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I’ve Got a Golden Ticket · 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 iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's another episode of the Almost Famous podcast. We're here
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  Speaker 2: this week to break down the Golden Bachelor. Yes, we're
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  Speaker 2: one week ahead from going to hometowns and yes again
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  Speaker 2: today we have an amazing grandma coming on to help
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  Speaker 2: us break down this episode.
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  Speaker 3: It's been fun, it's been exciting. And Ashley, how are
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  Speaker 3: you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: Ben.
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  Speaker 4: You're in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 3: I am in Hawaii. I am in Hawaii right now.
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  Speaker 3: We're here for a few more days. In fact, today
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  Speaker 3: our big adventure is we're going on.
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  Speaker 2: A all day boat ride storkled tour and I hope
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 3: A big turtle.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, cool? Is this vacation.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of sort of it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: It you know my you know about my golf tournament
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  Speaker 2: that I talk about now for the next eight weeks
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  Speaker 2: of my life, Orlando, Florida. Yeah, it's with Hilton, and
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  Speaker 2: so that's a Hilton Grand Vacations tournament champion. So they
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  Speaker 2: asked us to come down to Hilton Grand Vacations in
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii to kind of see the property, and we obviously
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  Speaker 2: gladly obliged, and so the four of us came down
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  Speaker 2: to do this.
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  Speaker 3: It worked out perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't go to Bean's bachelor party, actually, and so
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  Speaker 2: Dean and Kaalen came down because this is like his
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  Speaker 2: bachelor party point two, except I've been in bed by
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock every night and I've been waking up at
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  Speaker 2: five point thirty due to the time change.
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  Speaker 3: So we've just been.
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  Speaker 5: Chilling nice, very lovely. Do you see that it's a
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  Speaker 5: place that possibly Gary could have his.
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  Speaker 4: Fantasy sweet week? Is he gonna have a fantasy Sweet week?
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  Speaker 3: He is going to have a fantasy season?
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  Speaker 4: Is it really though?
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  Speaker 5: Because Hometowns is just the top three, not top four,
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  Speaker 5: and then we're gonna have narrowed down to two ladies,
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  Speaker 5: and then you think they're gonna have overnights.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have Q.
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  Speaker 2: I have some secret information, not a spoiler, not a spoiler,
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  Speaker 2: because I do not know how this plays out, but
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  Speaker 2: I do know they had fantasy suites.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason is is there might have been a
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  Speaker 3: little birdie that might.
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  Speaker 2: Have asked if I'd be interested in coming down, not
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of fantasy.
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  Speaker 3: But to him in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how to say that.
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  Speaker 4: Him through that week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but even that sounds weird too to sit beside
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  Speaker 2: him and hold his hand as he walks. Anyways, he
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  Speaker 2: is going to have fantasy suites.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but I'm assuming it'll just be with the top two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's with two people.
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  Speaker 5: My takeaway from this episode, I just like can't believe
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  Speaker 5: he picked us over Ellen.
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  Speaker 4: Like, Teresa is just too much for me.
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  Speaker 5: She's just like, I know, she's being open and really
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  Speaker 5: expressing how into it she is, but she's just a
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  Speaker 5: little bit desperate to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting. So as you think about this, would you
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  Speaker 2: have fallen more on the side of Kathy than Teresa.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, so I wasn't here when you recapped last week. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know neither of them. I could like
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  Speaker 5: take totally seriously because they're just like kind of hilarious characters.
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  Speaker 5: So I understand that he wasn't into Kathy as much
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  Speaker 5: as he is to Teresa, which is why he had
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  Speaker 5: to let her go.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm like, I don't know Ellen, and between Ellen
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  Speaker 7: and Theresa seems pretty close, and I just I just
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  Speaker 7: would have preferred to hang out with Ellen.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, well, And I think it's there's so much
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  Speaker 2: to what you're saying that's intriguing to me. One is
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  Speaker 2: that you're invested, Like you are invested into each one
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  Speaker 2: of these women, and you're invested in the Gary, but
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  Speaker 2: like you can pull back each woman's name and their
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  Speaker 2: character and how much that you felt for them or
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  Speaker 2: maybe not for them through this season, which again to me,
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  Speaker 2: is a mark of a really good season of The Bachelor,
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  Speaker 2: Like we are watching something that we both enjoyed, that
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  Speaker 2: we're invested into that you're saying, I can't believe he
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  Speaker 2: chose so and so over so and so. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: not every season the Bachelor we feel that way, Like
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  Speaker 2: usually we're kind of maybe not Usually there's been seasons
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  Speaker 2: where we've been fairly apathetic to the choices being made,
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  Speaker 2: and this season, I think we're both deeply invested in
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  Speaker 2: who he's choosing and why he's choosing them. I also
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  Speaker 2: think Ashley, with what you're saying, we're seeing something interesting
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  Speaker 2: where for me, he is into a certain type.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know all the top three like have well
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  Speaker 4: they're burnettes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but I would say the Leslie and Tie says
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  Speaker 2: are more similar than.
