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Almost Famous In Depth: Clare Crawley Part 2 · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Almost Famous listeners, Welcome back to part two of
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  Speaker 2: our interview with Claire Crawley. We wanted to have an
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  Speaker 2: episode dedicated just to talking about her future daughter. Make
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  Speaker 2: sure if you haven't already listened to part one, it'll
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  Speaker 2: give you a lot of context for what has led
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  Speaker 2: Claire and Ryan to this point in their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is now going to be a girl dad of three?
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  Speaker 1: Right or right? He has two girls right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be a girl dad of three. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know Ryan, Well, I know my buddies. Well, I know
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  Speaker 1: my buddies well who have two girls? There was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hope for a boy. Was he hoping for
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  Speaker 1: a boy?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 1: Is he really just happy to be a girl dad
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  Speaker 1: of three? Is he like? Walk us through what Ryan
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  Speaker 1: looks like as a girl dad?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, So I'll give you a little insight on
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  Speaker 3: the IVF process. And as we went through IVF. In
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  Speaker 3: IVF and when you're making embryos, you get the option
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  Speaker 3: to know, because you create embryos the sex of the babies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And knowing that that was going to be an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: or an option. I asked Ryan, And when we were
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  Speaker 3: talking about it one night, I was like, would you
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  Speaker 3: like a boy because you do have never had a boy,
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  Speaker 3: or would you like a girl?
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  Speaker 4: If we should? I really want He.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, well what do you want? And I said,
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  Speaker 3: I just want a baby. I'm happy with a baby.
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  Speaker 4: But Claire, you know you wanted to be a girl mom.
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  Speaker 3: Well now you know what you said it literally you
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  Speaker 3: said it best. Ashley. That like makes me cry because
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I was meant to be a girl mom.
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  Speaker 4: I was meant to be.
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  Speaker 3: A girl mom. But Ryan said the same thing. He
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  Speaker 3: was like, if we could choose, I love my girls.
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  Speaker 3: I love being a girl dad. I love of every
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  Speaker 3: single thing that comes along with being a girl dad,
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  Speaker 3: and I know how to do it. I would love
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  Speaker 3: another girl. We ultimately came to the decision obviously we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to choose, we just want. So we did
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  Speaker 3: not choose the sex of our baby.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna ask you if I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 2: there was two personal When when you cut that cake,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's gonna be pank, duh.
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  Speaker 4: She's definitely getting a girl.
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  Speaker 2: In my head, I was like, and if they went
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  Speaker 2: through the whole process like she got to pick so,
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  Speaker 2: but you didn't pick.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't know it would be personal, like I
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  Speaker 1: would have just has to hear as a follow up.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you saved me from embarrassing myself. Claire
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  Speaker 1: things one step.
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  Speaker 3: Further and tell you, guys, so the funny thing this is,
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  Speaker 3: this is one of my favorite parts of this story.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you a two part you guys, But basically,
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  Speaker 3: as you do get to choose the sex, I was
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  Speaker 3: we were literally on the phone with doctor Amy and
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  Speaker 3: she's our embryo. I don't know what you but would
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  Speaker 3: you use the egg whisper?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yea doctor. She's amazing. She's actually ten minutes from our house.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we're on the phone and it was time for
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  Speaker 3: the embryos. We were seeing which what grew, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how it all was playing out, and she said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is her last option because we'd already told her
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to find out the sex of the baby.
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  Speaker 3: You choose the healthiest embryo if one grew and became healthy.
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  Speaker 3: And she said, okay, do you want to know those
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  Speaker 3: sex of the baby or do you want to choose
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  Speaker 3: the sex of the baby, and we said, we still
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  Speaker 3: want to stick by it. I mean, obviously it was
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  Speaker 3: dying to know by it. Please just as long as
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  Speaker 3: long as the health there's it's a healthy baby, we're happy.
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  Speaker 3: And she said, okay, because I will let you know.
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  Speaker 3: You actually do not get to choose the sex of
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  Speaker 3: the baby. They're all the same. There was.
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  Speaker 4: It was gonna be a girl.
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  Speaker 2: The whole time, but you still didn't know until you
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  Speaker 2: cut the cake. That was a true gender review.
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  Speaker 3: We told we knew, we knew before we cut the cake.
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  Speaker 3: That was just way because I am.
