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Welcome to Paradise · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with i R Radio. Oh my gosh, we don't even
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Speaker 1: have an off week on this podcast. We go right
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Speaker 1: from The Bachelorette into Bachelor in Paradise and it's where
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Speaker 1: my co host shines Paradise time. Oh my gosh, Ben,
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Speaker 1: watching this had me feeling PTSD and I know that
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't use that out of like true contacts, but
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Speaker 1: like Wells used it though, So I mean I wasn't
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Speaker 1: pretty traumatized, to be honest, it's actually pretty close the
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Speaker 1: true definition. I was feeling Joe so much. And there's
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Speaker 1: just like this sense that I get every season that
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Speaker 1: comes around. It's just like I am so grateful that
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Speaker 1: I'm married. I married Jared and I don't have to
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Speaker 1: be their suffering. But okay, so this is how we're
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Speaker 1: gonna kick it off. And I think it's super interesting you.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you go back and forth on this
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Speaker 1: because I tell people in my time with him that
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Speaker 1: you really love Paradise, but yet there's moments where you're like,
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Speaker 1: I hated this experience. This felt like you just said suffering,
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Speaker 1: So what is it actually? Did you like it? Or
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Speaker 1: do you not no, no no, no, Ben, I did not
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Speaker 1: have a great and I didn't have a good time there.
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Speaker 1: Did I get a lot out of it? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: like grew so much of the experience. I got so
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Speaker 1: much more mature um relationship experience just like communication. Like,
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Speaker 1: I got so much out of it, but very few
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Speaker 1: moments were enjoyable. But it's it's like this, um, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like this Jonas s. Froller's quote that I
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Speaker 1: loved it throughout there all the time. Uh. The line
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Speaker 1: of the lyric of the song is the days that
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Speaker 1: seemed the worst, the days that were the worst seemed
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Speaker 1: to glow now. And it's kind of like that where
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Speaker 1: it's like, when I think back on it, I only
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Speaker 1: think I usually first think of the good moment and
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Speaker 1: like even the there's like there's like even a glow
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Speaker 1: to the suffering, right because everything turned out good? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get that, But I enjoyed my bachelor experience so
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Speaker 1: much more like that was just pure fun. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you enjoyed the Bachelor. The Bachelor experience was more
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Speaker 1: fun paradise. I wonder, Astley, if your situation is a
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Speaker 1: tad unique, because it sure is well And I'll say
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Speaker 1: it why because your husband was on that beach with you,
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Speaker 1: which adds, like I would have to imagine it intensifies
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Speaker 1: the situation. You maybe didn't know it at the time,
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Speaker 1: you maybe thought, oh my gosh, like this guy, but
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Speaker 1: there was like a deep love and connection between the
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Speaker 1: two of you that was on the beach, which made
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Speaker 1: this so much more like heavy, Like it was so
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Speaker 1: really so real to you. Yeah, Like people say like, oh,
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Speaker 1: go and have fun, It's just like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: there's no fun about finding your person and it needing
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Speaker 1: to work out. You feel like that, You feel like
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Speaker 1: it needs to happen then or it's never gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: But then for us, I mean, it truly did not
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Speaker 1: have to happen then and it was supposed to go
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Speaker 1: st lower but definitely. But yeah, I think that from
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Speaker 1: like my fan viewers point of view, is probably one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons. Do you think the people today after
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Speaker 1: watching We're gonna get into a couple of things here
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Speaker 1: for all of you friends out there listening, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: announce a really exciting thing that we have going on,
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Speaker 1: um that will involve all of you, Like we need
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Speaker 1: all of you listening to to be involved in this
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Speaker 1: as well. The second piece of this is we're gonna
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Speaker 1: break down UM this week's episode of Paradise. But I
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Speaker 1: really kind of watched UM this week's episode and I
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Speaker 1: was like, I need to ask, actually some questions. Do
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Speaker 1: you think the people today go on the beach with
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Speaker 1: a similar mindset to which you and your friends at
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Speaker 1: the time we're going on that beach. You know? After
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Speaker 1: watching this episode, I kind of feel like, yes, I
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Speaker 1: feel like there was a lot of people that genuinely
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Speaker 1: we're looking for their part r and they know. I
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Speaker 1: think it's different because on The Bachelor, you're kind of like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the odds are really against me. I don't even know that.
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Speaker 1: You're like I'm just doing this for fun, like I'm
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Speaker 1: doing this for this reason or that reason. But then
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Speaker 1: when you've already gone through the process and you know
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Speaker 1: how real the feelings are that developed, I think you
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Speaker 1: go into Paradise with more of like an authentic heart.
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Speaker 1: That's so interesting because I think so many people, myself included,
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Speaker 1: I'm guilty of this. We watch Paradise and like, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I hear people all the time. Now ask me,
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Speaker 1: were you ever on that Paradise show? That shows so wild,
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Speaker 1: but I love it. I think people think that Paradise
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Speaker 1: is just this big party that is an excuse for
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Speaker 1: people to stay famous and get back into relevancy. But
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Speaker 1: I see it consistently. And I got to talk to
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Speaker 1: Wells about this in Memphis just a week and a
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Speaker 1: half ago, how intense these relationships become over time, and
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Speaker 1: so it is almost like, maybe is it. Do you
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Speaker 1: feel like it's the shock to the contestants system once
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden they get there and they go,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, like this isn't just funny games anymore. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because just the experience itself is such It's just so
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Speaker 1: different from being on the main show. Because on the
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Speaker 1: main show, you're like, oh, you know, I can show
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Speaker 1: up and like be prime me whenever the Bachelor or
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Speaker 1: the Bachelorettes around, and like, I'm off just goofing off
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Speaker 1: with my friends most of the time. Um. But then
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Speaker 1: in Paradise you realize like it just never ever stops,
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Speaker 1: and the contestants kind of let that on during this
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Speaker 1: episode where they're like, oh my gosh, Like socially, I
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Speaker 1: had to be on for so long and it felt
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Speaker 1: like if I wanted to just relax and like take
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Speaker 1: a breather from it, that I was going to fall behind.
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Speaker 1: So there is like more of a constant pressure to
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Speaker 1: be on and like fighting for what you want and
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Speaker 1: you're always scared that somebody's going to come in and
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Speaker 1: sneak the purse and that you want away. So I
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Speaker 1: just think it's a more pressure filled environment. And at
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Speaker 1: the same time, because it never stops, it means that
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Speaker 1: you also never stop having time with the person that
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Speaker 1: you like. So I think feelings in relationships developed so
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Speaker 1: much faster. But yeah, but that comes with so much
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Speaker 1: pressure because you're like, if I don't I'm not with
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Speaker 1: them for like five minutes. What it? What's going to happen?
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Speaker 1: And that's just scary. It's just like you're constantly scared.
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Speaker 1: It sounds actually, I you know, I've gotten to know
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Speaker 1: you well, and listeners have got to know you well.
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked you could do Paradise well. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I could be kind of didn't I didn't do
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Speaker 1: it well? You got married? Okay, Hey, moving on here
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Speaker 1: a little bit um into really the final piece nugget
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Speaker 1: that I find interesting and I don't know if anybody
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Speaker 1: else will but that doesn't matter because I got the
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Speaker 1: mic Um. I was looking back last last night as
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Speaker 1: we're watching the episode, and I was looking at some
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Speaker 1: of the instagram in a following of some past Bachelor
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Speaker 1: in Paradise contestants. It is interesting to me how large
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Speaker 1: of a following these contestants gain from Paradise. Like most
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Speaker 1: of the women, especially from this experience the Paradise show,
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Speaker 1: have more followers than our last Bachelorette Katie Thurston. There
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Speaker 1: is a huge I wonder if the audience watches Paradise
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Speaker 1: and they feel like they can relate a little bit
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Speaker 1: more from it, and as a result, they become followers
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Speaker 1: of the people in the show. And am I crazy?
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Speaker 1: Is this interesting at all? Or is this just a
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Speaker 1: weird thought? I think you're probably looking at people who
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Speaker 1: have um ended up in relationships and engage and married
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Speaker 1: from the show and like possibly had kids in the show.
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Speaker 1: So like that makes sense because every time there's like
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Speaker 1: a big life landmark, you go up a bit. Um.
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Speaker 1: But I also was thinking while watching this episode, like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this show well, I mean my personal opinion,
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Speaker 1: it's just like I love this show so much more
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Speaker 1: than the main show. Because you get to see actual personality.
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Speaker 1: It's like a lot of the things that we see,
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Speaker 1: I feel like moments that we'd see in the blooper
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Speaker 1: part of the main show. It's just everybody just seems
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Speaker 1: like more of like a real person than like this
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Speaker 1: person than a person like reading from a script of
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Speaker 1: like what they should say when they're falling in love. Interesting. Uh, well, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: love your insight. We're going to continue to tap into
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Speaker 1: your insight as we move through the podcast. Let's take
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Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, we're gonna start
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Speaker 1: breaking down this week's episode of Bachelor in Paradise. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about uh, David Spade, We're gonna talk about Wells.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Kenny being naked on the
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Speaker 1: beach and the crabs that everybody is dealing with. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Podcast and everywhere you listen to podcasts. All right, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: let's start at the beginning. I want to kind of
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Speaker 1: walk you through this because there's a few things that
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Speaker 1: we got wrote into us that people are interested in.
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Speaker 1: One of them is what was your overall honest feelings.
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Speaker 1: We know that, uh, you and I both uh cared
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Speaker 1: deeply for Chris Harrison. Obviously, we're moving into a season now,
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Speaker 1: we're we're no longer watching Chris on The Bachelor, Bachelor
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Speaker 1: and Bachelor in Paradise. We're getting used to it. We've
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Speaker 1: shared our opinions about how well we thought Caitlin and
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Speaker 1: Tatia did for the roles that they were given on
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Speaker 1: the Bachelortte. However, uh we we personally, I felt like
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Speaker 1: the show was missing Chris during the Bachelor or this
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Speaker 1: the familiarity of the show was no longer there and
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Speaker 1: it's changing and we're getting used to it now we
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Speaker 1: roll in the Paradise. So with that being considered, what
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Speaker 1: was your thoughts on David's Spade and Wells filling those shoes?
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Speaker 1: To be completely honest, I don't think David Spade added anything,
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Speaker 1: and I think it just should have been Wells. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: Why do you feel like the way um well Wells
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Speaker 1: did most of the actual hosting, he told the contestants
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Speaker 1: what was going to happen to them throughout the week,
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Speaker 1: and then even there was that moment where David was like,
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Speaker 1: I was gone last night, Wells, what happened? Catch me up?
