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Engagement Ready · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with on our radio.
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. We have
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Speaker 2: g and Nina Ja Belli.
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Speaker 3: And did you say right right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: And Blake Hornsman on the podcast. They're here celebrating their engagement.
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Speaker 2: They got engaged it last week. Is that true time?
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Speaker 5: No, it was thirty so a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, October thirties. You kept it secret for a little
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Speaker 2: while and you just announced it last week.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we got engaged in the election happened.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were like what You're like, Yeah, I'm just
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Speaker 2: gonna be quiet for a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 6: We actually probably could have used some refreshers to the
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Speaker 6: timeline actually during that I want to dive in right
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Speaker 6: away with this because it is such a special moment
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Speaker 6: for the two of you. Blake, I texted you this
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Speaker 6: and I mean it how I mean you guys have
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Speaker 6: been together now for how many years?
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Speaker 4: Almost three?
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Speaker 5: Three next month?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, and you obviously have a beautiful child together
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Speaker 6: who is such a joy to watch, and so you
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Speaker 6: were like, very your your lives are very intimately entwined
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Speaker 6: at this point.
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Speaker 5: To say the least.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and you are you know, you haven't proposed yet,
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Speaker 6: so you're planning this proposal for a year.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, for a year. Yeah, he was planning it.
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Speaker 7: Or I was pregnant.
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Speaker 4: That's a good little tidbit throw in there.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Ben. So like basically, yeah, I was. I
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Speaker 8: had first started August of twenty twenty two, is that right?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 8: No, three, August of twenty two three is my first visit.
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Speaker 8: It's a brilliant earth And like I knew at that point,
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Speaker 8: I was like, oh, this is a good start, you know.
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Speaker 8: I was like, let's just like get I had no
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Speaker 8: idea what to expect because I mean picking out I
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Speaker 8: mean I've always I've always picked out a ring before,
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Speaker 8: but it's nothing like in real life, you know what
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Speaker 8: I mean, Like they just had the rings there and
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Speaker 8: you just kind of pick one. So this was like
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Speaker 8: I get to customize it. I knew I had asked
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Speaker 8: her long before, like what she wanted as far as
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Speaker 8: like an oval cut, all that fancy stuff.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 2: He literally just.
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Speaker 4: Like randomly texted me when I was like at the
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Speaker 4: nail salon one y, he goes, so what you want?
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Speaker 2: And I was like, nail salon of all places.
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Speaker 7: He's like, so, what kind of ring you want?
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Speaker 4: I'm just sitting there, you know, like scrolling like when
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Speaker 4: you're you know, at the nails chilling.
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Speaker 7: And then I was like.
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Speaker 4: What I called my cousin.
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Speaker 7: I was like, what kind of ring do I want?
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Speaker 8: Like?
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Speaker 4: You want this cut, you want the prongs, you want this,
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Speaker 4: you want that?
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Speaker 7: And I was like, you know, like something like this,
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Speaker 7: a little like a.
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Speaker 3: Little oval, something little little.
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Speaker 4: And I was like nonchalant.
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Speaker 2: I was like, this will do.
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Speaker 5: And then that's it.
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Speaker 4: That's literally all we ever talked about it. He did
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Speaker 4: not want to go ring shopping with me.
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Speaker 8: I wanted to be a surprise. So I like, yeah,
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Speaker 8: I wanted to be like a surprise. Yeah, so I
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Speaker 8: didn't I that was it.
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Speaker 5: And then I didn't ask her again. I'd asked her.
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Speaker 8: I asked her ring size at that point, but I
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Speaker 8: didn't ask again, like I just I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 8: I got what she wants, and now I'm going to
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Speaker 8: see if I can pick out the ring that she
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Speaker 8: really loves.
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Speaker 4: And for a whole year I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 4: this man has like a random picture that I took
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Speaker 4: off Pinterest, like like is this even I mean, I
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Speaker 4: guess it is what it is. And then for a
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Speaker 4: year I was just like, I don't know when this
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Speaker 4: is going to happen. So yeah, engagement nails for like
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Speaker 4: a year straight.
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Speaker 2: It was so stressful.
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Speaker 7: Friend tip white chrome for like a yek.
