this picture, like
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Speaker 1: you look into her eyes and you're like, there's something
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Speaker 1: going on in your life that is making you glow.
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Speaker 1: And I remember for the first time this hit me.
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Speaker 1: Uh really after my season, I felt like, you just
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Speaker 1: have a new confidence, um, and you have so much
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Speaker 1: that you know that the world doesn't know yet. And
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Speaker 1: it feels like every single bachelorette and bachelor since I've
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Speaker 1: been watching for it, and they just there's like this
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Speaker 1: switch that flips and they just become this like I
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Speaker 1: glowing human. I mean, she does look just outrageously beautiful
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Speaker 1: in this picture. She has a little filter on it
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Speaker 1: that gives her a butterfly, a little bee on her
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Speaker 1: a little bee on her nose. And yeah, so she's
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Speaker 1: back on the Graham as of September. So who knows
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Speaker 1: what happened. Nobody knows what happened. And here is a
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Speaker 1: headline that nobody ever knew. And we're gonna move into
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Speaker 1: UH talking about Becka Koufran because there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: headlines that we need to stick to UH, and I
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Speaker 1: imagine this will be one of the last weeks we
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Speaker 1: really talked about her and Garrett Um, you know, for
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Speaker 1: their own sakes, But this story is one that we
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Speaker 1: never saw in The Bachelor. At the headline reads, Rachel
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Speaker 1: Lindsay reveals why she saged Becca kouf friends vagina, which
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Speaker 1: actually is an incorrect statement because I, as as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: I learned something, did you learn something new? Well, back
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Speaker 1: in college, I was a sex ed UH study. I
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Speaker 1: did do sex edd studies formally. She actually, if if
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Speaker 1: this was correct, it would say she saged Becka Kouffrin's
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Speaker 1: volva because that is the entirety of uh the organ
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Speaker 1: and she shared she shares the bikini moment that didn't
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Speaker 1: air on The Bachelorette. This according to US Weekly again,
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Speaker 1: Rachel Lindsay reveals she saged Becca Koufrien's volva. At first,
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Speaker 1: I read this and I was like, oh, this is
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Speaker 1: our righteous thinking that it was ari and like Garrett's
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Speaker 1: pass that she was trying to sage away from it. Um.
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Speaker 1: But actually this is kind of a throwback comment. They
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Speaker 1: just recently came out about it on the Happy Hour podcast.
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Speaker 1: She said that before before Beccas season of The Bachelorette,
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Speaker 1: because quote, we gotta do a cleansing on you because
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Speaker 1: you had Ari, like good luck. Uh Rachel decided to
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Speaker 1: take stage and put it all throughout Becca's body so
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Speaker 1: that she can have a clean slate at being the bachelorette,
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Speaker 1: not painted by her past with Ari. It's kind of funny.
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Speaker 1: You can see if that had made cut that it
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Speaker 1: would have been pretty funny, just absolutely outrageous. Another Beckat
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Speaker 1: Koufren's story, Beckat Kufren says she's doing surprisingly well after
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Speaker 1: Garrett split. This according to US Weekly, do you have
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Speaker 1: anything to elaborate on this because you are closer to
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Speaker 1: Becca than I am. Have you talked to her since
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Speaker 1: I haven't been able to talk to her? Um? No, again,
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Speaker 1: this is this is a good a statement, like I
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Speaker 1: think both if if either of them came out and
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Speaker 1: said they're doing well, like, that's what we want and
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Speaker 1: that's what we hope for. In fact, you know, bachelor
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Speaker 1: breakups are are difficult, and they can drag on a
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Speaker 1: lot longer than you wanted to because people ask people
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Speaker 1: associate with you. Some people don't always know that you
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Speaker 1: broke up, so they still ask you about, hey, how
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Speaker 1: are you and Garrett doing? You know? Um and And
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Speaker 1: it feels like for us as we talked about it
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Speaker 1: and hinted at it for weeks. It felt like a
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Speaker 1: long time coming. And so I'm assuming now that they're
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Speaker 1: both moving on and moving forward. For them to say
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Speaker 1: they're doing well, or at least Rebecca to claim she's
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Speaker 1: doing well is is a good statement. It's one that
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Speaker 1: we should recognize. And also I feel like now move
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Speaker 1: on from that. Becca and Garrett are starting a new
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Speaker 1: chapter of their life, and it's gonna be a good chapter, hopefully,
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Speaker 1: I agree. What's our next hot topic? Our next hot
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Speaker 1: topic rolls into uh a really beautiful full story. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Anytime there's new life that comes into this world, it
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Speaker 1: is something to celebrate. And we have a former Bachelor contestant,
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Speaker 1: Liz sand Off Presta, welcome's daughter Jovi as she reveals
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Speaker 1: baby spent time in Nick. You Elizabeth, Liz sand Off Presta.
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Speaker 1: So if you guys remember Liz, she was on nixt season,
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Speaker 1: made a huge splash because she slept with him before
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Speaker 1: their season at Jen Turner's wedding, and she got married
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Speaker 1: I think a little over a year ago, and they
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Speaker 1: just welcome their first child, a baby girl, on September one.
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Speaker 1: And yes, she was in the nick you for a
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Speaker 1: little while, but she's doing really well now. She says
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Speaker 1: that she named Jovi Jovi because it means joyful, and
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Speaker 1: she says she's big on name meanings and she wants
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Speaker 1: to speak joy over her life is something to celebrate
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Speaker 1: and what a cool story. Congratulation Liz. Uh, just awesome
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Speaker 1: to see and in a in a podcast that in
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Speaker 1: a few moments is going to have some really difficult
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Speaker 1: topics that Actuley and are going to try to walk through,
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Speaker 1: um and talk about. This is something that we can
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Speaker 1: all lift up and say, Hey, a baby was born,
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Speaker 1: a baby is in its home, and now um, now
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Speaker 1: they can celebrate it. So, Ashley, there's a topic that
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Speaker 1: I want to pause and talk to you about this week.
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Speaker 1: You were up to something, Uh that is and just
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Speaker 1: something that I have always dreamed of, something that I
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Speaker 1: could have never imagined, something that impacted my life in
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Speaker 1: ways that I never knew anything could and looking at
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Speaker 1: him confused, you guys, I have no idea where he's
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Speaker 1: going with us. So growing up, I watched every single
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Speaker 1: episode of Boyme's World. Okay, and Ashley and Jared recently
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Speaker 1: posted that on a trip, I think it's the Sea,
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Speaker 1: Tanner and Jade. Yeah, we did a little staycation. You
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Speaker 1: ran in to a very famous character from boy Meat's World.