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Speaker 1: And it's just like this is kind of ridiculous, Like
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Speaker 1: why didn't we just have Wells who fits so well
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Speaker 1: in the paradise role. It doesn't make any sense, Like
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Speaker 1: with Caitlin and Taitia, like we had two alarms. They
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Speaker 1: did what they did great with the main show, and
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Speaker 1: then we have Wells who just seems like a natural
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Speaker 1: fit who's already there as a sidekick normally, and if
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Speaker 1: he's going to deal with the rose ceremonies as well,
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Speaker 1: It's just like, I don't understand why we didn't just
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Speaker 1: have him do everything. He's obviously confidante for the contestants.
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Speaker 1: They feel very comfortable with him. And Sade was like,
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Speaker 1: you know, of course she was funny in parts, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't thinking previously that his apathetic type
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Speaker 1: of humor how it would be here, and it actually
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Speaker 1: just came across to me like he was sort of
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Speaker 1: disinterested in it. Yeah, okay, So I think if you
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Speaker 1: asked the producer on the show, they would say David
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Speaker 1: Spade was there for the comedic relief. He was maybe not.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I don't think we need comedic
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Speaker 1: I don't think we need we need comedic relief on
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Speaker 1: this show. No, not on Paradise. There was already plenty. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. Well taj Juan took the comedic relief. She's
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Speaker 1: so outrageous, hilarious. Love her. Uh, she's just sweating bullets
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Speaker 1: on that scene, and I'm like that poor girl is
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Speaker 1: miserable and somehow she found herself back on this beach
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Speaker 1: and she is just so unhappy. I have a feeling
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Speaker 1: this Paradise season goes well for her. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it does, but I hope it does. Anyways, So, uh,
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Speaker 1: you're in the camp of Hey Wells, Wells can do
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Speaker 1: this thing. Like we're watching Wells form into this host.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously a professional host by trade for years. I
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Speaker 1: wonder if in the future Wells will just carry this
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Speaker 1: Paradise show on his own. But for right now, we
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Speaker 1: do have guest host coming in and it is interesting
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Speaker 1: to watch Wells kind of come to age in a
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Speaker 1: in a sense in front of our eyes. And I
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Speaker 1: do think he carried the show well last night. I
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Speaker 1: think he needed a great job. Okay, but you'll be
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Speaker 1: honest too, do you really feel like David Spade was necessary?
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Speaker 1: I think it was necessary from an idea point before
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Speaker 1: the show started. I don't know, I'm not and I
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Speaker 1: don't know this. I don't know if anybody expected Wells
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Speaker 1: to be able to carry this show on his own. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And I think the guest host was almost like a
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Speaker 1: security blanket and and kind of like a risk eliminator
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Speaker 1: just in case Wells couldn't do it. But I think
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Speaker 1: you and I both knew Wells could. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if the if others felt that way, But after watching
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Speaker 1: the first episode, I'm like, of course he can, Like
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Speaker 1: we don't need anybody else. And and I really think
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Speaker 1: for me, it hit me when Joe and Wells were
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Speaker 1: talking because I've been in a situation similar right on
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Speaker 1: on Winter Games and I had you there to kind
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Speaker 1: of like work with, and I was like, this is
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Speaker 1: all a reminder of something that went terribly wrong, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sad and I don't want to be here and
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Speaker 1: this is overwhelming and it's I and I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm now kind of trapped. But yet it's also healthy
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Speaker 1: because I know this is like a step in the
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Speaker 1: right direction for me. I get that, like I can
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Speaker 1: relate with Joe in those moments, and I felt deeply
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Speaker 1: for him, and Chris filled that role for me during
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Speaker 1: that time where I got to sit with him and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, we've we've got to be together outside
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Speaker 1: of this show, you know, like my heart, like I
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Speaker 1: just need you in this moment. You were the same
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Speaker 1: person for me. I saw it with Wells and Joe
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Speaker 1: and and I know for Joe that was a big
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Speaker 1: moment in his life, could really big moment for him
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Speaker 1: to take the next step forward. And Wells did it
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Speaker 1: great and he cared deeply. And I know he does
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Speaker 1: care deeply because I get to talk to him off,
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Speaker 1: you know, off the show. M hm. Yeah. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we need them. Well, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: We'll continue to see how the other hosts go. And
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that David is probably there for two weeks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's there long. And I mean he
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Speaker 1: was so funny at at the end so funny when
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Speaker 1: he talked about the crabs, because he's right, crabs are
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Speaker 1: really spiders with a good pr team, and um, we
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Speaker 1: talked about it every year. But just remind our listeners
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Speaker 1: before we jump in. Right up next is the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: Paradise breakdown. How bad are the crabs on the beach?
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Speaker 1: Are they really everywhere? No, they really are everywhere, And
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Speaker 1: you really can't open a door without like one there
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Speaker 1: and like afraid of killing one because they like love
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Speaker 1: hanging out in the cracks of the door. Um, they
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Speaker 1: are everywhere. And as long as you don't look at that,
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Speaker 1: like really think about how much they are spiderlike, it's okay.
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Speaker 1: But then like but when you do, you're like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, these are just like spiders that crawl around
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Speaker 1: all over the place, except for they have really funny expressions,
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Speaker 1: Like they truly look like you caught them in the
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Speaker 1: middle of committing a crime every time you look at them. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're they're not just spiders to me. I've been in
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Speaker 1: Paradise and I've gotten to do a few things down
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Speaker 1: there at different points. Like, those crabs are intense, they're bigger,
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Speaker 1: they have chompers. Uh, they're hard um, they look at you.
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Speaker 1: Spiders at least like half the time you don't see them,
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Speaker 1: and when you do, you're just so much bigger than them.
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Speaker 1: Crabs are a little bit more intimiding to me. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, really, yeah they are. Anyways, Uh, Ashley, here
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Speaker 1: we go. We're gonna break down this week's episode of
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Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise. I'm gonna let you take it away.
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Speaker 1: Let's start. Uh. I think at the entrances and all
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Speaker 1: of them are very similar. But I want to talk
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Speaker 1: to you because Jessica and I got to watch Bachelor
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Speaker 1: in Paradise with Kenny's entrance, obviously it's a huge deal. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the ones that really stood out. What
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Speaker 1: in the world did he He was not really new,
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Speaker 1: There's no way. Well I asked like we were watching
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Speaker 1: and we went backwards. I don't think he was, but
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Speaker 1: yet some of the guys said he was. Because nope, Like,
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Speaker 1: there was not one person there who acted like whoa
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Speaker 1: there is you know, there is a there is a
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Speaker 1: uh an antenna hanging out of you know, hanging off
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Speaker 1: of Kenny, and it's staring me in the face. Like
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Speaker 1: all of them were very way too comfortable for him
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Speaker 1: to be completely right or is that just paradise? Is
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Speaker 1: everybody cool with this? That was exactly what I was thinking.
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Speaker 1: And there's no way these girls are just going up
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Speaker 1: and giving him hugs. Yes, the hugs are from far away,
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Speaker 1: but like he definitely had one of those sock things on.
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Speaker 1: There's no way that Marie sat down with him on
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Speaker 1: a bed while his penis was just hanging out next
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Speaker 1: to her during the first conversation. Yeah, I mean, and
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Speaker 1: if so, I want to know, because they made it
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Speaker 1: seem like he was. They even had contest saying that
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Speaker 1: he was. Yet it was just nobody reacted in the
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Speaker 1: way I thought they would, like I even for me, right,
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Speaker 1: I I I've been in locker rooms. I see myself
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Speaker 1: every day. I think I would have been thrown off,
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Speaker 1: like just at least have a reaction of like whoa,
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Speaker 1: Like that's new, Like that's that's intense. We needed some
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Speaker 1: justin facial expressions for this. Oh, they definitely should have
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Speaker 1: montaged that in UM yeah, every So, I don't know
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Speaker 1: for sure. My vote is that it's not. We'll find out.
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Speaker 1: We'll let you know. UM other entrances that kind of
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Speaker 1: um surprised you Obviously, we have Victoria. Uh, we have
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Speaker 1: a Tammy entrance, um, where it's very comfortable with David's baby.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't even know who he is. Who else stood
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Speaker 1: out to you and their entrances? Um. I mean Abigail
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Speaker 1: is cute and flustered. UM. I think Joe is so
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Speaker 1: authentic to himself. I like the way he was wearing
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Speaker 1: just a regular T shirt. Um, we'll talk about Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about Victoria for a second. Um, the goddess thing.
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Speaker 1: She's definitely less extra than she was last time, but
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Speaker 1: I think she's gonna have a hard time getting somebody
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Speaker 1: to give her a rose. And she hasn't been getting
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Speaker 1: as much screen time as we would expect, so I
18:29
Speaker 1: don't know if she's gonna be sticking around next week. Um.
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Speaker 1: And then I think Tashwan was just hilarious. She like, legit,
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Speaker 1: did she leave on her own last last season because
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Speaker 1: she couldn't do with she did. I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: pretend like that's what happened. And now she's back and
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Speaker 1: she's just hilarious. UM. I get it. I the way
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Speaker 1: that I'm feeling now, like if I was pregnant down there, well,
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Speaker 1: I already I told him I could not go because
18:59
Speaker 1: I would die, Like I would die. But normally I'm
19:02
Speaker 1: okay with the heat. But if you're somebody who can't
19:04
Speaker 1: deal with the heat and you're down there, it's basically
19:07
Speaker 1: like you're not functional. There's no escape. Yeah, there's no
19:11
Speaker 1: air conditioning, right other than the boom Boom Room. You know,
19:15
Speaker 1: the boom Boom room does not have air conditioning. The
19:18
Speaker 1: interview rooms have air conditioning. Oh wow, So like the
19:20
Speaker 1: boom Boom Room with like a real legit bed, you're
19:24
Speaker 1: sleeping with another human and like you're just sweaty. I
19:28
Speaker 1: thought the reason that um Jade and Tanner chose the
19:32
Speaker 1: Boom Boom Room to move into is because it was
19:34
Speaker 1: air conditioned. No, it's there's a boom Boom room. And
19:38
Speaker 1: then there's where j and Danner were they used to
19:41
Speaker 1: sleep at the top of the quote treehouse and that's
19:44
Speaker 1: like a really private area with like a king bed
19:47
Speaker 1: um and there's like a couple of big fans on it.
19:50
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that makes sense. Okay. So another couple that
19:55
Speaker 1: stood out to me just with excitement that we haven't
19:58
Speaker 1: mentioned is Brendan makes a huge appearance and uh he's
20:02
Speaker 1: good looking as ever, Uh, he did not get the like,
20:08
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a guy there yet that
20:10
Speaker 1: stood out to me where it's like, oh, this is
20:11
Speaker 1: the guy that everybody's gonna go after. He was what
20:13
Speaker 1: I thought would be him and Ivan, but neither of them.
