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Almost Famous In Depth: Kenny Braasch & Mari Pepin · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This has been and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth. Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the Almost Famous podcast today. It's an in
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  Speaker 1: depth one of our Bachelor Nation engaged couples, Kenny Brash
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  Speaker 1: and Mauri Peppin. Hello, guys, welcome to the show. Hid
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  Speaker 1: excited to be here. Give us a timeline here, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how long now has it been since you've gotten engaged?
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  Speaker 1: It has been a year and nine ish months, almost
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  Speaker 1: two years, almost two years together. It's fast, It's fast,
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  Speaker 1: but slow, like when I think about it, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it has gone by fast, but also it's been almost
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  Speaker 1: two years. Like how, I don't know how. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I'm a figuring that you guys probably took
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  Speaker 1: that first year to kind of date in real life
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  Speaker 1: and then this year has been more of a wedding
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  Speaker 1: planning year. Yeah, for sure. I think last year was Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty much just me moving in. I've been Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've lived together for the year now, getting to know
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and being here together, and then yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: we started really wedding playing like end of last year,
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  Speaker 1: November December. So yeah, yeah, that's so it goes. You
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  Speaker 1: stay out of it, you just pull back as far
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  Speaker 1: as you can until you're asked to enter in, and
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  Speaker 1: then you still enter in very slowly, with very calculated opinions. Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: you know we talked to you about this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's gotta been a year and a half ago now
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  Speaker 1: when you first got engaged. But for you, life changed
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  Speaker 1: pretty quick. Right. You had been single, you were you know,
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  Speaker 1: you had your work in Chicago, you'd your place in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Then you go on the show you find love, and
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  Speaker 1: you get engaged, and now you enter in this whole
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  Speaker 1: new season of having a partner. How is life I
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  Speaker 1: guess looked differently to you. How have you transitioned into
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  Speaker 1: no longer being the single? You know, promoter I think
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  Speaker 1: would be the job title that you had to now
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  Speaker 1: having a relationship. Well, going back to like the whole
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  Speaker 1: weird thing for me is like it all started when
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  Speaker 1: COVID started. It was like COVID started in obviously like
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  Speaker 1: March twenty twenty, like the bar got shut down and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and it was like April of that
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  Speaker 1: year is when I kind of got going through the
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  Speaker 1: casting process for Bachelorette, and then like that happened and
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  Speaker 1: it went straight into paradise and then like you said
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  Speaker 1: it and went paradise, Mett Maury got engaged, and now
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  Speaker 1: here we are twenty twenty three. So it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been kind of pretty wild that and it all coincides
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  Speaker 1: with COVID, like everything's shut down and now I feel
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  Speaker 1: like twenty twenty three, at least in my world and
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  Speaker 1: the band entertainment world, we're actually experiencing like twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: type numbers again for the bar and for the bands
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, and it's like it all was like a
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  Speaker 1: flash and now I'm back to like normal with work,
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  Speaker 1: but we're also engaged and about to get married as well,
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's been kind of trippy. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: way the time is just the way it all fell together. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm yeah, it was a one eighty
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  Speaker 1: uh life change for me from that point to hear,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's all for the better for me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just I'm good with it. Like it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: like I'm back to like where I was work wise,
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  Speaker 1: but it's now we also have our thing going on
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  Speaker 1: as well, so it's, yeah, why do I remember that
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  Speaker 1: you just really weren't like a serious relationship guy. You
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  Speaker 1: hadn't really had a ton in your past. Yeah, going
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  Speaker 1: back to uh yeah before Bachelor read it was pretty
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  Speaker 1: much not a whole lot going on for a long time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely a different, a whole different way in
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  Speaker 1: life at this point. So, Mari, how has he transitioned
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  Speaker 1: into couple Kenny and not single guy? Well, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I can say as far as couple Kenny, he's a
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  Speaker 1: great partner. I don't but I didn't really know him
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  Speaker 1: as single Kenny, So I'm not entirely sure. But from
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  Speaker 1: what he's told me and when his family's told me, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's true, he was never really a great relationship guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he maybe had a couple like short things,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing there was like one that got kind of
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  Speaker 1: like semi serious or whatever, but they didn't like her anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So just you fell into it. You just you know,
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  Speaker 1: once you find your right person, doesn't matter whether you
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship experience or not. That's how I found it.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, Because I mean for someone who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been in a relationship or seriously with someone, never lived
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  Speaker 1: with another person, I mean, at this point, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like you never would have known that. So Maria, you
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  Speaker 1: did mention you moved to Chicago, one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: places in the world, about two hours west of where
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  Speaker 1: I grew up. So Chicago was the big city. Um
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  Speaker 1: to my little small town in Indiana. What's what's the
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  Speaker 1: transition been like? Um, this isn't your first winter there,
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  Speaker 1: that's your this is your second winter there. The summers
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  Speaker 1: are amazing, the winters are awful, brutal. So this winter
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  Speaker 1: has been like the warmest ever. It's been wild. Yeah supposedly, Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually it's sunny today, it feels nice, but yesterday
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  Speaker 1: was like raining, thunderstorm, snowing, Like it's it's so weird.