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  Speaker 3: The Leslie's and Ellen's.
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  Speaker 2: Ellen feels like to me, she's not gonna she's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a hard time finding love like she feels
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  Speaker 2: like to me, somebody who wants to settle down, who's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an incredible partner to somebody who wants
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  Speaker 2: to be the support system. And these other women I
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  Speaker 2: feel the same way about it. I'm not like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have any red flags about any of them, but
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like there may be a little more
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  Speaker 2: like Sponge. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well we got Diana, our Grandma of the Week.
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  Speaker 5: In this in the studio, the Zoom studio right now,
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  Speaker 5: so we want to bring her in and write into
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  Speaker 5: this conversation. Diana, what is your take on Gary's top three?
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  Speaker 5: Because we have Teresa, Leslie and Faith Now, I think
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  Speaker 5: my personal opinion is that Teresa was the teeter tatter
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  Speaker 5: and that he's really into Fad and Leslie what's your name?
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  Speaker 6: Well, my belief all the women are terrific. I really
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  Speaker 6: like the women. They're great. But there's only two. Truthfully,
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  Speaker 6: there's only two. There's Faith and sorry I'm so good.
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  Speaker 3: Leslie.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you know, and it's so true. They're dark hair.
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  Speaker 6: They're dark hair, and believe me, I used to be
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  Speaker 6: dark hair. And when you're older. When you're older as
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  Speaker 6: an older woman, you know, being in my sixties, my
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  Speaker 6: late sixties, you know, it's hard out there. So all
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  Speaker 6: these women, they're so hungry, and I understand what they need.
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  Speaker 6: And he's hungry too. But there's only two in the running.
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  Speaker 6: The other girls are nice, but it's not happening.
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  Speaker 3: So, Diana, thank you for joining almost in this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, it means so much.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for inviting me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to hang out with us. A little
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  Speaker 2: bit about you. How did we find you? How did
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  Speaker 2: you get connected almost in this podcast?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, okay, well, Heather, which is you know, I'm an actress.
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  Speaker 6: I'm an actress. I'm a jack of all trades and
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  Speaker 6: pretty much a master of none. But I enjoy what
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  Speaker 6: I do pretty much. So I'm original soul trained dancer
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  Speaker 6: number one of the seventies right on magazine I have.
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  Speaker 6: If you look up my name, Diana Brunner Puscis, it's
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  Speaker 6: I'm a you know, it's pretty much. I was the
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  Speaker 6: original soul trained dancer. And then from there, you know,
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  Speaker 6: traveling modeling career in New York and then moving back,
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  Speaker 6: getting married to a very distinguished guy who owned a
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  Speaker 6: huge company in Orange County. And then I started acting again,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and I my old girlfriend Queen Turner started
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  Speaker 6: from the Icatina Turner family. She started Diva Glamas. So
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  Speaker 6: that ended up you know, wrong studio, you know, but
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  Speaker 6: that's Hollywood, and uh, it ended up being a year.
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  Speaker 6: And beside that, I have a new movie which I'm
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  Speaker 6: in and it's called Redemption, and holiday's Redemption and it's
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  Speaker 6: with German on foot and his name is Kiss thirteen.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be big. And he's also doing the
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  Speaker 6: Cat Califwaey movie. I'm not in that one, but I
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  Speaker 6: am going to do a cameo for that one once
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  Speaker 6: it gets totally funded. So yeah, there's tons of exciting things.
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  Speaker 4: So we don't have a grandma today.
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  Speaker 5: We have a grandma, yeah grandma and a glandma.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, definitely a gladma because I have I have
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  Speaker 6: a lot of grandkids and they're my step grandkids because
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  Speaker 6: I you know, I was one of these women that
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  Speaker 6: had the career first and then didn't have kids. But
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  Speaker 6: it's okay. I have my husband, you know, my ex
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  Speaker 6: husband's kids.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, love is love is love.
