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S3 #7 All Things Bachelor · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: Ready sick. This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous podcast with our radio. This is the Ben and
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Speaker 1: Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast. And I'm Ben and I'm
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Speaker 1: Ashley Ashley. What's going on in your life? Well, currently
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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor Swift. So it's Halloween and you can refer
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Speaker 1: to me as Ta te Um all episode long if
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Speaker 1: you like. I I saw on Twitter. I was actually
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Speaker 1: just checking Twitter and I saw your video that you've
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Speaker 1: made um, which is funny because I've actually seen you
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Speaker 1: do that without a Taylor Swift I know. So today's
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Speaker 1: the day I go hard. What's the plans tonight? Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm switching out of this costume midday and I'm turning
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Speaker 1: into Rose and I'm going to Becca's birthday party? Is
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Speaker 1: it her birthday dinner tonight? What's Rose? Rose? Oh? I
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Speaker 1: should I should explain further. Rose as in Jack and
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Speaker 1: Rose from Titanic. And I have a very very kind
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Speaker 1: friend named Dean Unglert who is going to dress up
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Speaker 1: as Leo for me. He kind of looks like Leah.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, that's why I insisted. I was gonna say so, wait,
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Speaker 1: tonight is Becca Tillie's birthday party? It's also Halloween, and
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Speaker 1: so you're changing into two costumes today and going to
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Speaker 1: a birthday party. Welcome to the l A lifestyle I
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Speaker 1: know right well, Halloween has always been a big day
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Speaker 1: for me because I just love being creative. So I'm
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Speaker 1: all about like putting together my own costumes. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I've ever bought one out of a bag. You
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Speaker 1: know what, I love being scared. I love being scared
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Speaker 1: on Halloween. Um well, if you were here right now,
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Speaker 1: we'd probably have a clown in studio because I hear
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Speaker 1: that clowns are your biggest fear. You can go to
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Speaker 1: my blog Mahogany We're playing read all about it. But
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Speaker 1: read all about it. But I've had a just an
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Speaker 1: insane fear of clowns since I was a kid, and
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Speaker 1: it really did stem from a terrible experience I had
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Speaker 1: with a very just pushy clown as probably a five
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Speaker 1: year old boy. I hated my experience. Um so I
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Speaker 1: don't do anything Halloween. I really don't stay far away
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Speaker 1: from it no way. Actually, like it's so funny because
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Speaker 1: I am somebody who loves putting effort into Halloween and
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Speaker 1: I love the creativity behind it. I actually like have
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Speaker 1: I get like a little angry at people who don't participate.
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Speaker 1: Actually don't get mad at me. I promise have good reasons. Um,
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Speaker 1: So clowns like you don't go outside because you're afraid
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Speaker 1: that you're going to run into clowns. Yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: not my thing. I don't do it. Um, but I
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Speaker 1: do try to pass out candy as long as there's
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Speaker 1: no If there's any like clowns or there's any haunted houses,
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Speaker 1: I stay far away. But there's two people from Battlination
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Speaker 1: that recently were spotted in costume together. Um, which is
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Speaker 1: I need to talk to you about. It's weird. We
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Speaker 1: talked about a little bit last night, were last week,
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Speaker 1: so we've gotten a ton of emails on it. But
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Speaker 1: crit and Tomorrow are still hanging out. Have you figured
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Speaker 1: out is that a thing or not? I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's a thing. I mean I haven't heard from either
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Speaker 1: of them, so I don't really know. But I just
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Speaker 1: think they're friends. I mean, it's so weird that we
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Speaker 1: we're all like friends, but we'll always get coupled up,
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Speaker 1: like people will always ship us. We had that conversation
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Speaker 1: about shipping, remember that in Vegas? Yeah, and I have
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Speaker 1: no clue with that. I had no clue what that means.
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Speaker 1: But we have a ton of emails about Karen Dmorrow.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it later in the show. Um, I
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Speaker 1: can give you guys a quick stat from the emails.
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Speaker 1: I would say the emails were about fifty fifty for
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Speaker 1: Karin and Demard Mario like, it's too weird that they're
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Speaker 1: hanging out. It's all for publicity, and then the other
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Speaker 1: we're like, we're cool with it. They went through a lot,
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Speaker 1: it's all good. And then I will also give you
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Speaker 1: one quick stat. The emails were about sea chest hair,
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Speaker 1: boo chest hair. Okay, very very good, thanks for Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's safe. Girl like chest hair. I was gonna say, so,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm looking good, Like Kanye is next to
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Speaker 1: me nodding. Yeah, she exist into it. It's natural. It
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Speaker 1: makes you manly. Oh, today's a good day for me.
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Speaker 1: That's good news. I needed it. I mean, first off,
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Speaker 1: it's just the maintenance of not having it would take
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Speaker 1: up so much time. And now to know when I
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Speaker 1: take off my shirt when I get home from work
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Speaker 1: and I look at the me or I can go
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Speaker 1: and then you're doing all right. Oh, you're doing just fine.
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Speaker 1: And I saw those absolutely other day. What are you
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Speaker 1: looking good? I'm on a little diet actually, I mean
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Speaker 1: your muscles in your stomach are coming out. I'm on
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Speaker 1: this new kick and I want to share with with
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Speaker 1: the listeners out there. So on this kick where I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm drinking a smoothie every morning. That's the only thing
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Speaker 1: I drink. But it has protein powder, bananas, green apple, spinach,
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Speaker 1: broccoli and cucumber, um and almond milk. And I'm telling
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Speaker 1: you what I think. I think like my body is
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Speaker 1: adjusting like well to it. I feel good. That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: I'm on a kick too. I've I've worked out. This
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Speaker 1: will be the third day in a row. How do
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Speaker 1: you are you a big like fitness person. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: I've had times in my life where I've been I've
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Speaker 1: been really really good at it, like five times a week,
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Speaker 1: like an hour and fifteen minutes each day. But I
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Speaker 1: haven't and like that since my early twenties. And I'm
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Speaker 1: just trying to get back in it, mainly because when
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Speaker 1: I take my dog for a walk and like I
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Speaker 1: walk up and down my stairs like I'm a little wounded,
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Speaker 1: and it's actually for my health and not my appearance. Wait,
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Speaker 1: are you sure it's not for Winter Games? No? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. That has nothing to do with it, nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with it. Okay. Anyways, well, hey, speaking of
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Speaker 1: television shows, aries promo came out. Yeah, I didn't see it.
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Speaker 1: What I would love for anybody that that is a
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Speaker 1: Bachelor fan that has seen the promo send us an email.
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Speaker 1: It's still something I can't figure out. Right, how is
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Speaker 1: this season going to go down? Is it gonna be
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Speaker 1: well received? Are people gonna watch? Are they not gonna watch?