20:16
Speaker 1: I thought he and Joe. I thought all the girls
20:18
Speaker 1: will be over Joe. You know, it's interesting. I wonder
20:22
Speaker 1: I think they could have. But I think Joe's first
20:25
Speaker 1: impression to them was like, hey, I'm not ready, which
20:29
Speaker 1: you know these girls like, Okay, I'm gonna pull away.
20:31
Speaker 1: I'm gonna focus on somebody else, like give him the
20:33
Speaker 1: time and respect he deserves, and so we just didn't
20:35
Speaker 1: see it. But the guys that are very open, I
20:38
Speaker 1: thought Ivan and Brendan really bring in, like be the
20:40
Speaker 1: ones that everybody is going after, and it's just not
20:42
Speaker 1: that way yet. Usually you see kind of the hot commodities. Uh,
20:46
Speaker 1: Sena p was obviously one of them, but with the
20:49
Speaker 1: guys there, there isn't one yet necessarily. Yeah, I would
20:52
Speaker 1: say you're probably right. I feel like Joe was the
20:55
Speaker 1: main character of this entire episode, and I just like
21:00
Speaker 1: people to like kind of put themselves in his shoes,
21:03
Speaker 1: like I feel it in paradise exactly where he was.
21:07
Speaker 1: But you can put yourself in like think of where
21:11
Speaker 1: you met like a significant other and think about like
21:14
Speaker 1: where you guys would go, the restaurants you would go,
21:17
Speaker 1: like whether it was college and it's like the actual
21:19
Speaker 1: campus or whatnot. And then like all of a sudden,
21:21
Speaker 1: years later, after experiencing what you did with them, you
21:25
Speaker 1: go into that same spot and you're expected to find
21:31
Speaker 1: something with somebody else. It is it'll it'll whack you out,
21:37
Speaker 1: you know, and you are only going to reminisce, and
21:40
Speaker 1: like you're feeling all this nostalgia. And I bet you
21:42
Speaker 1: that Joe in that moment was just thinking like there
21:45
Speaker 1: was there had to be a thought like maybe I
21:47
Speaker 1: should be back with Kendall. I think, Yeah, the emotions
21:52
Speaker 1: flooded in, and you know, Jessica and I are like this.
21:56
Speaker 1: I've always been a believer that when you end a
21:59
Speaker 1: relationship ship that was a good relationship, but it needed
22:02
Speaker 1: to end for whatever reason, right, you weren't meant for
22:04
Speaker 1: each other. Uh, it is important or it's it's healthy
22:09
Speaker 1: to have a respect and admiration for that human still,
22:12
Speaker 1: to care for them deeply, to know that you want
22:15
Speaker 1: what's best for them, for them to fine love or
22:17
Speaker 1: whatever it is they're out there pursuing like you don't.
22:21
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any health unless the relationship was
22:23
Speaker 1: very unhealthy and disliking or hating or wishing anything ill
22:28
Speaker 1: on that X And I think for Joe being getting
22:31
Speaker 1: to be around Kindle and Joe, you know many times
22:34
Speaker 1: through this podcast and through other events, they're both terrific
22:38
Speaker 1: humans who cared deeply for each other, and I think
22:40
Speaker 1: they still have a lot of respect for each other
22:42
Speaker 1: even though the relationship needed to end, which probably makes
22:45
Speaker 1: those emotions even harder because they're probably confusing because now
22:49
Speaker 1: he's back in that environment feeling and remembering some of
22:53
Speaker 1: the past, right, Yeah, And isn't it funny when you
22:57
Speaker 1: have a breakup, you only remember the momentous moments, the
23:01
Speaker 1: good and the bad. And so if that beach is
23:04
Speaker 1: full of good, momentous moments for him and Kindle, those
23:08
Speaker 1: are the things he's remembering. He's not remembering the disagreements
23:11
Speaker 1: about where to live and the disagreements about what life
23:13
Speaker 1: was gonna look like. He's only remembering the good, and
23:17
Speaker 1: he's surrounded by all these people who are fresh to
23:20
Speaker 1: the environment and experiencing it for the first time, and
23:22
Speaker 1: they just don't understand because he's who who is? There
23:28
Speaker 1: were like two other alums from Paradise, so it was
23:31
Speaker 1: Tajwan and Demi and Demi Um and Joe. Yeah, you're right,
23:37
Speaker 1: and we didn't get to see a lot of Demmi
23:39
Speaker 1: this episode. I think we will as time continues. We
23:42
Speaker 1: obviously got to really dive into Ta Juan and uh
23:45
Speaker 1: and Joe. But okay, so we move out through the entrances.
23:50
Speaker 1: Everybody's now there, they meet each other. David Spade and
23:54
Speaker 1: Wells stand in front of the group and say that
23:56
Speaker 1: the guys now have the roses for this week. How
24:00
Speaker 1: how does that change the dynamic Ashley, especially week one
24:04
Speaker 1: when everything's new and everything is exciting. Well, of course
24:07
Speaker 1: that the guys are going to feel extreme relief, and
24:10
Speaker 1: then the pressure is so on the girls to like
24:13
Speaker 1: even create some sort of report with somebody that like,
24:18
Speaker 1: even if it isn't long lasting, like is enough to
24:21
Speaker 1: get you through the week. And I do think that
24:25
Speaker 1: there's some truth to the matter where it's like, now
24:27
Speaker 1: the guys can kind of lay back and see which
24:29
Speaker 1: girls come up to them. There's definitely more of a
24:32
Speaker 1: power struggle. Now. It's interesting because also the guy's mentality
24:38
Speaker 1: of this week, they've got to come to me, They've
24:40
Speaker 1: got to earn it. Is okay, right, I mean, it's
24:43
Speaker 1: fine because they have the roses. However, as we've seen
24:46
Speaker 1: in Paradise, that dynamic will quickly change next week and
24:49
Speaker 1: so this like hey, let them come to me mentality
24:52
Speaker 1: might not be beneficial, especially when the girls now would
24:55
Speaker 1: we're going to have the roses, and maybe these guys
24:58
Speaker 1: haven't put in the effort they needed to to make
25:01
Speaker 1: these connections. Is that true? That is true, But at
25:03
Speaker 1: least they have a whole other week to kind of
25:05
Speaker 1: make up for it. But like I said, you know,
25:09
Speaker 1: things do move fast, and you can see already the
25:11
Speaker 1: coupling up, and that's gotta be stressful for people who
25:15
Speaker 1: aren't feeling it with anybody. Yeah, let's let's dive into that.
25:19
Speaker 1: A couple of couples that really stood out to both
25:21
Speaker 1: of us, uh know and Abigail. Obviously, Abigail gets the
25:24
Speaker 1: first date card. She asked Noah to come along. I
25:28
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know how I felt honestly personally
25:30
Speaker 1: about Noah from his time on The Bachelorette. Same same,
25:34
Speaker 1: but this was incredible not I mean just watching him
25:39
Speaker 1: and Abigail interact in his care for her as like
25:42
Speaker 1: a human and just wanting to understand her and get
25:45
Speaker 1: to know her, and his interest like just a really
25:48
Speaker 1: beautiful couple so far that I'm I hope it goes well.
25:51
Speaker 1: I'm into I know Noah is a totally different person,
25:55
Speaker 1: Like I kind of like started fresh with him. I
25:57
Speaker 1: was just like, Okay, maybe I didn't know this guy before.
25:59
Speaker 1: I really liked his personality, his demeanor, and I feel
26:04
Speaker 1: like I trust him with Abigail. And at the same time,
26:08
Speaker 1: I feel like Abigail um dolls have a lot more
26:11
Speaker 1: walls up than I would have thought, and she is
26:15
Speaker 1: going to get be slow for him to get to know,
26:17
Speaker 1: but it'll be nice to see. I trust that he's
26:19
Speaker 1: going to give her, like all the slowness that she
26:23
Speaker 1: needs as long as she's not showing interest in somebody else. Yeah.
26:27
Speaker 1: I agree. You know, when I really started to like
26:29
Speaker 1: Noah what so, it's obvious that he was into Abigail.
26:33
Speaker 1: There was no like complacency with him. He was he
26:36
Speaker 1: was into Abigail. This was something he was interested and
26:38
Speaker 1: he and she asked him the question this. I was like, no,
26:40
Speaker 1: I like you, um, and I don't know him as
26:42
Speaker 1: a person at all. But she goes, are you surprised
26:44
Speaker 1: that you're on the first day in Paradise. He goes, yes,
26:47
Speaker 1: I am, because if not, I was going to sneak
26:49
Speaker 1: away to bed. And I was like, no, you're my man,
26:51
Speaker 1: because that's exactly That's exactly the mindset I would be having,
26:55
Speaker 1: is I'll have fun all day into the moment my
26:57
Speaker 1: wall hits, and once it hits, I'm sneaking away to bed.
27:00
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I love the way that Brendan freaked
27:02
Speaker 1: out when I was at tas. Watton was like, you,
27:05
Speaker 1: there's probably gonna be a date card that comes in tonight,
27:08
Speaker 1: and You're like, the sun's already set. The sunlight doesn't
27:10
Speaker 1: sit there until nine. And You're like, wait a second.
27:12
Speaker 1: You're telling me that I might have to be going
27:14
Speaker 1: on a date tonight. That would stress me out so much.