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  Speaker 1: But um, well, there were a couple of days where
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  Speaker 1: it was like below zero wind chill, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going outside at all. No, no, But it's
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  Speaker 1: been a good transition. Um. I visited plenty of times
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  Speaker 1: before actually moving here. So when we were still you know,
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  Speaker 1: in hiding or whatever, we would take turns and visit
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  Speaker 1: each other. So I had been to Chicago a few times.
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  Speaker 1: I'd met his family already, seeing you know, the apartment
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  Speaker 1: we live in, the same building that he used to
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  Speaker 1: live in before we got engaged, just in a bigger
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  Speaker 1: unit now, so I was kind of like slowly getting
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  Speaker 1: acclimated before. It was a fecial that I moved here anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so it was like a nice gradual transition. But you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. The weather sucks in the winter. A big
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  Speaker 1: fan of the summertime though. There's a lot to do
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  Speaker 1: and we have to go down by the river and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: which is nice. But yeah, I wasn't expecting the winter
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  Speaker 1: to be so brutal. Yeah, but the summers are great.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago is a great city. It's an incredible place. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say, Chicago is still one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: cities in the US. It's just I wouldn't live there
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  Speaker 1: because of the winter. Yeah. Ideal situation is like buy
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  Speaker 1: a house in Puerto Rico and do half and half
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  Speaker 1: or something in the future. Yeah. Well, speaking of Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are gonna have two weddings, one ceremony in
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  Speaker 1: November in Puerto Rico and then another one a year
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  Speaker 1: from now in March in Chicago. Yes, yeah, we got
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  Speaker 1: it now, all right, So how are the weddings going
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  Speaker 1: to be different? Is it double? The stress planning two
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  Speaker 1: weddings is one more of a ceremony and one more
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  Speaker 1: resumption tells everything. Yeah, so they're gonna be super different.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's not double the stress right now
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  Speaker 1: because we're kind of taking it one at a time.
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  Speaker 1: So right now we're just planning and focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico wedding, but there will be a point of overlap,
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  Speaker 1: like later in the summer slash Ball before our Puerto
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  Speaker 1: Rico wedding, we're gonna have to start planning Chicago. So
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  Speaker 1: there's gonna be like two at once. That's I'm still
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  Speaker 1: going to be super stressful. Um, but in terms of differences, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Puto Rico is going to be more like a it's
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  Speaker 1: just family, very close people, and it'll be very small comparatively.
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  Speaker 1: And then the one in Chicago, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: like hundreds of people, all Bachelor nations invited. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: the more party situation. Yeah, Chicago, it's gonna almost like
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be at the venue that I work for,
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  Speaker 1: So it will be a lot easier planning because it's
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  Speaker 1: all kind of going to be done in the house. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We our place dones weddings already and we do big events.
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  Speaker 1: It holds a lot of people, So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the planning that we have to do for Puerto Rico
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  Speaker 1: won't have to happen too too much for Chicago. It
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  Speaker 1: will really just be like a big party. Yet we
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  Speaker 1: might even do like an eighties party. Oh that would
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  Speaker 1: be fun and a very reminiscent of the eighties party
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  Speaker 1: during your season. Yeah, yeah, prom exactly are you guys
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  Speaker 1: going to even have a ceremony at the Chicago wedding? Um?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Maybe it's not like a full
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  Speaker 1: ceremony like mark on the aisle, like bring their men
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  Speaker 1: of that, but maybe the small like a like a
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  Speaker 1: vow renewal or something. Because there are family members that
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  Speaker 1: won't be able to make it to utter to his grandma,
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  Speaker 1: for example, I won't be able to come, and we
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  Speaker 1: want to do something small that's kind of like ceremony ish,
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  Speaker 1: just for them to be able to see it, but
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  Speaker 1: not like a full block down the aisle type of ceremony. Yeah, Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna learn that during this time of planning and
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  Speaker 1: when questions are asked like is there going to be
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  Speaker 1: a ceremony at this event, you just automatically inside like
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  Speaker 1: stop talking, like you just started like, I have no opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do whatever's best and whatever needs to
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  Speaker 1: be done. And that's the best thing you can do
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  Speaker 1: right now is just to be a support system for
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  Speaker 1: this big bay. Yeah, you're right, Yeah, I should have
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  Speaker 1: just waited and reacted to whatever she's It's fine, it happened.
