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Almost Famous OGs: All About That Bass with Evan Bass · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It is almost famous to ogs, we are here, Trista Sutter, Nayn,
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  Speaker 2: stop it and me?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? Evan Bass?
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  Speaker 3: Hi? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Look at you?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, do you do a podcast? Because you are
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  Speaker 4: all set up?
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  Speaker 3: I don't do a podcast now I do. I do
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  Speaker 3: a little radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, very nice you do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah in Nashville. Yeah yeah, well yeah, it's in
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  Speaker 3: a few different, few different markets. But it's called Get
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  Speaker 3: Your Man On, and we're talking about it's like doctors
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, professionals talking about you know, men's
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  Speaker 3: health and all that kind of stuff. So it's pretty
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  Speaker 3: that's amazing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that is your background, right, I mean when
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  Speaker 2: you I remember when you were on the show. Originally
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  Speaker 2: you were a if I'm not mistaken, a ED pills salesman.
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  Speaker 3: I think they referred to it as a right tel
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  Speaker 3: dysfunction specialist.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, were you were you in Were you
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  Speaker 2: in pharmaceuticals at that time?
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  Speaker 3: No, so I was in the like in the medical
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  Speaker 3: practice space like so not like not like pharmaceutical sale.
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  Speaker 3: It was more like like clinics, like clinical things. So
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  Speaker 3: I've opened like over three dozen medical practices that are
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  Speaker 3: just like specific to men's health, like and lowt across
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  Speaker 3: the country. So that's that's kind of where it came from,
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  Speaker 3: is uh. And you know I begged them on the show.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, please don't say anything about you know,
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  Speaker 3: my job, like I'm more on the business side. I
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  Speaker 3: do the administrative stuff like no, no, never.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you come on.
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  Speaker 3: I was so mad. Yeah, yeah, amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Was she like better that radio?
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  Speaker 3: The radio is really uh kind of to help that along,
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  Speaker 3: Like it's more promotional stuff for it, like talking through
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  Speaker 3: the different treatments for guys. There's like there's all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of cool stuff out there now for guys, and when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to mental health and d and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's almost like you know, talking about our
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  Speaker 3: clinics and the different stuff out there, so it all
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  Speaker 3: kind of flows together.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Good for you, man, And I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, for real, your background puts us to shame,
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  Speaker 4: Like I, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We shall do a podcast that the hell am I
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  Speaker 1: doing in here?
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  Speaker 3: I like it. I like your background.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's good, Well mine's not real, that's all virtual.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just kidding. I'm coming to live from
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  Speaker 2: my guest room. If I didn't have my kids running around,
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  Speaker 2: i'd have a much cooler background. I can promise you
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  Speaker 2: that I have a really cool area that I used
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  Speaker 2: to do my podcast, our podcast from, and I had
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  Speaker 2: to give that up because of the timing of when
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  Speaker 2: we normally do these. One of the kids is usually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pulling on a pant leg and the other
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  Speaker 2: ones like throwing things at me and yelling at me.
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  Speaker 1: So like, it's probably not I got to go kind
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  Speaker 1: of to find some seclusion somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: How old are your kids now?
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  Speaker 1: Five and two and a half?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, that's so fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 3: Ages.
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  Speaker 1: What are yours?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me thank you. Twenty two, eighteen, fifteen, six
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  Speaker 3: and four.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I'm two to four.
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  Speaker 4: That is a huge difference. It's like, how is that
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  Speaker 4: is the twenty two year old kind of like a
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  Speaker 4: little like a father figure to the four year old?
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  Speaker 3: Actually he's nope. He is absolutely still an antagonistic older
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  Speaker 3: brother to every single one. There is no there's no
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  Speaker 3: father figure about him. He's still terrorizing them and chasing
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  Speaker 3: them around the house.
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  Speaker 1: Evin, how old were you when you had your first kid?
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  Speaker 3: Well, so Nathan, who's twenty two. I actually adopted him
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  Speaker 3: when he was two years old, so he was I'm
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  Speaker 3: a previous marriage and so I adopted him, and I
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  Speaker 3: just so I would think when when he was born,
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  Speaker 3: I was like eighteen years old. Just you didn't know
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  Speaker 3: I had a kid yet.
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  Speaker 2: So sure, Oh that's fantastic. Gosh, man, you've been responsible
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  Speaker 2: your whole damn life.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't have my first kids. I was
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  Speaker 2: forty seven, so I was an immature disaster up until then.
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  Speaker 1: Trist To can tell you.
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  Speaker 3: The pros and cog.
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  Speaker 1: She just goes, yeah, pretty much pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: How was life for you, Evan, what's up lately?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, I mean it's just a lot of
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  Speaker 3: kids and you know, sent one off to college this year,
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  Speaker 3: so that was that was a big deal. Yes, the
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  Speaker 3: twenty two year old went didn't didn't really go to college.