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Speaker 1: I want to I want to read your emails just
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Speaker 1: on thoughts of are you tune in? Are you excited
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Speaker 1: for a are you not so watch the promo? Make
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Speaker 1: sure you email us at Ashley give him the email. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's Ben and Ashley at I heeart media dot com.
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Speaker 1: All of you guys like like tweetus throughout the week.
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Speaker 1: They're like, what is the email? Like, guys, we we
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Speaker 1: say it multiple times about the show. Ben and Ashley
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Speaker 1: at I Heart Media dot Com. I saw the promo.
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Speaker 1: You saw promo how to Go? It's just him like
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Speaker 1: with roses like flying in the background. Right, that's okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give my honest feedback. Okay, I like it.
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Speaker 1: I like him. He's a yeah, yeah, that's very honest. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean and and so I I watched a little bit.
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Speaker 1: If I think it's the right one, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter one day he's obviously doing like
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Speaker 1: remember remember my photo shoot for The Bachelor, And you
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Speaker 1: do this like gaze, like stare into the camera where
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Speaker 1: you're looking long and ly through the camera's lens, and
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Speaker 1: you know it's supposed to bring off this perception of
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Speaker 1: I'm looking for love. And that's pretty much the whole promo.
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Speaker 1: See him just staring through the camera lens. It it
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Speaker 1: made my heart flutter a little bit. But I mean,
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Speaker 1: it didn't do it didn't do a lot for Okay.
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Speaker 1: I just also think we should mention that Amy goes
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Speaker 1: he's old. Nick is a full year older than him. Wait,
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Speaker 1: Mariy just has older vibes like Nick looks tops Yeah Nick,
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Speaker 1: wait so wait it was Let's repeat that. That's a
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Speaker 1: big point here. So Nick is actually older than our Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Nick is currently thirty seven and Aris thirty six, and
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Speaker 1: they're almost exactly a year a part. That's insane. Well,
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Speaker 1: we are speaking of old. Coming up on our second
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Speaker 1: segment in the podcast today, we have a very special
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Speaker 1: guest that I want to tease, Bob Guiney, one of
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Speaker 1: the original the Goat. We call him the original Bachelor's
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Speaker 1: uh from the original season The Bachelor, will be on
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Speaker 1: this podcast today, so make sure you tune into that.
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Speaker 1: But before we get to Bob Guiney, I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about something that's really important to me. That's being
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Speaker 1: on time, being able to tell time, and making sure
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Speaker 1: that nobody, nobody is ever waiting at me. Actually, you've
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Speaker 1: consistently been late to this podcast, but we've made the
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Speaker 1: most of it. But the other day on our date
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, it was a group date, there's many
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Speaker 1: of us. I was late and you were on time.
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Speaker 1: and I was thinking, you know, is it fading is
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Speaker 1: sticking around? I thought, what was it like before cell
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Speaker 1: phones watches were the only thing available? And then I
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Speaker 1: thought when Bob guineas on The Bachelors, watches were the
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Speaker 1: only way to tell time. Bob guinea Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast. Bob. We're just talking about when you're
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Speaker 1: on the Bachelorette there are no cell phones to keep
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Speaker 1: in contact with anybody. Is that correct? Yeah? I heard
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Speaker 1: you say something about watches telling time. We used the
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Speaker 1: sun dial. That brings up I'm just gonna jump into
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Speaker 1: it with you here because I'm so excited to have
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Speaker 1: you on the podcast. You've been um, I was I
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Speaker 1: was talking about last week. You've been a great friend
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Speaker 1: to me kind of over the last few months, and
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Speaker 1: we're on this crazy group that that I talked about
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Speaker 1: often on the podcast. Because if you continues to entertain me, Um,
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Speaker 1: I want to jump into something just to kind of
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Speaker 1: get this conversation started. Something that we talked about a lot,
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Speaker 1: your experience on The Bachelor and Bachelor at Okay, if
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Speaker 1: you could compare it to today in terms of social
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Speaker 1: media and just the publicity that this show gets, I mean,
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Speaker 1: how would you wrap it up? I mean it's completely different,
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Speaker 1: isn't it? Well, completely different because there was no social
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Speaker 1: media then. So yeah, I think that you know, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of interesting because people were often often compared to
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Speaker 1: the fact that, oh, well, you know, like when when
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Speaker 1: I was on The Bachelor, I think the season had
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Speaker 1: like twenty million viewers a week or something like that,
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Speaker 1: and and it was obviously considered it to be a
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Speaker 1: big hit. Well, now it doesn't have as many viewers
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Speaker 1: every week because it doesn't need to. It's got you know,
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Speaker 1: it might have ten million viewing a week on television
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Speaker 1: and then another fifty million viewing on Instagram and and
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Speaker 1: you know, on online and every other way that they
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Speaker 1: can watch television. So I always think that's really funny
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Speaker 1: when they try to compare the ratings because it's just
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Speaker 1: not the same thing anymore. It's a total different beast,
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Speaker 1: it is. And and so just to give some clarity here,
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Speaker 1: you were what number of Bachelor? I was the fourth Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: I was in the first season of The Bachelor at
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Speaker 1: and in the fourth Bachelor, I was the twentieth Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: Bob crazy, and You're considered a fossil now, to see
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Speaker 1: how it feels, it feels weird. I was. I was
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Speaker 1: just thinking about the other day and and how I am.