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Speaker 1: Let's tell everybody about it. Okay, So we met the
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Speaker 1: Corey Matthews himself, Ben Savage. Ben and I I didn't
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Speaker 1: always shared this passion for Boyman's World. Jared and I
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Speaker 1: still to this day. If we need like a good
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Speaker 1: comfort show, we don't know what to watch, we put
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Speaker 1: Boma It's World on on Disney Plus. It's maybe the
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Speaker 1: both underrated show of all time. Like I know our
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Speaker 1: generation really you know, appreciates it, but like I think
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Speaker 1: it needs to be talked about more in like the
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Speaker 1: column of greatest shows of all time and like the
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Speaker 1: best best messages, but like not done in a corny way,
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Speaker 1: and the best character development. And it's just so funny
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Speaker 1: and so heartfelt. It's the best, right So Jared Jared
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Speaker 1: um he would quote it. We we one time he
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Speaker 1: was quoting it a scene or something down in Paradise,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, this is back when we very
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Speaker 1: much we're not together, and I just remember being like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy loves Boyman's World. He knows
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Speaker 1: it by heart. He kind of has Corey Matthews qualities.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of a geek but hilarious at the same time.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, like him quoting Boreman's World was very
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Speaker 1: meaningful to me, and then like we quoted along together
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Speaker 1: and it was just one of those things. I was like,
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Speaker 1: this makes him the perfect man to me, and then
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Speaker 1: our relationship evolved. We we always say that we're kind
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Speaker 1: of most like the Coreyan to Panga if we had
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Speaker 1: to compare our relationship to anything like in media, because
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Speaker 1: we started out as friends and we just have like
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Speaker 1: this just that's just the way we interact is mostly
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Speaker 1: Cooreyan to Pega. And then we always have called um
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Speaker 1: a lawn Gail Mr Feeney because somehow has always been
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Speaker 1: meddling in our in our lives and our love life.
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Speaker 1: An executive producer. Yeah, he was an executive producer on
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Speaker 1: the show while Ashley and I were on the show. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so he's our Mr Feenie. And when Jared saw Ben
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Speaker 1: Savage downstairs two days ago at the Tarana, a resort
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Speaker 1: in l A, he calls me because he's picking up
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Speaker 1: lunch down there and he's like, Ashley, Ben Savage is
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Speaker 1: down here. I don't know what to do. I need
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Speaker 1: your help. And I was like, okay, I'll be right there.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right there. Because he's like very shy and
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Speaker 1: when he goes up to people that he runs into
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Speaker 1: that he's idolized. And I kind of can just go
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Speaker 1: right up. I feel like a pro because I was
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Speaker 1: this the ultimate fan girl, you know, in my my youth, Like,
18:45
Speaker 1: don't worry, I got a lot of practice. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: I go up to him, I go, hey, Ben, Um,
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Speaker 1: I introduce him to us, and um, I just tell
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Speaker 1: him how meaningful the show has been to us and
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Speaker 1: how we relate to it and all that. And he
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Speaker 1: was so sweet. He thought it was really cool that
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Speaker 1: we met on the Bachelor, and he was everything No,
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Speaker 1: but he was everything that you wanted him to be.
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Speaker 1: And then when we were like him, get a picture,
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Speaker 1: you know, we we did it so that we could
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Speaker 1: take our masks off but still be six ft away,
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Speaker 1: and he was like, put your hands up in the air,
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Speaker 1: like Corey, and that's the way that he makes this
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Speaker 1: Corey face. And the picture makes me smile so hard.
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Speaker 1: And the man has an aged at all, so crazy,
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Speaker 1: like he looks the exact same as he did in
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Speaker 1: the college years. So my hope was that the story
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Speaker 1: would end with me asking, Hay, did you recognize you
19:33
Speaker 1: guys and You're like, yeah, he did, And I'm like,
19:35
Speaker 1: so there's a chance that Corey Matthews knows are but
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Speaker 1: there's not. You know who who does? Um? Will friedle Um,
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Speaker 1: the one who played Eric Matthews his brother he is.
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Speaker 1: He follows Jared and I think he's very familiar with
19:49
Speaker 1: the Bachelor. That's just a dream, it really is. If
19:53
Speaker 1: anybody's out there listening, going, I have no clue what
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Speaker 1: Boy means the world is. I'm telling you right now.
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Speaker 1: If there's one takeaway in the last what four years,
20:01
Speaker 1: three and a half years that we've done this podcast,
20:04
Speaker 1: watch Boy Meets World, Like it's so worth it and
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Speaker 1: it does change your life, Like the way they treat
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Speaker 1: each other, the way the family loves each other. It's
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Speaker 1: just beautiful. Was Alan Matthew is not the best TV
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Speaker 1: dad of all time? I think he would have to
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Speaker 1: be up there. And then I mean Mr Feeney is
20:22
Speaker 1: a d the one I would put Mr. If somebody said,
20:26
Speaker 1: what is the most endearing character of that you've ever
20:30
Speaker 1: watched on television? Mr Feenie would probably be number one.
20:34
Speaker 1: Like that guy cared, he was funny, he was annoyed,
20:38
Speaker 1: he like but he loved so hard, he loved so well.
20:45
Speaker 1: It was so perfect. This show is perfect. It's one
20:48
Speaker 1: of those things that we are really excited that one
20:50
Speaker 1: day we'll be able to show our kids. Boy Meets World,
20:54
Speaker 1: Ashley injured run into Corey Matthews better known as Ben Savage.
20:59
Speaker 1: That's a hot topic for the week. That is that
21:02
Speaker 1: is just tremendous. Um next headline is Chris Stouse on
21:07
Speaker 1: if she'd be the Bachelorette after Dancing with the Stars.
21:11
Speaker 1: This year, Christian Chris Stouse will be on Dancing with
21:15
Speaker 1: the Stars. Obviously, this headline is pointing to if she'd
21:18
Speaker 1: ever want to start passing out roses. Okay, yeah, so
21:21
Speaker 1: she says that she does not want to be on
21:23
Speaker 1: The Bachelor. If you guys know who Um Chrishelle is.
21:27
Speaker 1: She is Um Justin Hartley's ex wife, and she's come
21:31
Speaker 1: to fame of her own on selling Sunset over the
21:34
Speaker 1: past three seasons on Netflix, and she's on the season
21:38
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars. And of course, like ABC,
21:41
Speaker 1: loves to do a little tie into their other shows
21:43
Speaker 1: and asked if she would be down um to do
21:47
Speaker 1: a season of the Bachelorettes, being that she's relatively newly single,
21:51
Speaker 1: and she says that it's she doesn't think you would
21:54
Speaker 1: be the right avenue for her, and right now she's
21:57
Speaker 1: just focused on gearing up for Dancing with the Star.
