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S3 #12 The Host with the Most... Gossip · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ready. This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous
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  Speaker 1: podcast with our radio. The announcement is true. This is
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  Speaker 1: the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast. I'm Ben,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ashley. We might have the most specialist guests I
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  Speaker 1: think is all time coming on the podcast today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not only do we have a good um, who the
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  Speaker 1: heck are you, but actually give our listeners a little
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  Speaker 1: tease or a little taste of who we have coming
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  Speaker 1: up on our first segment. I thought this man didn't
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  Speaker 1: like me for a while, and then I realized he doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know and then he Then I realized he's
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  Speaker 1: just really snarky and he has like he's just he's
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  Speaker 1: so much different off screen than he is on screen
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  Speaker 1: because he has to be so put together on screen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Like he just he has his classic lines.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to be the leader in love, the mentor
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  Speaker 1: the leader of love. We gotta ask him if he
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  Speaker 1: likes you though, I'm really I know he does now
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  Speaker 1: know he does the picture with me. This man is
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  Speaker 1: um the definition of professionalism, of friendship. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: him all the time. Our our producer Amy has a
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  Speaker 1: special place in her heart for him. Um my friend
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  Speaker 1: man I look up to very much. Chris Harrison, the
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  Speaker 1: host of the Bachelor, is coming on the podcast today.
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  Speaker 1: Well I want right now, Chris, Welcome to the almost
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  Speaker 1: famous podcast. Guys. How are you doing? Um? This is
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  Speaker 1: our turn to be the host of you. This is fun,
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  Speaker 1: I feel. Let me tell you something. Getting me on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast, it's like you might as well see a
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  Speaker 1: unicorn flying over a rain. Are we your first podcast?
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  Speaker 1: This is how much I love you guys. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: see I told you he doesn't like me. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: know the jury was out on Ashley for a while
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  Speaker 1: because I just did. And I just remember during Crystal
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  Speaker 1: season you wrote like, what is it your Yahoo reviews
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  Speaker 1: of each episode? Well, here's the thing. Uh, you were
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  Speaker 1: always good TV, which is good for me and my kids. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So bottom line is you're putting my kids through college.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what I That's really what I care about. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to know you that well obviously, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Even in Ben's first season when he was you know,
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  Speaker 1: just on the batch, right, I didn't really get to
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  Speaker 1: know him that well. But then he became the Bachelor,
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  Speaker 1: we became friends. I got to know the other side
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  Speaker 1: of him. You it took a little longer. We just
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to spend much time together. That's something obviously
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  Speaker 1: I do on purpose. I don't spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time with the women just you know, it's smart, it's
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  Speaker 1: just politically I don't do that. M But then, now
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  Speaker 1: that I've gotten to know you after the show, you're
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  Speaker 1: a lovely person. Thank you. Um, you're You're a lovely person.
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  Speaker 1: We've gotten to know each other very well. And I
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  Speaker 1: like the crying. I like that you are who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Chris, And I'm so glad and I can help
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  Speaker 1: you and your kids out. Yeah. Hey, hey, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. Private school and college does not pay
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  Speaker 1: for itself. Hey, Chris, you need some Ashley eyes in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I was just gonna say that you need
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  Speaker 1: a couple of people like Ashley to make this thing popular.
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  Speaker 1: But you've been around since beginning. Um, the Bachelor is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of time. The Bachelor's as popular as it's
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  Speaker 1: ever been. You've seen the growth, You've been through the
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs of everything. In your opinion, where does
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelor stand today? Just in terms of popularity and
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  Speaker 1: its health and it's it's vibrancy, oddly so here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, back in the day when there was you know,
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  Speaker 1: black and white TV and there was like four channels
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  Speaker 1: to choose from, the numbers were obviously bigger. The ratings, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the second season Aaron Bergie season, I think
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  Speaker 1: we wrapped up with say, thirty three million viewers. It
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  Speaker 1: was insane, the number one show on TV, and was
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  Speaker 1: was really changing television. This is um, this is before
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  Speaker 1: Idol and before a lot of the other shows served.
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  Speaker 1: Iver was on one season and then the Baxtlor came on,
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  Speaker 1: and so it was a huge phenomenon and it was
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  Speaker 1: changing my life and changing television. A lot of things
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  Speaker 1: were happening. But I would argue it's more socially relevant
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  Speaker 1: now than it's ever been. Um. You know, whether you
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  Speaker 1: go on the campus of of u c l A,
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  Speaker 1: where I'm actually speaking tonight, you go into every sorority
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  Speaker 1: house around the country, and it is a huge socially
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  Speaker 1: relevant show. And that's a large part of that is
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  Speaker 1: because social relevance has changed. In sixteen years. There was
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as a podcast or a blog or
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  Speaker 1: obviously Twitter, Instagram, any of that stuff. When we started,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have to worry about it, and now it's
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  Speaker 1: evolved into a show that is, you know, perfect for
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  Speaker 1: what social media is these days. Exactly right, It's it's Chris.
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  Speaker 1: I've always wondered this, and I've never got to ask
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  Speaker 1: you one on one about this, and someone asked on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. So you're held accountable your life. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you became the host of The Bachelor, you obviously
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  Speaker 1: believed in the show because you would have accepted the job,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody could have predicted twenty two
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  Speaker 1: seasons of success. So your life has as actually kind
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  Speaker 1: of said at the beginning of the podcast, you are
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  Speaker 1: now seen as the master of love. Do you accept
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  Speaker 1: that role? Is that a role that you are a
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  Speaker 1: little bit sad to have obtained because you have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about The Bachelor and love all the time? Or
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  Speaker 1: is this show just such a part of your life
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  Speaker 1: now that you feel very connected to it. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: definitely the latter at the end of the day. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a good ques. It's a very good question because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't fight it, but I was a little reluctant
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  Speaker 1: to embrace it early on, because you know, I I
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  Speaker 1: knew my life had changed, and I knew this show
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  Speaker 1: had changed my life and it was a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So for that reason, I will never you know, bite
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  Speaker 1: the hand that feeds me. And this is my baby
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  Speaker 1: and it has been, and um, I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: as much mine as it is anybody's, including Mike Flice,
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  Speaker 1: the creator of the show, because I've put my heart
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  Speaker 1: and soul in it. My kids have grown up on
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  Speaker 1: this show. Um. You know, my son was six weeks
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  Speaker 1: old when I started this, just born, and he's now
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  Speaker 1: a sophomore in high school. So if you wonder how
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  Speaker 1: old the show is, it's driving now and in high school.