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  Speaker 3: He just went straight into the workforce, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: He's super successful. Manages a cool little hotel here that's
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  Speaker 3: in Nashural. So this was the first like drive the
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  Speaker 3: kid to college, yeah, and do the whole thing where
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  Speaker 3: you put him in the dorm and like it's like
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  Speaker 3: super sad and you're like, I'm never going to see
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  Speaker 3: you again. You know. It's like that's how it feels,
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  Speaker 3: and so U yeah, so that was really really emotional,
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  Speaker 3: and it's still like part of our family's missing now
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  Speaker 3: because he's just like he's Emplorida. He goes to f
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  Speaker 3: s U in their theater program. So but so that's tough.
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  Speaker 3: And then so it's like basically, I have a fifteen
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  Speaker 3: year old who's home with me full time, like he
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  Speaker 3: lives with me full time, and so he, uh, he's
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  Speaker 3: very busy in soccer, but he's very much uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen and like doing doing his own thing and like
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  Speaker 3: all you know, always you know, chasing whatever he's chasing
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  Speaker 3: on the weekend. And so he's he he's become like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's easier at fifteen than it was it
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  Speaker 3: like six or four, like Bella and Charlie are. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: when I get the babies every other weekend, they uh,
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  Speaker 3: they they play together, but then they you know, they
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  Speaker 3: take up that entire weekend. It is like just balls
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  Speaker 3: to the walls kids. So it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in it. I'm in it.
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly that I know where you're at, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you're just about out of diapers on two
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  Speaker 3: and a half.
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  Speaker 2: All well, I'm going back into them myself. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my youngest is going to be out of them soon.
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  Speaker 2: I need to call you, I mean call on that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm in my fifties, so if you have
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  Speaker 1: any advice or any you're in your fifties.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir, I'm fifty three, Tristan. I well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want anything, thanks pal. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: anything about the other og on this line.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm fifty one.
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  Speaker 1: That gorgeous specimen is fifty one. Oh good, yes, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. It's just good, clean living and lots
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  Speaker 1: of vodka. That's what I obviously say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I credit it to Colorado fresh Air.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right out there. Christ and I both
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  Speaker 1: got out of California early.
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  Speaker 2: Man. We I'm back in Michigan where I grew up,
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  Speaker 2: and she's in Colorado where you know, she and her
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  Speaker 2: love of her life, my former roommate on the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, but yeah, I mean I had.
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  Speaker 2: Such a pleasure to actually get to I don't think
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  Speaker 2: i've actually met you in person or did we need
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  Speaker 2: a Jaden Tanner's wedding?
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  Speaker 1: Did we meet that?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, I wasn't. I wasn't around. Then you around that? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that was like season before me.
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  Speaker 1: I met so.
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  Speaker 2: Many people at the wedding and I and I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember who I didn't meet.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like I know you, you know, I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like everyone must have been there. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: on our show. So but yeah, but it's really nice
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  Speaker 2: to meet you. So now, obviously you and Carly met
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  Speaker 2: on the show and you know, got married and then
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  Speaker 2: subsequently got divorce and split up. Is that it was
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  Speaker 2: that hard for you to navigate that through the season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can I'm sorry through the Bachelor Nation
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  Speaker 2: because I'm sure that it was you know. I I
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  Speaker 2: always tell trust to us because trist has never experienced
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  Speaker 2: what you and I have. But sometimes going through a
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  Speaker 2: divorce is much about embarrassment that it didn't work out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is just talking vulnerable guy to guy here,
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  Speaker 2: but it's almost like as much embarrassment that it didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out because you know, you're in the public eye
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  Speaker 2: as it is about like, you know, you're bummed.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's devastating, even if you want the divorce,
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  Speaker 1: it's devastating.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like, I can imagine that had to be
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  Speaker 2: difficult for you to go through it.
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  Speaker 1: In the public eye.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys kind of met and fell in
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  Speaker 2: love and everything right in front of everybody's eyes, and
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  Speaker 2: then to have it kind of out work out had
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty tough, especially with children.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. I mean it feels like my whole like
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  Speaker 3: social media identity was like around that you know, relationship
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  Speaker 3: and our children and all that stuff. So it definitely
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  Speaker 3: felt like on that level, which is its social media,
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  Speaker 3: which is I don't know, I'd barely even I don't
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  Speaker 3: really even do it anymore. But yeah, like that level
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  Speaker 3: was weird out from the public perspective, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: people were saying stuff and it's like you're friend and
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  Speaker 3: stuff off. But just there's just so many children involved,
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  Speaker 3: that's what That's what really really added an extra layer
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  Speaker 3: of you know, pain to it, and you never want
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  Speaker 3: your kids to see you go through this stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: everyone you know, you know, I have older children too,
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  Speaker 3: so they had seen it already. So this was like
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  Speaker 3: number two. It's like man like you know, there's like
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to stigma with like two divorces, like,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, that felt it was really heavy, and and
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  Speaker 3: of course, you know, people were like, you can't you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's too that's too many, you know whatever. I forget
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  Speaker 3: what they said. It was several years ago now, but
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  Speaker 3: it was really it was really hard on that level.