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Speaker 1: I'm almost you know, two and a half years removed
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Speaker 1: from my little go around and and I look back
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Speaker 1: and my life has changed a ton from it. But
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Speaker 1: you were also on season one of The Bachelorette. Correct, Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: I was on trist this season and then after that
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Speaker 1: they asked me to be the Bachelor, So yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was that was an experiment and of itself too because
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Speaker 1: I think I think I kind of gave well Trista
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Speaker 1: really gave to the whole um you know, be on
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Speaker 1: one season to lead to the next thing, but um,
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Speaker 1: as it went from the guys, I think I kind
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Speaker 1: of helped start that trend. The other guys had before
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Speaker 1: me had been Alex Michelle who was the first Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: and then um Aaron Bergee who's uh was the second Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: and then Andrew Firestone. So Andrew and I always joke
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Speaker 1: that we're like, you know, we're the dinosaurs. So we're
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Speaker 1: the ones that are still upright and walking thankfully but
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Speaker 1: just barely. And two of the best, like honestly the
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Speaker 1: best dudes. Though also I want to say that like
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Speaker 1: you and Andrew um have been great to me. As
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Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of shell shocked and wide
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Speaker 1: eyed as I started this whole experience, and uh, and
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Speaker 1: just through the whole thing. I met you at um
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Speaker 1: actually Jaden Tanner's wedding for the first time you both
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Speaker 1: and ever since then, um, you've just been awesome. So
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Speaker 1: I want to throw that into and make sure everybody
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Speaker 1: listening knows that two of two of the oldest are
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Speaker 1: two of the best. M Ashley, what do you think,
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you were on Bob's season, had you
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Speaker 1: see that going down? Do you think there's there was
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Speaker 1: a chance that you guys may be connect that I
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Speaker 1: was going to probably like seven. I think I was
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Speaker 1: definitely in high school. I was most aware of you
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Speaker 1: because my mom actually loved that you married the girl
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Speaker 1: from all my children because she loves Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was a big deal back in the day. But
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Speaker 1: you just got remarried. I did, yes, yeah, And you know,
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Speaker 1: for the for the record, my Acts and I are
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Speaker 1: still very friendly. So that's actually a nice byproduct of
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Speaker 1: something that you know, we we actually met in an
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Speaker 1: indirect way as part of the Bachelor. I went on
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Speaker 1: show to me fun of the Bachelor. That's how I
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Speaker 1: met her in the first place. She hosted a show
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Speaker 1: that you know, poked fun at the whole franchise, and
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Speaker 1: I love making fun of myself, so I went on
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Speaker 1: and that's how we met. And then uh, we were
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Speaker 1: together seven years and split up and then I kind
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Speaker 1: of vowed to never be married again. I've told this
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Speaker 1: to Bend before it and I was like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just maybe I don't know. And then when you
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Speaker 1: meet the right person, you know, it just clicks. And
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Speaker 1: thankfully I did. And we are actually celebrating our one
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Speaker 1: year anniversary technically in two weeks on November eleventh. But
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Speaker 1: a little, a little insider scoop was we got married
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Speaker 1: in Mexico, and um, if you if you get married
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Speaker 1: in internationally, if you get married in Mexico, you have
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Speaker 1: to actually have like your blood drawn and test plate
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Speaker 1: X ray and all this kind of stuff when you're there.
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Speaker 1: So even though November eleventh is our anniversary, we actually
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Speaker 1: got married a year ago today. Pause. Thanks, Hey, Bob,
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Speaker 1: I want to know, Hi, I miss you. I want
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Speaker 1: to know. I know you gotta let us know when
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Speaker 1: you're here. By the way, we would love to see you.
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Speaker 1: But looking back now, do you think you could have
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Speaker 1: fallen in love on the show, Like, do you think
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Speaker 1: it's possible the way it is now. Yeah, Um, well
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I mean, I guess anything is possible,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you you do still see. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, some people come out of their successfully and
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Speaker 1: I think that's great. I think that, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'd be really near sighted if I said there's no
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Speaker 1: way that it could happen. But um, I feel like
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Speaker 1: for me, you know, I'm I'm a little bit skeptical
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Speaker 1: at times. And I think that you know, you have
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Speaker 1: people going on there that are you know, before they
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Speaker 1: even get to the show, they're already you know, making
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Speaker 1: sure they're putting their Instagram on blast for like to
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Speaker 1: know it and what they're wearing today. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a kind of a different, different
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Speaker 1: thing at this point. I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: are are definitely there for what comes next as opposed to,
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Speaker 1: you know, what comes back for them personally and possibly
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Speaker 1: uh professionally, as opposed to what comes next for them
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Speaker 1: in a relationship. And I think that, you know, when
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Speaker 1: we were doing it, I mean it's it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like you know, talking to your grandplay Like I walked
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Speaker 1: up till the school both ways barefoot, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like that kind of a mentality. But when
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Speaker 1: we did it, it wasn't it hadn't become the vehicle
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Speaker 1: that it is now for everyone to kind of capitalize upon.
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Speaker 1: So it was it was. I wouldn't say it was
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Speaker 1: a purer time because they were definitely still people there
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Speaker 1: just looking for fifteen minutes and trying to have fun
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Speaker 1: and um, and then there were people there that we're
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Speaker 1: really looking for relationships. So I think I would have
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Speaker 1: probably been hard press. You know, I'm not a I'm
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Speaker 1: Ben and I have a lot of similar characteristics, like
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Speaker 1: I'm not the guy who you know, is going to
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Speaker 1: fight for my chance to talk to somebody. And then
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Speaker 1: I'm also I'm also a little bit uh leary of
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Speaker 1: the people that come out there with a game plan
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Speaker 1: ahead of time, So I would I would have probably
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Speaker 1: gotten killed on the show nowadays. Well, Bob, speaking of professions,
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Speaker 1: and after the show, you definitely were a media figure
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Speaker 1: for a while. You were doing a lot of hosting, right.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got really lucky. I mean, Oprah thought
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Speaker 1: it was funny on the back treat and and she
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Speaker 1: made me kind of she kind of put me in
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Speaker 1: the spot to be the Next Bay, but she sort
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Speaker 1: of said that on the air, actually say she stored
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Speaker 1: of said it, but on the air she said, I
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Speaker 1: want possibly the next batchman. That was kind of it.
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Speaker 1: But then um watched the show back then. I wonder
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Speaker 1: if she watches the show now. I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, but she definitely is responsible for me having
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Speaker 1: all the opportunities that I had, and she became a
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Speaker 1: you know, a wonderful shouting board for me and gave
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Speaker 1: me a lot of opportunities, like just to do things
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Speaker 1: on her show, you know. I mean I did her
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Speaker 1: so probably seven nine times something like that, which got
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Speaker 1: me hosting on the Street, and that was my first
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Speaker 1: reel for hosting was pretty much all Oprah and then
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Speaker 1: um yeah, and then I just yeah, you're you're right.
17:17
Speaker 1: I got a lot of opportunities from it at the time,
17:20
Speaker 1: you know, in into this day, I mean, I still
17:21
Speaker 1: do a bunch of stuff, but I don't do as
17:23
Speaker 1: much of the hosting stuff because frankly, the TV hosting
17:26
Speaker 1: stuff for me wasn't It was a lot of travel
17:30
Speaker 1: and you know, driving around the van with the production
17:32
Speaker 1: crew for sixteen weeks, and as much as I loved
17:35
Speaker 1: doing it, it was exhausted. And so now I do
17:38
Speaker 1: a lot of the live event hosting. I still do
17:39
Speaker 1: a ton of that and I really enjoy it. One off,
17:41
Speaker 1: we go to a weekend in Chicago, go to weekend
17:43
Speaker 1: do or Lando, and um, I mean and that was
17:46
Speaker 1: thirteen years ago that I was on the batchelor. So
17:48
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess you're right. Yeah, I got a
17:49
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of a lot of leg room
17:52
Speaker 1: out of it, which has been nice. So what do
17:54
Speaker 1: you say your job is now? Um, you know, I
17:57
Speaker 1: think I have a bunch of them. I mean, you know,
18:00
Speaker 1: say definitely, Yeah, I'm a jack of all trades for sure,
18:03
Speaker 1: but really involved in real estate and um and you know,
18:06
Speaker 1: one of the things I never quit my day job.