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  Speaker 1: And when people ask me about things that I really
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  Speaker 1: remember about the show, it's very interesting, particular things that
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  Speaker 1: actually revolve around my personal life. It's not about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the tryst and Ryan wedding, and you know, there's there's
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  Speaker 1: highlights on TV, but then there's highlights in my life
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  Speaker 1: where I remember the first time I met Mike Flie
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  Speaker 1: and I had just you know, had been up all
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  Speaker 1: night and Joshua had been thrown up on me, and
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  Speaker 1: I went in for my first meeting and I remember
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  Speaker 1: having to shoot Meredith Finale a little early because my
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  Speaker 1: then wife was in labor and so we we taped
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  Speaker 1: up the windows and so we had to shoot early
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  Speaker 1: just in case I had a baby that night. So
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  Speaker 1: there's moments like that that where this show is revolved
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  Speaker 1: around kind of the most influential, important parts of my life,
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  Speaker 1: and um, you know that'll that'll you can't take that
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  Speaker 1: history away. And now that I've seen also what the
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  Speaker 1: show has done and the impact it's had in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, again, I don't want to get too
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  Speaker 1: deep and too philosophical about it, but when you see
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  Speaker 1: the impact it's had, you know, I definitely embrace it.
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  Speaker 1: I love what the show has done. I love what
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  Speaker 1: it brings. I love when I go to a you know,
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  Speaker 1: my kids school and someone will come up and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I never talked to my mom except
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday mornings. We always talk about The Bachelor. And
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  Speaker 1: so if nothing else about our stilly show that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been a huge part of, we do we
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  Speaker 1: bring people together, and you guys see that as much
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  Speaker 1: as I do. When people will come up and just
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about it, and you would think, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it gets annoying because all I do is
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  Speaker 1: talk about Ashley and Ben and Tristan Ryan and those
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  Speaker 1: people in my life. But the good news is they
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  Speaker 1: are real people. You know, I really get to do
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  Speaker 1: talk about Ben and what a great guy is or
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  Speaker 1: Ashley and does she really cry that much? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's people typically I love, and even if I
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  Speaker 1: don't love, I don't mind talking about because at least
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  Speaker 1: it's real. Um. I have good friends, as you guys
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  Speaker 1: probably do that our actors, and I can't imagine what
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  Speaker 1: they go through when they walked through the market and
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  Speaker 1: someone gets mad at him for something they did on
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  Speaker 1: an episode and I'm like, you realize that's not them, right,
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  Speaker 1: like that was that was written. They really didn't kill
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  Speaker 1: that person that was on TV. And so at least
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  Speaker 1: I get to talk about something real that's true. And
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  Speaker 1: and your your weddings, those are real. You've officiated so
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  Speaker 1: many weddings. What's the number now? Uh? What am I
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  Speaker 1: up to? Six? Seven eight? Because I've done you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've done some other private ones now for family and friends,
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  Speaker 1: and um. It actually started oddly enough, in a very
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  Speaker 1: weird way. Um. I was in Prague on Emily Maynard season.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the middle of my divorce. In one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst possible moments of my life. And it
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  Speaker 1: was still very private, and I called the producers together
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  Speaker 1: because I wanted them to know I was releasing this statement.
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  Speaker 1: It was about to go public. It had been real
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  Speaker 1: for a while, but I just I kept it very
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  Speaker 1: secret because I didn't want my kids lives affected. And
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  Speaker 1: so I waited and I called the producers together and said, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I just want you to know this is coming out
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  Speaker 1: next week. And they said, oh, so here's the thing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were kind of hoping you would marry us. We
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  Speaker 1: have a wedding coming up. And this was two of
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  Speaker 1: our executive producers that were asking me to say, were
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  Speaker 1: news of my life and you want me to marry you?
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  Speaker 1: And so I said yes, of course. Um, but that's
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  Speaker 1: how I started. That's when I got ordained. Was for
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  Speaker 1: two producers, Cassie and Pete. You guys, did you all
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  Speaker 1: even know them? Oh my gosh, Pete is like my
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  Speaker 1: like third father, your godfather, Yeah, my godfather. It was
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  Speaker 1: there for a lot of it. And it's a thing
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  Speaker 1: that the first TV wedding I did was Ashley and JP,
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  Speaker 1: and it was something that immediately said no for. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know when the producer said, look, they want you
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  Speaker 1: to do the officiating. I said absolutely not. Um And
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  Speaker 1: my reason why I didn't want it to be a joke.
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  Speaker 1: And if we could figure out a way where it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to seem like a cocktail joke that I
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  Speaker 1: was marrying these two, then I would do it. But
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  Speaker 1: I definitely believe in what we do and I you know,
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  Speaker 1: whether you love the show or not, that part of
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  Speaker 1: it is real. These people really do fall in love
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  Speaker 1: and that's I think what makes the show so relatable.