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  Speaker 2: And right now today we're going to break down this
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  Speaker 2: episode leading up into Hometowns. You are watching, Diana, You're
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  Speaker 2: could have been competition as we are witnessing and being
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  Speaker 2: able to criticize and celebrate these amazing people who are one.
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  Speaker 3: The Golden Bachelor. Let's kick it off from the beginning, Diana.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this episode really started out with I think
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  Speaker 2: for me an intrigue about faith, faith as a human,
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  Speaker 2: not faith maybe as a subject. So faith as a
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  Speaker 2: human I was curious about. We got to see her
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  Speaker 2: kind of skyrocket to the top at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: this season. She was obviously one that everybody had their
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  Speaker 2: eyes on. There's a target on her back. And then
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion and I want to hear yours and Ashley's,
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  Speaker 2: she took a big back seat for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the season. She hasn't really had a big role and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know where her relationship with Gary existed until
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  Speaker 2: this episod. So how do you feel about Faith and
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  Speaker 2: what do you think about their connection during their date?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the very first date, there was definitely a connection
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  Speaker 6: and he showed that. But then I just felt the
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  Speaker 6: other ladies were very, very aggressive. They were extremely aggressive,
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  Speaker 6: and you know Jewish girls, you know. My grandmother's Jewish,
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  Speaker 6: so I know Jewish girls can be when they want
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  Speaker 6: something go, they go after it. Let me tell you, so,
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  Speaker 6: I think she kind of got she's a little insecure.
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  Speaker 6: She's a little insecure, and she had to build up that.
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  Speaker 6: Like I think if she would have been out there
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more in his face, he would have
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  Speaker 6: probably asked her out a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: You said something when we started out here. You said
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  Speaker 2: that these girls are hungry. Okay, so you said that
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  Speaker 2: these girls are hungry. I would love for you to
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  Speaker 2: explain what you mean by hungry and if that is
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  Speaker 2: a positive attribute or if it's something that maybe you're
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  Speaker 2: cautious of now being hungry.
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  Speaker 6: It's basically, when you get older, you become invisible. You
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  Speaker 6: don't you know, you don't get all the like the
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  Speaker 6: looks like when you used to be like in your
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  Speaker 6: forties or your fifties. But when you reach that threshold,
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  Speaker 6: you know, thank god, you know, I take care of
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  Speaker 6: my skin, so I could be in my forties. Nobody
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  Speaker 6: would really know, but I know, I know, and it's
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  Speaker 6: something inside because you've been around the corner so many
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  Speaker 6: times and you just don't get that many dates when
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  Speaker 6: you get older, you really do become invisible.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, sure, So the hungriness is to have.
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  Speaker 6: Well they feel, you know, they haven't done it for
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  Speaker 6: so long, so it's wonderful to have a man in
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  Speaker 6: their presence, and they want this, They really want this,
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  Speaker 6: so they're hungry. So I believe it's truly positive. I
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  Speaker 6: try to keep my frequency extremely high, so I try
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  Speaker 6: to just I give them all of them love. But
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  Speaker 6: I just feel there's only two in the money.
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  Speaker 3: That's fair. That's fair. One of the things that I'm
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  Speaker 3: intrigued by.
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  Speaker 2: We really haven't had anybody come and help us break
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  Speaker 2: down an episode yet that has kind of had your perspective.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like you have a perspective on desiring today.
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  Speaker 2: You had just said, we've had most of the people
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  Speaker 2: come on and they have said, hey, as you can,
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  Speaker 2: only you feel more invisible. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: very interesting piece of the Golden Bachelor to me, is
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  Speaker 2: that I'm now believing and assuming that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people here have felt invisible and may be disconnected from
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  Speaker 2: what they were used to when it comes to attention
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  Speaker 2: and dating. So, now that we're getting down to this
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  Speaker 2: final few women in, is it in their minds. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's an excitement towards what could be in marriage,
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  Speaker 2: in a partnership with Gary or is it still the
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  Speaker 2: excitement of I'm just really happy that I'm still being
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  Speaker 2: seen and being like affectionate towards somebody because it's been
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  Speaker 2: so long.