22:00
Speaker 1: She's feeling exhausted and sore everywhere. I I can imagine.
22:05
Speaker 1: I've been watching the training videos that Caitlin has been posting.
22:09
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars is just a whole new beast.
22:11
Speaker 1: I know a couple of people who have been on
22:13
Speaker 1: the show and they talk about just how much of
22:15
Speaker 1: a commitment it is. That's why we're so excited about
22:19
Speaker 1: Dance with the Stars, especially for our friend Caitlin, which
22:21
Speaker 1: we've talked about before. But also it's given me a
22:24
Speaker 1: new respect for any contestant that goes onto the show
22:28
Speaker 1: and competes week after week after week. We have other
22:32
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars news. We can now confirm this
22:38
Speaker 1: is big news. Caitlin Bristow has a partner on Dance
22:42
Speaker 1: with the Stars. It's a terrific partner, a great match
22:45
Speaker 1: for her. Ashley who is it. It's Artum and he
22:50
Speaker 1: has been a part of the Dancing with the Stars
22:53
Speaker 1: cast since two thousand and fourteen. He's been paired with
22:57
Speaker 1: Patti LaBelle. He was paired with Maureen McCormick from The
23:01
Speaker 1: Brady Bunch, Misha Barton, and um Nancy Karragan. That was
23:06
Speaker 1: I think like his most prominently known celebrity partner over
23:10
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. And then for season he
23:13
Speaker 1: also was paired with Nicky Bella, who is his now
23:18
Speaker 1: his his fiancee and they just had a baby together.
23:22
Speaker 1: So Caitlin is is working with somebody who has a
23:26
Speaker 1: high profile relationship right now a new baby, and I
23:31
Speaker 1: think it'll get her a lot of attention. What do
23:33
Speaker 1: you think? I think this is great. I mean, I'm
23:36
Speaker 1: pumped for her. He's obviously, I mean, any of the
23:38
Speaker 1: dancers on Dancing with the Stars is incredibly talented. But
23:41
Speaker 1: this does match her right like you weren't. Sometimes on
23:45
Speaker 1: Dance with the Stars that feels like they set up
23:47
Speaker 1: single people because it makes sense and there's maybe a
23:50
Speaker 1: love connection that can happen in the chemistry is better.
23:52
Speaker 1: But obviously Caitlin and Artem are both in committed, healthy
23:56
Speaker 1: happy relationships are Yeah, there to dance they're there to win.
24:01
Speaker 1: I think their chemistry uh will form based on their
24:04
Speaker 1: pursuit of of the championship the mirrorball. But um, I
24:10
Speaker 1: couldn't think of a better partner for her. So I'm
24:13
Speaker 1: just stoked for Caitlin. She's going to crush it me too.
24:17
Speaker 1: I'll be watching this season. This season, she's got a
24:19
Speaker 1: lot of competition. She's got a J McClain from the
24:22
Speaker 1: Backstry Boys, and I think that whenever you get a
24:24
Speaker 1: boy band er in there, you know that they're going
24:26
Speaker 1: to go far. I think Krischelle is also going to
24:29
Speaker 1: go far. I just feel like she has a rhythm
24:31
Speaker 1: to her. Uh, it'll be really interesting. How far? What's
24:35
Speaker 1: her name from? Carol bask Kid? Yeah, Carol, She's gonna
24:41
Speaker 1: She's my If I had a vote, right or if
24:44
Speaker 1: I had to gamble on this, Carrol Baskin might be
24:46
Speaker 1: the winner. Not because I don't believe in Caitlin, but
24:48
Speaker 1: her following is wild exactly exactly. I'm like a little
24:52
Speaker 1: bit nervous that she's going to kind of be like
24:54
Speaker 1: Love You Joe, but a little bit like Grocery Shore Joe,
24:57
Speaker 1: where people just kind of love seeing them in their
25:00
Speaker 1: screen that it doesn't matter if they're a good or
25:02
Speaker 1: bad dancer. Yeah, yeah, I mean Carol Baskin with the
25:06
Speaker 1: flower crown um and and probably the moves the match
25:11
Speaker 1: that that woman made. Did we talk about this made
25:13
Speaker 1: twenty or forty thou dollars one day on cameo? Did
25:17
Speaker 1: you even tell me that? I think I did. Yeah,
25:20
Speaker 1: that's a wild that's a wild number. I mean you
25:22
Speaker 1: got to think about how many videos that is. And
25:23
Speaker 1: and Ashley, to be honest, I was one of the
25:26
Speaker 1: people that purchased one. Wait, no, you're you're you're doing
25:30
Speaker 1: this for the sake of a good of a good podcast,
25:32
Speaker 1: aren't you. No, No, I'm not. Who did you get
25:35
Speaker 1: it for? So? Uh, Jessica's family was coming to one
25:40
Speaker 1: in Lake, Indiana for the fourth of July this year,
25:42
Speaker 1: and we watched tire King together and so I got
25:45
Speaker 1: a video from Carol Baskin welcoming them to Wina Lake,
25:48
Speaker 1: Indiana and telling them, uh that, uh, you know, just
25:53
Speaker 1: to have fun, to to enjoy the wildlife that want
25:57
Speaker 1: a Lake offers. It was fantastic. She's three d dollars.
26:02
Speaker 1: I'm calling you out for spending on this, but I
26:05
Speaker 1: think you probably thought it was worth it. Yeah, it's
26:08
Speaker 1: so worth it. It was. It got me some brownie
26:10
Speaker 1: points actually, I think, uh, just because Dad passed around
26:13
Speaker 1: to some modest friends and uh yeah, it's if you
26:17
Speaker 1: don't know about cameo, it can be a ton of fun. Um,
26:21
Speaker 1: just go on and check out who's on there. Uh
26:23
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, Carole Baskin was was one of my purchases.