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  Speaker 1: It will happen a ton more times. You'll be right. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're a year in nine months engaged now.
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  Speaker 1: We love to talk about relationships and the progressive relationships
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  Speaker 1: on this show. I don't want to assume that anything here,
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  Speaker 1: but how have you kept the spark alive? Or does
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  Speaker 1: it feel like you're in a different season now in
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  Speaker 1: your relationship where that like initial kind of like excitement
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  Speaker 1: eu fork love has now passed and you're entering into
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  Speaker 1: a new, whole new stage. Kind of give us an
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  Speaker 1: idea of where you're at, maybe what your struggles have been,
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  Speaker 1: what things you've done to keep the love alive and
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  Speaker 1: keep the love going strong. We're we've quickly entered our
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  Speaker 1: old like we've been married for thirty years, go to bed,
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  Speaker 1: see nothing. I think because we met and got engaged
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  Speaker 1: on Paradise, it's a lot different than a normal couple
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's so over the top on Paradise, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, the dates and the atmosphere, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: all like shove together and quick period of time and
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  Speaker 1: you experience a lot of stuff quickly, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: in real life where it's like you go on a
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  Speaker 1: date every couple of weeks and you get to know
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  Speaker 1: each other blah blah blah blah blah. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: that spark stuff happened really fast because of Paradise. Not
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  Speaker 1: to say that we don't have a spark and it's
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  Speaker 1: still there, it just looks different, right, it's a different thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with it. Yeah, I think like coming
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  Speaker 1: off a paradise, but there's so much excitement not only
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  Speaker 1: that you're engaged to someone that you're like in love,
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  Speaker 1: but there's so much excitement also in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: secrecy aspect. It's like, oh my god, I have the
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  Speaker 1: secret that I can't tell anyone, and that kind of
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  Speaker 1: mystery about it makes it even more exciting. And then
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  Speaker 1: you get to see it on national television, which is
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  Speaker 1: also super exciting. Um. So once that kind of passes,
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  Speaker 1: it does quickly like not dissipate but it's like not
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  Speaker 1: the same. But I think for us in terms of
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  Speaker 1: keeping it alive, it's it's pretty easy. It comes naturally,
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  Speaker 1: I think at least for me. We just have a
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  Speaker 1: good routine and we have our like daily this is
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  Speaker 1: what we do, this is how we are, and it
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  Speaker 1: almost is like we've been married for thirty years at
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  Speaker 1: this point because everything is just kind of routine and natural. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a fun stage in a relationship. The spark
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  Speaker 1: is still there, your commitment is still there. It just
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  Speaker 1: looks different because yes, you maybe have learned more about
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  Speaker 1: the person and you've gotten in a rhythm with them,
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  Speaker 1: And that's for me, I was telling Ashley, Like, for me,
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  Speaker 1: that's been the coolest part of my marriage is getting
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  Speaker 1: in that rhythm and getting very comfortable in the same
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  Speaker 1: house with somebody else. If anything, it's more exciting to
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  Speaker 1: me sometimes. Yeah, And you guys started out living together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in Paradise, so you've got to know so
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  Speaker 1: much about each other so quickly that like that discovery
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  Speaker 1: couple a few months isn't as long. Yeah, So you guys,
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  Speaker 1: how has it been as far as your schedule, Because
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  Speaker 1: you talk about like kind of having your rundown of
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  Speaker 1: your day. But Kenny has an interesting job where he
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  Speaker 1: works a lot of nights and you are probably surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by like lots of girls at the same time. Marie,
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  Speaker 1: do you You're just like, nah, you can you just
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  Speaker 1: go to work. You go to work and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny you say that because lately, so she's
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  Speaker 1: been going to a lot pretty much shows. You don't
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  Speaker 1: go to work with him every night, right, Well, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I only go. I work from home mostly, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I go. We'll go to certain shows that we'll go
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  Speaker 1: when you're doing manage when you're like all your management
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  Speaker 1: stuff is from home, and then you go to the yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the chefs guy. Yeah, so mostly like a boy by
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  Speaker 1: night show, yeah stuff, And she'll go with most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. Um, we've been doing these Taylor Swift dance
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  Speaker 1: parties now where I'm like, amazing Swift stuff whatever. To
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  Speaker 1: be honest, the girls are anybody that's there usually want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to her more than me. Anyways, I can
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  Speaker 1: relate to that. It's all with Jared Hayes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Jared hates it. It's always like Jared, we love you,
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  Speaker 1: but where's Ashley? So nice? So that's fun, Marie, have
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  Speaker 1: you gotten more into boy band music? Because if Kenny,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I have to ask, I am boy
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  Speaker 1: band queen. Um, well, you know what, Like I my
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  Speaker 1: parents used to listen to all of that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: New kids on the blog, yeah, and seeing Backstreet Boys
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  Speaker 1: all of it. And then they also do like more
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  Speaker 1: of the younger boy band stuff, so like Jonahs Bose,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm a huge fan of. Um they do one
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  Speaker 1: direction and all that. So so yeah, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of my jam. I'm so jealous. That is
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  Speaker 1: like the most fun job ever. The shows are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. You've got to come to one. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: I'm in Chicago, I will come to one. Yeah, imagine
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  Speaker 1: we should probably bring one of the bands to Audrey's.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, do it because they're mostly like boy band.