18:08
Speaker 1: So even back in the day, I was involved in
18:10
Speaker 1: finance and different things that nature, and I still am
18:12
Speaker 1: today and and um, you know, so I mean I
18:15
Speaker 1: have kind of my seat and a bunch of different
18:16
Speaker 1: things I guess in my hands and a bunch of
18:18
Speaker 1: different things. But um, i'd say real estate. Big. I
18:22
Speaker 1: still work, like I said, in the finance and insurance industry,
18:24
Speaker 1: and um, and then you have to do a lot
18:26
Speaker 1: of live event hosting and a lot of fun stuff
18:28
Speaker 1: like that. And you know, I also got lucky too
18:30
Speaker 1: because I got picked up right away by the guys
18:32
Speaker 1: that were forming this band called Band from TV and
18:35
Speaker 1: it was all for charity, and it was all for
18:37
Speaker 1: fun and amy we've done a bunch of the Emmy
18:39
Speaker 1: back in the day as well, and Hugh Laurie and
18:41
Speaker 1: you know, all these guys that I was fans of
18:43
Speaker 1: asked me to be in this band with them and
18:45
Speaker 1: we would play all these cool events and then just
18:47
Speaker 1: give all the money charity. And even though I didn't
18:49
Speaker 1: make a fraction of what they made, it was actually
18:51
Speaker 1: kind of a fun thing to be able to do
18:53
Speaker 1: and not have to worry about it. You know, from
18:55
Speaker 1: the standpoint of looking too opportunistic. It was like, yeah,
18:58
Speaker 1: well we're doing this, but children's talked about gets my money.
19:01
Speaker 1: People that don't. For people that don't know that are
19:03
Speaker 1: just getting to know you listening. Bob is a great singer.
19:07
Speaker 1: He's he he has an awesome voice and he's really
19:12
Speaker 1: great performer. And you're very sweet to say that. Thank you, Hey, Bob,
19:15
Speaker 1: I got I got a big question for you. Go
19:17
Speaker 1: to switch gears here. Um, you gave me some amazing
19:21
Speaker 1: advice on on like you you mentioned earlier, like on
19:23
Speaker 1: relationships and on love and about kind of pursuing your
19:26
Speaker 1: your match and when you find that person, you'll know it.
19:29
Speaker 1: You You've been great for me and that in that way. Um,
19:32
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for a new season of The Bachelor
19:35
Speaker 1: with somebody who, um, you know, has kind of took
19:39
Speaker 1: a break from the show for a while. What would
19:40
Speaker 1: be your advice for a What do you even think
19:42
Speaker 1: about Ari? You know, I've I've gotten to know Ri
19:45
Speaker 1: over the years. I actually really like carry and I
19:48
Speaker 1: was it was kind of funny. I think we were
19:50
Speaker 1: talking about our our buddy thread when we were like,
19:53
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who the next guy is,
19:54
Speaker 1: but who should it be? And what do you think?
19:56
Speaker 1: And you and I even spoke a little bit about
19:58
Speaker 1: Ri in particular, and I think a really nice guy.
20:01
Speaker 1: I think that you know, he has been around the
20:02
Speaker 1: franchise for a long time, and um, you know, maybe
20:06
Speaker 1: I mean I get it that some people are kind
20:08
Speaker 1: of like, you know, who is this dude? You know,
20:10
Speaker 1: but maybe having a little bit more time in between
20:14
Speaker 1: his experiences on the show maybe have given him some
20:17
Speaker 1: type of perspective. I don't know, you know, I mean,
20:19
Speaker 1: he might actually be at the point where he's ready
20:22
Speaker 1: to make it, make a move and settle down and
20:25
Speaker 1: have a relationship. But then conversely, you know, and I
20:29
Speaker 1: know everyone saw it where the girl was basically saying
20:31
Speaker 1: she got broken up with so he could becoming a bachelor.
20:34
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know what that means,
20:35
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what it means for for
20:37
Speaker 1: any of it. But I think it's just it's such
20:40
Speaker 1: a you know, it's living in your life in such
20:41
Speaker 1: a vacuum when you go on the show and then
20:43
Speaker 1: you know, as you guys know, you come off of it,
20:45
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like your whole world is still
20:47
Speaker 1: kept going while you were here, you know, handing out
20:50
Speaker 1: flowers or hoping to get a flower, whichever side of
20:53
Speaker 1: the point you're on. Yeah, so I think it's kind
20:55
Speaker 1: of interesting. I don't I think no one can really
20:57
Speaker 1: know what it's like until they go through it. Everyone
20:59
Speaker 1: will have an opinion for sure, but until they actually
21:02
Speaker 1: go through it themselves, they won't know what how they're
21:05
Speaker 1: going to react or what they're gonna do. And hopefully
21:08
Speaker 1: are we we'll we'll find something. You know. I think
21:10
Speaker 1: somebody said the other day I read it that they're saying,
21:12
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if he's on a show
21:13
Speaker 1: with a bunch of twenty three year old you know
21:15
Speaker 1: how he's going to feel about that. And yeah, well
21:20
Speaker 1: that's good to know. I guess it would be beautiful.
21:26
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know him that well, so but yeah,
21:30
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I go into every season. I think,
21:32
Speaker 1: just like every fan of the show does, I'm like
21:34
Speaker 1: hopeful and really excited that you know, it's for me.
21:37
Speaker 1: It's always about and I hate to say this, but
21:39
Speaker 1: even when Ben was a Bachelor, and I love Ben,
21:42
Speaker 1: but it was you know, okay, who are all these
21:44
Speaker 1: people and what their personalities? And you know who's who's
21:47
Speaker 1: going to be the one who says I'm not here
21:49
Speaker 1: to make friends, and who's gonna be the one that
21:50
Speaker 1: does it. There's become these roles. You know, Hey, Bob,
21:55
Speaker 1: I got I gotta get to the nitty gritty of
21:57
Speaker 1: your own season. I hear that you were the sluttiest bachelor.
22:01
Speaker 1: I teased this last week, and I must um, you know,
22:05
Speaker 1: I owe it to the almost same as listeners. How
22:08
Speaker 1: many girls did you sleep with during your season. I
22:13
Speaker 1: heard all of our listeners. I've said this for years.
22:16
Speaker 1: You go back and watch that season, you tell me
22:17
Speaker 1: how many women you see me sleep? But I didn't. Oh, yeah,
22:20
Speaker 1: of course you're not going to show you city with
22:23
Speaker 1: more than three. Yeah. I don't know where that story
22:25
Speaker 1: came from. I always thought it was. It was kind
22:28
Speaker 1: of really like a crazy moment when it came out.
22:30
Speaker 1: I was watching a recap show with with Mike Slice.
22:34
Speaker 1: He's on I think he's doing either something and he
22:37
Speaker 1: looked at the screen and he's like, that's my man, Bob.