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  Speaker 4: Just your Instagram, Yeah, that would I.
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  Speaker 3: To share with you guys because I knew. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: go on social for a minute because I was like,
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  Speaker 3: if I even say anything about the baby, I'm gonna say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like I about to give it away before we could
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  Speaker 3: share with everybody. But it's just cool because literally, for
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  Speaker 3: ten years, probably more than that, I've shared with my
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  Speaker 3: friends and family, I've had so many dreams of my baby,
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  Speaker 3: going to the hospital to pick up my baby girl,
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  Speaker 3: and it's crazy how life has played out. Because that
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  Speaker 3: is what is going to happen. I'm not carrying her
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  Speaker 3: in my dreams, I'm not pregnant in my dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I was always grew.
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  Speaker 3: Up at the hospital. Yeah, and it was a little girl.
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  Speaker 3: And I just like, this makes me so happy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Clear, that's really wildly, really incredible. Is that you had
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  Speaker 1: dreams that, like, you've never had dreams that you're pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: but you had dreams of picking up your little girl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it was always different dreams of like she's
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  Speaker 3: she's here, and I would always be like, oh God,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have her Carsia yet, I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: am I going to bring her home? And we don't
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  Speaker 3: have her Carci yet or what do we name her? Like,
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  Speaker 3: it was always dreams, different dreams all the time. But
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  Speaker 3: it was always going to pick her up at the
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  Speaker 3: hospital and she's here and I'm not ready for it,
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  Speaker 3: or she's here and I'm finally ready, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: just a variety of different dreams.
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  Speaker 1: But it was.
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  Speaker 3: Always a little girl that we were going to pick up.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, I never have had dreams of
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  Speaker 3: being pregnant ever.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that I've talked to you know, you
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  Speaker 2: a little bit before we got on the mic, and
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  Speaker 2: you told me that the whole process will be documented
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  Speaker 2: and we will be able to know it all at
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  Speaker 2: a certain point. So there's certain details that we can't
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  Speaker 2: go into during this interview. But I do want to
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  Speaker 2: ask you one thing that I think you might be
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  Speaker 2: able to respond to because you alluded to it earlier.
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  Speaker 2: You said that you were going through the IVF process.
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  Speaker 2: Was that you just harvesting the eggs or was that
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  Speaker 2: you trying to get pregnant yourself?
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  Speaker 3: So with me, it's a little different, and I know
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  Speaker 3: everybody's story is very, very different and no two stories
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  Speaker 3: are the same. For me, it was I'll tell you this,
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  Speaker 3: I started the egg process prior to even knowing Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: I am the person that I know. You guys know this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very very proactive with my health and I had
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  Speaker 3: started back prior to right. I will say you can
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  Speaker 3: do the math and the timeline on this. It was
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  Speaker 3: late twenty twenty early twenty twenty one that I had
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  Speaker 3: started the process of going and testing my eggs, seeing
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  Speaker 3: if I have you know, FOLLA goals, and seeing what
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  Speaker 3: I'm working with because there's so many things that back
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  Speaker 3: her into it, my age, my health, after my breast.
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  Speaker 3: So when I started going into doctor Amy, my breast
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  Speaker 3: implants were still in and I was deeply, deeply suffering
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  Speaker 3: with so much inflammation in my body, and my body
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  Speaker 3: was fighting off so many infections because of the implants.