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  Speaker 1: And so when they asked me to marry him, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, I just it seems so cheesy,
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  Speaker 1: and but we pulled it off. And then since then
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  Speaker 1: I've done several others. Being married by Chris Harrison that
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  Speaker 1: was a dream of mine. I thought it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: people people are obsessed with you being the next Bachelor,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of your own personal love life, and you always
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  Speaker 1: say no, And even if it was the final season,
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  Speaker 1: you say no because you know too much, right Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's just you know what's funny is I'm not
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  Speaker 1: you guys. I you know you guys know me very well,
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  Speaker 1: so you know that I'm a very private person despite
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  Speaker 1: what I do for a living. Um, I love what
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  Speaker 1: I do on TV and I'm confident in that and
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  Speaker 1: that's my skill set and it's what I've done for
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  Speaker 1: thirty years now. UM. But I'm not a Bachelor of Bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that's I would be terrible. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: I really do envy how you guys live and how
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  Speaker 1: you can live out out and put everything out there.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I don't have that in me. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: so I would be I would be probably the worst
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor ever. And it's just it would be so weird
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  Speaker 1: for me because you know, as well as you guys
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  Speaker 1: know the producers and the crew, I've you know, raised
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  Speaker 1: these kids and and you know they've come and gone,
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  Speaker 1: and I know him very well. So it would be
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  Speaker 1: it would be very hard for me to depart from
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  Speaker 1: you know, producing, hosting to Hey, I'm just gonna throw
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  Speaker 1: it all up in the air and fall in love.
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  Speaker 1: And as Ben, I'll tell you, one of the most
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  Speaker 1: important bits of advice I give any bachelor batch Red
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  Speaker 1: is you really have to give yourself up to this.
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  Speaker 1: You have to trust, you have to just give it
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  Speaker 1: up and you kind of have to leave your life
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  Speaker 1: behind and all your decision making and really give it
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  Speaker 1: up to this process for it to work. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a hard thing to do. It's it's incredibly difficult. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, and I've said it before in
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, I want to say in for you too,
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  Speaker 1: this Chris has been a breath of fresh air during
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  Speaker 1: this whole process when you do give yourself up and
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  Speaker 1: you know that your life is going to be displayed
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  Speaker 1: on national television and you're looking for advice and comfort.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is he a host, but as Amy said
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago in the podcast, outside of
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  Speaker 1: the show, he's a support uh. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes Chris such a good person to host a Bachelor,
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  Speaker 1: because his life lives out what he's showing on television.
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  Speaker 1: Um is speaking of television, I want to give a
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  Speaker 1: quick shout out here to kind of close up our
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor's segment, because The Bachelor is not the only thing
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  Speaker 1: Chris is known for right now. Um. However, the Bachelor's
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  Speaker 1: special The Road to are A air is December eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: It's the twenty second season. The Bachelor premieres January one,
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  Speaker 1: or if you're hungover on New Year's Day, what better
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  Speaker 1: way to recover than watching a little Ari? Real quick, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: how has are changed from the now? I keep this
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  Speaker 1: short because I do want to get into something something
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  Speaker 1: else that you're a part of right now. But just
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  Speaker 1: give a little bit of hit of of who are
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  Speaker 1: he was what five years ago? To who are he
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  Speaker 1: is today? Yeah, you know, five years ago it was
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  Speaker 1: a very different time, even on the show. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that sounds crazy, but five years ago Emily season,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people that love our show and watch
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  Speaker 1: it don't even didn't even see that show. That's how
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  Speaker 1: old it was. Um. And I've stayed in touch with Ari,
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  Speaker 1: just like I've stayed in touch with you. And he's
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  Speaker 1: been a friend of mine for years. And I've actually
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  Speaker 1: never said this before, but I even set Ari up
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  Speaker 1: on a date. Um, this is off the show. There
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  Speaker 1: was this great girl in the area in Scott's Dale
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  Speaker 1: where he lives, and she was looking for someone and
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  Speaker 1: I knew she knew he was, so I have actually
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  Speaker 1: already set him up before and it worked for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. They dated for a while. Um, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that just has always been a little
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  Speaker 1: bit unlucky in love. He's never found that somebody. And
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  Speaker 1: so when the idea was brought up of bringing Ari back,
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  Speaker 1: he was such a fan favorite and I'm so confident
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  Speaker 1: in him that even those that are saying publicly, why Ari,
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  Speaker 1: why did you guys go back that far whitehos Ari.
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  Speaker 1: I know him and I know how popular he was,
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  Speaker 1: and people that didn't get a chance to see him
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  Speaker 1: will quickly fall in love with this guy. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the looks and all the romance and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a really good guy and he's easy to
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  Speaker 1: watch and the women are dynamic. It's a very good season. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But he hasn't changed a lot. It's just he still
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  Speaker 1: hasn't found that somebody. And so I don't know. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a I like mixing it up every
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  Speaker 1: now and then. We do the same thing a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I like to throw the curveball a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And this is I know it has caught some people
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  Speaker 1: off guard, but trust me, you will love Ari and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna love this season. Well, we all hope that
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  Speaker 1: he finds somebody, and and there's a couple of other
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  Speaker 1: avenues that the Bachelor's opening up to find people. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and Ashley has been extremely interested and what exactly this
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  Speaker 1: is about. We want to know all about Winter Games
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  Speaker 1: because we don't understand what it is that. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I was hoping you guys were going to tell me. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we hear that the first Bachelor in Paradise season, you
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  Speaker 1: guys kind of winged it while down in Mexico. Are
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  Speaker 1: you just gonna wing this batchlor Winter Games? Well? The
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  Speaker 1: fun thing is after after doing something for sixteen years, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I, I know, we'll talk about Millionaire a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. It's fun for me to jump into something new.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have a show that it has the
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  Speaker 1: parameters of of Look, it's a Bachelor franchise show, so
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  Speaker 1: you're you're going to have some of that, and it
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  Speaker 1: has a little bit of this summer show Bachelor in Paradise,
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  Speaker 1: but other than that, it's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: blank slate. And it's very rare in television where you
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  Speaker 1: get to do that at this level, to create a
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  Speaker 1: new show and have fun with it. And and really
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  Speaker 1: there are no rules, and so we're kind of we're
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  Speaker 1: not making it up as we go, but we're definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it up as we go. I've always said
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, when we the first year of
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise is a little bit of the same
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: as we have a very good idea, but until you
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: really get boots on the ground and you start producing
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a show, you never really sure where the gold is
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: going to come from. You're not sure exactly what you're
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: gonna love, and so once you get into it, you