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Speaker 5: Sweat it out, sweat it out.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't wait to be Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 2: you guys, I have so many questions from this now,
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Speaker 2: all right, So, Blake, when she found out she was pregnant,
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Speaker 2: were you like ever thinking, oh, I got to get
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Speaker 2: the rate, like let's hurry up and get the ring
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Speaker 2: the finger before we had come out with the pregnancy,
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Speaker 2: or you like, let's wait until after the baby. Then
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Speaker 2: did this change your timeline of proposal.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good question. I basically kind of like
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Speaker 8: told her. I was like, listen, we can get engaged tomorrow,
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Speaker 8: we can get married tomorrow if.
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Speaker 5: That's something you want.
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Speaker 8: And she was just kind of like and I was
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Speaker 8: like no, No, She's like, oh, we don't need to
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Speaker 8: rush it, like you know, we're in it for the
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Speaker 8: long haul, like we know, you know. So she was
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Speaker 8: basically like I want to be well, obviously you were incredible,
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Speaker 8: Like she ended up being having an incredible pregnancy and
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Speaker 8: like felt like she was glowing, but she was.
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Speaker 5: We didn't think it was going to be like that.
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Speaker 5: So she was like, I want to be hot.
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Speaker 4: Again, so then you can get you when you get Oh,
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Speaker 4: I want to feel good. I want to feel like myself,
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Speaker 4: I mean for me and it.
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Speaker 7: I didn't.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how to work this, so I'm not
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Speaker 4: like traumatized to the sense where from love is blind
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Speaker 4: where I think he's going to tell me not the altar.
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Speaker 4: But because of that experience, I did want some things
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Speaker 4: to just kind of be like this is how I've
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Speaker 4: always wanted it to be, you know, instead of having
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Speaker 4: that experience of like knowing when I was getting get
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Speaker 4: engaged seeing you know, no, not seeing that person through
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Speaker 4: the fucking wall, like having this super generic ring be
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Speaker 4: picked up for me.
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Speaker 7: Like I wanted.
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Speaker 4: Something to feel like you know how I always envisioned it.
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Speaker 4: So that's why I was like, you know what, there's
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Speaker 4: no rush, Let's just take it one step out a
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Speaker 4: time again, Like I didn't know if I was going.
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Speaker 7: To feel good during my pregnancy.
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Speaker 4: It was one of those things where I was like,
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Speaker 4: I've always envisioned myself just.
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Speaker 7: Being in a happy mood. Let's let's just kind of
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Speaker 7: keep that.
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Speaker 4: Moment sacred and between us and I mean literally we
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Speaker 4: met what October no December twenty twenty one, and one
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Speaker 4: of the first conversations we had, I was like, I
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Speaker 4: want to get married in Croatia, and like we already
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Speaker 4: knew that we were going to get married because we
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Speaker 4: knew that this was going to happen. So again it
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Speaker 4: was just like a let's just let's just keep this.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we're gonna do it all our timeline. We didn't
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Speaker 8: want to rush anything. We just want to do it
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Speaker 8: on our timeline. And so yeah, it worked out perfect, It.
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Speaker 7: Worked out great. Heath was there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: That was really special too, is to have Heath there
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Speaker 8: for the photos and for the moment and everything.
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Speaker 5: It was really special. And he'll be you know, we
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Speaker 5: able to look back and be like, look, you were
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Speaker 5: there when you're.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he'll be.
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Speaker 5: At the wedding. Yeah, the ring bearer and all that
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Speaker 5: fun stuff.
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Speaker 6: I want to flash back and then get back to
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Speaker 6: the timeline we're on right now. I want to flash
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Speaker 6: back to the two of you, and this question is
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Speaker 6: for both of you to answer individually. Obviously, you were
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Speaker 6: thinking about a proposal and getting married before you knew
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Speaker 6: that Heath was going to be entering into this world
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Speaker 6: with the two of you. What was the moment or
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Speaker 6: is there a moment where you remember going, I'm going
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Speaker 6: I want to marry this person.
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Speaker 7: Hmm, that's a good question I'll answer for this is
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Speaker 7: about you.
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Speaker 6: So i'll give you Yeah.