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  Speaker 6: No, I really believe these women they want marriage, because
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  Speaker 6: marriage after you know, I got divorced at fifty one,
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  Speaker 6: so it was very, very hard. You feel kind of abandoned,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, you're so used to your best friend
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  Speaker 6: and then he's gone, so and you know, older men
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  Speaker 6: look at younger women, so you know, now the you know,
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  Speaker 6: now it's like being alone starting over. So I really
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  Speaker 6: believe these women are they're hungry because they they want
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  Speaker 6: that companion. They want to be married, They want to
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  Speaker 6: be you know, having dinners with their grandkids, kids and
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  Speaker 6: family is everything. Family and you know I and I
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  Speaker 6: really believe young people have have kind of lost that
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  Speaker 6: because I have so many of my friends that don't
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  Speaker 6: have kids. I went through in vitro. The whole thing
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  Speaker 6: wasn't me, it was him, but you know, I tried everything,
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  Speaker 6: but it's really, you know, it's beautiful having a family.
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  Speaker 6: So these these women, they have families, so they just
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  Speaker 6: want to get whole again. They want to find their
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  Speaker 6: their their second part, you know, to make them whole.
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  Speaker 6: So and I really believe that Gary, he's he's a
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  Speaker 6: great guy, but I believe that he knows what he wants.
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  Speaker 6: Just like he told the older lady, well, she's not
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  Speaker 6: really older than him.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 4: Age ellen.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and he thought that she was not sexually up
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  Speaker 6: to par to keep up with you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how do you know this? Tell us your insight?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he had mentioned something like that on the show
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  Speaker 6: that or during because it was my sister and I.
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  Speaker 6: We were sitting in the living room and she was
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  Speaker 6: saying to me, she says, I can't believe that he
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  Speaker 6: had thought, you know that he doesn't think that she
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  Speaker 6: could match his sexual appetite. I'll put it that way.
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  Speaker 4: You sure you don't think that you're reading into something.
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  Speaker 7: Because I didn't pick up on this really.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I thought I felt that he probably thought
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  Speaker 6: she was too old for him. You know the other
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  Speaker 6: two girls, they look a lot younger, They look a
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  Speaker 6: lot younger. Not putting anything down for her, she's beautiful,
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  Speaker 6: she's beautiful, but I kind of felt what he was feeling.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it could have been one of those situations
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  Speaker 2: too that you're able to understand the language they're using
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  Speaker 2: him on each other a ton better than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Just like maybe if if you watched The Bachelor right now,
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  Speaker 2: like there's gonna be that you maybe don't understand because
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  Speaker 2: it's not it's on your generation, and so you could
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  Speaker 2: be you know, seeing things and hearing things, and the
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  Speaker 2: perspective that you're watching the show is different than the
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  Speaker 2: perspective I'm watching the show, and then Ashley's watching the show,
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  Speaker 2: and then somebody in their twenties is watching the show,
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  Speaker 2: and and so if he maybe isn't as let's say,
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  Speaker 2: physically attracted to Ellen as he is to the other woman,
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  Speaker 2: I do think we've all now agreed that Gary definitely
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  Speaker 2: has a type at this time in his life. They
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  Speaker 2: are brunettes, and they are you know, maybe a little spunkier,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, like they they are like a little
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  Speaker 2: more like extravagantly.
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  Speaker 4: Certain kind of energy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like an energy that brings out a child like
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  Speaker 2: feeling in him.
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  Speaker 3: And and one of.
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  Speaker 2: The reasons I say that is because his group day,
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  Speaker 2: which we need to jump to now, he wants to
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  Speaker 2: bring out that childlike spirit and like he's ready, he's
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  Speaker 2: having a carnival, saying a lotica peers. So he desires
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  Speaker 2: that childlike energy still at this point in his life.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where I come to you, Diana. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've had some incredible people come out and help us
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  Speaker 2: break down episodes. In each one of them, I think
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  Speaker 2: have had a spirit amongst our conversations where they're saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know, age, yes, is just a number, but age
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  Speaker 2: also is something that doesn't restrict him from still wanting
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  Speaker 2: to have a great time and have tons of energy
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  Speaker 2: and do all they can in the course of the.
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  Speaker 3: Day, and so they can't do anything anymore. That's kind
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  Speaker 3: of how I feel about my life now.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, with your friends and your group of
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  Speaker 2: people around you, do you feel like most of the
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  Speaker 2: people your age at this point still desire that child
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  Speaker 2: like spirit and to still play and to still have fun.