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  Speaker 3: And then just obviously going through the process of disconnecting
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  Speaker 3: from someone that you met in a really unique way,
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  Speaker 3: right that very few people have the opportunity to experience that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all that goes along with that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was tough. It was definitely definitely really hard, embarrassing,
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  Speaker 3: all the all the emotions runs again for.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, I did, I understand. Yeah, it is tough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my my ex wife was an actress and
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  Speaker 2: so our whole thing played out on television as well.
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  Speaker 2: She was on ABC as well, So it was it
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  Speaker 2: was one of those things where even though we were
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  Speaker 2: still you know, we still get along wonderfully. Well years later,
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  Speaker 2: we just knew we weren't meant to be married. And
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  Speaker 2: after seven years it was like, you know, everybody out
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  Speaker 2: there has a comment and opinion and they don't realize
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  Speaker 2: that you're you know, you're a person. It hurts, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you're still going through something that's that's hard, even
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  Speaker 2: if you both agreed that it was the right thing
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  Speaker 2: to do. So yeah, I I totally get it. Me
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  Speaker 2: and my heart went out to you when that happened.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we didn't know each other, but I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking about you at that time, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: thinking about both of you and knowing that it had
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  Speaker 2: to be really difficult for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's been a minute now, so I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the process of healing is uh, you know complete.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say it's you know, going through all the all
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  Speaker 3: the therapy and still going through that, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: stepping away from sort of social like Instagram and Twitter
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Yeah, really was helpful. I think, like,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, I'm always like, man, I miss I
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  Speaker 3: miss mess around on those things and live tweeting The
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor like it's so fun. Yeah, so I think about
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  Speaker 3: getting it back into that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But do you feel like, do you feel like that
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  Speaker 4: played a part and in the divorce and what happened
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  Speaker 4: with you and Carly at all Instagram social media? Just
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  Speaker 4: I often wonder how Ryan and I would have been
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  Speaker 4: in the not the beginning, because you guys, you guys
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  Speaker 4: were together for how long.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, we were separated for a while, so like
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  Speaker 3: I think our marriage was like technically three or four years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, so even more to my point, like
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  Speaker 4: I feel like in the beginnings of our relationship, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we all of that stuff wasn't around we It was
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  Speaker 4: just message boards, you know, for me and Ryan. And
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  Speaker 4: I've often wondered if the stress of that, because it's
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  Speaker 4: got to be stressful navigating a new relationship that's in
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  Speaker 4: the public eye. And I'm not putting this on you.
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  Speaker 4: If if it played no part, then it played no part.
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  Speaker 4: But I just wonder if social media did play a
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  Speaker 4: part in just the difficulties that you guys experience leading
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  Speaker 4: up to your doors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think I resented a little bit
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  Speaker 3: because it's you know, then it's I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: much of a deal. So it seems like social media
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  Speaker 3: for bachelor people isn't as much of a thing anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Like it seems like I don't know, follower account all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. Uh uh. Then it was everyone was making
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money on social media, so it was
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  Speaker 3: not just like your relationship and like here's a part
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  Speaker 3: of my life. But it's like hey, also like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I need my engagement to be high and this to
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  Speaker 3: be I need this, this, this and this stuff to
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  Speaker 3: work out. And you know, I always found the social
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  Speaker 3: media that like that part really felt hard to be
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  Speaker 3: like we got to do a post, Like we got
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  Speaker 3: to do post, Like it's then like too long, people
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  Speaker 3: think we're breaking up. We gotta do a post. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: let's do posts, even though it's really like really hard,
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  Speaker 3: let's do it. So that is challenging to like work
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  Speaker 3: that you know, you're supposed to be authentic and real
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  Speaker 3: and get you're you're trying to like, you know, help
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  Speaker 3: come other company to be successful. Uh, and you have
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  Speaker 3: to keep these certain metrics up or else, you know,
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  Speaker 3: your agent gets mad at you or whatever. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: you gott to join this. Yeah, he was like, you
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  Speaker 3: have to join this TikTok. If you join now, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be huge. I was like, absolutely not, I'm not doing TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, no one's on it if you get
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  Speaker 3: on it now. And I could listen to him back
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  Speaker 3: then because yeah, it was you know before it became popular,
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  Speaker 3: but anyway, all that stuff was just like you have
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  Speaker 3: to have that in your head. Sure, pressure, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a wrinkle.