22:39
Speaker 1: And I was like watching it with my mom and
22:40
Speaker 1: my grandma, and I was like, oh my god, what
22:45
Speaker 1: just happened. I don't believe you for a second. Give
22:50
Speaker 1: us a blast on the past, like who do you
22:51
Speaker 1: stay in touch with from your Bachelorette's season or your
22:54
Speaker 1: Bachelor's season? Um, well when from the bachelotte season? Uh?
22:59
Speaker 1: Amy youn't remember this name? But you guys might not
23:02
Speaker 1: have been and actolutely right not but Jamie blythe I
23:09
Speaker 1: think it's awesome. He was a professional basketball player, a
23:12
Speaker 1: great guy. Oddly enough, I mean Estella and Kelly Joe,
23:16
Speaker 1: who were my final two. I keep in touch with
23:18
Speaker 1: them quite a bit. Um. Yeah, a girl named Julie Smith,
23:21
Speaker 1: who uh I actually sent home on the first night
23:25
Speaker 1: because I just really frankly never got to talk to her.
23:27
Speaker 1: I've become great friends with her over the years because
23:29
Speaker 1: of our affiliation with a good Huckey Derby And then, um, yeah,
23:32
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's kind of crazy. Kevin touched with
23:34
Speaker 1: quite a few of people from the show. Um. And
23:37
Speaker 1: then as you know, it build year over year, you
23:39
Speaker 1: get to know more people from different seasons and and
23:41
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So that's baiful. I'm always on a
23:44
Speaker 1: text thread with about young dudes trying to ask advice,
23:49
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ask your advice again. I do want
23:51
Speaker 1: to know if you just said it, and it brought
23:52
Speaker 1: up a question of mine. So your friends, you stay
23:55
Speaker 1: in contact with your final two, how have you gone
23:58
Speaker 1: about doing that? Like, what was the process of being
24:00
Speaker 1: friendly with him? Because you know, for me, that just
24:02
Speaker 1: seems weird or different, I guess, So how how did
24:05
Speaker 1: that all work out? And before you answer that, um,
24:08
Speaker 1: parted my ignorance, But did you get engaged at the
24:11
Speaker 1: end of your season? No? I didn't, Okay, it was
24:14
Speaker 1: there pressure to get engaged. Well, I think there's an
24:18
Speaker 1: inherent pressure, you know, you've got At the time, Harry
24:20
Speaker 1: Winston was the jury designer for the show, and you know, um,
24:24
Speaker 1: and that was a lot of pressure. Going down to
24:26
Speaker 1: the Harry Winston store in Beverly Hills and having filmed
24:29
Speaker 1: me look at rings and stuff. That stressed me out
24:32
Speaker 1: to no end. But and I remember like it was yesterday,
24:35
Speaker 1: which is crazy, but yeah, there was definitely pressure. I
24:37
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was necessarily um like overtly spoken of
24:42
Speaker 1: like you have to do this. It wasn't anything like
24:44
Speaker 1: that by any means it was, but it was definitely
24:46
Speaker 1: one of those things that it was. It was expected,
24:47
Speaker 1: you know. And I just I felt like, you know,
24:51
Speaker 1: I was a little cynical and kind of looking at
24:53
Speaker 1: the show in a way that I was like, man,
24:54
Speaker 1: I like both of these girls, But what if I
24:56
Speaker 1: stopped out of his vacuum. I don't really know if
24:58
Speaker 1: I know him. And I had this kind of just
25:00
Speaker 1: I was second guessing everything at that point and um,
25:03
Speaker 1: and so I didn't propose, but I did give a
25:05
Speaker 1: promise ring um to a Stella and um and she
25:09
Speaker 1: got to keep it. And you know, we put it
25:11
Speaker 1: on her right hand, and everyone thought it was a
25:13
Speaker 1: cop out at the time, but thankfully Oprah jumped in
25:15
Speaker 1: and she saved me. She she kind of killed everyone.
25:18
Speaker 1: Hey man, I think that's a good move. And I said,
25:20
Speaker 1: oh my god, thank you. Overra doomed the second you
25:24
Speaker 1: gave her that promise, ring, I'm like, she's I know, well,
25:27
Speaker 1: you know what though, it was one of those things,
25:28
Speaker 1: and I really meant this sincerely. I was like, we'll
25:30
Speaker 1: see what happens when the cameras are off. And in
25:33
Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, this could be an awesome story,
25:35
Speaker 1: you know, like six six weeks from now, eight weeks
25:38
Speaker 1: from now to you know, three years from now. Who
25:41
Speaker 1: never knows what it is. But wouldn't it be awesome
25:43
Speaker 1: if we got engaged and got married, you know, And
25:45
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't in the cards for us, and
25:46
Speaker 1: and and so to answer your question, then, it wasn't
25:50
Speaker 1: easy at first because quite honestly, they both hated me,
25:53
Speaker 1: and I was kind of in that spot where it
25:55
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Danna, I couldn't you know, win for losing?
25:59
Speaker 1: But then um, yeah, I'm sure it kind of came around,
26:05
Speaker 1: you know, slowly, but surely, Um, I would say, I
26:09
Speaker 1: don't know how it happened, But several years later, um
26:12
Speaker 1: A Spella and I reconnected and you know, had coffee
26:15
Speaker 1: and just had a nice conversation and she's just wonderful.
26:18
Speaker 1: And then Kelly Joe and I kept in touch. Um
26:21
Speaker 1: again a few years later somehow randomly got connected through
26:25
Speaker 1: friends about something and talked and you know, she's very happy,
26:28
Speaker 1: married and her kids, and it was it was just
26:31
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool to connect at a different
26:33
Speaker 1: point in your life when it's not still that weird
26:35
Speaker 1: kind of pressure of William Alonely, you know, it was
26:37
Speaker 1: more like, you know, okay, clearly we didn't and now
26:41
Speaker 1: we're moving on as friends, and we liked something about
26:44
Speaker 1: each other, so let's focus on the stuff we liked
26:46
Speaker 1: about each other and not worry about trying to make
26:48
Speaker 1: it romantic. And it was pretty adult, I have to say,
26:51
Speaker 1: pretty growing up of us. So okay, I mean, that's
26:56
Speaker 1: that's good to know. Yeah, that's that is kind of
26:58
Speaker 1: how that all goes down too, because you do who
27:00
Speaker 1: have this crazy cool experience together. You've obviously have like
27:03
Speaker 1: fond memories with each other, and you have respect for
27:05
Speaker 1: each other, and so I you know, I think that's
27:07
Speaker 1: incredible that you can still stay close. Um, but it's
27:10
Speaker 1: also you know, it speaks to who you are as
27:12
Speaker 1: a person too, that you know women, and yeah, j J.