26:27
Speaker 1: I've I've had a good time with it myself, Ashley. Um,
26:30
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break when we come back. We're
26:33
Speaker 1: gonna talk about a recent Bachelor Nation split that some
26:37
Speaker 1: might not have known about. And then we're also going
26:40
Speaker 1: to dig into the big story of the week, which
26:43
Speaker 1: is obviously the Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph situation. We're
26:49
Speaker 1: gonna try to walk through that with what we know
26:51
Speaker 1: the best we can, uh and update everybody to the
26:55
Speaker 1: current events surrounding that topic. Um today, So hey with
27:00
Speaker 1: let's take a break. When we come back, we're going
27:01
Speaker 1: to continue with Bachelor headlines. Welcome back Bachelor Nations. Victoria
27:14
Speaker 1: Fuller confirmed split from Chris Souls. We went a separate
27:19
Speaker 1: direction that according to people and also the Vital files. Okay,
27:23
Speaker 1: so this made me kind of sad because, well, one,
27:25
Speaker 1: we were excited that Chris had gotten a girlfriend. He
27:29
Speaker 1: hadn't dated somebody seriously in a while. But like, I
27:31
Speaker 1: think it confirms his fears about his Iowa life. Like
27:35
Speaker 1: you and I know that he's always had this insecurity
27:41
Speaker 1: about being from Iowa and wanting to stay there because
27:44
Speaker 1: he feels like no girl that he'll ever like will
27:48
Speaker 1: be down to live there, and it kind of this
27:51
Speaker 1: is exactly what happens here. She says that right now,
27:54
Speaker 1: she's living her best life. She said that they went
27:57
Speaker 1: in a separate direction. I respect him so much. I
28:00
Speaker 1: think he's an amazing man, and just like that, right
28:03
Speaker 1: and I just think that, like right now, I'm in
28:06
Speaker 1: a different place than he is, and I'm not moving
28:09
Speaker 1: to Iowa anytime soon. She continues to say that I
28:12
Speaker 1: still talk to him all the time. I think he's amazing.
28:14
Speaker 1: I think we're a lot of like, I just want
28:16
Speaker 1: to focus on myself right now. She said that their
28:18
Speaker 1: relationship is kind of complicated. She's just living her life
28:22
Speaker 1: and she's on um and again that he's an amazing man.
28:25
Speaker 1: Deserves somebody get here to haircuts. He deserves somebody who's
28:28
Speaker 1: super awesome, Who's willing to go to Iowa and live
28:32
Speaker 1: in Iowa? And right now I'm not there yet, Maybe
28:36
Speaker 1: I will be in a couple of years. You know,
28:39
Speaker 1: it's been interesting because you and I were able to
28:41
Speaker 1: sit down with Chris. Uh. He had moved temporarily to
28:46
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. UM, he was pursuing some dreams out there
28:50
Speaker 1: and some farming uh land out there. He this is
28:55
Speaker 1: an insecurity for him, it has been for years. He
28:58
Speaker 1: has a great life in Iowa, and he has a
29:01
Speaker 1: lot going for him in Iowa. And I think this,
29:06
Speaker 1: I imagine this just feels like a reassurance and a
29:10
Speaker 1: validation to some of his business biggest insecurities, which is
29:13
Speaker 1: never which is never a fun thing to go through. Uh.
29:18
Speaker 1: We mentioned a few weeks ago, you know, that they
29:20
Speaker 1: had kept this private. We had rumored that, you know,
29:23
Speaker 1: it had ended. But now it's the stories turning into
29:28
Speaker 1: where is Chris at? Like, how how do you move on?
29:32
Speaker 1: And actually, what would you tell a friend who's in
29:35
Speaker 1: a current situation, living with their life moving forward in
29:38
Speaker 1: a in a certain place that really no nobody to
29:41
Speaker 1: this point at least wants to move to. You know,
29:46
Speaker 1: I feel like what he was doing before COVID and
29:49
Speaker 1: like kind of splitting his time between Iowa and l
29:52
Speaker 1: A was good because that way he could, you know,
29:55
Speaker 1: find a girl in l A, spend time with her
29:58
Speaker 1: in l A, and then they could be Like I
30:00
Speaker 1: know that I was not a coast but you get
30:03
Speaker 1: my drift when I say like a little bit by
30:04
Speaker 1: coastal because I think a girl would be down to
30:07
Speaker 1: like live there half the time and then like have
30:09
Speaker 1: the city life available to her as well. So maybe
30:12
Speaker 1: that's kind of what he has to do. But his
30:15
Speaker 1: family is there and his business is there, and we
30:18
Speaker 1: know that he has a fantastic business, and it's just
30:22
Speaker 1: something that he can't leave. I just think that he's
30:25
Speaker 1: going to need to think about splitting his time a
30:27
Speaker 1: little bit. But is there not anybody in Iowa that
30:32
Speaker 1: he could be with now? Calling out all Iowa ends,
30:39
Speaker 1: Chris Souls is waiting on you. If you are single,
30:42
Speaker 1: ready to mingle and Chris Souls catches your eye, give
30:47
Speaker 1: give him a shout out, like I think this guy him, Yeah,
30:50
Speaker 1: he's ready, he's wanting and uh it was it was
30:55
Speaker 1: a shocker to me, honestly, as a friend of his
30:58
Speaker 1: that when the Victoria A. Fuller story even came out
31:01
Speaker 1: because like this was unexpected, like I didn't see this,
31:04
Speaker 1: and uh, and then they kept it so quiet and
31:08
Speaker 1: and it now just ends in a way that I
31:10
Speaker 1: know it has to be hurting him, like it has
31:12
Speaker 1: to just sit deep on his heart. So it is
31:16
Speaker 1: confirmed Victoria Fuller did that on the Vile Files and
31:19
Speaker 1: then people published it and has confirmed that she is
31:24
Speaker 1: moving on with her life and that things are good
31:26
Speaker 1: and that there's respect. But that is no longer relationship
31:30
Speaker 1: that we can even talk about. Does he need to
31:32
Speaker 1: go on Farmers Only? Like, why isn't he? I'm sure
31:37
Speaker 1: he needs to find a girl in the Midwest who's
31:40
Speaker 1: already used to that lifestyle. I don't even know what
31:42
Speaker 1: I was thinking beforehand, saying that he should be like
31:44
Speaker 1: bi coastal, like he needs to find somebody who wants
31:47
Speaker 1: to live that life fully. Yeah, I mean, I came
31:51
Speaker 1: from a you know, a small town in the Midwest,
31:53
Speaker 1: and there are some tremendous people that come through and
31:58
Speaker 1: out of it. I'm sure there's somebody. I'm sure there's
32:01
Speaker 1: somebody for Chris Souls, but it hasn't happened yet, and
32:06
Speaker 1: it sounds like Victoria is like wanting to have city life,
32:10
Speaker 1: and it sounds like she's wanting to have single life too.
32:12
Speaker 1: I think she's just trying to have fun right now
32:14
Speaker 1: and he is not trying to have fun. That man
32:16
Speaker 1: is trying to settle down and have kids. Yeah, he
32:20
Speaker 1: he really desires it. Well, Actually, we're gonna switch gears
32:24
Speaker 1: a bit. Um, this is a really it feels like
32:28
Speaker 1: we've broached really difficult topics uh many times here and
32:34
Speaker 1: and in the last few months there's been some Bachelor
32:38
Speaker 1: Nation topics come through that. Again, we we state this,
32:41
Speaker 1: and it's true that move outside of the Bachelor world
32:46
Speaker 1: and defy those things and come face to face with
32:49
Speaker 1: reality and they sting in her and we feel them
32:52
Speaker 1: at a different level. This is definitely one of those.