27:20
Speaker 1: It's just different. Like Jessica and I now plan our
27:23
Speaker 1: dates for dinner. I get on open table and I'm like,
27:26
Speaker 1: is there a reservation between the six and six fifteen
27:30
Speaker 1: time frame? Yeah, It's like is the latest. We ain't
27:34
Speaker 1: going because Ted Lasso is on and we're going to
27:37
Speaker 1: watch the show starting at nine. It's uh, it is,
27:40
Speaker 1: it's funny. Uh. Kind of that mindset, but that was
27:43
Speaker 1: like something that would make me very anxious and one
27:44
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I think nowadays I just couldn't handle. Okay,
27:48
Speaker 1: so we like knowing Abigail, we're fans that also, I
27:52
Speaker 1: just want to know, you know, Ashley nice opinion on
27:56
Speaker 1: no was was just kind of up in the air
27:58
Speaker 1: based on his time of the Batchelor. Yeah, it wasn't
27:59
Speaker 1: like I disliked him, but like he had like more
28:02
Speaker 1: of an edge and I see he's like more of
28:04
Speaker 1: an instigator. I felt like, well, so maybe the takeaway
28:08
Speaker 1: from that is was he the problem or was Bennett
28:12
Speaker 1: actually the problem? And we I mean we can kind
28:14
Speaker 1: of point to that, right, Like we saw some things
28:16
Speaker 1: they were like this doesn't feel right. Uh, and so
28:19
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe Noah No is the right there. I
28:22
Speaker 1: don't know. One of the things that conclude one of
28:24
Speaker 1: the things interesting to watch. Okay, So we see some kisses,
28:27
Speaker 1: then we see the other coupling up outside of the date, Uh,
28:30
Speaker 1: Connor Marissa kiss Trey and Tajwan kiss. Uh. That's an
28:34
Speaker 1: interesting one obviously because the uncle narrative, which I hope
28:37
Speaker 1: ends now because every time it said it makes me
28:39
Speaker 1: feel just a little bit uncomfortable. Can we like please clarify,
28:43
Speaker 1: like this has got to be one of those weird
28:45
Speaker 1: situations where the uncle is super close in age too
28:47
Speaker 1: like the other maybe not maybe not, I mean maybe not,
28:50
Speaker 1: but like maybe within fifteen years, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,
28:53
Speaker 1: that makes sense, but that should end now, especially if
28:56
Speaker 1: they're gonna couple up, Like I don't need to. I
28:58
Speaker 1: don't need to be playing that scenario in my head
29:00
Speaker 1: too often. Uh. We then see Kenny uh and Maury kiss,
29:06
Speaker 1: which is something uh that we probably I mean, at
29:09
Speaker 1: least I foresaw coming from the start of the show,
29:11
Speaker 1: like they were interested in each other, she was interested
29:13
Speaker 1: in him, so like, not shocking, but a cool couple
29:16
Speaker 1: to see couple up again. I don't know if Kenny's
29:18
Speaker 1: naked the whole time during this. If so, Um, this
29:21
Speaker 1: really intensifies that moment to a level that I don't
29:24
Speaker 1: ever need to see. But something going on. And then
29:28
Speaker 1: obviously we talked about Joe talking to Wells. Wells kind
29:32
Speaker 1: of encouraging Joe to stay open and to put himself
29:35
Speaker 1: out there. And we see Joe and Serena Pete, which
29:38
Speaker 1: they're very cute together. I like that Joe is so awkward.
29:41
Speaker 1: He's great, I know, but that's what's so real real.
29:44
Speaker 1: I love it, but like it was a charming, endearing
29:48
Speaker 1: awkward too, and it was almost like, oh, I've been there,
29:51
Speaker 1: done that. I don't even care about being smooth anymore.
29:54
Speaker 1: Every turn though, Joe is awkward, like and it's great
29:57
Speaker 1: because like it's it's fantastic stick to watch because it
30:01
Speaker 1: is relatable. But it's a cute couple. Uh. It's one
30:05
Speaker 1: though that does give me anxiety actually as a season progresses,
30:07
Speaker 1: because we obviously know Kindle shows up to the beach,
30:11
Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard no matter what. I have so
30:16
Speaker 1: many feelings, so many feelings about what's going to happen there,
30:22
Speaker 1: and I'm very nervous for them, and um, and I
30:28
Speaker 1: guess that's all I have to say about that, but like,
30:31
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's gonna be hard. That was a
30:34
Speaker 1: really real relationship that they put a lot of effort into.
30:37
Speaker 1: It's gonna take them having some really healthy, um decisive
30:44
Speaker 1: conversations that will be intriguing to watch from our perspective,
30:47
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know, it's hard and uh. And
30:51
Speaker 1: so that's the storyline to continue to watch through Paradise,
30:53
Speaker 1: and hey, kudos to Paradise to get both Joe and
30:56
Speaker 1: Kindle to show up. I mean that's a big deal,
31:00
Speaker 1: I know. And then we see in the teaser that
31:03
Speaker 1: Joe says, Serena, You're the second girl I've ever loved
31:05
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't know how that feels. Yeah, Joe,
31:09
Speaker 1: it could have been a Joe awkward moment where he's like,
31:11
Speaker 1: I thought this is gonna be cute. Definitely backfired. Hopefully
31:14
Speaker 1: Serena knows him well enough at that point to be like, alright, Joe,
31:17
Speaker 1: Well that didn't feel great. But see, I don't know,
31:20
Speaker 1: I think that that's kind of cute because he because
31:23
Speaker 1: she clearly already knows that there was the other girl,
31:26
Speaker 1: that there was a Yeah she does, but that's an
31:28
Speaker 1: age of difference. It is. It was well again, I
31:32
Speaker 1: keep going back to us watching it, and Jessica was like,
31:34
Speaker 1: that's twenty three is the age of her little brother,
31:37
Speaker 1: who I think she still sees as her little brother,
31:39
Speaker 1: which he is, but he's also a man now thirty
31:43
Speaker 1: five dating a year old. If you know, it's not
31:48
Speaker 1: as like different than being like twenty three and dating
31:52
Speaker 1: eight you know, somebody that's in college like different. You know,
31:56
Speaker 1: they're both in life and they're both at winning love,
31:58
Speaker 1: and they're both excited about the possibility of it. It
32:01
Speaker 1: could work, it has worked. You know. There's a lot
32:03
Speaker 1: of age difference, but that is an age difference. Same
32:07
Speaker 1: with Mary and Kenny. That's fifteen years. Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Um,
32:13
Speaker 1: we'll see if that becomes a storyline, like if age
32:15
Speaker 1: does become a storyline. However, I'm I'm more in the
32:18
Speaker 1: mindset now that as long as the two people are
32:20
Speaker 1: both aligning on their interests in life, that that can
32:23
Speaker 1: work well. But there's just a lot of life between
32:26
Speaker 1: twenty three and thirty five. I'm a different That's what
32:29
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, there is. It's not so much that
32:33
Speaker 1: it's a twelve year age difference. It's the age difference
32:38
Speaker 1: that it is currently early twenties, mid thirties. Yeah, there's
32:42
Speaker 1: just a lot of life to be lived and a
32:44
Speaker 1: lot of lessons to be learned and a lot of
32:45
Speaker 1: things to develop over that time, So I don't know.
32:49
Speaker 1: I sit in Josie and I honestly be a little
32:52
Speaker 1: self conscious for Serena, And I don't know if it
32:54
Speaker 1: matters very much, but if I was Joe, I know that.
32:57
Speaker 1: You know, as you get older, you get a little
32:59
Speaker 1: more self conscious about that you like how you know,
33:01
Speaker 1: are you interested in somebody my age? Are you wanting
33:04
Speaker 1: somebody that's like wanting to have dinner at six thirty
33:06
Speaker 1: at night and being bed at nine thirty? Like? Is
33:08
Speaker 1: that something interesting you? Are you still wanting to get
33:11
Speaker 1: out there and explore at an energy level that I
33:14
Speaker 1: just no longer am interested in. Um, so we'll watch
33:18
Speaker 1: it was go okay. Final big moment, Dimmi walks down
33:22
Speaker 1: uh the steps, says Hi to David. We see Demi
33:25
Speaker 1: enter into paradise. Are you surprised that she's there? And
33:28
Speaker 1: what do you expect at a Demi this time around?
33:32
Speaker 1: I worry that Demi might be too cocky going into this.
33:39
Speaker 1: I think she thinks she is like she is like
33:44
Speaker 1: a senior here, right, so there is like a certain
33:46
Speaker 1: seniority and she is a very well known member of bagelination.
33:50
Speaker 1: I can understand it hitting your ego a little bit,
33:54
Speaker 1: but she might be walking in a little bit too overconfident, um,
33:59
Speaker 1: and I'm worried She's like not, it's she's not going
34:02
Speaker 1: to make friends there. It's interesting and I could see
34:06
Speaker 1: how even I would have that perspective after being there before,
34:10
Speaker 1: feeling like I know, I understand it all, feeling kind
34:12
Speaker 1: of almost immune to the emotions that people are experiencing,
34:16
Speaker 1: like I've felt this before. I know it's the calm,
34:17
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna and and then all of a sudden,
34:20
Speaker 1: the show finds a way to just totally rock your
34:23
Speaker 1: world somehow. They will. They will. Yeah, being overly confident
34:28
Speaker 1: walking down those steps or walking onto this show is
34:31
Speaker 1: one of the greatest ways to set yourself up for
34:36
Speaker 1: for some her or at least for an experience that will,
34:38
Speaker 1: like you said earlier, mature you change you, uh and
34:42
Speaker 1: hopefully every time enhance who you are as a human. Well.
34:45
Speaker 1: I think it's a great conversation, Ashley to tie into
34:48
Speaker 1: our guest who has been on Paradise, who has is
34:51
Speaker 1: familiar with this show and familiar with the world that
34:54
Speaker 1: is the Bachelor. Ashley Frazier Williams is going to be
34:59
Speaker 1: joining us right after this break to talk about paradise
35:02
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Speaker 1: products with real stomers to solve their problems. So, then,
38:03
Speaker 1: how did you come up with the flex the period cup?
38:06
Speaker 1: Because I will be totally honest with you, Oh my gosh,
38:08
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying that on this podcast, But like,
38:11
Speaker 1: I was horrified of sandpots until like my tool ENnies,
38:17
Speaker 1: I was like that, they freaked me out. So, like
38:20
Speaker 1: the period cup also seems a little intimidating. How do
38:23
Speaker 1: we get over that thought? Yeah, so we have a
38:26
Speaker 1: couple of different products. That first product was a disk,
38:29
Speaker 1: and I heard that people wanted more sustainable period products,
38:33
Speaker 1: but they didn't like the idea UM of rinsing and
38:37
Speaker 1: reusing something. So they wanted something more to SUSA animal
38:40
Speaker 1: than a champ on our pad. But we weren't able
38:43
Speaker 1: to fully commit to let's say, rinsing on a cup
38:46
Speaker 1: in a public space. Um So, our disks disks are
38:51
Speaker 1: our first product and their designs so that you can
38:54
Speaker 1: wear them for twelve hours, so the only disposable period
38:57
Speaker 1: product that can be worn for twelve hours. They reduced
38:59
Speaker 1: cre MPs and sixty of our users you can wear
39:02
Speaker 1: them for mess free period sex, and those benefits for
39:05
Speaker 1: a lot of folks are enough to get over the hurdle.