27:18
Speaker 1: Lane just continues to call you literally the go no
27:21
Speaker 1: matter how it. So he's such a funny guy. I
27:25
Speaker 1: love that guy. When I met him at that you know, so,
27:27
Speaker 1: I mean you're speaking about at the wedding, you know.
27:29
Speaker 1: I I had such reservations about going to the Jadene
27:32
Speaker 1: Canner wedding because quite honestly, I didn't know them, you know,
27:35
Speaker 1: and I was really concerned. I mean, I knew what
27:37
Speaker 1: I saw on television and I liked them, and I
27:39
Speaker 1: kind of thought they don't lot the other wedding, you know,
27:41
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's great that I go, and um,
27:44
Speaker 1: and I was so glad that I did, because I
27:46
Speaker 1: got to meet all of you guys and actually, you know,
27:49
Speaker 1: see that the people I'm watching on TV are just
27:51
Speaker 1: as cool as I thought they would be. And in
27:53
Speaker 1: some cases, like like with JJ, I got to know
27:55
Speaker 1: him and I was like, oh my god, this guy's hilarious,
27:57
Speaker 1: you know, and I just love them and and thought
28:00
Speaker 1: it was just so much fun and so it was
28:02
Speaker 1: really kind of a for me. It was awesome to
28:04
Speaker 1: get to meet everybody at that at that wedding and
28:06
Speaker 1: I first probably got something of you and and uh
28:09
Speaker 1: you know and love kind of connecting the dots that way.
28:11
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was glad I did it. You know,
28:13
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be talking to you guys, they probably I'm
28:15
Speaker 1: glad you did too, man, I really am. And thank
28:17
Speaker 1: you so much for calling in today. We uh, we
28:19
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Here. We we think this is uh, this
28:21
Speaker 1: is just a cool segment that we're gonna have. We're
28:23
Speaker 1: we call back some people who have been around the
28:25
Speaker 1: franchise for a long time, talked about life, get the
28:28
Speaker 1: their advice and hear what you've been up to. And so, Bob,
28:30
Speaker 1: thank you for being the first person to join us
28:32
Speaker 1: on kind of our our throwback Bachelor at Bachelor's second. Yeah,
28:36
Speaker 1: we're very thankful to have been on the show. You guys.
28:39
Speaker 1: Thank you, Amy, I love you and talk to you
28:43
Speaker 1: him and Ben. I'm sure we'll be texting Lady Ashley.
28:45
Speaker 1: Great to me. All right, thank you so much. Thanks guys.
28:50
Speaker 1: All right, so you know what's a constant between the
28:54
Speaker 1: old seasons and the new seasons. You know there isn't
28:57
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31:17
Speaker 1: He's a doll and has been for a hundred years. Yeah,
31:22
Speaker 1: I mean, and I mean, I mean it's in the
31:23
Speaker 1: Bob my heart. There's this world is so odd, and
31:27
Speaker 1: you do get thrown into something that you have no
31:29
Speaker 1: clue how to navigate, and you have no clue what
31:30
Speaker 1: to expect. And and for me, I was very nervous
31:33
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31:36
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31:38
Speaker 1: people like Amy and these people in the thread, you know,
31:41
Speaker 1: the people, the people that have been there before me.
31:44
Speaker 1: Um has really helped me navigate this and so Bob
31:48
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31:50
Speaker 1: and it's awesome he comes on the podcast. I think
31:52
Speaker 1: we should have them back more often. Yeah, I know,
31:54
Speaker 1: we gotta get him in studio. He's great. Maybe we
31:56
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31:59
Speaker 1: and the switch gears a little bit. We want to
32:01
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32:09
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32:12
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32:14
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32:18
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32:21
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32:24
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32:27
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32:31
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32:35
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32:38
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32:40
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32:42
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32:44
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32:47
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys have been chatting about
32:50
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32:56
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32:59
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33:04
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33:08
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33:12
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33:15
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33:21
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33:25
Speaker 1: and it is a twenty four page complaint UM. And
33:29
Speaker 1: in there she's alleging sexual harassment, hustle work environment, sex discrimination, retaliation,
33:37
Speaker 1: failure to prevent harassment, and intentional fliction of to stress
33:41
Speaker 1: and wrongful termination to give you an introduction, So, I mean,
33:46
Speaker 1: what exactly does this mean in like how I mean,
33:48
Speaker 1: I don't understand these this process at all. So these
33:51
Speaker 1: this is what she's claiming happened. She's filed the report.
33:54
Speaker 1: What are the next steps? Yeah? So I mean these
33:58
Speaker 1: types I mean, wrongfold termination lawsuits are pretty common, um,
34:02
Speaker 1: but anything involving sexual harassment in this current climate is
34:06
Speaker 1: definitely going to get more attention, especially from the public. UM.
34:11
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that if this went to court the
34:14
Speaker 1: decision would be any different, but I think that there's
34:17
Speaker 1: so much going on right now with things coming to
34:19
Speaker 1: light in terms of Hollywood, especially with harass and allegations,
34:23
Speaker 1: that this is definitely anything that's filed along these lines
34:28
Speaker 1: is definitely going to You're going to see it in
34:30
Speaker 1: the news. That's kind of my big question. So, because
34:33
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about the situation, you know,
34:35
Speaker 1: but obviously the the Harvey Weinstein and those kind of
34:39
Speaker 1: cases are coming up, and we're hearing about it a lot,
34:41
Speaker 1: and people are starting to speak out and kind of
34:43
Speaker 1: take a stand against sexual harassment. Um, just in general, why, now, like,
34:49
Speaker 1: what do you think sparked this? You know all, you know,
34:52
Speaker 1: all the stuff seems to be coming out. Now, what
34:54
Speaker 1: was kind of the catalyst to make this such a
34:56
Speaker 1: not just a very prevalent issue and in today's society. Well, So,
35:02
Speaker 1: I didn't speak to the producer who filed this. Her
35:07
Speaker 1: name is Becky steen Hook. I'm not sure if I'm
35:10
Speaker 1: pronouncing her last name right. Um. She did give an
35:12
Speaker 1: interview to The l A. Times um where she spoke
35:15
Speaker 1: about the complaint, details some of the things that were
35:19
Speaker 1: said in things that she's alleging, and she claims that
35:23
Speaker 1: the producers were trying to embarrass her because of her
35:26
Speaker 1: conservative views. Um. So I don't I don't know if
35:30
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein spurred her to come forward at this moment
35:33
Speaker 1: in time. I mean, the story with him has certainly
35:37
Speaker 1: opened the floodgates of Hollywood since he was first since
35:43
Speaker 1: The first report about Weinstein came out early in October. Obviously,
35:48
Speaker 1: the tally to women is now north of sixty UM
35:52
Speaker 1: and seems to be growing. And there have been a
35:55
Speaker 1: lot of other powerful figures in Hollywood who have also
35:58
Speaker 1: had claims leveled against them, and people are taking action. UM.