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't think that has.
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  Speaker 2: Been a common feeling for a lot of generations of
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  Speaker 2: the past were in their sixties and seventies, they're still
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  Speaker 2: desiring to play.
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  Speaker 6: Right right, And plus you know, something society has changed,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I do you know I run on the
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  Speaker 6: beach every single day, and I do see older women.
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  Speaker 6: They're out there doing the yoga. They're trying to help
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  Speaker 6: themselves mentally, physically. So it is out there now that
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  Speaker 6: women have a lot more energy. For me, I don't like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I go on a dating site and all
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  Speaker 6: these guys they look so big, got the beer belly.
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  Speaker 6: I'm living in Florida now, I'm like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm a California girl. I'm not used to.
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  Speaker 2: That, you know.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I think today a man wants somebody that
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: is spontaneous, someone to get in the jakuzi with, or say,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: come on, let's zip off to a wonderful island of
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: scandals and have dinner and candlelight. Yeah. I think all
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: men want that. It's just the women, you know, they
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: get settled, they get mentally you know, oh I'm too
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: old for this. Hey, you got to get out of that,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: So this week was the second week in a row
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: that we've seen some jealousy, totally understandable jealousy. Last week
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: we saw it with Kathy, and this week we're seeing
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: it with Leslie, who's just you know, she's like, I
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: don't want to hear about your date. I don't need
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: this a rollover. How would you feel if somebody came
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: in from a date with Gary or whoever your bachelor
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: was and started recapping the date.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Well, personally, I'm just not a tell all type of
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: girl when it's you know, it's between me and Gary,
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: and I want to give those girls something to really
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: think about, because I don't want to give them everything
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: what happened on my date with him, so she can
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: actually top it or try to do something more, much
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: more exciting, you know. So now, I'm not a you know,
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: tell a type of girl, and I believe that they
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: shouldn't be They really shouldn't. They should just zip it,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: enjoy each other in the house, talk about their families,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: but don't get into a competition, because I believe that
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: brings your frequency down, and the ones that have the
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: highest frequency, they're going to get all the good energy
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: coming to him. You know.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you're wrong, and I do think
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the frequency of the energy around Gary right now has
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: definitely attracted him to a certain group of women that
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: we obviously see make it at the end. The one
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: that maybe was a little more surprising to me that
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: didn't make it to the end. I don't know if
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the chemistry was there, but somebody that definitely had the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: energy was Susan.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, Susan definitely lit up the room.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: You could tell that she kind of carried the way
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of connecting the group of people. She's Italian and she
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: loves to bring people together over food and over after
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and over a good time. We saw her on this
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: group date with Gary. You know, Ellen though, really kind
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: of steals the show for me. This group date's beautiful.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: They go to Santamonic Computer. They have a great time, right,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of laughter, a lot of fun. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: do think the date accomplished what Gary was hoping for.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But Ellen's feelings for Gary continue to be expressed. And
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I do believe her when she looks at him in
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the eyes and sells him like I you know, I'm
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: falling in love with you.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I am in love with you, and I see a
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: future with you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I believe that Gary was infatuated with this last week.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: You could start to see this week obviously where he
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: starts to pull.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Back right, Well, don't that a little bit when they
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: get a little scared, you know?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what do you think happened. I mean, what
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: do you think happened from your perspective for Gary this week?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Where last week he was saying, I haven't felt this
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: way or haven't said these words, you know, since his
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: late wife, and now this week, you know, she's saying
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I need some validation. He's saying, I can't give it
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to you yet. And I think I obviously pointed to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: the fact that you know, she wasn't going to be
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: there for hometowns.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: What do you think happened?