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Speaker 8: For me, there wasn't like an exact moment. I was like, oh,
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Speaker 8: there wasn't that for me. I think it was just
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Speaker 8: when she moved in, because like in my past relayships,
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Speaker 8: I've had some long relationships where like they moved in
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Speaker 8: and it was like whoa, like we can together, we
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Speaker 8: can not cohabitate. So I think it was I already
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Speaker 8: know I loved her, you know, all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 8: and then she moved in, and then it was it
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Speaker 8: was smooth and it was like she did you know
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Speaker 8: she Like it wasn't like oh, like I'm.
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Speaker 5: Like, I don't know how to explain it. Like it
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Speaker 5: wasn't like she.
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Speaker 8: Was like, oh my house now, you know. I was
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Speaker 8: like not in that sense. It was like she made
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Speaker 8: the house better for in my life better. She made
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Speaker 8: like I could see a future with her after it
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Speaker 8: was like, okay, we can go.
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Speaker 2: Have it in the house better. I was jared but
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Speaker 2: acknowledged this.
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Speaker 5: It was now give me a great care.
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Speaker 8: I only lived here for like a month before she
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Speaker 8: moved in, so I hadn't made.
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Speaker 5: It mine yet really, but no, she did.
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Speaker 8: She turned the house into a home, right, and that's
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Speaker 8: what that's what Yeah, that's what you did for sure.
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Speaker 5: So yeah in that sense, and then I was like, okay,
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Speaker 5: like we could live together like this.
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Speaker 8: I can see this like future because in the past
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Speaker 8: that was like that was kind of a hard thing
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Speaker 8: for me to co have dates.
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Speaker 5: So so yeah, that was kind of like me while
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Speaker 5: I was like trama.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, my past strama and relationships were like once
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Speaker 8: I lived with a girl, it was like, oh god,
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Speaker 8: I can't do this.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, we clicked in that sense. So that was
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Speaker 5: that was kind of like what it was for me
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Speaker 5: for sure?
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Speaker 2: For you?
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Speaker 5: What was it for you?
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Speaker 4: I So he invited me for Christmas two weeks like
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Speaker 4: after the show, so we'd already been like dating for
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Speaker 4: three weeks, and it was like it was January where
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Speaker 4: I was in here, I was in this house and
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Speaker 4: everything just felt so like like I was meant to
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Speaker 4: be here.
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Speaker 7: I was just like whoa. And I got on a
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Speaker 7: call with my manager and they're like, so, like, how's
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Speaker 7: it going. And I was like, I'm going to marry him?
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Speaker 5: Was January me too? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: And then I had to tell Netflix no for Perfect
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Speaker 4: Match like a month later.
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Speaker 8: And at that point I had to marry it.
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Speaker 4: Like this solidifies it for me, you know, it's not
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Speaker 4: just like a thing that I'm saying like this kind
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Speaker 4: of this just tells me like I don't want to
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Speaker 4: look anywhere else, even though I have this like amazing
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Speaker 4: opportunity to do it. And so yeah, it was like
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Speaker 4: that time frame and then after that I was just like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I guess I'm in Colorado.
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Speaker 6: Know if I remember correctly though, and I could be
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Speaker 6: thinking about this all wrong. When you first came out
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Speaker 6: to Colorado, this was not a you're moving, but then
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Speaker 6: you just never left. Like I remember this, there's like
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Speaker 6: a plan of like, hey, she's going to come spend
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Speaker 6: like a month and it's going to be great, but
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Speaker 6: you know, she lives in Miami. And then it was
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Speaker 6: like five months and then all of a sudden, it
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Speaker 6: was a year.
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Speaker 5: The first year I went home a week here, a
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Speaker 5: week there, and then I.
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Speaker 4: Went home twice to repack and then I just gave back.
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Speaker 4: But you were so sweet like you always. I remember,
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Speaker 4: like on the show, you were just like, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: can't wait for you to like come and see my house,
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Speaker 4: and you know, I can just like envision you cooking
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Speaker 4: like in the kitchen. And then I remember your roommate
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Speaker 4: was like leaving and You're like, yeah, like we can
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Speaker 4: play house now, like you said those words, and I
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Speaker 4: was just like, oh my god, like we're on.
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Speaker 2: The same page.
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Speaker 4: It was so sweet because like you know, like you
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Speaker 4: can tell like a guy like wants to or not.