32:57
Speaker 1: This topic that we're about to talk about is one
32:59
Speaker 1: that UM, quite honestly, we don't know any more about
33:05
Speaker 1: than what has been published. UM. We will talk through it,
33:10
Speaker 1: we will share some opinions, but for the most part,
33:14
Speaker 1: what we will report is exactly what has been reportedly
33:20
Speaker 1: because we don't have any insider knowledge, nor do we
33:24
Speaker 1: find it to be situation where we where we were
33:27
Speaker 1: going to reach out for insider knowledge, you know what
33:29
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, we weren't going to go to these
33:31
Speaker 1: sources and ask It is too delicate. It's a very
33:35
Speaker 1: delicate situation. So here's the headline. Bachelor Nations. Colton Underwood
33:41
Speaker 1: allegedly placed tracking device on Cassie's car, also claims harassing texts.
33:49
Speaker 1: If you don't know, Cassie Randolph last week submitted for
33:55
Speaker 1: a restraining order against Colton Underwood. They were dating. They
34:02
Speaker 1: had broken up a little bit over a month ago.
34:06
Speaker 1: We talked about through their breakup, how it was contentious.
34:10
Speaker 1: There was obviously public statements made AH from Cassie claiming
34:16
Speaker 1: that Colton was trying to monetize their breakup. Colton claimed
34:19
Speaker 1: that Cassie was speaking out about their breakup more than
34:24
Speaker 1: what they had agreed upon. They then unfollowed each other
34:27
Speaker 1: on Instagram. We talked about that two episodes ago. We
34:31
Speaker 1: were curious to why that had to happen and and
34:35
Speaker 1: what what brought it to that point, because ah, you know,
34:40
Speaker 1: typically that happens in breakups, but it waited, they waited
34:44
Speaker 1: a while to do it, and so we were just curious,
34:46
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of curiosity and intrigue around their
34:49
Speaker 1: breakup and why it happened in the way it did. Well,
34:53
Speaker 1: this to start to be completely transparent. And actually, I
34:59
Speaker 1: want to hear what you thought when I read this
35:02
Speaker 1: headline it was texted to me from a friend. It
35:05
Speaker 1: it stopped me, Like I even talking about it right now.
35:09
Speaker 1: My my hands are shaking, like it stopped me in
35:11
Speaker 1: my tracks. So what was what was your first thought?
35:18
Speaker 1: My first thought was why? Um, so, like what led?
35:21
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just probably as any person would, It's
35:23
Speaker 1: like what led Cassie to need to go to this link? Like,
35:28
Speaker 1: you know, if we just lay out the scenario here,
35:30
Speaker 1: Cassie understands. She's a very intelligent person. Um that she
35:36
Speaker 1: understands that this is a public relationship, that this will
35:39
Speaker 1: become a storyline. From everything we know of Cassie to
35:43
Speaker 1: this point, she doesn't love the spotlight. Like Cassie has
35:47
Speaker 1: been behind the scenes, has worked through schooling while they
35:52
Speaker 1: were together, you know, she we haven't heard a lot
35:56
Speaker 1: from Cassie other than social media, and so this for
36:00
Speaker 1: me was like, Okay, what I know of Cassie being
36:01
Speaker 1: around her and understanding kind of her public image. She
36:06
Speaker 1: fully knows that this will become a story. So there
36:09
Speaker 1: had to be a reason for, like a big reason
36:12
Speaker 1: why she was doing Okay, so you basically took the
36:13
Speaker 1: words right out of my mouth. It was the first
36:15
Speaker 1: thought I had to. I think that no part of
36:18
Speaker 1: her wants to make him upset, angry, uh, embarrassed. So
36:25
Speaker 1: I think that this was a a last dish dish
36:29
Speaker 1: effort on her part. I think like this was her
36:32
Speaker 1: like really taking a stand because I really truly don't
36:36
Speaker 1: think that she would want to do this. I think
36:39
Speaker 1: this is yeah right. So yeah, so from social media,
36:44
Speaker 1: uh and everything that we were able to gather, the
36:46
Speaker 1: fans opinion of this is both sided, right. Some people
36:50
Speaker 1: are protecting Colton, saying, you know that there are fans
36:53
Speaker 1: of him, that they've seen his true character, that there's
36:56
Speaker 1: no way he could do this, um. And then there's
36:59
Speaker 1: been you know, the other side saying, you know, Colton, uh,
37:03
Speaker 1: this is wildly outrageous. I cannot believe you would go
37:07
Speaker 1: to this extent um. So it feels like right now
37:11
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of fan reaction with the unknown
37:16
Speaker 1: and all we know to this point is that there
37:18
Speaker 1: was a restraining order that was submitted that it's pending
37:23
Speaker 1: right now the judges decision. But the claims are that
37:28
Speaker 1: Colton had been stalking Cassie, He had been harassing her
37:32
Speaker 1: with unsettling texts. This according the court documents, that he
37:36
Speaker 1: planted a tracking device to the bottom of the bumper
37:40
Speaker 1: to her car to keep her whereabouts, and that um,
37:47
Speaker 1: she claims he takes obsessive walks to her apartment complex
37:51
Speaker 1: and loitered in the alley outside her bedroom window at
37:54
Speaker 1: her parents Huntington's beach house at to a m. Now,
37:58
Speaker 1: this is all according to the court documents, and we
38:03
Speaker 1: should mention that Colton came out or his rep said
38:08
Speaker 1: that he was blindsided by this filing as they haven't
38:12
Speaker 1: spoken in a month and he's been in Colorado, so
38:16
Speaker 1: this all came as a surprise to him. Now, any
38:21
Speaker 1: time these stories come about, you know, you're the reaction
38:28
Speaker 1: is shocked, and then you have to process your opinion
38:32
Speaker 1: and the question becomes, you know what side do you
38:37
Speaker 1: fall on? And this right now, actually, quite honestly, I'm saying,
38:41
Speaker 1: if if this is true, if these claims are true, um,
38:47
Speaker 1: then this is a scenario where it's understandable that Cassie
38:50
Speaker 1: had to go to this extent and you have to
38:55
Speaker 1: be in a sense and at least we've learned here
38:58
Speaker 1: over the last few years, at least I've become more
39:00
Speaker 1: and more educated on this, Like the victim is one
39:05
Speaker 1: we need to listen to, we need to hear from.