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: might think, wow, it's the competition that we really like.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of where Bachelor pad when it first started,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: that's where the where we kind of thought the show
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: was going to be more competition, but what we realized
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: it was more about the bachelor. It's more about the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: relationships and the love. So the show shifted and then
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: it became Bachelor in Paradise, And my my guess is
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: that's where this will lead and that it's it's a
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: little bit about the competition and you know, the Winter Games,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: but my guess is it's about relationships and love and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: companionship and in the international aspect of it and where
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: that goes. There's absolutely no doubt. Everybody always asked me,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: you know, you get the question on the time to Chris,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: but hey, how fake is the Bachelor? I say, it's
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: not fake at all. There's no fakeness to it. You
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: get five thirty people in one place competing for anything,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and storylines are gonna exist, They're going to come up,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and so we're all excited, um to witness what exactly
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Winter Games will be. And I want you guys to
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: highlight friendships because people are fascinated by our friendships. Actually,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I think what people often mistake is what we create.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: What we produce is the environment. And then we're going
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to do that with the Winter Games. We know where
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: we're going to be, we know what it's gonna look like.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: But what happens within that environment is the dynamic, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. And and same thing. We
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: know who's going on the two on one date? Sorry Ashley, um,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: but games, but what happened I promise there will be
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: no too. Well, I can't promise that there might be
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: two on one day in Winter Games. But what happens
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: on those dates, that's the reality of it. And and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: that's kind of the beauty of the show. And yeah,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: do we create some of those situations to force something? Yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: that that's that's again, that's part of the beauty of
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: when we need been to make a decision between two people.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: You put him in an extraordinary situation where he has
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to make a choice, you know, and you and I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: talked about that a lot of Sometimes it's time to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: push yourself a little bit and get out of that
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: comfort zone. So, um, it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: be fun for me as a host, producer and all
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that to kind of dive in and figure out what
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: we have we have. I know, there's a lot of
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: secrets that I have of like who's going to be
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: on the show, some very very special guests and names
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that will be a part of it, and things that
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: we're doing I do know about that are going to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: be pretty awesome that everyone's gonna be excited about. That's awesome. Yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: So going from a new show that we know nothing
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: about to a show that's been around, uh for so long.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I can remember the days uh that this show started
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and really uh became a landmark television show in America.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: It's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Chris, you are
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: was on the show, I will be My episode will
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: be airing actually this week. Chris can you tell us
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the process of switching over from
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor to do Millionaire and what exactly millionaire means
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you because you kill it as the host, I appreciate it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And yeah, your your episode airs Thursday, So if you
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: want to see Ben play Millionaire. Uh in spoiler alert,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: he did a lot better than I thought he was.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it really well. I wasn't sure. Yeah,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you never know. You never know. I mean I I
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: thought you're a smart guy. I thought you're good, but
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you never know until you actually get put to the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: test um. But three at three years ago, it actually
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: just gotten off the road shooting The Bachelorette and got
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a call from ABC. And it's rare you get these
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: calls where they call you, but they said, you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: we want you to host Millionaire. The show is a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: little bit down and out, but we're going to give
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: this another shot and really try to revive this thing
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and take it back to its roots. And so three
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: years ago I took it over, and thankfully the last
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: three years we've done nothing but bring it back, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the ratings have been up and we've evolved and kind
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of getting it back to its old glory Days, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I've it's it was a project that I could dive
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: into again. It was new. It's a lot more host
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: intensive and ask a lot more of me, which I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: love because you have to, you know, keep up with
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the game and you keep up with the contestants, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you there's a lot going on, and so I love it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I love hosting it. And at the end of the day,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you know you were on set, I played trivia and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I give away money and it's not my money, which
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is even better. I give away billions and millions of dollars.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And it's not lost on me that you change people's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: lives and that's really you know, I'll be in the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: middle of the show and you might be at five
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: thousand or ten thousand, whatever it is, and then you
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: look over and you see some contestant just welling up
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: with tears and you realize, holy crap, like we just
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: change their life. You just got them out of whatever
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: trouble they were in. And that's It's a beautiful thing,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and it's and I love it's kind of an American
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: way of of doing it. You have to earn it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You don't just you don't get to come on and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: just get lucky and win a million dollars. You have
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to work for it and you have to be smart.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And there's something very American about that. I love. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: was so nervous. I don't I mean nervous, and and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: myself don't relate much anymore. I don't get that nervous
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: before nervous for anything anymore because of these of getting
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the bats a process, but the millionaire process. When I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was walking on, if I would have missed the first question,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I knew I would be so embarrassed. Um, I was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: so nervous the whole entire time. I'll never forget that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you could tell, Chris, but I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't like calm at all for that. And you're right
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: because because it is real and it and it can
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: affect lives. You didn't have a poker face. You can
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: tell there was the shortness of breath. You could have
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: always asked the audience. But that's one of the things
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I love. I love that that's part of my my job.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And you think the Bachelor and Millionaire are very different
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: as far as hosting, and they're really they're really not.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's all about me listening, me reading, people not worrying
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: about being the star of the show, but allowing the game,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the contestant, the bachelor, of the bachelorette, whoever it is,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to kind of lead me into where we're going. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: sometimes in Millionaire it's all about um, you know, trying
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to get to a certain amount to pay off a
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: house or something like that. But then you might have
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: a game player that just wants to beat the fourteen
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: questions and so I read, you know, the contestant, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: they lead me where the game goes. And everybody is different,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and I love that. It's it's a blasphemy to host.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And it's been fun to kind of bring the show
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: back because it's it's a classic. I mean, I watched