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I just felt that he wasn't into it. I don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: think so, you know, and just like I really like
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Sondra too, you know, yeah too, but yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: You knew that wasn't going to happen with the two
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: So I just felt that he he knew exactly the
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: three that he kind of felt the close to it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: And I felt probably Theresa wouldn't be in if the
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: girl didn't the lady didn't go home, she had any emergency,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: the pretty blondie, yes, because he was he was torn. Joan, Joan,
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Joan exactly, Joan.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was really pretty.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Joan would be in the running for sure.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, So I was a huge moment for me
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: was when Leslie was expressing her insecurities to him and
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: then he he held her and goes, you're my girl,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: And I was like, whoa, yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: You know, I really believe you know, man, I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: they talk out of the side of their necks sometime
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: and not their heart. Because I felt that he needed
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: to give her something right there, because he knew the cameras,
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: you know, we're going and everything. I think he probably misled.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Her, okay, used being over dramatic in the moment. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: was like, by saying that to her, she thinks that
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: she's the one. Yes, as a female interpreting this.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Exactly, I feel the same. So you know, I felt
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: that maybe you know, because you know when the cameras
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: are on and you know he he's trying to find
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: his mate. But I think he got a little you know, confused,
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, been.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Ahead of himself, like just just ahead of himself. I
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: wouldn't say that like he doesn't mean it. I still
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: think that she's his top two, but I don't think
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: he's one hundred percent sold that she's the one. But
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: by saying you're my girl, it's heavy.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Right, and he wanted to give her that sigh of
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: relief pretty much.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I agree with both of you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I do think that there's this element where right now,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: you know, Gary's had a lot of fun and it's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: been a great experience for him, and he's enjoying it,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and it's been fairly lighthearted most of the time, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: we've seen moments.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Of emotion out of him.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I think as any person, I think this is man
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: or woman who sits in the place of the lead
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: on this show. I do always find it interesting as
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: we get towards the end, you don't know how to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: handle it, like there's no preparation for this where you
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: have feelings and you care and you you enjoy the company.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe these are more friends at this point than a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: romantic partner, but you enjoyed being around them, and you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: feel this sense of well protection, You feel this sense
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of desire to help them feel better and good about
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: themselves and good about the experience, and honestly fairly good
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: about you as a lead, and that they're happy that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you were the guy that you know was the one.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And so I think he's saying things at this point
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: because he doesn't see to repercussions that could exist in
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: two more weeks, just to help calm the nerves of
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the situation. Similar to what I would say to a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: girl friend of mine where maybe they're going through a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: hard breakup and I would just say like these things,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: kind of just speaking, maybe without knowing how it's making
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: her feel inside, Like you know, maybe you say this
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: stuff in college. College is a great example where you're
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: you know, you're holding somebody or caring for somebody who's
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: just gone through a breakup, and you're saying things like
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you're so pretty, you're so beautiful, you are an incredible
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: human and yes, you're just comforting them. And I don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: think he realizes what the comforting may feel like in here,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Like it sound like to the girls that he's.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Dating, Well, you know, I felt that he's gonna bring
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: it down a notch. You know, he could probably make
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: her feel comfortable, and you know, when he gave her,
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: he could have given her false hope. But who knows
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: could have We don't know the ending yet, but I
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: can't wait to.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Know he wants.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: You know, the cool part about Gary in this season
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the Golden Bachelor is he's led his heart on the line,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: and so yes, he's going to say things that are
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: maybe a little more dramatic and a little more emotional,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a little more comforting as maybe he should in a
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: moment because he's just doing his best to be fully
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: out there. He's not hiding and holding anything back, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of these.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Women have held anything back.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: And I think that's why I'm loving watching this show
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: is because it is all and real and it's gonna
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: be a little messy, and there's gonna be tears. But
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: at the end, hopefully he's with somebody and it all
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: works out out. But there is gonna be heartbreak, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: there always is. There always is, and so uh, these
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: are one of those moments where maybe yeah, when he
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: said you're my girl, maybe she is.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe we ke ends up with her at the end, but.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: If he does it, I do think maybe that is
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: going to add some pain to her life.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Yes, which yes, I truly believe that as well. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: you know, as women entering into a dating show, someone
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: has to get hurt unfortunately.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Now sure, sure, And that leads me into my next
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: question perfectly. We've never seen this many declarations of love
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: so early on, and this season is so much faster
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: than a typical season. So these women may be saying,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: I'm valling in love with you within knowing this man
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: for maybe two weeks.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Do you feel at a.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: More advanced age that you've fall in love quicker?
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: No, it's television, so you have to you know. That's
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: why they got on the show, because they have to
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: make a decision. But some women they feel that because
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: they need that need in their life and they want
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: that husband, they're just pushing the accelerator button, you know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: But for me, I couldn't after two weeks. You don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: know who the representative is. Is it the real Gary?