39:08
Speaker 1: But for Colton to come out and say he was
39:10
Speaker 1: blindsiding and wait, he im I'm reading this, he wasn't
39:14
Speaker 1: the one that was blindsided. The insider says that he
39:18
Speaker 1: was blindsided. He also this insider also says things about
39:24
Speaker 1: Cassie being worried about losing her fan base if it
39:26
Speaker 1: didn't seem like they were coming across as friends, and
39:30
Speaker 1: it was her idea to put out the the look
39:33
Speaker 1: that they that they split amicably. I mean, so we
39:41
Speaker 1: sit here in this like limb both season. This is
39:45
Speaker 1: a shocking story and it's one that does take sensitivity
39:48
Speaker 1: because there's obviously pain that has been now communicated. Colton side,
39:54
Speaker 1: though has not came out and said this is untrue. Um,
39:59
Speaker 1: just just to know this has not been claimed to
40:01
Speaker 1: be untrue, but there has been a confusion. He was
40:05
Speaker 1: again blindsided. But a restraining order is pending. Ashley as
40:14
Speaker 1: a as a close uh person to the franchise and
40:20
Speaker 1: then to go beyond the franchise and just say, as
40:23
Speaker 1: a as a person reacting to this story, like, how
40:28
Speaker 1: does it make you feel? Weird? Yeah, it's fair weird
40:35
Speaker 1: because I truly like seeing them interact when I those
40:39
Speaker 1: times that I did, And you know, I wouldn't call
40:42
Speaker 1: Colton Cassie for friends. I call them quinns. That's what
40:45
Speaker 1: I use as the in between of friends and acquaintances.
40:50
Speaker 1: And I I am shocked because seeing how like friendly
40:56
Speaker 1: and Q and flirty and adorable they were, like a
40:59
Speaker 1: break up. Sure, I can see a breakup, but going
41:03
Speaker 1: from that to going to this just sounds it's just crazy.
41:07
Speaker 1: It's just crazy, unexpected, weird, um, unprocessable. Right. You know,
41:15
Speaker 1: you and I both have been around them. I've gotten
41:19
Speaker 1: to know Colton. Uh. It's kind of the situation where
41:24
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, so I can I can understand that
41:29
Speaker 1: things go on behind closed doors, right, but these this
41:32
Speaker 1: is one of the things where it's like WHOA lots
41:34
Speaker 1: of things apparently we're going on behind closed doors and
41:39
Speaker 1: Instagram filters and all that. It's hard, Like it's really
41:45
Speaker 1: hard to even comment because it's hard to comment because
41:50
Speaker 1: no matter what is said. It's it's still unproven, untrue.
41:54
Speaker 1: Yet the claims make us both you know, pull back
41:58
Speaker 1: and go wow, like this, this isn't good like this,
42:02
Speaker 1: you know, So you have the claims, and the claims
42:06
Speaker 1: are are scary, are worrisome. Um, they make sense to
42:11
Speaker 1: why you would file a restraining order. Yet we still
42:15
Speaker 1: and we've been you know, we've learned this lesson in
42:17
Speaker 1: our time on this podcast. If we jump to conclusions
42:21
Speaker 1: before anything's proven, then oftentimes there's mud on our face.
42:27
Speaker 1: You know. We we can't do that here, but what
42:31
Speaker 1: we can promise is we'll follow this story, but we
42:36
Speaker 1: gotta do it with the sensitivity that the situation needs.
42:40
Speaker 1: Like you you know, if if this is true, it's unsettling,
42:43
Speaker 1: it's it's worrisome, it's concerning, and it makes sense. If
42:46
Speaker 1: it's not true, then there is a support that needs
42:51
Speaker 1: to be given to both parties to help walk them
42:54
Speaker 1: through it. Now, I'm not gonna say they're gonna lean
42:56
Speaker 1: on the Almost fame as podcast for that support, but
42:59
Speaker 1: with our listen or base, like, there is an influence
43:02
Speaker 1: that we need to be mindful of. Yes, and I
43:06
Speaker 1: also think I should be I want to reiterate that, like, yeah,
43:10
Speaker 1: Ben and I like being insiders and getting you guys
43:12
Speaker 1: inside information, but this is just not one of those
43:15
Speaker 1: times we're going to like be priding ourselves on getting
43:18
Speaker 1: you insider information because it's just not worth it for
43:21
Speaker 1: us because we're too close to the source to close
43:24
Speaker 1: the source. Um yeah, wow, I don't know, Like you know,
43:32
Speaker 1: I've talked to friends in the franchise about this and
43:34
Speaker 1: friends of Colton about this, and um, it feels like
43:38
Speaker 1: every conversation that I have with people that know him well,
43:43
Speaker 1: it ends like this is ending with a I don't know,
43:47
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to do and I don't
43:49
Speaker 1: know how to respond. But I'm incredibly unsettled, Like I
43:55
Speaker 1: feel so weird, and I hate I hate I hate
44:05
Speaker 1: that this is something that we need to talk about
44:07
Speaker 1: before we know anymore. But it's important to do that
44:11
Speaker 1: because it's obviously been out everywhere this week. Um, And
44:16
Speaker 1: and maybe this is the best place to end this
44:18
Speaker 1: conversation is just saying the stories that had the Cassie
44:23
Speaker 1: Fowl to restraining order, that there's some concerning claims being
44:27
Speaker 1: made that we don't know if they're true or not,
44:30
Speaker 1: and that we will update you as things get updated
44:34
Speaker 1: to all of us. Uh. Yeah, maybe that's where this ends.
44:39
Speaker 1: All right, Well let's take a break now, alright, guys,
44:53
Speaker 1: before we leave you, I thought that we'd do some
44:55
Speaker 1: fun Twitter questions inside scoop that possibly only Bet and
45:00
Speaker 1: I would be able to answer for you. This is
45:02
Speaker 1: a good question. This is from Casey. She said, how's
45:06
Speaker 1: the casting process for Bachelor in Paradise slash Winter Games
45:10
Speaker 1: play out? I hear a lot about the casting for
45:13
Speaker 1: the main show, but not about cast returning for the
45:16
Speaker 1: spinoff shows. It's actually a great question. Um. The producers
45:21
Speaker 1: reach out to us and they ask if we want
45:24
Speaker 1: to go on. I mean, you probably had to make
45:29
Speaker 1: a splash of some sort on your past season to
45:32
Speaker 1: make it onto a spinoff, or you were somebody that
45:36
Speaker 1: the producers thought could make a good splash, thought would
45:39
Speaker 1: be an interesting character, and they want you to come
45:42
Speaker 1: back and show that off while you weren't given the
45:45
Speaker 1: opportunity on the main show. Then do you have anything
45:48
Speaker 1: else to add other than the fact that, like, they
45:50
Speaker 1: call you if they're interested. Some people some people actually
45:54
Speaker 1: kind of get I don't want to say screwed over,
45:56
Speaker 1: but you know what, I mean disappointed because they'll get
45:59
Speaker 1: in an I shall call and then a couple of
46:03
Speaker 1: weeks later they're a little bit ghosted. They don't hear
46:06
Speaker 1: from production and they just decided to go with somebody else.