39:08
Speaker 1: But the thing that I love is you can use
39:10
Speaker 1: the bathroom and empty it on the go like hands
39:13
Speaker 1: free emptying, so you can free emptying hands free emptying,
39:18
Speaker 1: so there's no rinsing and reusing, and once you're back
39:20
Speaker 1: at home you can you can take it out and
39:22
Speaker 1: and toss it, but you end up using six less
39:25
Speaker 1: waste than um traditional period products. And the cup is
39:30
Speaker 1: different because we're the only cup in the world that
39:33
Speaker 1: has a patented poll tap that helps break the seal
39:38
Speaker 1: um so it helps prevent it from getting stuck, which
39:41
Speaker 1: is something that I think a lot of folks are
39:42
Speaker 1: afraid of when using for a cup for the very
39:44
Speaker 1: first time. Definitely, And what about the mess is there?
39:48
Speaker 1: Is it any different than taking out a tampon? You
39:51
Speaker 1: feel it is different than taking on a tampon, and
39:53
Speaker 1: absolutely takes practice and there's a learning curve. So the
39:57
Speaker 1: question I always ask people if they're thinking about trying
39:59
Speaker 1: a new period product, is is it worth testing something
40:02
Speaker 1: out to see if all the other benefits outweigh, you know,
40:06
Speaker 1: getting your hands a little messy while you're learning to
40:09
Speaker 1: use something new for the very first time. Okay, that's understandable.
40:13
Speaker 1: And then, um, I hope it's not to t M
40:16
Speaker 1: I for this podcast. But how do you insert the disks? Yeah,
40:22
Speaker 1: they're pretty straightforward. You pinch it in half and it
40:25
Speaker 1: actually gets about thinner than a tampon, and you push
40:28
Speaker 1: it all the way back and down and it pops
40:30
Speaker 1: open into place. So if it's in properly, you shouldn't
40:35
Speaker 1: feel it at all. And it's got um this nice
40:38
Speaker 1: brim that molds the form of your body, so it's
40:41
Speaker 1: ultra comfortable and pretty easy to remove. So you talked
40:46
Speaker 1: about how you are getting used infections? Is tampon use
40:51
Speaker 1: a common A common um a common thing to cause
40:56
Speaker 1: us infections? Tampines can for some people disrupt the pH
41:01
Speaker 1: of your of your vagina absorbs. You know, they just
41:04
Speaker 1: absorb all of that um, healthy bio flora that your
41:09
Speaker 1: body works so hard to produce every month to keep
41:11
Speaker 1: up immunity and help prevent infections, So not for not
41:15
Speaker 1: everyone has issues with tampons, and I'm not trashing campbons
41:18
Speaker 1: by any strate of imagination, but for some people they
41:21
Speaker 1: can throw off the pH of our vagina which can
41:24
Speaker 1: lead to um use infections and bacterial vaginosis. So it
41:28
Speaker 1: was really important to us that we used fully medical
41:31
Speaker 1: grade materials that would not promote the growth of harmful bacteria.
41:36
Speaker 1: And the discs are actually the only period product in
41:39
Speaker 1: the world that haven't been linked to TSS. Amazing, Yeah,
41:43
Speaker 1: because you said that you can keep it in for
41:46
Speaker 1: twelve hours and it absorbs as much as three super
41:50
Speaker 1: tampons were, so that is pretty incredible that we don't
41:53
Speaker 1: have to worry about toxic shock. Is there anything else
41:57
Speaker 1: about your product that you want to talk about before
41:58
Speaker 1: we let you go try and help from mos thy
42:01
Speaker 1: period sex? I mean, I've never really had an issue
42:04
Speaker 1: with period sex personally, UM, but you can have all
42:08
Speaker 1: different types of sex. Doesn't have to be penetrated sex
42:11
Speaker 1: to be able to enjoy the disk, and some people
42:14
Speaker 1: find that to be very free. Well, thank you so
42:19
Speaker 1: much for joining us, Lauren UM. It was very informative
42:22
Speaker 1: and makes me a lot less intimidated by the new
42:25
Speaker 1: inventions which are so popular. Our friend and colleague here
42:30
Speaker 1: at I Heeart, you know, Tanya Rad, she cannot stop
42:33
Speaker 1: talking about how much she loves the flex cups. Oh
42:36
Speaker 1: that's so great to hear. I'm really proud of our growth,
42:39
Speaker 1: and I think it's just because customers, like I said,
42:41
Speaker 1: are experiencing those real benefits. It can always be really
42:44
Speaker 1: scary to try something new, but you know, if it's
42:48
Speaker 1: going to make our peers more comfortable and eliminate cramps
42:51
Speaker 1: and give you more sexy time, it's worth a shot.
42:54
Speaker 1: How does it eliminate cramps? People? So it's not gonna
42:59
Speaker 1: eliminate pre menstrual cramps, but a lot of folks get
43:02
Speaker 1: more cramps and they're wearing a hard tampon inside of
43:06
Speaker 1: their vagina because your body is essentially trying to contract
43:11
Speaker 1: to relieve, believe all of the menzies. Um. And so
43:15
Speaker 1: when you don't have like a hard felt our object
43:18
Speaker 1: in the middle of your vagina, the flex this sits
43:21
Speaker 1: in a in a different states around your vaginal for nex,
43:24
Speaker 1: with a fewer nerve endings, and it's stopped and it's flexible, um.
43:28
Speaker 1: So it moves with your body and creates that leak
43:32
Speaker 1: free seal um. And so that's where a lot of
43:34
Speaker 1: folks tell us that their cramps are so much better. Wow.
43:38
Speaker 1: So interesting. I always thought there would be something to that.
43:41
Speaker 1: All right, well, Lauren, thanks so much for joining us today.
43:43
Speaker 1: We really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me. Why. Hey,
43:48
Speaker 1: sucky daters. This is Dean and this is Jared, And
43:51
Speaker 1: this week we have Kaylin and Ashley come on our
43:53
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43:57
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44:00
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44:02
Speaker 1: Podcasts and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Hey, everybody, Kendall
44:09
Speaker 1: Cohen is joined the podcast. Kindall has been behind the
44:12
Speaker 1: scenes producer of the podcast now for the last couple
44:15
Speaker 1: of weeks or months. I guess. Uh. She is from Indiana,
44:19
Speaker 1: so we know she's great. We know she's awesome. She
44:22
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to attend the premiere party of Bachelor
44:25
Speaker 1: in Paradise this week she got to interview the contestants,
44:30
Speaker 1: hang out, get some of the scoop. Kindle's here now
44:33
Speaker 1: joining us, Kinda, What did you learn? I learned a
44:36
Speaker 1: lot and I also came into the premiere party, not
44:39
Speaker 1: knowing what to expect, like my impressions on people and everything.
44:43
Speaker 1: And one takeaway I have is how much I loved
44:46
Speaker 1: Goddess Victoria. She was amazing and she has a new look,
44:51
Speaker 1: and you know, she told me blondes do have more
44:53
Speaker 1: fun now that she has blonde of a brunette, which
44:55
Speaker 1: is something I loved. And I also loved Connor b
45:00
Speaker 1: He stood out to me. And he actually did bring
45:02
Speaker 1: his cat costume, but he didn't get the chance to
45:04
Speaker 1: wear it, which is a bummer. Okay, And do you
45:07
Speaker 1: have some sound bites for us? We do, yes, So
45:09
Speaker 1: there's a lot of conversations I had. So Victoria, I
45:12
Speaker 1: asked her if she brought the crown with her to Paradise,
45:15
Speaker 1: and she did bring up how goddess is what she's
45:19
Speaker 1: going to go by. But something that also stood out
45:21
Speaker 1: to me was she said that this appearance on Bachelor
45:25
Speaker 1: in Paradise was going to be redemption for her from
45:28
Speaker 1: Matt season, which I found was really interesting. I have
45:31
Speaker 1: a goddess crown. You have a goddess crown. Okay, so
45:34
Speaker 1: that's what your look you're going for? I love it?
45:37
Speaker 1: And Connor, are you going to be dressing up as
45:38
Speaker 1: any other animal in Paradise. What a great question. I
45:41
Speaker 1: will say, I brought the cat suit to Paradise. I
45:44
Speaker 1: didn't wear it the first day, but it may or
45:46
Speaker 1: may not make it a pass. Oh my god, that
45:48
Speaker 1: cat suit is way too hot for him to be
45:50
Speaker 1: wearing in Paradise. He should be dressing up like something different, now, Kendall,
45:55
Speaker 1: did you also get any insight into when Victoria says
45:59
Speaker 1: this is gonna be emption for her? What does she
46:01
Speaker 1: mean by that? What redemption is she looking for? Because
46:03
Speaker 1: showing up as a goddess doesn't exactly change the narrative.
46:07
Speaker 1: Here I did, and we will play that for you.
46:10
Speaker 1: Paradise was definitely my redemption, and like letting everyone see
46:14
Speaker 1: a different side of me and ask for what I
46:17
Speaker 1: look in a bar and a guy like I'm always
46:19
Speaker 1: learning and growing, But definitely Matt Susan taught me, I
46:23
Speaker 1: want someone who trust me and listens to me. Um,
46:26
Speaker 1: because I still think my side was valid. Interesting. Did
46:31
Speaker 1: you get any insight as to like how long she
46:34
Speaker 1: might be sticking around if that really did come to
46:37
Speaker 1: fruition for her? You know, I tried to get that
46:39
Speaker 1: out of her and she was very put her foot
46:41
Speaker 1: down on that, but she definitely says or from what
46:45
Speaker 1: I got from it, I feel she wants a new
46:48
Speaker 1: image on herself for this, which will be interesting to
46:51
Speaker 1: see how that will play out. Now we also know
46:54
Speaker 1: that you got to talk to Kenny, who obviously showed
46:57
Speaker 1: up to Paradise in uh in a very fashionable way.
47:02
Speaker 1: His skin suit was on. At least that's what we think. Uh.
47:05
Speaker 1: What did can you have to say, Kenny? I love
47:08
Speaker 1: talking to He did bring up being naked and everything,
47:10
Speaker 1: and he obviously and I talked to him and just
47:12
Speaker 1: then at the same time he made it seem like
47:15
Speaker 1: he was actually naked, So I don't know. But he
47:18
Speaker 1: did say that the new dynamic is wild, and he
47:22
Speaker 1: gave me a little insight on that as well. It's wild,
47:26
Speaker 1: it's I think it's it's way more over the top
47:28
Speaker 1: than you're used to uh there. There's just more people.
47:31
Speaker 1: There's obviously with the uh Chris not being there, it's
47:35
Speaker 1: a different dynamic with different posts and uh Wells doing
47:39
Speaker 1: a little bit more than he normally does. So like
47:41
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's a kind of a whole different show.
47:44
Speaker 1: It's the same show, but it's different. Did anybody talk
47:47
Speaker 1: about what their favorite part of being in Paradise was?