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  Speaker 2: That's a wrinkle trist that I didn't have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we I was on her season of the Bachelrette
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  Speaker 2: and then and then when they made me the bachelor
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  Speaker 2: after that. I don't think and Tristan, you and I
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  Speaker 2: have talked about this a lot. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: I would have been able to handle it in all honesty. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's so much negativity out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where people are just piping in with whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they just they just think it's fun, like oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this snarky thing, and and you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: at home reading it. And I mean, I've said the
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  Speaker 2: trist a million times. She knows this about me, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm incredibly sensitive about that kind of stuff. I'll see
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  Speaker 2: a million things talking about how nice of a person
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  Speaker 2: I am, and I'll see one thing that's mean, and
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  Speaker 2: that thing will stick with me for weeks. I can't
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  Speaker 2: shake it, you know, And so I can only imagine
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  Speaker 2: when you're under the microscope with I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our show was a different dynamic right, we had like
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  Speaker 2: thirty million viewers a week, but we yeah, but we
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  Speaker 2: didn't have social media, you guys. You know, now the
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  Speaker 2: show has like ten ten million views a week, but
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  Speaker 2: like millions and millions and millions of impressions. It's like
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have that chatterbox coming back at us to
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  Speaker 2: dissect everything we said or did.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: You did have like a s weekly magazine. You guys
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  Speaker 3: are in that show. You guys are like, you guys
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  Speaker 3: had all the magazine. I don't thin like those aren't
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  Speaker 3: even a thing anymore. But you guys like the grocery story,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: you'd be like there, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was more for my mom's. My mom. My
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  Speaker 1: mom loved that.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: You know, Oh, Bobby's on the cover. No matter what
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  Speaker 2: the cover said, could be like he's a complete jackass.
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  Speaker 2: My mom's like, honey, you look so handsome on the
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  Speaker 2: cover on.
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  Speaker 1: It's not nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, yeah it was. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: different dynamic. I feel like the social media stuff is
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  Speaker 2: just it's tougher to navigate.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I can imagine when.
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  Speaker 2: You're married and and and your and your maybe like
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: like you said, I didn't even think about that, but
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: the pressure to post something together looking happy, even if
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: you guys aren't aren't feeling so happy that day, but
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: we got to get something up the ad.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I guess it should kind of create a lot of
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: extra tension.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's there's a lot of
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: different different reasons. I don't think it was one thing.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I just don't think we were a great, you know,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: overall fit outside of the the beach of Paradise. Yeah,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: and uh and and we just couldn't really get to
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: where we had too much common ground. So but social
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: media definitely, like I don't know, I just it was
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: never what it did make it more chalenting, I think
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: How was your relationship now, because because I assume, you know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: you work together, because you can't juggle the kids without communicating,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: how how is your apparently now?
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I call it. I call it professional, like I think
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: it's like and that really is how it probably should be.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Very yeah, cut and dry to the point, and here's
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: what's happening, here's what's going on. You know, if there's
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: a high a really big highre hello, it's it's you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: we communicate through that stuff. But I think it's pretty
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: it's there. It's just it's what it is, like, it's
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: just yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: And then Harley obviously just announced that she has a
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: serious boyfriend. I assume that you knew about him prior,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: but maybe you didn't. How has that been with that
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: announcement bringing up any emotions? How are you feeling about that?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: And have you met him?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I haven't met him. I just I've found
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: out about him, I guess a couple of months ago.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to meet him. I really really want to
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: meet him. And the kids have mentioned him once or twice,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: and so I'm like, I like, obviously wasn't she was
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: announcing everything and she shouldn't have. But I'm really looking
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: forward to meeting this guy. So happy. I really want
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: the you know, I'm happy for her and want the
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: kids happy with them too. So yeah, yeah, I feel
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: like I feel pretty like even about it. I'm like,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I'm happy for her. I want the kids to be happy,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you know, happy mom happy. Yeah, you know, so that's
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: that's that's a big deal.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Plus I think that's that kind of support is great
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: from both of you to the other person. Like, you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I always say that, you know, it's just because two
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: people split up doesn't mean they don't want the other
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: one to be happy in life and love. It just
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: means that they weren't as happy as they wanted to
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: be in life and love. Right, So it's it's nice
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: to be supportive of that of your partner. And then
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I would think too, you know, it's probably a very
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: important thing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: When I got to Forrest, we didn't have children, so
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know that dynamic. I I I fear it,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: you know. I feel I'm always like, oh God, I.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Hope that doesn't happen to me again.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: But I can only imagine, like, you know, from that perspective,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: it's got to be important for you to know him
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and make sure that you know he knows that you're
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: supportive and that you're cool, and if something goes up
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: with the kids that.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You know he needs to call you, you know, or whatever.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys will work that out. But I'm
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: sure there's a lot to it, you know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really liked it'd be great. Yeah, that's that's
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: a big deal. It's important to have all those relationships
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: be really healthy.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Heck, yeah, I think so.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Now, even though you haven't shipped anything on the on
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the I G or on the Facebook.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Wait what does that mean?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I read earlier today. I read earlier today any uh