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  Speaker 3: So going into doctor Amy, it was not looking good.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why she was like, you need to stay
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  Speaker 3: coming to me if if whatever this looks like, however
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  Speaker 3: this plays out, if you want to be a mother,
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  Speaker 3: I will help you become a mother. And I trusted
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  Speaker 3: her ever since then. And so I knew going into
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  Speaker 3: my relationship with Ryan what the circumstances were, and I
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  Speaker 3: had done everything to prepare up until that. Even even
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  Speaker 3: when Ryan and I were together, I didn't know in
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  Speaker 3: the very beginning if he wanted another baby, wanted a
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  Speaker 3: baby his own. Prior to Ryan, I had an after
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  Speaker 3: my last relationship. Actually, in my last relationship, I was
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  Speaker 3: going through all my appointments with doctor Amy alone. If
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  Speaker 3: that shows you what kind of kind of relationship I
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  Speaker 3: was in. I was going through the testing, all the
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  Speaker 3: blood work, everything alone. Even though I was in a relationship,
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  Speaker 3: I was going through it alone. So then when that
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  Speaker 3: relationship ended, I still was still going through that the
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  Speaker 3: all the and testing and follicle, all all the blood work,
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  Speaker 3: everything I was going through all that, and to me,
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  Speaker 3: I had gone into the relationship with Brian knowing what
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  Speaker 3: my circumstances were and knowing what the odds were with
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  Speaker 3: what I was working with. So I remember on one
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  Speaker 3: of my first dates with Ryan, I was like, even
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  Speaker 3: if we're just friends. We were at a baseball game
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, even if we end up just
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  Speaker 3: as friends and I adopt a baby, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have my own baby, or would you you know,
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  Speaker 3: want to hang out with me even if I had
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  Speaker 3: my own baby, because I promised myself after my last relationship,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I will never let any man determine
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  Speaker 3: my life goals, or like how I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: put my life on hold for any man anymore. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: that looks like so long winded.
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  Speaker 4: But no love it at all. Thank you for sharing
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  Speaker 4: all that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's it's been a lot and I've
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  Speaker 3: been somebody who is proactive with my health and so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of things that were working against me.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't really like the term infertile or infertility.
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  Speaker 3: Like doctor Amy says, if you want to be a mother,
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  Speaker 3: it might look different, but you can become a mother
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  Speaker 3: in many different ways.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Sarah Herron is also working with the Whisper, and
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  Speaker 2: she obviously had a tragic loss about six months ago.
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  Speaker 4: What's your relationship with Sarah like?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know you guys are friendly, but do you
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  Speaker 2: have any sort of connection through doctor?
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  Speaker 4: Through your doctor?
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  Speaker 3: I love Sarah. I absolutely love Sarah. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: she's she's in a different place than I am right now,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's I love her and I support
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  Speaker 3: her deeply and knowing what she's gone through and knowing
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  Speaker 3: what not even just her, but so many, so many
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  Speaker 3: women go through to try to be a mom. It's
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  Speaker 3: not easy and it's not something unless you go through
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  Speaker 3: it you completely understand, just like I don't understand her
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  Speaker 3: experience with loss, but doesn't mean my heart isn't deeply
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  Speaker 3: with her. And I know the process of wanting a
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  Speaker 3: baby and hoping for a baby and not having the
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  Speaker 3: odds in your favor. I know that feeling. I have
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  Speaker 3: had that, so it's not an easy thing to go
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  Speaker 3: through and I just I support her always.
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  Speaker 2: So I've just been rooting for her to be a mom,
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  Speaker 2: and I like told my mom as soon as you
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  Speaker 2: posted that Instagram, I call her.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, mom, Claire's having a baby. She's like yay.
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  Speaker 2: So like I don't know, it's just like something like
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  Speaker 2: of everybody that I know that I really want to
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  Speaker 2: be a mother, one day it was Claire's at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the list, why do you think you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a great mom?
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  Speaker 3: Because I just it's everything I've ever wanted. I know
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  Speaker 3: everybody has always made fun of me for being like
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  Speaker 3: babies for so long. I just I love the innocence
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  Speaker 3: of children. I love how I just I've always loved children.
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  Speaker 3: When I was younger, I was a nanny and a babysitter,
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  Speaker 3: and I think I've been babysitting since I was twelve,
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  Speaker 3: and like, who lets the twelve year old baby sit?
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  Speaker 3: But I've just always loved becrown children. I have eleven
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  Speaker 3: nieces and nephews, and for me, the childhood innocence is
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  Speaker 3: just so beautiful. And I was blessed with two amazing
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  Speaker 3: parents that just I don't know. I think having amazing
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  Speaker 3: parents and being blessed with that, and just I want
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  Speaker 3: that opportunity. I've always wanted that opportunity to be able
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  Speaker 3: to instill my strengths and my beliefs and share with
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  Speaker 3: them that and raise them. I don't know everything that
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  Speaker 3: I've been raised with. And as far as love, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's something beautiful and I don't know. I've just
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  Speaker 3: always wanted it and have not, like I couldn't. It's
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  Speaker 3: weird to say this, like I could never wait to
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  Speaker 3: be a moment. I'm so excited. Always wanted it, but
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  Speaker 3: I knew what happened when the time was right, and
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  Speaker 3: it was never right until now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is gonna be one very lucky baby to
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  Speaker 2: have you two as parents. Now, you come from a
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  Speaker 2: very family of a lot of girls. Yeah, you have
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  Speaker 2: a girl name picked out out?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I think so. I will never tell
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  Speaker 3: anybody what it is, Yeah, but I do. We do
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  Speaker 3: have I there's one that we absolutely love and one
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  Speaker 3: of Ryan it's it's not a common name, and one
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  Speaker 3: of Ryan's daughters. Actually, we were letting them throw out
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  Speaker 3: names of like what they love and they're so excited
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  Speaker 3: to be big sisters and so they're always talked about
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  Speaker 3: names and what about this and what about that? And
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  Speaker 3: it was funny because they each have very different personalities.