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Speaker 4: And he never told me like, oh hey I got
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Speaker 4: a gig, like you should leave, like he was yeah,
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Speaker 4: like do you want to come or do you want
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Speaker 4: to stay? Like he was never like this is a
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Speaker 4: good time for you to go home, Like never never
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Speaker 4: said anything like that. So I was like, all right, cool, like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I'm here, I'm on the same page.
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Speaker 2: Not to go further back in time, but when you
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Speaker 2: guys first met on All Stars Shore, did you feel
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Speaker 2: like a love at first sight feeling?
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Speaker 5: Though?
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Speaker 2: Is there any moment during the filming where you were
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Speaker 2: like I could marry this person.
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Speaker 4: So I had like this I was all in because
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Speaker 4: you know I was. I made sure to like be
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Speaker 4: in the moment, and he made me feel fantastic, like
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Speaker 4: I'd never clicked with somebody like that, where it was
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Speaker 4: like so genuine. I had like butterflies every single time
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Speaker 4: I saw you. But in my head, I was like,
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Speaker 4: I have this dating show coming up, so like this
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Speaker 4: is just gonna be the sweetest, shortest relationship ever, and
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Speaker 4: and I just I just made sure to be like,
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Speaker 4: you know, like savor every second of it. And then
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Speaker 4: I told him about it while we were still there,
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Speaker 4: and the way she told.
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Speaker 8: Me, filming had just wrapped and we were like in
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Speaker 8: the like hotel, you know, after it wraps, and they're
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Speaker 8: doing like itms like passing, and.
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Speaker 4: She told me, I was like, I had this dating show,
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Speaker 4: and the way that you reacted, I knew that I
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Speaker 4: wasn't going to do it.
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Speaker 3: How like, how did he how did he react so sweet?
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Speaker 4: Like you expect someone to be like, oh, like you
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Speaker 4: used me, but why didn't you tell me like you
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Speaker 4: just led me on and I'm going to break my heart?
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Speaker 7: And all this shit? He was so he was he
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Speaker 7: was sad. He was just so sad. He just went, oh,
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Speaker 7: like I really thought this was something.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it.
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Speaker 4: I promise, but it was just the way and he
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Speaker 4: was so and I left for like a couple of hours,
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Speaker 4: you know, to like really think about it, and I
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Speaker 4: just come back in the room and he was just
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Speaker 4: like laying down like so fucking depressed, and I was like,
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Speaker 4: this man.
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Speaker 2: Loves me, like.
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Speaker 8: It's kind of and I kind of surprised myself the
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Speaker 8: way I react. I think, as I had been in
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Speaker 8: the industry, you know, in this world for a few
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Speaker 8: years at that point, like I understood the opportunity. So
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Speaker 8: I wasn't gonna be like you are me, you know
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Speaker 8: what I mean. I wasn't gonna be like, you know,
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Speaker 8: like that's it, we're breaking out. It was just kind
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Speaker 8: of on the things, was like, listen, if you go
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Speaker 8: on the show, we're not together. Like I'm not going
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Speaker 8: to be the boyfriend back home. But I did say
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Speaker 8: it like a month later, but I was like, if
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Speaker 8: this is something you feel like, you know, maybe I'll
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Speaker 8: still be here when you get back. Because I was
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Speaker 8: like that one, like we do have such a strong connection,
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Speaker 8: but yeah, I was super sad. I remember being like
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Speaker 8: super sad and disappointed, but at the same time, like
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Speaker 8: when we were filming, I remember thinking like like this
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Speaker 8: is great, Like she were clicking. Like I I remember
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Speaker 8: waking up every morning and sitting at the breakfast table
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Speaker 8: and like she'd always come out like a runway and
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Speaker 8: she come out and here like you know, how her
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Speaker 8: her clothes, you know her style, she come out her style.
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Speaker 8: I was like, oh my gosh, you know, every day,
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Speaker 8: every morning. But I also do remember thinking like that
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Speaker 8: she was like not necessarily holding back, but there was
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Speaker 8: you were going in with the therapist a lot.
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Speaker 4: I remember like, oh, just live in the moment, like
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Speaker 4: whatever you know it was in the future hasn't happened yet.
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Speaker 7: And I was like, yeah, you're right, you're right.