46:09
Speaker 1: So that's always a bummer. Yeah, you just get a
46:12
Speaker 1: phone call. I mean I remember with Winter Games, the
46:14
Speaker 1: idea was exciting. It was a completely new show. Um,
46:19
Speaker 1: there was a lot of unknown about it, and so
46:21
Speaker 1: they just called and said, are you interested in doing this?
46:23
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, why not? And I was
46:25
Speaker 1: about as easy as it win. I don't know if
46:28
Speaker 1: it's like that for everybody, but I was pumped, like,
46:31
Speaker 1: of course, I'll come and ski down the mountain. For
46:34
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, I was just Um, I was
46:38
Speaker 1: reading your book and I was reading the story about
46:40
Speaker 1: the ski accident Brandon and thinking about how dangerous skiing
46:44
Speaker 1: can be, in how unbelievably unsafe it was that I
46:49
Speaker 1: went down an intermediate hill after four hours at anyway,
46:55
Speaker 1: next question, how, um, who picks the activity for days
47:01
Speaker 1: and who picks who is going to be going on
47:04
Speaker 1: the date? I think this is a battened question. Yeah,
47:07
Speaker 1: so this is always a good question and to answer
47:11
Speaker 1: it honestly. Um, at the beginning of the season, you
47:14
Speaker 1: sit down with production and you tell them all of
47:18
Speaker 1: your ideal dates. You kind of run through a list
47:21
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours on like this is what
47:22
Speaker 1: I love to do with my my, my people. Uh,
47:26
Speaker 1: and they go and they kind of make those things happen. Now,
47:29
Speaker 1: there's forty dates that happens from the start to the
47:31
Speaker 1: finish of a show, and uh, you there's no possible
47:36
Speaker 1: way a league can come up with forty different creative
47:38
Speaker 1: dates that will match the show. And so the show
47:43
Speaker 1: then takes your ideas and your personality and I think
47:47
Speaker 1: I really appreciate this. There's a whole date team that
47:50
Speaker 1: then kind of like personalizes and configures these dates, and
47:54
Speaker 1: then you are involved in learning about what the dates
47:58
Speaker 1: are going to be and how they're gonna match you. Now,
48:02
Speaker 1: as the season goes on, you really do get to
48:03
Speaker 1: pick who you take on these dates, but there's always
48:08
Speaker 1: the insight of the producers to say, hey, you just
48:11
Speaker 1: because it gets convoluted, like hey, you just took this
48:14
Speaker 1: person on a one on one last week, you can't
48:15
Speaker 1: take them on a one on one this week. Um,
48:18
Speaker 1: Or you know this girl has been on eight group
48:20
Speaker 1: dates straight, Like you sure you just want to take
48:22
Speaker 1: on another group date or is it time for you
48:23
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to her, because like you're obviously not
48:28
Speaker 1: wanting to spend one on one time with her, Like
48:29
Speaker 1: have you thought through that yet? They help navigate that
48:33
Speaker 1: so that you know there is a rhythm and a
48:36
Speaker 1: flow and a consistency and that no one person is
48:39
Speaker 1: getting messed over or no one person is getting too
48:41
Speaker 1: many one on ones, and so that's always kind of
48:44
Speaker 1: a navigating and a a piecing together of the process
48:48
Speaker 1: that is done. At least for me, I felt like
48:51
Speaker 1: we did as a team. We would sit down at
48:53
Speaker 1: dinner and we talked about the next day in the
48:56
Speaker 1: next two days and uh, and we'd kind of share
48:58
Speaker 1: what's coming up and who who who I was most
49:00
Speaker 1: intrigued by. And I think that's probably how it most
49:03
Speaker 1: works in most situations, as long as the lead has
49:06
Speaker 1: a good relationship with the show and that they're working together. Um.
49:11
Speaker 1: And there was moments that there was contention, Like there
49:13
Speaker 1: was moments where I was like, no, I want to
49:14
Speaker 1: take this person on one on one and they're like, hey,
49:15
Speaker 1: you just took her on three one on ones this year,
49:18
Speaker 1: like nobody else has even had Some people haven't had
49:20
Speaker 1: one yet. That's like what are you doing? And you
49:23
Speaker 1: have to you have to evaluate that and say, I
49:25
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing. Um, I really don't. I've
49:27
Speaker 1: never done this before. Interesting, So that's that's how it works.
49:31
Speaker 1: Are you able to buy additional clothing? Like if you
49:34
Speaker 1: end up going to a snowy location and you aren't prepared,
49:37
Speaker 1: so you get a packing list and it tells you
49:40
Speaker 1: in so many more words than than you need to
49:44
Speaker 1: literally pack for each occasion formal, casual, sporty, um, high end, fancy,
49:52
Speaker 1: and for each season, like they basically tell you in
49:57
Speaker 1: too many words to bring your entire all your favorite
50:01
Speaker 1: clothes for from each season. Um, I had everything that
50:06
Speaker 1: I probably would have needed. But I think if you
50:09
Speaker 1: do go on on a date like skiing or something
50:13
Speaker 1: like in the brutal cold, they're gonna set you up
50:17
Speaker 1: with a cute outfit. Like there's certain things that they
50:19
Speaker 1: provide for you, right, especially if it's a one on one,
50:21
Speaker 1: if it's a group date, depends, it depends on the activity.
50:25
Speaker 1: Like sometimes they just have everything they need for like
50:28
Speaker 1: a very specific type of date and then are you
50:31
Speaker 1: like able to go out and buy anything. We had
50:34
Speaker 1: one time in the time that I was there where
50:36
Speaker 1: we got to go to Target and that was really exciting.
50:39
Speaker 1: Just to run like an everyday errand with your new
50:41
Speaker 1: best friends was just really fun. And plus is the
50:44
Speaker 1: first time we were out in civilization for a month. Yeah,
50:49
Speaker 1: I went and bought new boots because somebody on production
50:53
Speaker 1: I had. I brought the boots for like I brought
50:56
Speaker 1: my clothes from my closet. I remember before I went
50:59
Speaker 1: to the Bachelor at my friends came over. We went
51:00
Speaker 1: through my whole closet. I tried on all these clothes.