47:49
Speaker 1: A lot of them did, majority of them. One funny
47:52
Speaker 1: thing I found was they said that Wells makes great
47:55
Speaker 1: drinks as a bartender, and we have a lot of
47:58
Speaker 1: practice at it. I know he was he was experimenting
48:02
Speaker 1: when I was with him ten days ago. He was
48:03
Speaker 1: worried that he doesn't make good Dreams drinks and he's
48:05
Speaker 1: gonna experiment in the off season so he can get
48:08
Speaker 1: better at it for next year. So it's good that
48:10
Speaker 1: they thought he was. He was pouring some nice strings
48:13
Speaker 1: for him. Now find a couple of things here, Kendall.
48:16
Speaker 1: We did, uh pick up some audio clips. You got
48:20
Speaker 1: to talk to Hannah Ann and Mike Johnson, who we
48:22
Speaker 1: know are not showing up to Paradise, but they were
48:24
Speaker 1: at the premiere. What were they doing there and what
48:27
Speaker 1: they have to say? Yeah, So Hannah And and Mike
48:31
Speaker 1: Johnson were there on behalf of The Ultimate Surfer, which
48:34
Speaker 1: the premiere party was also for, and that will premiere
48:36
Speaker 1: on Monday as well. But Hannah And told me she
48:39
Speaker 1: was so excited to see her old cast mates on
48:42
Speaker 1: this season. And Mike also said he wants to be
48:44
Speaker 1: jealous of the love that he will see on this
48:47
Speaker 1: season since I'm not there. I want to see drama.
48:49
Speaker 1: I want to see love, and I want to see
48:51
Speaker 1: I want to make I want to be jealous. That's
48:54
Speaker 1: what I want to see. When I watched all my
48:56
Speaker 1: TV screens all the August six I want to be
48:59
Speaker 1: jealous because I wasn't to be JeOS because someone else
49:01
Speaker 1: may love. And I'm being very genuine I say that
49:04
Speaker 1: right because I love love. You know, one of my
49:05
Speaker 1: favorite movies A Notebook. Okay, Well, Kendall, before we um
49:11
Speaker 1: let you go, I did want to talk. I wanted
49:14
Speaker 1: to talk about something we haven't even talked about yet.
49:16
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, how do we forget about the connection
49:18
Speaker 1: that Natasha and Brendan seemed to be sparking there. I
49:23
Speaker 1: don't know if they kissed, which is maybe why we
49:25
Speaker 1: left them out of that couple list, but there definitely
49:29
Speaker 1: had something. Uh. Natasha is actually really good friends with
49:33
Speaker 1: Joe though, because they host the podcast together. So did
49:36
Speaker 1: she talk about her relationship with Brendan or her friendship
49:39
Speaker 1: with Joe or anything like that? Yes, so there she
49:41
Speaker 1: did talk about her friendship with Joe, and she also
49:43
Speaker 1: gave her opinion on Joe and Kendall, which I found
49:46
Speaker 1: very interesting. So I definitely want you to hear that,
49:49
Speaker 1: you know, me and whom are really close. It was hard.
49:51
Speaker 1: And I adore Kendall and I've met her separately from Joe,
49:54
Speaker 1: you know, when they were not together, and I adore
49:56
Speaker 1: her as well. She's really sweet. But I was like,
49:59
Speaker 1: look here, y'all, I can't get in the middle of this.
50:01
Speaker 1: This is hard. This is hard for me. And it
50:03
Speaker 1: was weird, I mean, and I felt his pain, you know,
50:06
Speaker 1: like he was like, oh, what's happening, And the moment
50:08
Speaker 1: he walked in, I mean, or the moment she walked in,
50:11
Speaker 1: it was it was like, yeah, I filed for him,
50:14
Speaker 1: could on one? I mean, can you imagine your your
50:16
Speaker 1: dating someone? Maybe last time he was there, he fell
50:18
Speaker 1: in love with her, and now they're on the beach again,
50:21
Speaker 1: not together together crazy or maybe they get back together.
50:25
Speaker 1: I don't know. And that was Tammy with her too,
50:28
Speaker 1: saying maybe they get back together, so we'll have to see. Also,
50:31
Speaker 1: Tammy and Natasha both gave me their opinion on Greg
50:36
Speaker 1: and if he was showing his acting skills and Natasha
50:39
Speaker 1: has a side where she supports Greg, but Tammy has
50:41
Speaker 1: a side where she's friends with Katie, so it's different.
50:45
Speaker 1: I'm very good friends with Katie, so I am going
50:46
Speaker 1: to take her side no matter what. But I do
50:49
Speaker 1: see the point of his side a little bit, and
50:51
Speaker 1: her side, I do see where she's seen a little
50:54
Speaker 1: bit blindsided for the way he was acting, because they
50:56
Speaker 1: were very strong up until that point. So I mean,
50:59
Speaker 1: it was just a bad breakup, you know, and it
51:01
Speaker 1: hurts no matter, no matter. Yeah, I personally think I've
51:06
Speaker 1: also talked to Greg and I you know, we have
51:09
Speaker 1: a podcast. We talked to a lot of people here
51:11
Speaker 1: in the nation. Um, I think that it was a
51:16
Speaker 1: hard breakup. I personally, and I said this on my podcast,
51:20
Speaker 1: I personally resonated with Greg Moore just because I've been
51:24
Speaker 1: in relationships where I've sought validation. So watching it, I
51:28
Speaker 1: don't think that Katie was invalid in her feelings. I
51:32
Speaker 1: also don't think that Greg was invalid in his feelings.
51:34
Speaker 1: I do think that they both could have handled things
51:37
Speaker 1: better on her side and his side, And I do
51:40
Speaker 1: think that it was a really bad breakup. I really
51:42
Speaker 1: have you guys take on that Yeah, yeah, I do.
51:45
Speaker 1: And I think that people who like the world out there.
51:47
Speaker 1: It was so Greg versus Katie versus thing. There's some teams.
51:52
Speaker 1: It was a bad breakup. Everyone had their points yea,
51:54
Speaker 1: and it just didn't work out. Yeah, And I'm and
51:57
Speaker 1: and to say though, when I look at Kadie and Blake,
52:01
Speaker 1: it's like that's your person. Yeah, Kendall, thanks for showing
52:05
Speaker 1: up to the party. Thanks for getting these interviews. It's
52:08
Speaker 1: super fun to hear their reactions. You did great. Thanks
52:11
Speaker 1: for all your work. Uh and we'll see soon. All right, Well,
52:15
Speaker 1: we wanted to get alums on almost every episode of
52:19
Speaker 1: the recaps of Bachelor in Paradise, So today we have
52:23
Speaker 1: Ashley Fraser Williams. Hello, Ashley, Hi, Hi. You were on
52:32
Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise season one, which is so crazy because
52:35
Speaker 1: it was because what are we in? Season is a seven?
52:39
Speaker 1: Now a lot has changed. Let's just say that what
52:43
Speaker 1: do you think has changed the most? Well, it's still
52:46
Speaker 1: like just the whole dynamic of having social media mixed
52:49
Speaker 1: in with everything creates just a different environment of people
52:53
Speaker 1: to respond and act, and um, be kind of different
52:59
Speaker 1: in the world, I guess, right, because everybody's putting on
53:02
Speaker 1: a show a little bit more, I think, right, because
53:05
Speaker 1: now you understand the importance of keeping the audience, so
53:10
Speaker 1: you know, definitely speaking of putting on a show. We
53:14
Speaker 1: see at the end of the episode, Demi is walking
53:17
Speaker 1: in and we were just talking. Okay, so so what
53:20
Speaker 1: were your impressions of Demi walking because they're just talking
53:23
Speaker 1: about this, but I would love another person's opinion. Well,
53:26
Speaker 1: I think she's really good for ratings, the one you
53:30
Speaker 1: want to watch, and um, you just hope that they
53:34
Speaker 1: can really bring it. I guess, you know, so, I
53:37
Speaker 1: think she'll be really interesting. I don't really like the
53:41
Speaker 1: bully tactic that she has of like, oh, let me
53:44
Speaker 1: come in and create drama, and that just makes me
53:46
Speaker 1: feel like she might be mean. She kind of scares
53:49
Speaker 1: me a little. It is an interesting thing to admit,
53:53
Speaker 1: like coming down those stairs in the mindset of I'm
53:56
Speaker 1: gonna come in here and mess things up. We've seen
53:59
Speaker 1: that before with the mindset of some people walking down
54:01
Speaker 1: those stairs. I never have known it to go well,
54:05
Speaker 1: Like that just never works the way they think it's
54:07
Speaker 1: going to. And so all those all of the people
54:11
Speaker 1: with that mindset do get humbled at some point. With
54:15
Speaker 1: when they when they think they're gonna come in there
54:17
Speaker 1: and just tear things up absolutely. And I mean we
54:20
Speaker 1: see her crying in a little clip of the future episode,
54:24
Speaker 1: so there may be her humbling right there. I was
54:28
Speaker 1: talking to Ashley like an eddie about this, just a
54:29
Speaker 1: little bit to goo and Ashley Fraser Williams. I want
54:32
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts. What about paradise brings out the
54:35
Speaker 1: emotions in the way that it does? How does how
54:38
Speaker 1: does twenty some people show up to a beach and
54:40
Speaker 1: all of them feel something so deeply if they're in
54:43
Speaker 1: a romantic relationship or even if they're not. I think
54:45
Speaker 1: there's several answers to that question. Number One, you're isolated,
54:50
Speaker 1: and so you realize there's just a certain amount of
54:54
Speaker 1: time that if you don't connect games over right, and
54:58
Speaker 1: you don't want to go home because and you hope
55:00
Speaker 1: for someone else to come in to match you, right.
55:04
Speaker 1: So I think it's just a bunch of different reasons
55:07
Speaker 1: why it gets so hyped up, right, ash That's exactly
55:11
Speaker 1: what I said, is that pressure of time, especially if
55:13
Speaker 1: you're somebody who is a little bit more slow to
55:17
Speaker 1: open up. Yeah, Um, what's the girl that she said
55:21
Speaker 1: she was um Abigail yeah, which, by the way, I
55:25
Speaker 1: have my notes on her. Oh my god, I love her.
55:27
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm so far behind on The Bachelor
55:29
Speaker 1: because now I have two kids running around me and
55:32
Speaker 1: it's a madhouse around here, so I barely have time
55:35
Speaker 1: to eat myself. So, um, I'm so far behind. But
55:40
Speaker 1: I really liked her so and now I want to
55:42
Speaker 1: learn more about her and Noah. I think they're so cute.