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: with everybody else to change television, and so to be
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: walking into that arena that we just hosted, you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for so many years. To get to do that every
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: day is pretty cool. Because I want to give Astley
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: has one final question for you, and I know you've
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: got to get going. You're a busy guy. This is
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not about your love life at all. I would not
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: do that to you. That is that is something I
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: care about deeply, but not on this podcast. I want
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to I want to tell you to help me at all. Well,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you haven't helped me either. You haven't helped me. But hey,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: here's a deal, and I wanted to have all of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: our listeners here this. I've done a bunch of television
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: shows over the last couple of years. I've been on
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a bunch of game shows, and I've been on a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: bunch of talk shows, and I've I've met a lot
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of people. Something that always stands out to me, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: it stood out to me on Millionaire, and it stands
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: out to me on The Bachelor. And I didn't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: if it was just the Bachelor's this is the case
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: because it's been around for so long. But from the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: audio to the productions assistance, to the producers, to the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: camera guys, to the fans, Chris Harrison relates, talks, listens,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and cares about each one of these people when he
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: goes on the Millionaire set. It was really cool for
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: me to see because I do care about Chris. He's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a friend of mine and I like that people like him.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I enjoy when I see people appreciating him. But on
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that set, it reinforced the idea that people on set
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: appreciated him and he appreciated them as well, And and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that is unique. It is different. It is unique in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a world where I feel like people that have a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: lot of status that are popular push other people aside.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And Chris, you've never done that. You haven't done it
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to one single person that's done this show. You never
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: did it to me, and you don't do it to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the people that work on the show. So I want
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to say thank you to that, because that's a big deal. Yeah, Chris,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you have the best reputation in Hollywood. Really well, it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: something I take very very serious and I appreciate it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And for you guys to notice that is wonderful. And
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with obviously, you know
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: your upbringing, my mom and dad and where I grew
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: up in Texas, and but I also think a lot
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of a lot of that comes from where I grew
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: up in this business and the people that raised me
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: in this business. And I started back in Oklahoma City
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: as a sportscaster and I was easily the lowest man
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: on the totem pole, and I had an amazing mentor
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and this this man named Bill Takins who found me
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in college and pulled me out and gave me my
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: first few jobs. But you know, he always made a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: point and I took it, you know, very serious. Growing
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: up is no no everybody's job. And and back in
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the day, I used to have to do everybody's job.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: You know, I produced, I wrote, I edited, and and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: hosted and did my own makeup and everything back in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the day when I was a sportscaster. And so knowing
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: what the director does and what the lighting guy does
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and what you know, every everybody what knowing their jobs
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and appreciating what they do and realizing how important it is.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And and you know, I have this talk with all
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of our bachelors and then you can attest to this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I said, look there, you know, by the time you
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: show up on your date, you know there's been three
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to four hundred people who have busted their button. Everything
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: look as good as it does. And I know that
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you're hot, and I know that it's late or whatever,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: but look around you, and look who else is here
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and how long they've been here and they'll be here
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: long after you're gone. And so having an appreciation for
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: what everyone's doing and knowing their jobs. Um, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I always say that the last thing a production is
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: ever going to do is wait on me. Um, And
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: everybody jokes about you know how I'm I'm one take
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: wonder and I always walk on and do my thing.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, because I for me to waste somebody's time,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to show up late and to not do my job
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is I just think that the biggest sign of disrespect.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And so every day, you know, if if it's within
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: my ability, I'm going to be on time, I'm gonna
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: be ready to go, I'm gonna be damn good at
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: what I do. Uh. And because I feel like I
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: owe that to you, and I owed it to you
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: as the batchelor, I owe it to you Ashley on
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the show, and I want to make your experience good.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And so you know I think you can have to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: have that level of respect. Well, you certainly do that. Um.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: We like to end our interviews with one last funny,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: fun question. If you were the Bachelor, just humor us
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: for a second, who would you want to take your
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: job as host? Would be? I've actually thought I'll let
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you I'll let you answer then, and and this isn't
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: just a chicken ship way of getting out of the answer.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I think what I would like to do is have
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys there because I feel, oh,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like I take you know, just like friendships
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and relationships, I kind of take things different things from
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: each of you, um and and so I kind of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: would like certain times it's kind of like a bullpen.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I would like to call certain people in certain situations.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: There's times where I would need a woman and I'm like, look,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going to call somebody to be my host. And
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: then there's a time I just want to have a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: little bromance and I need to talk to one of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: my boys. So I think I would I would need
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a group. I think it would take a village to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: get me to find love. I don't see a village
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: being needed. But Chris Man, we appreciate you coming on
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the podcast. I know it is difficult to get you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: on a podcast, but it just it means a lot
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to Ashley and I that you came on the Almost
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Famous podcast. Before you go, I want to give a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: shout out to say that Millionaire Are's weekdays at one
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: p m. And l A check your check your local
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: listings for air times and also the Bachelor special The
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Road to Ori air is December eleventh on ABC. Chris,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. We appreciate you. Ma'am Ben Ashley,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I love you too. And by the way, while we're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: throwing out congratulations, uh, congratulations on the success of your podcast.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you guys are doing this,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and I know Amy Sugarman, who is one of the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: loves of my life, as a big part of this
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: um But in all seriousness, it's been a huge success
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and so it says a lot about you guys and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: about Amy. So congratulations and anything you guys need, not
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: just on a podcast, but in life. You know, I'm
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: just a phone call away. It's a go advantage of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that this week, didn't if if if you need to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: tee it up, you know, I'm a phone call. Well
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that's right, Hey, thanks Chris, Well bye. So before we
• 27:58
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  Speaker 1: the last episode because she was known as dog Lover.