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Speaker 4: But I remember like as soon as I met you,
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Speaker 4: and I've said the story before, but when you're saying
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Speaker 4: like love at first sight, I look back at it
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Speaker 4: now and I'm like, that's what it was, because like
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Speaker 4: you walk down to the beach and it was just
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Speaker 4: like me and like three other people there.
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Speaker 7: And I remember and I was like, why do you
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Speaker 7: look so familiar?
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Speaker 4: And he's wearing like this like white shirt with like
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Speaker 4: blue flowers on it, like twenty eighteen, Blake, you.
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Speaker 2: Know what I mean, it's like a little tight.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 7: He's like walking on blah blah blah. Do you look
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Speaker 7: so familiar?
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Speaker 4: He goes, I'm from the Bachelorette and like the biggest
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Speaker 4: Blake smile. And I was just like off, like I
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Speaker 4: like this, like feeling my stomach and I was like.
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Speaker 5: Not the bachelor guy, red flag, Like.
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Speaker 4: I fell for it, like literally like that moment, I
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Speaker 4: was like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're in h.
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Speaker 6: The It's always interesting to me too, though, because we've
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Speaker 6: established that you guys, you know, only have this this
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Speaker 6: past on the show, but then you've worked through stuff
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Speaker 6: and you've came together, and you've been li together, and
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Speaker 6: you have a son together and all these crazy things
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Speaker 6: that have brought your life together.
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Speaker 3: Blake.
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Speaker 6: I want to hear from you though, as you got
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Speaker 6: ready to propose, the feelings and the emotions that came
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Speaker 6: about in you to propose to somebody that you knew
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Speaker 6: I would assume was gonna.
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Speaker 3: Say yes, that's pretty sure.
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Speaker 6: Just give us a perspective of still just how hard
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Speaker 6: that is to propose?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, man, you asked the question that I've
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Speaker 2: been dying to ask the entire episode because I watched
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Speaker 2: your guy's YouTube video about how nervous you were. I'm like, Blake,
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Speaker 2: you have a child together. To me, to me, that
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Speaker 2: is the ultimate game, you know.
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Speaker 6: And I just have to say this because Blake and
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Speaker 6: I texted about this, and I don't want to put
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Speaker 6: words in his mouth, so I'm going to it's just different,
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Speaker 6: Like I don't know, like, it's just different.
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Speaker 3: So I want to hear Blake.
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Speaker 6: Knowing that you have a child together, knowing that she
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Speaker 6: was going to say yes, what still did it feel like?
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Speaker 1: So?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I was.
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Speaker 8: I was shocked and out nervous. So was I wasn't
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Speaker 8: nervous Like picking out the ring. I was super excited
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Speaker 8: when I got the ring, which was like probably about
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Speaker 8: six weeks I think before the prosal it was like
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Speaker 8: burning a hole in my pocket, Like I just wanted
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Speaker 8: to show her cause I knew she would love it
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Speaker 8: so much.
16:18
Speaker 5: I was so excited.
16:19
Speaker 8: But then when I fully started a plan plan it all,
16:22
Speaker 8: which was probably about three weeks out, four weeks out
16:24
Speaker 8: something like that, I started to get so nervous. I
16:27
Speaker 8: was like, you're right, like I knew she was gonna say, yes,
16:30
Speaker 8: we have a child together, like we'd already you know,
16:32
Speaker 8: planned this future together.
16:33
Speaker 5: But I don't know what it was. I think some
16:35
Speaker 5: of it was kind of she spoke to it a
16:36
Speaker 5: little bit.
16:37
Speaker 8: She had been you know, engaged, she had been more
16:41
Speaker 8: or less proposed to that you did the proposing too,
16:43
Speaker 8: But I knew that that wasn't how she envisioned it,
16:46
Speaker 8: you know, I knew that it was like I felt
16:48
Speaker 8: a lot of pressure, Like I felt a lot of pressure.
16:50
Speaker 8: I want I wanted it to be perfect for her,
16:53
Speaker 8: So the building up to it was like a lot
16:56
Speaker 8: and I couldn't believe when I the two days leading
16:59
Speaker 8: up to we were in I was like shaking, like I.
17:01
Speaker 5: Was like freaking out. My heart was founding.