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: in Team Beat magazine that if you ship it, that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: means that you are you know, you're supporting it together like.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: A relationship essentially, like if you ship someone, Like if
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I wanted to ship the two of you together, that
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: you were a good match, then I would say, I'm
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: shipping Bob and Evan. I think, you know, I would
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: be wrong.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Is Evan shipping? Are you? Are you in the shipping business?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Right now? Wait? Who am I shipping?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: We're so confused right now they could cut the whole
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: show and we don't even know it. Like, are you
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: dating anybody? Like, I mean, what's your story? Are you
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: feeling serious about anybody?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been. I've been dating someone for a year
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: and she's amazing and she is absolutely incredible and uh
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: we're met through work and so it's been it's been
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: really cool. The kids are obsessed with her and so yeah, yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: it's been really fun. But I've obviously kept it. I'm
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: not really posting anything on I think the last time
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I posted was like, well was wedding a couple of
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: years ago or however long that was, and I'm just
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: not trying to keep it private. Do this a little bit.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I get it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I can imagine that you have to keep it private
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: compared to what you had previously.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's a smart.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, I definitely want to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: do this the right way, you know, like you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I feel like the third time is the charm, Like, hey,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: that's what I said. Nothing else outside of that, Evan.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: We have so much in common.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I love this.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I was very divorced in a year my first marriage
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and before I before I even met Trista, So when
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I met Trista, I had already been through the meat grinders,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: so to speak.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: So yeah, but so I get it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Man, third time is a charm, I think, especially when
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: you're a little bit older, because you kind of let
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: go of some of those, you know, those conventions of
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: marriage that you have in your head, like everything's always
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: going to be perfect and we're just going to be
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: like butterflies and puppy dogs all the time, and it's like, no,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: it's not. But then you also have that factor that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: you know it's not as bad even in times.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That aren't as great as others.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: It's not as bad as it could be because you've
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: experienced a little bit of that too, you know what
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, So that that experience actually gives you, I think,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: a totally different perspective to relationships.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And I need that time will be the charm for you, buddy,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you. Let's go. Come on.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I got you, man, I got you over here.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: My kids are also really opening and third times to Jurnal,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: especially the older ones, are like that, come on, yeah, right,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I forgot So.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I know you're not on social so maybe not. But
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: do you still watch the show?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I took a break. Yeah, and I've been watching this
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: season and with my friend and uh, I'm like, this
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: is such a great season. I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I missed this.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Such a great season, right, good.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: We haven't talked about.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: This, you know, I haven't been watching it, but not
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: not that I I know who Joey is and I've
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: seen all the great feedback to him, and I've watched
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of clips of the show.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But I just it's it's just a tough time of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the day from me. It comes on and I'm putting.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So but you know, my kids are at this age
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: right now where I'm putting them, and because I'm gone
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a lot, my thing when i'm home is I'm putting
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the boys to bed, you know. And so the show
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: comes on as I'm putting them to bed and then
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and I love it, you know, Like I put my
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: youngest to bed first, and I come in and grab Grayson.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I'm like, let's go, buddy, and you know, it's this
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: daddy's time, you know.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And so I'm reading books.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, from about seven to nine o'clock
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: every night, I'm pretty.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Much on lockdown, and so that's awesome, you know.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: So after that, it's like I'm catching up on other
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: stuff and I don't really have a chance to watch TV.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: So I would be lying if I told you I
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: didn't even know what's going on in the news of
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I just don't.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: But you know, I know that I like who I like,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and so when I watched Cliffs of the show, I'm like, man,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I like this Joey guy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I really like him, you know.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and I like a few of the ladies
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that I've seen on the show too, And I really.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Hope that it all works out for him.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Evan, do you like for the end?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Do do you watch spoilers or listen to spoilers?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not spoiling people. Yeah, I really hope it's actually
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: either one would be great, but they both are like
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: so different in their connection with him. But I'm leaning
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: towards Kelsey, although Daisy is more like that that would
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: be the storybook bachelor type of outcome. But I do
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: like Kelsey a lot. I think she's really cool. Yeah.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I thought Maria would have been a great would have
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: been a great fun choice too, like she would have
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: kept them on his toes. Yeah, I would love to
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: see her be the bachelorette.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I think, Oh my gosh, I know so. I haven't
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: watched the women tell all. They haven't announced. It was
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: a mess. I'm sure.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I think they moved it an hour later just because
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: of bald cursing.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No, that's why.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: They changed, didn't you. That's Oh my gosh, that makes
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: so much sense. That is hysterical.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I loved Maria. My daughter and I are actually watching
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: it together for the first time, like a season where
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: he's seen she's fourteen and she has seen different episodes
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: from different shows. But so she we went to the