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  Speaker 1: She was on Wan Pablo season and she's pregnant. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so Kelly, don't take this the wrong way, but who
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  Speaker 1: the heck are you? I wonder sometimes myself, I like
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  Speaker 1: this pregnant sew Is, how much is because you're a
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  Speaker 1: You met your husband soon after Juan Pablo season. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: I met my husband before, and how you meet sent
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: me running back. I guess okay, okay, tell us your story.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I want to hear your love story. How did you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: meet and how did you get back to him? Okay,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: so we date it for four years. We've met through
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  Speaker 1: gonna hate that. I say that he was on a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: date and then asked the friend to set him up,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and like, I would never go out with a guy
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that was on a date asking about me. And then
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: now look we're married. He was on a date asking
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: about you. Yeah, it's really bad asking about you to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: who this is a random friend of ours? It was
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a happy Yeah. No, he was on a date. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: was with a girlfriend and he saw her started texting her,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: was like who are you with? Like this guy is
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: on a date asking about me? Like I would never
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: go out with him, No way. Yeah. We dated for
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: four years, broke up for a year when on the show,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and then as soon as I got off the show.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: We got back together, and you thought, Wow, one, Pablo
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: is so horrible, I'm going to go back to my
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: extid me running back. Nothing worse than that. No, Yeah,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: while I was gone and all I thought about was him,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: even though we had broken up for a year, it
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: was just I guess that time in my life where
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I was ready to settle down. I mean, you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor makes you do that. I guess. Dog dog
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: is still kicking, she's um, she's great. She has a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: brother now. So I've got two dogs and they're good.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: You have hi know, and a baby on the way.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Crazy and so you were known as a dog lover.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: You brought your dog to want my dog to the Bachelor?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: How did you get so lucky? Are we all able
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to do this? It's so I mean, honestly, I just
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: asked whenever they were talking about casting, they asked what
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: was holding me back? And I had this rescue dog
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that I was obsessed with, and I was like, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: don't want to board her for potentially nine weeks, so
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: can I bring her? And They're like sure. So she
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: lived in the house and best I became dog lover
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and traveling. You got to keep her on the plane
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: with you. She stayed, well, we've travel on to like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: South Korea, and so I don't know that that's the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: best place for a dog. All right, producer's wife. And
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: then whenever I got off the show, I went back
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to l I picked her up and then flew home.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: So she lived her little wife on the show. I Uh, Kelly,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: this is this is so intriguing to me. I remember
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: watching um that season and seeing the dog walk into
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the mansion. H it did have to be a comfort
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I can imagine. I kind of want, actually to go
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: back on The Bachelor and bring a dog, because I
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: feel like she would be so much more comforted and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: comfortable and more yourself because emotionally so you had an advantage. Um.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit to catch us up,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: UM about your experience on the Bachelor. Really, tell the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: our audience who who you are? What happened with Juan Pablo?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Why did you leave? What went wrong? Did you love
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the guy? Um? No, I love the guy. UM, sure
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: someone loves the guy. He was not my type. Look,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I knew going on the show I was not going
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to be the prettiest girl in the house. They were like,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you know, everyone on the show looks great, so I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: used my humor as a way to like stand out,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and she didn't speak like English. She didn't com right,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: so it was a bad mix to begin with. He
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: wasn't really my type. I go for really smart guys,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's smart, but he was an athlete
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and just kind of just wasn't my type. So I
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: went on there and just lead friends with the girls
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and hung out with my dog and traveled a little bit,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and then like everyone kind of knew that nothing was
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: going on there, so going home. He was five when
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we were in Vietnam, and I have no regrets. Everything
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: was good. Um didn't spend much time with him, but
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: made great friends. I think that was like the first
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: season where the girls got really close, and then now
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: obviously everyone so close. I know Ashley has a couple
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: of questions for you here. I want to tell you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: hearing your store in The Bachelor, you know, hearing how
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: you went home, Ashley, Uh and I both can relate
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: with that. I do agree with you. You may you
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: brought up a great point to actually and I talked
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: about often it prepares you to find love. The Bachelor
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: does a great thing. We just had Chris Harrison on
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: right before you came here, and and if anything, the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Bachelor opens your heart up to what you didn't know
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you could feel. And I think it's great that you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: walked right back into a relationship and that you were
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: committed to it. Now, congratulations and the baby and Ashley
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: take it over. Kelly, you have a huge role in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Andy's first book. It's not Okay because you're one of
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the one of the greatest friends that she made through
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor process, and then you had to deal with
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the heartache that she dealt with after breaking up with
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Josh Murray. Tell everybody about like what it was like
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to have Andy living with you as a heartbroken person.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So Andy is the greatest. She's one of my best friends. Still.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: She was here this weekend. Um. I love her obviously
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: enough to house her for a couple of months while
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: she was going through heartbreak because she needed a place
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: being that she and Josh lived together, and they lived
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: together and she didn't know she was like in a place.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: She was like, do I want to stay in Atlanta?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Do I want to move? She was just it was
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: crazy for her to rent a place. I like, you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: could stay with us. Um, we have plenty of room.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: So she moved in. And at that point, I mean,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: she was going through a very public breakup, and seeing
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: his friend go through any breakup is hard. But then
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: she was you know all this stuff written about her,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and I mean it's a I opening experience, um, just
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: because you don't realize how much media gets to someone
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: until you're like that close to it. Um, but it
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: was good. I think that she was in my house
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and able to drink wine all the time with me
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: and um get through it. I mean, honestly, we're drinking
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: wine one night and I was like, you should just
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: write a book. And then that's how the book came about.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: We were just drunk. We started with I was like,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you should write a rap song. Our lyrics were terrible,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: as like, I mean, the worst rap song ever. Like, Okay,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: maybe that's not gonna work. You should just write a book,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: which was on her second book, Yeah, for because of You.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: She's a New York Times best selling author and she