17:04
Speaker 8: And then when we were at the park in Madrid,
17:09
Speaker 8: I was like had the like you know, ring in
17:12
Speaker 8: my back pocket, and I was like running through all
17:13
Speaker 8: these snares in my head like what if I like
17:15
Speaker 8: drop it, Like what if I you know, what if
17:17
Speaker 8: I like fumble it. I was just like freaking out
17:19
Speaker 8: and like even getting it on the knee, like my
17:21
Speaker 8: leg was shaking when I was getting done on knee.
17:24
Speaker 8: I don't remember what I said, Thank god it's on
17:26
Speaker 8: camera because I completely blacked out. But it was just
17:29
Speaker 8: once it like obviously I was looking forward to it
17:32
Speaker 8: and I loved it, but once it was over, like
17:34
Speaker 8: it's kind of a big relief, probably a lot like
17:35
Speaker 8: I went you know what I mean.
17:37
Speaker 5: It was just kind of like, Okay, we're engaged. She
17:39
Speaker 5: loves the ring. Thank god.
17:41
Speaker 8: It was like one of those moments of like yeah,
17:43
Speaker 8: and she said yes before I showed her the ring,
17:45
Speaker 8: which I think is a good sign.
17:46
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, for success.
17:51
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about it.
17:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, So she started kissing me and I was like no, no, no,
17:55
Speaker 5: like look at the ring and I was like yeah.
18:00
Speaker 5: Reaction was amazing.
18:11
Speaker 6: It's the weirdest thing, though, to be so nervous to
18:15
Speaker 6: put say a few words to the person that you're
18:18
Speaker 6: closest with in life, Like, it's such a weird like
18:22
Speaker 6: thing I'll never forget. Just like you said that those nerves,
18:25
Speaker 6: that confusion, the wild thoughts. Gee, did you have any
18:29
Speaker 6: idea that this trip was going to be the trip
18:31
Speaker 6: that you got proposed?
18:32
Speaker 3: Only too.
18:35
Speaker 6: So?
18:36
Speaker 4: I think, honest I thought every trip was going to
18:38
Speaker 4: be the trip that I wasn't going to be, but
18:43
Speaker 4: I ended up getting pregnant in stud So I've been
18:47
Speaker 4: waiting for this for a whole while. So to say,
18:52
Speaker 4: I was like I was again my nose were done,
18:56
Speaker 4: Like I was. I was ready for it to happen
19:00
Speaker 4: since he.
19:00
Speaker 7: Asked me about the ring.
19:05
Speaker 5: Wait, yes, since.
19:07
Speaker 7: You asked me what the ring last year?
19:09
Speaker 4: So anyway, so yeah, and so then I was pregnant
19:11
Speaker 4: and I want to wait. So I knew that after
19:13
Speaker 4: I had heath, like any moment between that till like
19:17
Speaker 4: now could have been it. So but but I like
19:21
Speaker 4: lost anticipation after a while, Like I didn't put pressure.
19:25
Speaker 7: On any of it. I was just like, if it
19:26
Speaker 7: happens here, it happens here.
19:27
Speaker 5: If it doesn't, it doesn't.
19:29
Speaker 4: Because I didn't want to like come home from a
19:31
Speaker 4: beautiful trip and be like ruin.
19:34
Speaker 7: This gorgeous trip.
19:36
Speaker 4: So at this point I was just like, listen, wherever
19:40
Speaker 4: you choose, I know that he's been, that he knows me,
19:44
Speaker 4: and that he wanted it to you know, make it
19:47
Speaker 4: this this moment between us and like this beautiful, perfect thing,
19:51
Speaker 4: because neither of us had that. So wherever wherever he
19:58
Speaker 4: was going to do it an that it was going
20:00
Speaker 4: to be like perfect, and it was, and it was
20:03
Speaker 4: one of the loved love that some of my family
20:07
Speaker 4: was there. I love that it was a place that
20:09
Speaker 4: I've grown up going, Like my family lives in Madrid
20:12
Speaker 4: and I've been to that park like a hundred times,
20:14
Speaker 4: but I haven't been to that part that that part
20:16
Speaker 4: was new. But it was just it was perfect because
20:19
Speaker 4: it wasn't like, you know, being here at home. It
20:23
Speaker 4: was but it had that nostalgia again.
20:25
Speaker 7: I'm just I'm just really happy that he did that there.
20:27
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I was like going because obviously we went
20:29
Speaker 8: to Paris after, and I was like, do I do
20:31
Speaker 8: in Paris?