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Golden Wedding and so great it was. Yeah, it was amazing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: To stop it, Bob, I loved that wedding. Oh wait, yeah,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: that's right. I wasn't invited.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Oh I say that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I was invited until Trista added Blasilely and Max to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: her guest list and then like you're out.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Yes it is, that's true.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: So anyway, the kids went and Blakesley and me, Me
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: and Blakesley and Joey and Caitlyn were together at the bar. Yes,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: we were at the bar with a fortune, and we
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: had this like in depth conversation that I feel like
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Blakesley just she just bonded with him. She she just
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: loves Joey. So she really wanted to watch this season
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: with me, and we've been watching it together and Maria
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: was one of our favorites.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: We loved her.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I just love how like she is just who she
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: is and she doesn't care and she does keep everyone
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: on their toes like she's not the status quo kind
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: of person that's on the show, you know.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I Her authenticity is I think so appealing, and Joey's
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: is too Joey's I think he's a fantastic brochler.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: He really is. You guys, I have this group of
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: buddies that we are we're a text thread together and
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: there my it's my brother in law, Jady, who I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: know trust has met, but my brother in law, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: then a bunch of really more of his buddies and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: then me. But we're all from the same area called
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: down River, Michigan. And so you know, ever since I've
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: been on ever since I was on The Bachelor twenty
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: years ago, or since I was on trist the season
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: twenty one years ago, they've always been like, you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: teasing me. And well, one of the things that my
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: brother in law and a couple of the other guys
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: on the thread do is they are super into watching
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the women tell all the men tell.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: All right, yes, So all I know is.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: The other night, my phone is just blowing up and
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: they're toasting, you know, they taking pictures of themselves toasting
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: wine to the TV and you know, drinks. And their
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: whole thing was if they could, if they could write
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the script that Maria needs to be the next bachelorette.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: That's that was the consensus of everybody on that. Yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: and so as someone who hasn't even got a chance
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: to watch this season, I'm like, well, I know exactly
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: who you guys are talking about. Like they think she's beautiful,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: She's got a big personality, she doesn't care what anybody thinks,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: you know, add up.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But she's still.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Kind and he has a sweet side.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah's a fun one for sure. It'll be a little
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: bit of a mess because she probably tried to quit
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: a few times.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I mean that that I think is right. There is
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: why she won't be the bachelor at But yeah, it's unfortunate,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: and I do think that was the right decision for
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Joey to make because she did try to leave. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: if any shows you that they're going to leave you
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: when the going gets.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Tough, I think.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean I do love the Kelsey and Daisy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I've actually like d.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: MD both of them and just love I love both
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: of them. I think either of them will be a
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: great match for him and he could find happiness. But
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I okay, I want to ask you, Evan, since you've
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: been watching, do you have any addictions as to what
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: happens in the finale, because, like they've been alluding to
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: the fact that it's never happened before, So whatever happens
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: has never happened before.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what Maria comes back, Maria comes Is it
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: post Harrison has never happened before though, or that's a
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: valid point because a lot happened before Jesse pre Jesse.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it gets turned down. I think it
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: gets turned down by somebody.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: That will break my heart, that will break my heart. Like,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: has that ever happened before?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think it's ever been.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think a season has ever ended, not to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: my knowledge anyway. I mean, we've had several seasons to
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: end without a proposal, mine included, but we haven't had
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: any end with someone actually proposing and the other person
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: saying I'm sorry, I'm not feeling it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: You're right, you're right. That's never happened before.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: We also haven't had that that one person sent home
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: come back to crash the engagement ceremony either, which that's
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: my prediction. Oh really, Maybe Maria gets even spicier and
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: decides she's coming back to claim what she thinks is
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: rightfully hers.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Oh oh kay, heart, that's how I'm read.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Not a bad I don't be interesting.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I have to still hope because at
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the wedding, I believe they had already filmed everything I think,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: and he seems really happy. Of course, he could just
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: have already dealt with all of the you know, sadness
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: and everything and been fine. But oh gosh, I really
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: hope he doesn't get his heart.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: We're gonna get Okay, if what if Someone's like I
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: need some time to think. What if Daisy's like I
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: need some time to think about it, because it like
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: the previews were like showing her being really emotional, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: so what if what if that's it's just as simple
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: as that. You've come back like that. Okay, let's do this.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: You're right, it could be.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I'm so I just I needed to come tomorrow. Is
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: it next week? Is that the finale next week? And they'll
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: do that after the Yeah, okay.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: The one?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, hold on.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: I'm just reading he has the coochlear implant.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: God, she's adorable, she's so sweet.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love her.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's the one who I really loved from the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: night one intros I remember thinking, oh my god, that
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: girl is so cute.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, she is super sweet, and I just I've
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: heard out there just people are like, I don't like
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: their connection as much. It seems like Kelsey and and
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Joey have more of like a a chemistry, like a
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: visceral chemistry, if you will, And then you know, Daisy
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: makes him happy. And but also like it's funny because
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Ryan was kind of listening in on the other night,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: which she does not watch the show, but because there