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  Speaker 1: They're like boy band cover bands. Right, it's one yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's one band. It's a full band, seven piece band.
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  Speaker 1: There's three singers who will replicate the boy bands, but
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  Speaker 1: they're too the band playing all the music behind it
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  Speaker 1: literally too cool. That's amazing. They do the dance they do, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they do choreography. Everything. This is Ashley's dream, absolute dream.
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  Speaker 1: They do bye bye bye like one of the iconic dances. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sync dance, they do a dirty pop, they do the dance.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the stuck out of the record. What a
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  Speaker 1: fun time? Yeah, well most of the stuff, like most
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  Speaker 1: of the songs, I would know a step or two,
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  Speaker 1: step by step. Yeah. Check out Ashley's Instagram. She just
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  Speaker 1: recently posted her dancing to some of these videos. It's
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  Speaker 1: not good. I can dance, but there's an exhilaration behind it.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell the passion. Hey, a couple more questions
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  Speaker 1: here for you before we let you go. One is
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  Speaker 1: you know we talked about wedding. We've talked about multiple weddings.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any honeymoon plans? We're actually going to
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  Speaker 1: be deciding today? Are the destination? Wait on this day? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's the top choices? Here? Where are you leaning? I?
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  Speaker 1: Actually here, here's here's what I'm gonna do. I want
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  Speaker 1: to cause controversy, Kenny, let's start with you. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you leaning towards? Where do you think you're going on
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  Speaker 1: your honeymoon? Well? I think the biggest one is Italy,
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  Speaker 1: which I actually think we both Okay, okay, so now
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  Speaker 1: it's where in Italy? Is that what we're deciding on today? No,
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  Speaker 1: so I have we're gonna pick out of a jar
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  Speaker 1: we have like yeah, we have to like come up
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  Speaker 1: with a definitive like top five Italy is one of them,
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  Speaker 1: and then that we both agree on, we'll stick them
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  Speaker 1: in a jar and then we'll choose one. Oh whoa,
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  Speaker 1: we have to ask so much more about this. If
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  Speaker 1: you're both down for Italy, why not go to Italy?
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  Speaker 1: Because I also would like to go to Hawaii or
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  Speaker 1: the Giraffe manor in Africa. Oh goodness, this is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So you're literally literally so you're leaving it up to chance,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're gonna put it in a jar and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick it, and then you're only getting one selection.