20:31
Speaker 5: You know, for the lightful towers?
20:32
Speaker 8: Like it's a little cliche, but it could be fun,
20:35
Speaker 8: it could be cute, but then when you realize you're
20:37
Speaker 8: gonna stay in mud for a couple of days, I
20:38
Speaker 8: was like, perfect. And I contacted her mom to get
20:40
Speaker 8: her cousin's number and to figure it out.
20:42
Speaker 5: You know, the language barrier was really interesting.
20:44
Speaker 8: When I was planning it, I was like trying to
20:45
Speaker 8: you know, I was texting in my translate app and
20:47
Speaker 8: then copy pasting and what's.
20:49
Speaker 4: Happened well, and that's also a thing too, because I
20:51
Speaker 4: was like, no, it can't be Madrid, because like he
20:53
Speaker 4: doesn't he doesn't know anybody, he.
20:56
Speaker 7: Doesn't know how to like if it were.
20:58
Speaker 4: If it were one of the trips in the United States,
21:01
Speaker 4: and then yeah, maybe you could like pull some strings
21:03
Speaker 4: and get this or that. And I was like, Madrid,
21:05
Speaker 4: he has zero contacts, so I didn't ever think that
21:08
Speaker 4: you would talk to my family.
21:11
Speaker 2: And this even when he said, let's go for a
21:14
Speaker 2: walk with a photographer through a park.
21:17
Speaker 5: So we do that is a good question, Like we.
21:19
Speaker 7: Do like that all the time.
21:21
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, We've.
21:22
Speaker 9: Been in so many photo shoots a lot of the
21:28
Speaker 9: glass as they're like, well this is so staged, like
21:31
Speaker 9: what well in our industry, like we take photos, you
21:34
Speaker 9: know what I mean?
21:35
Speaker 5: And you yeah, exactly. We had been taking like my
21:39
Speaker 5: family photos.
21:40
Speaker 8: In a while got bigger, so I use it as
21:43
Speaker 8: exactly that. I was like, you know what, like, let's
21:46
Speaker 8: do something cute Madrid like and her cousin. So her
21:48
Speaker 8: cousin is a photographer, so that was the other thing.
21:52
Speaker 5: I was like, well, your cousin photographer, let's do it.
21:54
Speaker 5: And then she ended up perfect. Yeah, yeah, so everything.
21:57
Speaker 8: Ended up pretty much perfect, and a photographer that she
22:00
Speaker 8: actually you know what you.
22:02
Speaker 4: And we were going to cancel that too because it
22:04
Speaker 4: was like raining and you like, no one was making
22:06
Speaker 4: a big deal about it, so.
22:07
Speaker 8: I always like panicking inside, you know. She was like,
22:10
Speaker 8: maybe we should do it the other day.
22:11
Speaker 4: I was like, no, no, there are a lot of things,
22:15
Speaker 4: but it worked out.
22:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like how did you hide the ring when you're
22:19
Speaker 2: flying over there?
22:20
Speaker 5: So I put it.
22:20
Speaker 8: I just put it in my backpack that I literally
22:22
Speaker 8: kept on me at all times. I was just like,
22:24
Speaker 8: I'm gonna yeah. I didn't want to put it anywhere else.
22:26
Speaker 8: I put in my backpack that was on the all times.
22:29
Speaker 8: And then yeah, because I was worried about that, I
22:31
Speaker 8: was like what if and we actually had I thank
22:33
Speaker 8: god I didn't put it in my check or my
22:36
Speaker 8: carry on because we actually had to check our carry
22:39
Speaker 8: ons before, so I have Yeah, I just have to.
22:45
Speaker 5: I don't know what I would have done, honestly, what.
22:46
Speaker 7: It all got it and then I think about it.
22:48
Speaker 7: I was like, oh, where's your charger. You're like, it's
22:50
Speaker 7: my I'll.
22:50
Speaker 2: Go get it.
22:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was to reach my backpack.
22:54
Speaker 5: I was like, I'll get it.
22:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, to close out here because I know we
22:59
Speaker 6: only have a few minutes with you.
23:00
Speaker 3: A couple of rapid fire questions. How is he? Just
23:03
Speaker 3: in general, how's he doing?
23:05
Speaker 8: He's the best, He's growing like crazy, learning.