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: has her new book coming out, Single state of Mind.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Can you give us a little prem Single state of Mind?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: It's like all of her dating and New York, so
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: it's her happy and like finding herself again, which is
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: going to be awesome. She's read me a little bit
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: of it, and I can't wait. She's an awesome writer,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Like she has success because of her not supposed to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: be um. She has drinking wine with me and dumb
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: ideas that turned out to be brilliant. Guess that inspired her.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. I mean I can remember that night
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: so vividly that it's like, Wow, now she's writing her
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: second cocking New York Times. That's amazing. And yes, Andy
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: has crazy dating stories and she tells stories so well,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: like with such a vivid detail, and she's not afraid
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to leave in the raunchy details. I can't wait to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: read the full book. And of course I know some
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of these stories, so it's very interesting what she puts
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in there, Like everything I know, I'm sure it's going
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to be just as cheesy. I just can't wait. It's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: going to be good. She's living the Carry Bradshaw life
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and you are living the mommy life. I know, the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: exact opposite. When she was in town this weekend, I'm like,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I can't drink with you. This is very very odd,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Like I can't remember the last time I had a
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: sober conversation with her. iBOT, who you like whenever you're pregnant?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Still like her? I still love her? So that's great.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Cople other people that are questionable. All the things you
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: learned are Kelly, thank you so much for joining us. Yeah,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it was fun, guys. I appreciate it. Hey, Kelly, before
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you go, what are you up to now? Is it
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: just mom life for you? I mean, as we say
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: goodbye to you here, we're not going to get a
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: follow up? Is entering in the mother's season? Are you
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: writing a book? I'm not writing a book. I'm working
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: on website, but not writing a book. I don't think
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: that mom life will be that exciting on this then,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: so um, you know, just keeping up with Instagram then
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: do part time marketing. It's very, very boring life in Atlanta. Hey,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: it's all good. Good luck with everything, Kelly, thank you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: for coming on the podcast. We're glad we are. We
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: know who the heck you are? How great? Uh? Is
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it that the Bachelor brings about friendships? Friendships as he
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: was talking about with Andy that have lasted now years
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and there to share so many things together. I would
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: imagine just like my friends and I and I'm I
• 40:09
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• 40:11
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  Speaker 1: mediat com with any advice, any two up, any any
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: products that we've promoted that you've used. Ashley will read
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: through each and every one of them. I will skim
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and scan each and every one of them, actually will
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: read them. She cares a lot about you, So do
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: I just social media? Yeah? I'm not. I'm not a
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: fast reader and I'm not social media savvy. Hey, what
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a good show. Chris Harrison, Kelly Travis was great. Um.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I mean we pretty much promoted Andy's new book, and
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: so I feel like at some point Andy needs to
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: come on the podcast. She'll be on in January, you
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: know it. Yeah, she needs to be Um Ashley. A
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: couple a couple of weeks ago, Um, we talked about
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: how we're getting ready to film and host a show
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: together called First Look. We're gonna We're gonna participate in
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: in in an episode for the Golden Globes. I really
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: love hosting things with you. We we are a good team.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I think we work well together. I'm comfortable with you,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: and I think it just makes the whole job easier.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I had something happened during this though you had something happened.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: It happened in front of me. I don't want to
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say this. It really affected me
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: too much other than UM just making us closer. Actually,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: can you please tell our listeners walk them through exactly
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: what happened that day? Okay, So I zip up my
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: new dress. It's really tight, but it's like a body
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: con dress. It's supposed to be like skin type. UM.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I had a little trouble with the zipper, but it
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: was it was fine. It went all the way up. Well,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: we're in the dressing room, finishing up final touches and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: all that, and all of a sudden, just talking casual conversation,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: my entire back, I mean, from the nape of my
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: neck down to my knees, the zipper pops open like
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: dramatic fashion. It wasn't like it just slowly, you know,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: sank down. No, it was like poof. And if I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: had been facing the other direction, Ben would have seen
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: all of my body, just like the entire back, like
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the whole booty delicious thing. Um, I'm glad, I don't know.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't see it. If not bad to
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: look at. I don't think it's that bad, but it
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: would have been just like that. I think it would
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: have been embarrassed by But now it's a good story,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: so you blamed it though. The funniest is, so this
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: happens in front of a bunch of people that we've
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: never really met before, and it pops open. I'm sitting there.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I leave the room because obviously I'm not going to
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: stand there. Is there They fix her wardrobe, um, and
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Ashley just as laughing. She's not embarrassed, She's not ashamed.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: She goes that this is kind of funny, and you
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: blame it on what on my booty Blast classes. I
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: have been taking honestly, like two to three booty Blaster
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: classes a week because I love like I am not
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that girl who wants to new model skinny, Like I
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: love curves, and I like, I don't want a Kardashian
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: but but like I like a nice round button. I
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: think I think a lot of people appreciate that. Right.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: So I've been taking these classes and I swear to you,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: if it weren't for them, that Zipper would have never
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: popped the way it did. Thank you be blast here
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: for blasting open the dress. Shout out to love for
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: plates can be free classes. Amazing. Actually, we want to
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: end this, uh this episode, because this has been an
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: amazing podcast and we could end it right now and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: it would be a success. I mean, they were amazing
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: guest today. But I want to ask you a few
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: questions to close. Yeah. Fun, this is gonna be fun.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start with a couple of tough ones, okay, um,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: a couple of different ones and we'll righten it up
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: as we go. Okay, well, then I'm going to ask
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: you a couple of questions. That's fair, Hey, let's play
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: a game. Ashley as he crosses his legs Ashley, Yes,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: what is your biggest insecurity? My biggest? Well, you know
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: what's sad is that, like physical ones came up first
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: in my head, my knees and my feet. My sister
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: says that my bunnians are the reason that I've been
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: perpetually single. Umi beature? Is that really what she says? Yeah? Okay, Um,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: take your time here. I mean, I think it's important.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: So your mind, you said, goes quickly to physical and
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I think those are easy to pick out. I know,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I wish I could be more articulate, and I wish
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: my vocabulary could be bigger. Like I think it goes