55:44
Speaker 1: It's so cute. Would you say that they were the
55:46
Speaker 1: couple that you're rooting for the most as of now?
55:50
Speaker 1: I mean as of someone that I think is more
55:56
Speaker 1: on my level of calmness now that I'm old der more.
56:01
Speaker 1: I hate to say mature because I don't want to
56:02
Speaker 1: say it sound like anyone else is less mature. But
56:06
Speaker 1: it's like they seem more ready maybe right, Yeah, they're
56:10
Speaker 1: they're there for that and they're excited for that. I
56:13
Speaker 1: felt that, and I understand what you're saying. It's not
56:15
Speaker 1: like you're saying I'm more mature than the rest of
56:17
Speaker 1: this cast. He's saying you can tell that she's ready
56:21
Speaker 1: for this romantic connection, just similar to you know, when
56:24
Speaker 1: I was watching Ashley, I ken Eddie on the show
56:26
Speaker 1: before we were friends and before I knew her, well,
56:29
Speaker 1: you could tell she really wants to be in a
56:31
Speaker 1: romantic relationship. Um and and that was something that is
56:34
Speaker 1: visible now to both of you. And then I'm gonna
56:37
Speaker 1: step back here, But to both of you, I have
56:39
Speaker 1: a really interesting question that I've always been intrigued by.
56:44
Speaker 1: When you so you as you said, you couple up
56:46
Speaker 1: because you are interested one in the person, and too
56:49
Speaker 1: you want to stay around just in case maybe your
56:51
Speaker 1: forever person comes down those stairs, which means that there's
56:54
Speaker 1: a ton of breakups or there's a ton of relationships
56:58
Speaker 1: ending a new one starting. I know in my life
57:01
Speaker 1: breakups are really hard, and I maybe I put too
57:04
Speaker 1: much weight on but they also sometimes feel very awkward,
57:06
Speaker 1: like you don't really necessarily want to see that person
57:09
Speaker 1: again just because you've shared moments with them. And then
57:12
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, on this beach, you're surrounded by your
57:15
Speaker 1: ex is for the entirety of the show unless you
57:18
Speaker 1: couple up week one with your person that you're gonna
57:20
Speaker 1: be with at the end. How awkward is it to
57:22
Speaker 1: break up and move on? Or is it just kind
57:24
Speaker 1: of like a spoken rule that yeah, things are gonna
57:26
Speaker 1: end the most awkward thing ever. Okay, that's what this is. Like.
57:30
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so awkward when they somebody breaks
57:34
Speaker 1: up with you and you're like, okay, but I'll still
57:36
Speaker 1: see you at breakfast tomorrow morning. So um, then we'll
57:40
Speaker 1: look at each other and smile awkwardly and just will
57:42
Speaker 1: know it won't happen. But you know, maybe I'll see
57:44
Speaker 1: you go on a date with somebody else and it'll
57:46
Speaker 1: be really weird because we just kissed the night before,
57:48
Speaker 1: and I'm okay, I'm with you there. I totally agree
57:53
Speaker 1: with that. But I also feel like in this specific environment,
57:58
Speaker 1: there's some sort of way and how we all, all
58:02
Speaker 1: of the bachelor nations somehow gets through it and we
58:05
Speaker 1: all stick around and we're all still there, Like as
58:08
Speaker 1: awkward as it is, we still do it and are
58:11
Speaker 1: still able to I guess compartmentalize. I'm sure it's very
58:17
Speaker 1: similar to what a fraternity and so already go through
58:20
Speaker 1: because you know how you have like you're the ones
58:21
Speaker 1: that you're paired with and you always have to have
58:24
Speaker 1: parties and dances and stuff of them, like if that
58:26
Speaker 1: happens all the time there, so that might be more relatable. Yeah, true,
58:31
Speaker 1: that's true, but it's interesting because I feel like it
58:34
Speaker 1: doesn't really bother me. I feel like I didn't play
58:36
Speaker 1: my season very well looking back, But I think my
58:41
Speaker 1: problem was on my season was there were more friends
58:45
Speaker 1: on my case then, so I kind of felt not
58:49
Speaker 1: stuck because it was still my choice, but I felt
58:51
Speaker 1: like Graham was like my only option kind of, and
58:54
Speaker 1: so I was like, well, I'm going to stick it
58:55
Speaker 1: out with him because everybody else here's my friend. And
58:59
Speaker 1: then I kind got into deep and then didn't know
59:01
Speaker 1: how to get out, you know, looking back, So I
59:05
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like that's kind of part layed
59:08
Speaker 1: into a different thing. But I mean you still like,
59:12
Speaker 1: I guess it would have been awkward to have not
59:15
Speaker 1: been with him and seeing with someone else, but I
59:17
Speaker 1: mean we all see how that went. No, you're actually
59:20
Speaker 1: really right about that. Is their privacy in this place though,
59:23
Speaker 1: like we see everybody. I mean we only see like
59:26
Speaker 1: the camera angles from the people watching, and it feels
59:30
Speaker 1: like everybody can watch each other kiss and hang out
59:32
Speaker 1: and make out. Like is there any place to just
59:34
Speaker 1: get away? I mean, if you really want to get away,
59:37
Speaker 1: you could, but you're gonna have a camera follow you.
59:40
Speaker 1: But if you didn't want everyone seeing you, right, ash,
59:43
Speaker 1: don't you feel like, yeah, they're go like balconies and
59:45
Speaker 1: like little areas. You can definitely get like privacy to
59:48
Speaker 1: make out what I mean. Clearly you can tell that
59:50
Speaker 1: they don't care, right, They're like, hey, let me let
59:53
Speaker 1: everyone know. So it is taken, that's true. You almost
59:57
Speaker 1: wanted to be out there. Interesting, that's that's heavy. So
1:00:01
Speaker 1: you're like, there's a moment in the mind of the people,
1:00:03
Speaker 1: like I want to show that I'm with this person
1:00:05
Speaker 1: so nobody else steps on. Yeah, because I can remember
1:00:09
Speaker 1: people not knowing of like certain couples, and then you'd
1:00:14
Speaker 1: be like, oh, and then there's so and so and
1:00:15
Speaker 1: so and so, and then like the other person that's
1:00:16
Speaker 1: been around for just as long as you was like
1:00:18
Speaker 1: wait what No, it's like oh yeah, oh yeah, you
1:00:21
Speaker 1: didn't know that, right, That's good stuff. That's what I
1:00:27
Speaker 1: would get into, Like I really love yeah, I just
1:00:30
Speaker 1: love the like. But then you have a demmy girl
1:00:33
Speaker 1: come in and she's like, oh really I really wanted him. Oh,
1:00:37
Speaker 1: but now that he's taken, let me hop in. And
1:00:39
Speaker 1: then happens to you've seen it, we see it. M
1:00:43
Speaker 1: how often is that successful? Okay? So, uh, you have
1:00:47
Speaker 1: your notes in front of you. We've just mentioned that
1:00:49
Speaker 1: Abigail Noah relationship, we've talked about Demmi coming down the stairs.
1:00:53
Speaker 1: You really want to ask about that? Um, what are
1:00:56
Speaker 1: your feelings after watching and being a part of this
1:00:59
Speaker 1: on David's age rule and also in comparison to Wells
1:01:02
Speaker 1: with Wells being there as well, like, how do you
1:01:04
Speaker 1: like this dynamic? Okay, here's what I think. I think
1:01:08
Speaker 1: Wells needs to step up and be the hell Okay, yeah,
1:01:13
Speaker 1: oh really okay? Yeah, So I didn't think about that
1:01:16
Speaker 1: until I saw him, and just the way he is
1:01:19
Speaker 1: on camera is so good. He's really good. I like
1:01:22
Speaker 1: I asked questions. He's on everyone's level. He's been through it,
1:01:26
Speaker 1: and I think he's witty enough to kind of come
1:01:29
Speaker 1: up with his own lingo for the show and maybe
1:01:33
Speaker 1: take it into a different avenue versus saying the same
1:01:35
Speaker 1: the most drama season ever, you know, like our same
1:01:39
Speaker 1: terms we've had forever. I think he'd be really good
1:01:41
Speaker 1: for that. David Spade, I was like, oh I don't
1:01:43
Speaker 1: get this. No, now, Chris Harrison, we know is really funny.
1:01:47
Speaker 1: He has really like witty personality, So I think that
1:01:52
Speaker 1: wasn't really shown into the handful of last so many seasons, right,
1:01:57
Speaker 1: he didn't him his personality at the beginning. So I
1:02:01
Speaker 1: think having David Spade is awesome. I wasn't sure. I
1:02:04
Speaker 1: was like, oh, how's that going to go? But I
1:02:07
Speaker 1: was hooked right away. I'm like, yes, yes, he's funny.
1:02:11
Speaker 1: But you're saying that that you think if you even
1:02:13
Speaker 1: took David away? Yeah, Okay, he filled a comedic role
1:02:17
Speaker 1: that was necessarily kind of, like we said, maybe a
1:02:20
Speaker 1: risk alleviator for the show, just in case Wells when
1:02:22
Speaker 1: it stepped up. But you're seeing Wells now you're saying,
1:02:24
Speaker 1: I think this guy's got it on his own. He
1:02:25
Speaker 1: doesn't need anybody else. He can do this thing. And
1:02:27
Speaker 1: we came to the same conclusion. Okay, two parts to that.
1:02:31
Speaker 1: One for the Bachelor, Bachelor, Yes, I think Wales can
1:02:34
Speaker 1: do it on his own. For Paradise, there's a different
1:02:38
Speaker 1: way that they edit and film. It's funnier, like it
1:02:41
Speaker 1: has a more freedom type of show to it versus
1:02:47
Speaker 1: Bachelor is so much more serious. Right, so you see
1:02:50
Speaker 1: all the funny humor and all the wittiness of the
1:02:53
Speaker 1: characters that we saw in Bachelor and Bachelortte come out
1:02:57
Speaker 1: in paradise. So that's where I think David would be
1:03:00
Speaker 1: really good. Interesting, you know what I mean? Yeah, so
1:03:04
Speaker 1: you're you're taking it one step further and saying you
1:03:06
Speaker 1: believe well as Addams could be the host of the
1:03:09
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelor at the big, the big show. Yeah. Interest,
1:03:13
Speaker 1: I think for sure, I think you could handle it,
1:03:16
Speaker 1: and I think America loves him, so he's a good option,
1:03:19
Speaker 1: you know. All right, Well, let's talk about you for
1:03:22
Speaker 1: a little while. Yes, all right, So you have two
1:03:24
Speaker 1: daughters now, Everley is ten months and Nabe is two
1:03:31
Speaker 1: and a half. As somebody who's struggling through their pregnancy,
1:03:35
Speaker 1: how how are you um? While I was pregnant? Yeah,
1:03:42
Speaker 1: so Navy it was a lot easier. I thought it
1:03:45
Speaker 1: was hard. It was so much easier than Everley. Everley.