36:04
Speaker 1: So it does seem to be spurring women and even
36:07
Speaker 1: Meant to come forward and tell stories about being her asked.
36:10
Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's what spurred her. I
36:13
Speaker 1: can't speak to that because I didn't speak directly to her.
36:16
Speaker 1: But it is kind of what we're seeing in Hollywood
36:18
Speaker 1: at the moment, where people are empowered to speak up.
36:21
Speaker 1: It becomes challenging in that. Um, there's so much gray
36:25
Speaker 1: area here, so it's really hard to sort of know
36:28
Speaker 1: what's right, what's wrong, what one person is comfortable with
36:31
Speaker 1: somebody else isn't. So it's it's really hard to sort
36:33
Speaker 1: of have opinions on them. Yeah, And I mean Warner
36:37
Speaker 1: Brothers released the statement pretty quickly, and they said that
36:40
Speaker 1: they investigated earlier this year, UM, I assume when they
36:44
Speaker 1: found out about the allegations, and they said that what
36:47
Speaker 1: they found didn't match what was claimed in the lawsuit. Um.
36:50
Speaker 1: And they actually used the word disappointed, so they were
36:53
Speaker 1: disappointed that the lawsuit was filed. So it does from
36:56
Speaker 1: that statement it sounds like they did investigated and they
36:59
Speaker 1: were aware of these claims, um, and that they were
37:03
Speaker 1: brought to them earlier this year. So it really next
37:07
Speaker 1: it comes down to how Warner Brothers is going to respond. Um.
37:12
Speaker 1: They could file a motion to the smith. This could
37:15
Speaker 1: be negotiated outside the courtroom. UM. And if she you know,
37:19
Speaker 1: if she's speaking out, she could also continue to speak
37:22
Speaker 1: out and tell her story. So there's a few ways
37:27
Speaker 1: that this could go from here. We're just I mean,
37:30
Speaker 1: I think we said it, like and then all of
37:32
Speaker 1: this we're just at the tip of the iceberg. Like
37:34
Speaker 1: this still has to still play out. Um. We don't
37:37
Speaker 1: know how it will. But wherever the case the claims
37:40
Speaker 1: have made. The article came out on in the l
37:43
Speaker 1: A Times. Do you plan on speaking to Becky the producer,
37:48
Speaker 1: I'm not at the moment. We don't have a request
37:50
Speaker 1: in to speak with her. We're just monitoring, UM, how
37:53
Speaker 1: this is happening, what's going on, and what the next
37:55
Speaker 1: steps are going to be. It seems like she has
37:58
Speaker 1: said everything at this point. That she could say, and
38:01
Speaker 1: I think if there's the next step taken, we would
38:03
Speaker 1: probably reach out and get more of the story. Perfect. Well,
38:08
Speaker 1: Hey Jackie, thank you again for coming on almostly this podcast.
38:11
Speaker 1: You've been great to us and um, you know again,
38:14
Speaker 1: we just we want to hear kind of the updates
38:17
Speaker 1: and the facts, um, and kind of put our just
38:20
Speaker 1: kind of fill in all the listeners on what's going on.
38:22
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing that, and we hope to
38:24
Speaker 1: have you back here soon to kind of catch us
38:26
Speaker 1: back up on everything happening. Yeah, no problem, Thanks for
38:29
Speaker 1: having me on. Guys. All right, thanks, all right, moving
38:35
Speaker 1: from the serious to the fun, we're going into segment emails, Okay, UM,
38:44
Speaker 1: now I have to go through and see which ones
38:45
Speaker 1: are think are the most important. I think this is
38:47
Speaker 1: very interesting. Um, hi guys from Rachel. Six years ago,
38:52
Speaker 1: my college boyfriend and I broke up to go to
38:55
Speaker 1: different law schools. We've been having serious relationships since and
38:59
Speaker 1: grown as individual during our time of part Now we're
39:01
Speaker 1: rekindling our relationship at a time in life we're settling down.
39:05
Speaker 1: Actually makes sense. He's all in, but I'm still hesitant.
39:08
Speaker 1: My question relates to something that Amy brought up last
39:11
Speaker 1: week regarding this issue of timing. Can people really break
39:14
Speaker 1: up and get back together without it being a complete
39:16
Speaker 1: and total dream wreck? Um, I like said last week,
39:20
Speaker 1: I was like, I think timing is usually an excuse,
39:22
Speaker 1: but in this case, I think it's kind of romantic.
39:26
Speaker 1: I think like you guys were in the right place
39:29
Speaker 1: of your life or your careers UM or even just
39:32
Speaker 1: like um personal growth to like settle down. But now
39:36
Speaker 1: that you've gotten to know yourself better and you're both
39:40
Speaker 1: at this place in life career wise, that you feel
39:43
Speaker 1: like it's ready to settle, you're ready to settle down.
39:45
Speaker 1: I think there's actually this could be really awesome. There's
39:48
Speaker 1: a whole new trend in this. I think it's awesome. Um.
39:52
Speaker 1: I feel like you had that spark in that chemistry initially,
39:54
Speaker 1: but now you're in a place where, like you can
39:56
Speaker 1: really explore it. Supposedly because of like Facebook, Instagram, all
40:00
Speaker 1: these things. Um, people are marrying other people, getting divorced
40:05
Speaker 1: and then reconnecting with their high school or college boyfriends
40:10
Speaker 1: or friends and then dating again. What do you think, Ben, Uh?
40:14
Speaker 1: You know, honestly, I said, I think I don't. I
40:15
Speaker 1: forget I was talking to about this. But I recently
40:17
Speaker 1: was just talking to somebody and I said, there's there's
40:19
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends are married, and they're in
40:21
Speaker 1: serious relationships and very and they all have very healthy,
40:24
Speaker 1: good thriving marriages and relationships, and very few of them
40:28
Speaker 1: have stayed together throughout the whole dating process. Most of
40:31
Speaker 1: them had broken up at least maybe for a week
40:34
Speaker 1: or two weeks or sometimes longer, and then we got
40:37
Speaker 1: back together. Because I think you get really really nervous,
40:40
Speaker 1: and you start to question I was just the right
40:41
Speaker 1: thing or not. But then when you break up, you
40:43
Speaker 1: separate and you realize, wait, that really was the right person,
40:46
Speaker 1: that really was the right snail. So I agree with you. Actually,
40:49
Speaker 1: I think it's romantic. I think it's somewhat intelligent because
40:52
Speaker 1: now in today's world, we're always looking, you know, for
40:56
Speaker 1: what's next and what's better. You've tried out what's next
40:58
Speaker 1: and what's better, and you've realized that what you had
41:00
Speaker 1: before was the best thing. Um, And so I think
41:03
Speaker 1: you might be actually a little more confident in the
41:05
Speaker 1: relation too, if you gave it that time to step away. Um.