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  Speaker 3: His daughters have very different personalities, and they kind of
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  Speaker 3: like I want this name. No, I want this name,
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  Speaker 3: and we're just always like that sounds great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: those are really great names. We have really great ideas.
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  Speaker 3: But one of them said one name, and the other
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  Speaker 3: was like, I love that name, and it was the
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  Speaker 3: name that Ryan and I have always loved. No right
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  Speaker 3: when they said that, right and I looked at each
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  Speaker 3: other and I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Yeah, Wow, that's so special.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Claire, this this has just been so
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  Speaker 2: nice to hear from you, and you're just always so
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable and emotional and it makes for just.
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  Speaker 4: A great communication.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Claire, you're a good communicator.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, she sure is. You should never have a
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  Speaker 4: doubt about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you might have doubted in your life, but we
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  Speaker 1: think here at the Almost Famous Podcast, you're a good
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  Speaker 1: communicator and we appreciate you for doing that. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys for having me. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: a third host at this point. I've been on so much,
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  Speaker 3: but I just love hanging out with you guys and
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  Speaker 3: chatting with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: You're definitely one of our most frequent DID guests, and
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  Speaker 2: it's because you are such a good just like a
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  Speaker 2: good person to hear from.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make it the last time. Come back once this
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  Speaker 1: baby's in the world and chat with us about all
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  Speaker 1: the things motherhood. And we can't wait to keep in
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  Speaker 1: touch with you. We wish you the best. We're super
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  Speaker 1: happy for you and Ryan and the whole family wish
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  Speaker 1: him the best. Thank you once.
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  Speaker 5: Again, will do I love you, guys, and thank you,
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  Speaker 5: love you, Love you, So Ashley, big things happen this
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  Speaker 5: week to me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I am at my brother in law and sister
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  Speaker 1: in law's baby shower. Okay, and I get a FaceTime
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  Speaker 1: from Bennett, the executive producer of the Bachelor, And you
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  Speaker 1: know what.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking, We love Bennett.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking, goodness, gracious, it's the time you're gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: I freak out. I leave the room, I sit down
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  Speaker 1: in bed, take a deep breath. Answer the FaceTime. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: whose face it is, Well, it's Bennett's. No, it's Gary
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Bachelor.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm thinking he's gonna personally ask.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm thinking, holy holy cow, this is the best.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm like hello, Gary, and he goes, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I know you just like any sweet old man says
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  Speaker 1: and does. And I said, I know you too, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, your face is everywhere right now. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: this is our exact conversation. He goes, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Gosh, dang it. He goes, I was in Worsaw,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana last week, and I said, we.
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  Speaker 2: Really gay, oh boy, of all places in the whole country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, we're you really Gary. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing Warsaw? He said, I was at
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  Speaker 1: stone Ine Country Club, which is my course that I
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  Speaker 1: grew up on, because I was playing golf. And he goes,
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  Speaker 1: you know what happened? I said, I don't. Gary. He said,
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  Speaker 1: someone recognized me and I said yeah, and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they recognize me. And I said, well, Gary,
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  Speaker 1: you are the Golden Bachelor that is commercial has aired
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  Speaker 1: on national television America. Such you might want to start
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  Speaker 1: getting used to this. This could be your new normal
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  Speaker 1: for a while. And he goes I and I said,
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  Speaker 1: but you're gonna do great.
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  Speaker 4: He goes, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I'm the most popular person on my lake.