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: hand in hand. One. Dean, who's sitting right over there,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: has the best vocabulary. I'm really jealous of your vocabulary.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: And I thought that yesterday when you texted me just
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: instead of like just joking, he said, I'm jesting with you.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: He's just so as actually just mentioned just so everybody
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: can hear it. Dean has been sitting in on this
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: whole podcast just to listen looking for advice on tips.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: You know, he does his podcast Help I Suck at Dating, um.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: And And so he was in the studio right before
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: we were So Dean has been sitting in here the
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: whole podcast. We're gonna bring him on here for the
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: last segment here in a little bit. But before we
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: do that, uh, Ashley, but yeah, but then I want
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: your your sense of articular see precisely. I want to
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: be as articulate as you are. You know you are
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: though you do this for a living. And I think
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: all of our listeners out there and listeners I'm gonna
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call on you for a second. We need
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: you in this moment. We're gonna for ask for a
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: little help. Will you send Ashley an encouraging email or
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: tweet this week? Please let her know how much you
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: love listening to speak, No, just saying how much you
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: appreciate her that you do enjoy listening to her, because
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: what she doesn't realize. Uh, And I'm as I'm listening.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: And this this is not to the mean or to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: eliminate your insecurity or to say they're not they're not real. Um.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: But oftentimes when we have insecurities and we speak about
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: them openly. Everybody around you guys A what like, actually,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: like you have any physical insecurities, Like that's crazy because
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: you're beautiful weight, Actually you're you're insecure because you don't
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: feel like you can speak. Well, that's crazy. You do
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: it for a living, but that doesn't But that doesn't work.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: That doesn't work. So what you need is a lot
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: of support, a lot of guidance and help and and
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: it means that you have a perspective of yourself that
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: is really real and raw and knowledgeable. So Ashley, that's
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: very very sweet of you. Thanks Army out, but you seriously,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: words just flow out of your mouth and I'm so jealous,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Like he always finds the right words to describe situation,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's been so well. See.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Actually I think that that comes into play. I cannot
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: bullshit at all, And it goes back to me not
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: being able to lie, Like I can't lie, so I
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: don't know, I just never being able to like fabricate anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's one of my strengths is that I,
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  Speaker 1: well I can't lie. And I'm like pretty genuine Okay,
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  Speaker 1: final question for you, what inspires you? Okay, so I
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  Speaker 1: asked that you're stealing my question. Dean knows that I've
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  Speaker 1: been asking this question this month. Um, Dean, Dean, what
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  Speaker 1: inspires you? Jump into the conversation and then I'll answer, um,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: what inspire? I think I'm most inspired by my own curiosity?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Is that allowed to answer it that way? Yeah? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely my it's your platform. You say what he wants.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say that's probably my driving inspiration, just a general
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: curiosity for all things at all times. It drives me
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  Speaker 1: to explore new ideas, new know different things that otherwise wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what kind of what inspires me again, And
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  Speaker 1: I like that Dean has that because then I'm able
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  Speaker 1: to ask him questions that are so random and just
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  Speaker 1: pop in my head, and I know that he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to judge me for how random they are. Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: and and to you guys, the point I know you
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: guys are asking each other what you find the flaws
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: that you find yourself. I want to say that what
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  Speaker 1: I admire most about each of you, Ben specifically, I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: admire your enthusiasm about everything. I don't think i've ever
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: seen you not excited and not incredibly positive about everything
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  Speaker 1: that you've kind of taken on, at least around me.
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  Speaker 1: And actually, I think what I admire most about you
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  Speaker 1: is your authentic affection for all things that you love.
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  Speaker 1: I think, whether it's your sister or your friends, your dog,
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  Speaker 1: your family, whatever it is, I think that you, Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you you show a certain level of
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  Speaker 1: love that is so rare and so um it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to find these days. And that's like literally like one
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  Speaker 1: of the best things about if not the best thing
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  Speaker 1: about you. I'm like just glowing right now. I give
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: you compliments all the time, and you glow not half
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  Speaker 1: as much alien that that means a lot, I think,
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  Speaker 1: because like I appreciate about myself the fact that like
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I love things, and a lot of people think, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, can that girl is like calm down? Like,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry a little bit. You can't calm down. We
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  Speaker 1: can't calm actually down. But I should tell you what
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  Speaker 1: was you said? What inspires? So I've been on this
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  Speaker 1: kick my it really branches out from my sister was
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: watching an episode of America's Next Top Model. They told
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: this model too to think about what inspires her as
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: she was modeling, and they go and Lauren was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think I'd be able to come up
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: with that, Like I don't even know what inspires me.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: So then we started asking this question to other people
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  Speaker 1: and I came up with three things that I know,
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  Speaker 1: like always get, like my creativity flowing, and like my
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: heart and my heart warmed and all that stuff. Um,
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  Speaker 1: good weddings. I think Carly and Evans was probably the
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  Speaker 1: most inspirational wedding I've ever been at. Actually I was
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  Speaker 1: at a wedding like two weeks ago. I felt that
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  Speaker 1: was just as inspirational. Um. Then romantic comedies or just
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  Speaker 1: romance movies in general. I guess it makes me think
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  Speaker 1: that romance exists in a life where I haven't experienced much.
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  Speaker 1: And then autobiographies. I love autobiographies. Those are if I
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  Speaker 1: could have guessed three similar categories that would inspire, I
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: would have guessed those good what yeah, you're you're romantic?
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  Speaker 1: Um and and autobiographies encourages all a good story does.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised. You know, hey, this has been
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: a podcast a full of compliments. Chris Harrison was passing
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: him out. We were giving him him things pass him out,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: actually pass him out. And it just seems as I'm
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: sitting here that this, uh, this podcast should be a
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: place of positivity and an inspiration. It should inspire us, right,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: we should inspire the people listening. So this week, between
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: the airing or whenever this little podcast enters your ears
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: until the next time um and inter's years, make this
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  Speaker 1: a week of compliments. Pass them out. Tell people how
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: much you appreciate him, you admire them, what you like
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  Speaker 1: about them, what you what you feel, uh, how you
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: feel they're helpful to the world. You can't do that enough,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: and I don't think we're as an intentional as we
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: should be about doing that. So this week, please, I'm
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  Speaker 1: challenging you make this about inspiring people and send us
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• 52:30
  Speaker 1: thank you so much, uh for for your kind words. UM.
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• 52:45
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• 52:47
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