23:08
Speaker 5: It's he's scooting now. He's mobile, so our life he's
23:12
Speaker 5: mobile now, so probably.
23:14
Speaker 4: He's eating really well, he says, Mama all the time.
23:18
Speaker 5: Dad yet, but we have.
23:20
Speaker 4: But it's fantastic. Yeah, get ready then, yeah you have.
23:26
Speaker 5: The second one asked, how's two? How's having too?
23:28
Speaker 2: It's not as bad as you. It's different. You love different.
23:33
Speaker 2: It's like I've described it on Instagram a couple of
23:36
Speaker 2: days ago, people said this is the perfect description. The
23:39
Speaker 2: actual parenting of two at the same time is not
23:41
Speaker 2: that difficult. It's kind of like the invisible load and
23:45
Speaker 2: just the fact that you like never have time to yourself.
23:47
Speaker 2: That's it's your own personal lifestyle. It's different, harror. Yeah,
23:52
Speaker 2: but it's easier.
23:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel.
23:55
Speaker 3: That sounds awesome. I don't know. I love to have
23:58
Speaker 3: no time to myself yourself. So uh and final question
24:06
Speaker 3: for the two of you.
24:07
Speaker 6: You're gonna get asked from everybody, and we don't want
24:10
Speaker 6: to be cliche or generic. But now that you are
24:13
Speaker 6: engaged the future, the next step is a wedding.
24:17
Speaker 3: What are you guys thinking, Well.
24:19
Speaker 5: We've already got a date in a venue. We got
24:21
Speaker 5: it all kindness, she.
24:23
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go.
24:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had the venue plan beforehand, you knew.
24:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, we literally had the whole thing plan already.
24:31
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I pretty I was looking around one day
24:35
Speaker 4: because I had a friend that got married. I'm not
24:37
Speaker 4: I had a friend that got married in the in
24:39
Speaker 4: the area that I wanted, and I saw that she
24:41
Speaker 4: worked with this like company is planning this planner, and
24:45
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, let me just like see to
24:48
Speaker 4: see if this is something that can happen. And I
24:51
Speaker 4: you know, reached out with a couple of questions and
24:53
Speaker 4: then one thing like led to another and I was like, yep,
24:56
Speaker 4: this is it. So they are like, we still have
25:01
Speaker 4: to go next year, visit and visit it and do
25:05
Speaker 4: the trajectory of what our guests are going to experience
25:09
Speaker 4: to see if this is like, you know, feasible. But
25:12
Speaker 4: I mean I find it hard to believe that. Like
25:14
Speaker 4: I literally found it on a random like one day a.
25:18
Speaker 5: Month before I proposed. So it was all kind of
25:20
Speaker 5: like fell into place.
25:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so I'm just like, huh, so things happen
25:24
Speaker 4: like that.
25:25
Speaker 2: It's all meant to be.
25:26
Speaker 4: So I think we're good hopefully.
25:29
Speaker 2: If not, Oh, we're so happy for you guys. It's
25:35
Speaker 2: been so fun. Genuinely just like smiling watching you tell
25:38
Speaker 2: the story for the past half an hour.
25:40
Speaker 5: I love it.
25:41
Speaker 3: It's the best.
25:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, congratulations, just celebrate. It's awesome.
25:47
Speaker 2: And just to wrap, what are you doing for Thanksgiving?
25:50
Speaker 7: We're hosting.
25:51
Speaker 5: We're hosting a lot of.
25:52
Speaker 7: People at the first time.
25:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, in my oven doesn't want to work, so I'm
26:00
Speaker 4: be that this turns out.
26:01
Speaker 5: Well, but give me cooking for the next three days.
26:04
Speaker 4: I'm hanging up and I'm gonna go like chocolate vegetables,
26:08
Speaker 4: start making bread and.
26:10
Speaker 6: Pies an incredible backyard.
26:15
Speaker 5: The next we're actually I think we're gonna do an
26:16
Speaker 5: engagement party in the backyard.
26:18
Speaker 6: So yeah, well, hey, this has been the Almost Famous podcast,
26:25
Speaker 6: absolutely just heartwarming episode Until next time, I've been Ben
26:31
Speaker 6: and the two of you are engaged.
26:35
Speaker 5: Let's go
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