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Is it the representative? Even though he seems like such
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: a great guy, and I think he's a hot looking guy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: I would definitely date him. I would love to get
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: dropped up in there and say, oh, we have one
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: more person.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I imagine that me in thirty years would actually take way
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: longer to fall in love right.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Exactly because we learn by our mistakes, you know. I
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: mean I got truly heartbroken when I left California. You know,
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: I was in love with the guy. He was a
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: you know, longshore man, good looking, tall, and sure enough
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: he was cheating on me, you know, So it's you
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: just gotta, you know, slow it down. But they don't
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: have much time. So that's why I think these women
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: number one, they want they want to mate. Can you
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: blame them? They're all beautiful women and they want to mate.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: And I feel so bad, but I really believe it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: between Faith and Leslie for sure.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Well that's where we're gonna We're gonna start to wrap here.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: And Dana, you've been absolutely incredible to come on and
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: break down.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Your energy is obviously infectious, your smile is infectious. Uh,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: and you have a great interconfidence and so with that interconfidence,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I do believe you have opinions and I would love
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to hear from you and Ashley kind of how you
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: think this is going to play out with Hometowns and
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: then who ends up with Gary at the end after
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: her Hometowns? Maybe just the final two for now, since
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: that is kind of the step ahead. Uh, how do
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you think Hometowns is going to work? With Gary meeting
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the families of these three women who are obviously incredible
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: women who he's found a connection with. But now it
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: gets real other people get involved, which always brings a
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: different element to the show.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Right. Well, I believe that Faith, I'll put it this way. Faith,
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: she is She's deep, She's deep, and I'm sure her
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: family wants the best for her and they don't want
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: her to be hurt because being hurt it's hard, especially
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: when you get older, you know.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: And she comes from a traumatic background now and oh goodness,
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: she grew up without parents, I know.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: And her sister. I think it was her sister.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we see more from her, We'll see more.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: He showed her sister just so connecting with Gary. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: I think she's going to be the one. Truthfully, I
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: think she's going to be the one.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: My gut as well, says Faith, And with obviously Leslie
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: being second.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: Teresa's Yeah, Leslie's great, you know, I like her. She's great.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: But no, I just feel that they have a very
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: very strong connection.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: And I think that's why he just waited to have
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: a one on one with her until later, because it
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: was just obvious right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Off the bat. But he did say last night that,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: like right off the bat, it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Was just a really strong physical connection and now he's
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: glad to confirm that it's both right exactly.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: So Ashley, what's your what's your opinion towards the end. Now,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: who do you think he ends up with?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: I think he's ending up with Faith.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, I would still say Teresa. Guys, my vote is Teresa.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: Wait really really thinks so. Can you imagine she's a
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: little much every day?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I was like, are you sure? She's like the most
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: extra human being I've ever met? I haven't met her, but.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: I still love to her. You know, it's her personality.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: But I don't stand it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: You guys might feel this way, but I think Gary
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: is very attracted to the extra and I think he's
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: very attracted to the spark that she could bring and
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that he sees her bringing.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: To his life.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Because I think he I think every one of these
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: women have a little bit of Teresa in them, but
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Teresa is the one that does it best.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: And I said, my vote is still Teresa.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Now, well, I tell you she's a go getter and
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: she's she put it out there that she wants him,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: so she's putting into energy out there. So but I
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: really believe he's either gonna be He's going to end
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: up with either Faith or Leslie.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, there's votes out there, your your opinion as listeners.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Now for what matters, So make sure you message us
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and tell us who you think Gary is going to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: end up with. This has been an incredible season so
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: far of The Golden Bachelor, one that we had high
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: expectations for one that's fulfilling all those expectations. We have drama,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: we have the jealousy, we have the love, we have
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the connection, we have the friendship. Three more women were
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: sent home this week. We have three women left.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: It's getting more emotional, I would say, as every episode
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: continues for Gary, and we see that in the previews
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: for the next episode. Make sure you tune into the
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Almost Famous Podcast next week as we break down another
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: episode of the Golden Bachelor.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Happy to be.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Here, excited to be here, and very thankful that Diana
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: has joined us today.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Diana, thank you for joining Almost Famous podcast.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Thank you for inviting me. Ashley and Benn, I really
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: appreciate it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you so much.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Almost Famous Podcast.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: We say goodbye to three women this week, Susan, Sandra,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: and Ellen. We saw three women left walking into hometowns.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: For next week, as we mentioned, we'll be back breaking
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: down another episode of the Golden Bachelor. It's hometowns for
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: the first time ever. But until next week, I've been Ben.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: I've been Ashley. Bye.
• 34:13
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