51:02
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of girls over to help me
51:04
Speaker 1: pick them out, and uh, quite honestly, I just didn't
51:09
Speaker 1: have much of a fashion sense. I still I actually
51:11
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my clothes right now that I'm that
51:13
Speaker 1: are laying on the floor and I'm like, yeah, I
51:14
Speaker 1: still don't um, but I still struggle with that. But
51:21
Speaker 1: the producers at one point said, hey, your boots are
51:24
Speaker 1: like getting pretty worn. Um, let's go find your new
51:28
Speaker 1: pair of boots. And so we went out and got
51:30
Speaker 1: a new pair of boots. Uh. We were in Ireland
51:32
Speaker 1: at the time and you can see that. I'm like,
51:34
Speaker 1: I'm walking with confidence into my overnight with Caitlin with
51:37
Speaker 1: these new gray boots on, and they remember that outfit
51:40
Speaker 1: that was maybe your best off of the entire season. Yeah,
51:44
Speaker 1: and then actually you'll laugh at this. Uh. There's a
51:47
Speaker 1: producer on the show. His name's Todd and he's pretty
51:50
Speaker 1: high up now on the show. And he had this
51:52
Speaker 1: card again that was incredible and it had like the
51:57
Speaker 1: it was from Target. There's a great like little card again.
52:01
Speaker 1: And I was going on my date and I said, Todd,
52:04
Speaker 1: every time you wear that card again, I get like,
52:06
Speaker 1: I just look at you differently, like I like you more.
52:11
Speaker 1: And he's so snuggly, and he goes, well, you want
52:13
Speaker 1: to wear it? And so I actually wear his card
52:15
Speaker 1: again on a day. I took it off his body
52:17
Speaker 1: and put it on because I was like, I need
52:18
Speaker 1: I want to wear this. And then we have this
52:20
Speaker 1: little thing that any show I go on since then,
52:24
Speaker 1: any time I have any type of residual appearance, that
52:27
Speaker 1: cardigan will pop up. He'll bring it, I'll put it on.
52:30
Speaker 1: I love it. Todd is one of the most beloved
52:33
Speaker 1: people in my life. Okay, so that his nickname on
52:36
Speaker 1: the show is turned Yes. I also like think that
52:42
Speaker 1: was like Jared went, he didn't have a talks, so
52:45
Speaker 1: they gave him like a fairy fancy Hugo boss talks
52:48
Speaker 1: before his day with Kaitlin, Like those are the kind
52:50
Speaker 1: of special occasions where you get something um. And then
52:54
Speaker 1: the other question, very related is is there one stylist
52:57
Speaker 1: for the girls and the guys, Like is there did
52:59
Speaker 1: they share of stylis? And that is your your good
53:01
Speaker 1: friend Carrie, My I absolutely love Carrie. So Carrie is
53:06
Speaker 1: a stylist. He does the Bachelor and Bachelorette and Harrison,
53:09
Speaker 1: so his kind of he kind of leads the style
53:11
Speaker 1: of all three. So if you don't like the clothes,
53:13
Speaker 1: you can blame him. If you like the clothes, make
53:15
Speaker 1: sure you love on him. He has his own Instagram
53:18
Speaker 1: page that he kind of promotes the styles worn. But
53:22
Speaker 1: Carrie is just a tremendous human, loving and caring and
53:26
Speaker 1: sweet and sensitive, and he has no obligation to the
53:29
Speaker 1: production of the show, and so he was always like
53:32
Speaker 1: kind of my safe place. I would go to him
53:34
Speaker 1: and cry or go to him and yell and go
53:36
Speaker 1: to him and then he just put me in some
53:38
Speaker 1: clothes and tell me to buck buckle up and get
53:41
Speaker 1: out there. And I love Carrie. He has a huge
53:43
Speaker 1: place in my heart. I really really care about that man.
53:47
Speaker 1: Next question, last question is what's what's in the Bachelor
53:51
Speaker 1: fridge and pantry? So they have these huge jars of
53:57
Speaker 1: oreos and peanut eminem's, and I think that itself gains
54:02
Speaker 1: you like the Bachelor ten you just grab them any
54:06
Speaker 1: time of day that you're feeling bored, and there is
54:08
Speaker 1: a lot of downtime, especially when you're on like one
54:11
Speaker 1: of the main shows. And then in the fridge you
54:15
Speaker 1: can request anything. Somebody goes to the grocery store like
54:17
Speaker 1: once every three days and you can it's stocked. It's
54:23
Speaker 1: really got everything you'd ever imagine eating. Do you think
54:26
Speaker 1: that's changed due to COVID? Oh? Yeah, they probably don't
54:31
Speaker 1: have a communal kitchen. They probably just have like a
54:34
Speaker 1: buffet of meals, right or like, actually, so sad, having
54:37
Speaker 1: been down there, I can say that I don't even
54:40
Speaker 1: think they would have a buffet style. I think they
54:42
Speaker 1: probably have like wrapped meals that they order every throughout
54:46
Speaker 1: the day. One of my favorite things about the show
54:48
Speaker 1: is when you are on a date, and everybody's sitting
54:51
Speaker 1: in a room and like you pull out the Oreo
54:53
Speaker 1: jar and you pull out the eminem jar and everybody
54:55
Speaker 1: just like sits and talks and eats all day. It's fantastic,
55:00
Speaker 1: So good, so good. Any more questions? As No, that's it,
55:05
Speaker 1: but you guys tweet me your questions more often. It's fun.
55:08
Speaker 1: We would like to wrap up each podcast with some
55:11
Speaker 1: questions like those. It's always ideal. Well, Ashley, Uh, it's
55:16
Speaker 1: another great week. We will be back next week with
55:20
Speaker 1: an episode of In Depth with Jason Tartik. Yes, I
55:24
Speaker 1: think it's gonna air on Thursday. It's Uh, it's gonna
55:28
Speaker 1: be fantastic, and we'll dive into a lot of the
55:30
Speaker 1: things surrounding Bachelor Nation right now and his relationship with
55:33
Speaker 1: Caitlin and how excited he is, but also what Jason's
55:37
Speaker 1: up to in life. I know Jason's up to a bunch.
55:39
Speaker 1: We want to hear from him. And so yeah, as
55:41
Speaker 1: actually mentioned, if you have any questions for Jason, feel
55:44
Speaker 1: free to tweeter we will we will get to them
55:47
Speaker 1: in the In Depth podcast and uh, and then also
55:49
Speaker 1: tune in next week for another regular episode of The
55:52
Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast. We're getting closer and closer to the
55:56
Speaker 1: premiere of this season's Bachelorette. We will start talking to
56:00
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56:03
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