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  Speaker 1: Who's who's reaching in the jar to pick it. We'll
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  Speaker 1: take turns, we'll go back and forth. Okay, so how
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  Speaker 1: is this going to? Okay? So okay, maybe I we
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  Speaker 1: start off by pulling one out, so there's five or
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  Speaker 1: six in there, we pull one out. The one we
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  Speaker 1: pull out, We're not going on until we get to
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  Speaker 1: the last one. Oh I is where we go? Anny
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  Speaker 1: would have been very confused later when you picked one
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  Speaker 1: out and he's like, yes, we're going to Italy and
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  Speaker 1: then not like we had to set the rules very
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  Speaker 1: clearly decided today was the day. Um well, honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: just because we do this Wedding Wednesday series and this
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  Speaker 1: was this week's topic was honeymoons. So we're filming it
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  Speaker 1: after this and we're gonna choose our honeymoon during the video. Goodness,
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  Speaker 1: can I just put one in there? Can I add one? Like? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna add like Pittsburgh or like cleaning. That's like
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  Speaker 1: that's the Bachelor add their random city. And you asked
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  Speaker 1: before they go brob. Yeah, yeah, anything like. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I said Wisconsin, like up in the woods for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. It would be great. Yeah, it'd be awesome. Um. Well, also, Mare,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: you just partnered with smirnov which is a huge deal.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. Thank you. Tell us more about that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: part partnership. Yeah, it was really cool. They decided to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: do a twist of the classic margarita, which obviously usually
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: has tequila in it, um, but Smeirknoff is obviously a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: vodka brand, so they came out with the spicy Tamarin
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: vodka which is sweet from the tarin but it's also
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: spicy with Hallepeno and they created a margarita with it
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  Speaker 1: and it's actually really really good. Um. So we had
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: this big party in Miami to kind of take over
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: margarite a day with the vodka and it was It
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: was a good time and the drink was really really good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It was good. Will they be server at the wedding? Now?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Do you have a signature drink that you're thinking for
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the wedding? Um? I like a Moscow mule, So that
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: was gonna be my choice, but I might have to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: do that. It's called the Spicy Tamarita Tamari Margarita. Can
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: we find this Smeirnoff really anywhere? Now? I believe? So, yeah, okay,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it's a big deal. How did you How long have
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you worked with them? And how did this partnership start? Well,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: was actually my very first time working with Smyrnoff. They're
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: under an umbrella of Diagio, which is like a bigger
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: i'll call distributor supplier. They have all kinds of different brands.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they reached out. It was actually pretty last minute.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: They were like, hey, do you want to come to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Miami next week? We're having this event be our host um,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and luckily we were both available and we're like, yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: let's do it. So we went and it went really
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: well and hopefully we'll be able to have some more
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: stuff up in the future with that. That's really cool. Well,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: we could not you know, let you go before asking
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: like the final question in this trajectory of marriage and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: engage life, do you plan on having children? We couldn't
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: not be those people. My dad, yeah, in Miami were
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: again also joined us and he decided that you wanted
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to ask that, so that was yeah. No, Well, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: think I'm also the same thing. My ideal timeline would
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: be in twenty twenty five, so two years from now
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: we buy a house and then like a year ish later,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: when I'm thirty, have our first kid. That's my ideal timeline.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to happen that way.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It seems like time. It seems ideal, you know why,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: because I also was, um, well wait, well, you'd be
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: married for three years by the time that the kids born,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and I think pretty ideal. Yeah, I'd actually like to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have it be longer. I wish it was like put
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like then you got other clocks. You know, there's lots
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of clocks in action. Um so, but I thought that
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: three years was nice to have a loan. But why
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is Kenny like not down for this plan. I have
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to just I just have to like put this out there, Kenny,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: do you want kids in general? Because your man clock
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't really tick so loud. But like you are forty something, yea,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you can obviously be a father whenever you'd like to.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: But I know that a lot of guys were about
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you know, Kenny, this is another moment energy levels before
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you react, I could be ideally I would be like
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: sixty sixty five. Okay, that's funny. I wasn't sure what
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: direction you're going to go in. I live my full
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: life and then on the tail, you know, the kid
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: without a dad in a few years. That's the other
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: concerning elements. See, there's so many clocks, guys, and it's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: it's annoying and it sucks. Um so. But Kenny, if
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you you are forty two now and you look like
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you're twenty seven, So if you continue on that trajectory, like,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about you, like live until one hundred.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Honestly with the whole thing. I'm I'm I'm neutral. I'm
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: okay with her timeline. I'm okay. If it happens accidentally tomorrow,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm just you know, I'm not I'm not
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: pushing for it and I'm not against it. I'm just
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just chilling. We can call this episode Kenny is neutral. Yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: with all these big life things of his life, I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: going to change my my I gio yeah. Well, I mean,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I don't see it as Kenny being neutral. What I
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: see is Kenny being so happy and content in his
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: relationship with Marie that he's just happy to have her
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: by his side no matter what life brings. And Kenny,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I respect that. Good for you. Yeah, happy works out,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Kenny and Marie. Thanks for joining us today, con ragulations
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: on the relationship, on the partnership with Smirnov, on everything
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: going on in your lives. It's very exciting and we
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: wish you the best. Thanks so much for having us.
• 24:13
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