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: was no Hockey on, he was he was watching with us,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: and he was like, do you feel like they're making
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: us think that he's going to choose this one and
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: not the other one? And I feel like when he
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: was talking to Daisy, like there were a lot of
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: breaks in the conversation where they were just kind of
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: sitting there like, you know, it wasn't it wasn't blowing
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: very well. So whenever they do that sort of thing
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and they and they kind of lead us down a
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: path of oh, these two don't have a connection, I'm like, hmmm,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: they probably do, and they're just showing the moment where.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: That was the old school trick.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Remember the old school trick back in our days was
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: they always made the audience think they're picking the other person. Right, Yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: so when you actually pick the person where you have
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the best chemistry people, what you doing man? And you're like, no, honestly,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: this was amazing too, you know.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So yeah that was the old trick. So maybe they're
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: going back to who knows, they've gone through dance so
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: many times. Yeah, the old days were simple, buddy, We
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: were simple.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: I mean I was a fan. I watched it, like,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I love this show, Like from it was so great
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: at the beginning. It's been up and down.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: We had so much fun together. Like but I always
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: say this and in Trista, you know, I say this
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: about you all the time. The one piece of advice
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: that I took from Trista which I thought was so
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: great was I realized that it really starts at the top,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Like whoever that lead person is, they really set the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: tone and just to set the tone, like we were buddies,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: like all the guys in the mansion hanging out.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: We loved each other.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Like. There was never a moment where I was like, oh, man,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I don't want Ryan to get that day.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh the beast time.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Man, I love you, brom you know, I'll be shamoo
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: sitting back here swimming in.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: The pool, you know, while you're away.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I was a little heavier then, but but there was that,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And then it was like, but when I went into
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: my season, I started it that way too. I'm like, you, guys,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: please don't think of this as a prize, because this
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: is a hot mess.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: So just go.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Ahead and have a good time, get to know each other,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: have fun, and however this thing shakes out, it's going
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: to shake out, you know.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: It's like, it doesn't mean you guys have to be
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: backbiting here when you know. And I loved that.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Trista kind of led with that and made us realize
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: it was okay to be friends. Like we didn't go
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: in there and feeling like we had to be caddy
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and enemies. And I almost got kicked off the show
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: as a result of it in the first week by
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the former I guess he still is the EP but
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: came over and it was like, you know, hey, man,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: don't be all kumbaya on the hot tub, buddy. I'm like, what,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I got a little trouble, But regardless, it was definitely
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: just a lot of fun. And you know, I think
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: that starts at the top, and that was one thing
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I think really really reverberated through the screen for people
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: at home.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: They knew these were a bunch of good guys.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Who liked each other and just adored Trista, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: and that was kind of the coolest part about it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's what I think.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Joey has been like such a the one thing I've
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: taken from what I've seen of his season so far,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: he's been kind of that kind of a guy, like
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: just like a you know, almost just like a big
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: smile on his face for pretty much everything, and you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: trying to everybody happy.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And I like that. I like that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah he doesn't. It felt like everyone was doing it
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: for the likes, you know, for for a while. Seems
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: he seems to not be that way. So yeah, it's
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: prove And of course they are getting really great follower stuff.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I was looking at it because I'm curious how they're
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: doing because it's such a good season. They're all like,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's back up, like you know, there
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: they're follower counsel all that stuff. So it's fascinated by
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: that work just because mac theme to.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Another question related to the show, do your kids know
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: how you guys.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Met, uh the baby, like the six and the four
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: year old. Uh, Charlie does not, but Bella obviously.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Your older kids. They were on the show, weren't they
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: They Yeah, yeah, yeah they were so so Charlie and Bella.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Did they know how you and Carly originally met Bella.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Bella has gotten it to a degree. Yeah, people ask
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: for pictures. Then then she gets really it's not a
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: big dealer, but she's just kind of like, oh, yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I'm on a TV show. And so like a couple
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: of years ago they filmed, they did some I was
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: watching and they did some like throwback moment and it
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: was like I was like, hey, Bella, look there's daddy
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: on the TV. And I was like, yeah, it's like
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: a football thing or something. And she was like, that's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: so cool, daddy. And I was like, yeah, that's how
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: we met. That was I mean, you know, and she
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: she she doesn't talk about it, but yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: It's just part of life, Like that's just what did it. Yeah,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: that's how my kids were. When somebody wants a picture
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: my mom and dad. That's not normal, but it's fine,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: or that's normal. I guess they were thinking probably, and
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: then you can be then you can be.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: My son Grayson will be at like McDonald's playland. Tristan
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: knows this story, I think, but he'll he'll literally see
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: people like looking at me and talking and he'll go over.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: He'll go, Hi, I'm Grayson. Are you looking at my dad?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Do you know him from? Do you know him from?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Bob the Builder?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: And then they'll go what Builder and they'll say no,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: We've never watched it, and he goes, I'm just kidding.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: It's Bob the Bachelor. Do you want a picture with him?