41:08
Speaker 1: I was watching Demilovado's documentary this weekend of course you were. Yeah,
41:12
Speaker 1: and she talks about, you know, her relationship with Wilma
41:16
Speaker 1: vol Drama and how she was with him from the
41:18
Speaker 1: age of eighteen to twenty four. So it wasn't like
41:22
Speaker 1: they lost their spark or anything. But she said, like,
41:24
Speaker 1: as somebody who's really never seriously been with somebody else,
41:28
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to take a few years
41:30
Speaker 1: off and like get to know myself better. But she
41:32
Speaker 1: doesn't rule out rekindling it in the future. That's it, Yeah,
41:36
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing. And so you've gotten to
41:37
Speaker 1: know somebody, you separate, you get back together. I think
41:40
Speaker 1: your relationship could be healthier for and you've had chance
41:43
Speaker 1: to miss each other, which is such an important little
41:45
Speaker 1: characteristic in relationships hit feeling what life is like without
41:49
Speaker 1: them by your side at all times. Um So, hey, Rachel,
41:54
Speaker 1: trust it, it's a good thing. Let the guy back in.
41:57
Speaker 1: He wants you, I need you on the Danielle Asa
42:02
Speaker 1: asks my question for you both as how do you
42:05
Speaker 1: deal with being in a house of gorgeous women for
42:07
Speaker 1: actually and very handsome men for Ben and not compare
42:10
Speaker 1: yourself or do you let your um insecurity psych you
42:14
Speaker 1: out of putting yourself out there. I can't help but
42:16
Speaker 1: notice that all the women on the show are stunning
42:18
Speaker 1: and yet thin, while all the men are buff and
42:21
Speaker 1: fit and yes that includes you. Ben, is Bachelor Nation
42:24
Speaker 1: not ready for a plus size bachelorette or its cast members?
42:28
Speaker 1: Will the dad Bod Bachelor ever received the same sort
42:31
Speaker 1: of love we just talked to Bob, so he has
42:34
Speaker 1: a lot of love, I think, Ben. I mean, I
42:38
Speaker 1: think Bob was the the Dad Bob Bachelor, and he
42:42
Speaker 1: was an early on Bachelor, so I think they're open
42:45
Speaker 1: to that. I would have to say that they're probably
42:47
Speaker 1: more opened to a dad Bob Bachelor than they would
42:51
Speaker 1: be to a cushier bachelorette though. Um you think that, Ben? Um? Yeah,
42:59
Speaker 1: I mean I don't really know. I don't. I would
43:02
Speaker 1: think they'd be ready for anything. I mean, as long
43:04
Speaker 1: as that person is looking to find somebody. And I
43:07
Speaker 1: think in today's world, the franchise is looking for healthy
43:10
Speaker 1: relationships so badly that they they don't I mean, they're
43:14
Speaker 1: just wanting to find people ready to find love. Um,
43:16
Speaker 1: I don't. I guess, I don't know. I would have
43:19
Speaker 1: to talk to the casting department about if they're ready
43:21
Speaker 1: for a plus size or not. But you know, I mean,
43:23
Speaker 1: I think for me, the big part of that question
43:26
Speaker 1: is comparing yourself to everybody. Right, if your plus size,
43:29
Speaker 1: if you have the dad about if you're not as
43:31
Speaker 1: ripped as everybody, you know, how do you go about
43:32
Speaker 1: not comparing yourself? And I don't. I just don't think
43:35
Speaker 1: that's true. I compared myself the whole time. It messes
43:37
Speaker 1: with you. I have to stand next to the sham
43:39
Speaker 1: booths of the world and and look at you know,
43:42
Speaker 1: him doing push ups with his veins popping out, and
43:47
Speaker 1: and it's tough, it is, and and I just think
43:49
Speaker 1: it's such a you know, we talked about all the time,
43:52
Speaker 1: and it's such a hard kind of world for for
43:54
Speaker 1: people to grow up in. And until they're really confident
43:56
Speaker 1: with each other in themselves. In today's world, you're gonna
44:00
Speaker 1: instantly compare yourself. And and the true satisfaction comes from
44:03
Speaker 1: knowing who you are as a person person, feeling good
44:06
Speaker 1: about who you are, and and also taking steps in
44:09
Speaker 1: your life to make sure you feel good about yourself. Right,
44:12
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a healthy thing to do,
44:14
Speaker 1: is this to try to take one step at a time.
44:16
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44:25
Speaker 1: constantly compare. Don't think that you're abnormal for that. But
44:28
Speaker 1: the truth is you have to continue to work to
44:30
Speaker 1: feel good about who you are as a person. Well,
44:32
Speaker 1: I should mention there was a plus size model on
44:34
Speaker 1: my season. Um Chris actually eliminated her the night one,
44:39
Speaker 1: but that had nothing to do with her size and
44:41
Speaker 1: more of the fact that she was pretty darn't drunk. Yeah,
44:45
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing. I don't remember that. But
44:48
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the day that the bachelorrette is represented
44:51
Speaker 1: from all people of all shapes and sizes, all colors.
44:53
Speaker 1: You know. I think that's great. Uh, it's makes you know,
44:56
Speaker 1: it's fun. It's it's good to hear people's stories and
44:58
Speaker 1: here where they come from and who hear who they
45:00
Speaker 1: are as people. I mean, I think that's why you
45:02
Speaker 1: fall in love with the Christina's of the world from
45:04
Speaker 1: um nixt season is because her story was so powerful
45:07
Speaker 1: and you could tell she had so much depth to
45:09
Speaker 1: her And that's what we want when we watch the
45:10
Speaker 1: Bachelorette and Bachelor it's people of people, people that intrigue
45:15
Speaker 1: us and interest us, and not just people that are
45:17
Speaker 1: all the same. Uh. And I think we're taking steps
45:19
Speaker 1: to get there. I mean I hope that the franchise
45:22
Speaker 1: is taking steps to get there. I mean, we had
45:23
Speaker 1: our first black bachelorette, so I would assume plus sizes.
45:28
Speaker 1: It's right around the corner. That's right, that's right. But hey, Ashley,
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47:11
Speaker 1: know you're a huge fan, Ashley. Next week we have
47:13
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47:17
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know much about Julian Harris. Was
47:22
Speaker 1: um I love Emily? Can we have Emily on? I
47:24
Speaker 1: think we should definitely be having Emily on. You could
47:27
Speaker 1: have faked it for me, Ashley. You could have made
47:29
Speaker 1: me sound smart, be like, oh yeah, Ben, I love Jillian.
47:31
Speaker 1: She's the best. I mean, I think I would get
47:34
Speaker 1: along while Jillian. I did run into her at the
47:36
Speaker 1: bathroom at Jane Tayner's wedding and she was so so nice. Well, hey,
47:41
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47:43
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