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  Speaker 1: Now he goes, people are pulling around pointing out my house,
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  Speaker 1: stopping by to say hi. On the pontoons. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I feel I feel like a celebrity, said well, Gary
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  Speaker 1: kind of are so you should?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, sounds like a grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: Oh like the sweetest, the best, and he's so he's
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  Speaker 1: so excited. So so at this point, I'm going, can
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  Speaker 1: we get to the point, Gary?
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  Speaker 4: Can you can you? Can you ask me?
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  Speaker 1: It would be nice if you just like, you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: asked me out, asked me to come hang out. And
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I said, how are the guy's treating out there? And
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: he said this, And this is when Jessica walks into
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the room. And Jessica has an infatuation with Grandpa. She
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: like loves her grandparents so much and just really loves
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: talking to Grandpa's especially because she had such a good
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: like they had such a good influence in her life.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And so she walks in. Here's Gary say this. He goes, well, Ben,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: they're feeding and watering me really well like, and he's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: he's sitting there eating like he's eating like a plate
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: of dinner and has like a cocktail next to him.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, this dude is about to live his
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: best life. He has no clue what's about ahead of him.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: He's gonna have a blast.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He hadn't started shooting yet, right, has not started shooting
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: yet at this point. Okay, yeah, he's just He's like, Wow,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I am getting the royal treatment right now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: These people are being so nice to me. My little
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: every ask is being tended to.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then he says, Okay, nice to meet you, Ben,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and that's into the conversation.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Too funny. And then you talked to Bennett and nothing, no,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: just we just hung up, so weird your ear.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Whole journey with the Golden Bachelor has been something.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I did say hi to Bennett on the phone. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: did kind of like move the phone at one point
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and said hi, and he said uh. He said he
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: was excited to see how I could be a part
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: of the show, but then never one. He hasn't gone
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: any farther than that. That was about two weeks ago,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so I'm still not holding my breath. Anyways. The point
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of the story actually is I am excited to see
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Gary's journey. I think he is a very sweet person.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I think it is going to be more than ever
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: an incredible experience to watch on television. I think Gary
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: is in for the time of his life. But also
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: one of I will say this. Gary is not ready.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: For well, he's not. He seems very nice.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not ready if he can be recognized in
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a town of forty five hundred people at the one
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: golf course in town, that he knew I've been a
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: member at my whole life, and that he was shocked
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: by that, Like there's a poster of me in that clubhouse.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Like if he's shocked that somebody there knew of him,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that poor man, he's gonna have a wild experience. But
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I can't wait for him. I think it's gonna be
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a great show. I think he's gonna do great. But
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that was my big story. He gets talking to Gary
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and uh, and that's where it ended. Have you just
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: found out how he got plucked from obscurity?
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: No?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I haven't yet. Actually, Uh, we're.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Going to figure out who found him.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's my story to tell anymore.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: All Right, Yeah, we have a big announcement here with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Nick Vile. How about you break it down?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: All right, let's do it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So Nick and Natalie are pregnant. This has been Uh,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: it's a dream. It is a dream for Nick. I have,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: like Claire, I've been saying that Nick needs to be
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a dad.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: He's gonna be.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: The best dad. Oh my gosh. I remember even like
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: two years ago, him saying something along the lines of like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: whether we're married first or we have a baby first,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I'm cool either way. You know. Hit babies have been
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: on his mind even before the wedding, So I was
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: not shocked when they texted us a few weeks ago
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: saying that the baby is on the way. Very happy
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: for them, the baby's gonna get here. I actually I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: not going to reveal anything, to be honest, I know
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: a few things that is that they're not putting out
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: there yet. They posted just a joint picture to Instagram
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: beautiful photos, one of the two of them Natalie's bump
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: showing one sonogram, and then one of just their hands
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: on her belly, and it's just beautiful and the caption reads,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: our biggest dream Come true. I will let Nick and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Natalie do the announcing of all the details themselves. I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: sure it will be out on Nick's podcast any moment now, honestly,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: but they are going to be great parents. Lucky lucky
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: baby come in our ways. For Claire and for Nick.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: This has been another episode of almost Famous podcast. Thank
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you to clar for coming on Huge News, Congratulations to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Nick Vile and Natalie on their recent announcement, and also
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: we wish Gary still the best. He's a good dude. Anyways,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: until next time, I've Been Ben, I've Been Ashley. HI
• 22:14
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• 22:16
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