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: He takes pictures.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: I'm just like a story that's hysterical.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, I literally does it all the time. I'll just
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: be like Grayson, they don't need a pictures on you
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: their fine? Really sure he's going where you gets it from?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh my gosh, that is that's hysterical. My kids
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: are like opposite. Can we run away from the camera anytime? Anyone?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So funny?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: That's how the boys are. They got sick of it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sure I do love that like it was fun
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: for a minute and then like a way to like
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: a very small degree, and but they that really affected them.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Actually they hate like social media or they hated it
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: for a season, Like they went through like a couple
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: things like it's all fake, it's all horrible, and so
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: they but they definitely hate the hated the picture thing
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: after after the novelty, Yeah, it's calm back down, like
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: it's really it's it's a cool, fun thing to be like, Yeah,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: that happened to me at one point in my life,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and now I'm back to just being a dad.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Because your girlfriend watched the show, did she know who
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: you are before you started dating? I obviously who you
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: were from work, but did she know your past on
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: The Bachelor before you.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Guys started She she didn't, and I think like somebody
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: else told her, like after the fact, they're like, you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you know, like everyone was on the TV show now
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I know, I guess. So she like looked at them.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: She's like, oh my god. Yeah, she assumed I was
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: married because I had like you know, I was like
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I talked about my five kids, right, It's like I
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: got five kids, right, married, And so it was like
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: when she found out she was single and she did
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: the whole deep dive thing, I was like, oh my gosh.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: So uh And she's more like way private about stuff here,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: so it was. It was a bit of a like
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: you're like, okay, I don't know, and I was like,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: it's it's fine, it's not that big of a deal anymore.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Like take your time figure it out, exactly.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: It's it's not all of you are I mean, for
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: all of us, it's not our identity. It's just part
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: of you know, our.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Story exactly for most of us. For some it's still
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: a very big part of identity.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I always I always tell everyone whenever they you
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: know so, and this is something Evan, because I can
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: tell you you're a humble guy, and you know you've
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: been through it and you're back home and doing your thing.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: But people always ask me, like, you know, what advice
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: do you give the new bachelors. I'm like, well, they
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: don't really ever ask me, but if they were to
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: ask me, my advice would be, it's not about you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: A monkey could be handing on a flower.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Up there, and the girls are going to get pissed
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: and cry if they don't get a flower, and the
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: guys are gonna get caddy and weird behind the scenes
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: if able to get a flower. But you know, I
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: think that's that's obviously, you know, that's specific to my season,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: because just this season it was all truly about Trista
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: and if it's not true, it was true, it was true,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: they could have had to chimp up their handed out
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: flowers and people don't Yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Stop it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I do. I feel like we met. Did we meet
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: on what was that show?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Jeez?
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: A country singer?
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kelly Pickler, Kelly Pickler.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: That was it, because I feel like we saw each
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: other there, But I don't know if we had met
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: before that.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I think we were in each other Good Morning America
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: at some point or something. Yeah. Yes, there's been a
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: couple of times with the Pickler and band.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: I'm so sad it's out of business now or whatever.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Totally, that was so much fun.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I love Kelly Pickler.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, cool, it was a.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Fun show, and I love Nashville. Getting to go to
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Nashville is fun for me. When you don't live there,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: it's a fun place to visit. Well, it has been
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: really fun to talk to you, Vin, you catch up.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: I'm really happy for your happiness and that you've you've
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: found happiness in another relationship. Tell her we said hi,
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: and if she ever wants to come on, she can
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: come on the podcast.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. Doesn't sound like she's going to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: have interest in that though, but I don't know.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: But give those cute cutie pie kids a big hug
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: from us, and we just appreciate your candor. And I'm
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: on here to chat.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. And Bob, great
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: to meet you on here. I hope you can.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Definitely, I would love that, man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I actually come down to Nashville quite a bit, so
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: next time i'm done, I'll get me a number from
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: our producers.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I will for sure.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: It'd be awesome.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, Yeah, i'd love it. I'd love it. You
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: seem like a great guy.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I'm happy for all your success and all your kid
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: kids and all the good stuff happening to you. We
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: wish you the best, and please come back and visit
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: us anytime you want.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Awesome, Thanks so much, thank you.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Thanks a nice guy. He's awesome, Yeah.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: So sweet. I just like him, super down earth and
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: actually super freaking funny, and I just yeah, he's a
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: good guy.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I like him well.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: As always, you conducted a lovely interview, Miss Sutter. I
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: thought you did spectacular.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Oh thank you you too.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Gripping gripping work.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You ebbed and flowed between, you know, the social dynamic
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: of a conversation and the hard hitting news facts.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: And that's oh yeah, I'm just a hard hitting reporter.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: That's too. And now I'm going to go eat my breakfast.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: No, hey, there you go, there you go. Yeah, it's
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: early for you. It's very early for you, it is it.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: I actually slept until ten thirty the other day.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: It's freakrkets. So I don't have to up and get them,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: move in and make sure they get to school on time.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: So not that I would meet, not that I have to,
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: but I just feel like, even though they're fourteen and
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: sixteen and they should be able to do it on
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: their own because Max is driving, I just I still,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: you know, I want to help.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it in the same way.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I mean mine mine can't do anything by themselves, but
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: you know that's still I enjoy it. You know, the
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: things they can do by themselves, whatever is, I'm still
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: doing them for them anyway.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: But always a pleasure, my dear friend. Thank you for
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: taking the time out today, for doing the show. Thanks
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: everybody for listening to almost famous to ogs, we appreciate
• 42:45
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