1:03:48
Speaker 1: There was one point where I was in so much pain.
1:03:52
Speaker 1: I mean, t am I but from I could not
1:03:54
Speaker 1: get from my bed to the bathroom. I was frozen
1:03:58
Speaker 1: and I was freaking out. Call air and I'm like
1:04:00
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I could not my
1:04:03
Speaker 1: pain and my tailbone was so excruciating. I couldn't put
1:04:07
Speaker 1: my toe down. I'm not like a third trimester. Um no,
1:04:11
Speaker 1: it was at the beginning. Why in your tailbone? Why? So?
1:04:16
Speaker 1: What I've heard and what my doctor said is if
1:04:19
Speaker 1: you have previous injuries, a lot of times they'll come
1:04:21
Speaker 1: back in your pregnancy. And when I was younger, I
1:04:24
Speaker 1: fell and fractured my tailbone, and so I think that
1:04:27
Speaker 1: came back to haunt me. No way, it was rough.
1:04:31
Speaker 1: I had vertigo with Everley. That happened. I got the
1:04:36
Speaker 1: flu at six weeks, which this was right before Corona hit.
1:04:41
Speaker 1: So thank god it wasn't Corona. But um, otherwise you
1:04:44
Speaker 1: know I would have been freaking out anything and everything
1:04:48
Speaker 1: happened it was, it was rough. Well, Ashley is currently
1:04:52
Speaker 1: pregnant as you know. Uh, what is the best advice
1:04:56
Speaker 1: that you were given or that you could share with Ashley? Uh?
1:04:59
Speaker 1: Through the can see and then into early motherhood. The
1:05:03
Speaker 1: best as advice is to not take anyone's advice. You
1:05:07
Speaker 1: will know your child and what you want better than
1:05:11
Speaker 1: anybody else. And so what someone told me was take
1:05:15
Speaker 1: it all in. Oh, thank you, thank you. No one
1:05:17
Speaker 1: knows whether you take it or not. You don't have
1:05:19
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with them. If it's not what
1:05:21
Speaker 1: you believe or how you feel, you don't have to
1:05:24
Speaker 1: do it. When you get home and it's just you
1:05:26
Speaker 1: and your family, it's whatever you want to do, So
1:05:29
Speaker 1: do whatever feels right to you. That's a really good advice.
1:05:34
Speaker 1: No one knows whether you take it or not. So
1:05:37
Speaker 1: why even like I have to worry? It all comes
1:05:41
Speaker 1: to you as it's happening, Like the with Navy I
1:05:45
Speaker 1: my first girl. I was just constantly worried and try
1:05:48
Speaker 1: and figure it out. And I was like, this is
1:05:50
Speaker 1: what society says to me. And then once it clicked
1:05:54
Speaker 1: at probably like maybe I don't know, month six seven,
1:05:59
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I just got to relax. I
1:06:01
Speaker 1: am stressing out. This is freaking me out, like everyone's
1:06:05
Speaker 1: opinions are like weighing on me. And once I let go,
1:06:08
Speaker 1: I swear everything became easier. And it's not easy, but
1:06:12
Speaker 1: it just was like, oh my gosh, this is what
1:06:14
Speaker 1: I should have been doing this whole time. I get
1:06:16
Speaker 1: it now. So you s good advice. Thank you so much.
1:06:20
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Very empowering too. I mean I'm hearing it.
1:06:23
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's awesome, you know, I mean somebody who
1:06:25
Speaker 1: hopes to be a father someday, just having the confidence
1:06:28
Speaker 1: in yourself to say I've got this and you're gonna
1:06:31
Speaker 1: know yeah, you know your baby better than anybody because
1:06:35
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna be a loving mom. So yeah,
1:06:39
Speaker 1: really really cool advice. I've never heard that. Um, So
1:06:43
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, And then we'll just talk about
1:06:45
Speaker 1: your husband, Aaron for a second. You guys got married
1:06:48
Speaker 1: in twos seven. Yeah, how did you? Of course, how
1:06:57
Speaker 1: did you guys meet? And like how was that dating process?
1:07:00
Speaker 1: Isn't did the Bachelor teach you anything from it? Oh?
1:07:02
Speaker 1: Good questions. So I met Aaron years and years ago
1:07:06
Speaker 1: when we were all going out having fun, going out
1:07:08
Speaker 1: to the club and bars and all that stuff, and
1:07:11
Speaker 1: I really liked him. He was so handsome, Um, came
1:07:14
Speaker 1: from a really good family, but he's so quiet and shy,
1:07:17
Speaker 1: and I did not think he liked me because he
1:07:19
Speaker 1: wasn't really taking that initiative and so it kind of
1:07:23
Speaker 1: just faded away. But we would see each other out
1:07:25
Speaker 1: all the time and hang out and I felt like
1:07:28
Speaker 1: there was a connection, but nothing ever came from it
1:07:31
Speaker 1: because he never was like Hey, you're my girl, let's go. So, um,
1:07:36
Speaker 1: we would stay in touch and then finally, um, I've
1:07:40
Speaker 1: reached out to him, or he reached out to me,
1:07:42
Speaker 1: I can't remember. And we started talking and again I'm like,
1:07:47
Speaker 1: does this guy like me? Like he's spending all this
1:07:49
Speaker 1: time we were much older. This is going back to
1:07:52
Speaker 1: where we first started dating again, and I was like,
1:07:56
Speaker 1: does this guy like me? Like he's hanging out with me,
1:07:58
Speaker 1: he's taking me to dinner, but he's not saying the words,
1:08:02
Speaker 1: you know, because he's just such a quiet guy. And
1:08:06
Speaker 1: so I wasn't gonna ask, you know, I needed him
1:08:09
Speaker 1: to tell me. So finally I was like, all right,
1:08:10
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move to l A. And then he was like, oh, well,
1:08:13
Speaker 1: can we be together before you go? And I was like,
1:08:16
Speaker 1: wait his boyfriend before you leave? Yeah, like one of
1:08:21
Speaker 1: like like exclusive and he's like yeah. I'm like okay,
1:08:24
Speaker 1: I thought he was joking. I'm like, oh, I'm moving,
1:08:26
Speaker 1: So now he's going to like say, oh, now it's
1:08:28
Speaker 1: safe to say that, right. So then I moved. Six
1:08:32
Speaker 1: months later, I'm like Aaron doing coming home and he's like,
1:08:36
Speaker 1: I'm going to step it out that I'm gonna be
1:08:38
Speaker 1: there and then that was it. That's so cute. Yeah,
1:08:40
Speaker 1: and he was basically at home waiting for me. So
1:08:44
Speaker 1: he's a good looking good do I just I just
1:08:45
Speaker 1: googled him. Yeah, he's a good looking fellow. Yeah, he's
1:08:49
Speaker 1: a good looking guy for sure. Now I gotta go Instagram. Yeah,
1:08:55
Speaker 1: he's not on any social media, which is the most
1:08:58
Speaker 1: amazing thing. Like he has no idea, Like he doesn't
1:09:02
Speaker 1: get it at all. Like I have to break everything
1:09:04
Speaker 1: down for him like you would your parent, are your grandma?
1:09:08
Speaker 1: You know, like that respect for Aaron. Yes, stay on
1:09:12
Speaker 1: to that buddy. Yeah. I like that guy. He found
1:09:15
Speaker 1: his girl, he has his family, he's got his career. Yeah.
1:09:19
Speaker 1: The social time is like I think I need to
1:09:20
Speaker 1: get on Facebook and check in with my friends and
1:09:23
Speaker 1: well that was six months ago and oh so good. Well,
1:09:29
Speaker 1: yeah he's a great guy. Actually you are awesome. Thank
1:09:32
Speaker 1: you to thank you for having me. But actually, before
1:09:35
Speaker 1: you go, you do some really cool things going on
1:09:37
Speaker 1: in your life that we want to touch on. Ania Hill,
1:09:40
Speaker 1: can you explain it to all of the people listening
1:09:42
Speaker 1: what it is, why they would like it, why they
1:09:45
Speaker 1: should check in on it. Yeah. So Ania Hill is
1:09:47
Speaker 1: a lifestyle brand that I created. I felt like there
1:09:52
Speaker 1: was such a disconnect and wanting people of norm to
1:09:57
Speaker 1: have the same feeling and experience that US bloggers and
1:10:01
Speaker 1: influencers get, and I wanted them to have um, really
1:10:04
Speaker 1: great product come to them in really good packaging, and
1:10:07
Speaker 1: so I created a NEA Hill. It's Aaron Navy, Everley
1:10:12
Speaker 1: and Ashley, and that's where Ania came from. In Hill
1:10:15
Speaker 1: is basically this feeling. It's this place you want to be.
1:10:18
Speaker 1: So you know when you put on an outfit that
1:10:22
Speaker 1: you feel amazing in and you're like, all of a
1:10:24
Speaker 1: sudden getting compliments and you're like, how is this possible? Today?
1:10:28
Speaker 1: I'm getting the compliments on something I just bought for
1:10:30
Speaker 1: the first time and I'm wearing it. That is the hill.
1:10:33
Speaker 1: That's that feeling, that place you want to be, and
1:10:35
Speaker 1: that's on top of the hill. So that's where the
1:10:36
Speaker 1: name came from. And it's basically it started off with sunglasses,
1:10:41
Speaker 1: which are our ride or Die pieces. UM. I've styled
1:10:45
Speaker 1: and designed each piece from scratch from the ground up,
1:10:49
Speaker 1: and so they're sustainable, everlasting, basic pieces that are for
1:10:55
Speaker 1: women UM. And so we've been adding clothing and all
1:10:59
Speaker 1: kinds of different things to the brand, but um my
1:11:02
Speaker 1: plan is for everybody to have a piece and for
1:11:05
Speaker 1: them to have it for long term, which makes it sustainable.
1:11:09
Speaker 1: So it's been really fun designing. I love it. I'm
1:11:12
Speaker 1: looking at the Instagram right now. It's at shop Ania
1:11:15
Speaker 1: Hill and that is a n E A Hill And
1:11:20
Speaker 1: there are really nice staples. Thank you. They go with
1:11:23
Speaker 1: everything and they are the kind of stuff that you
1:11:25
Speaker 1: would keep in your closet forever. Yeah. Thanks. I need
1:11:28
Speaker 1: to send you guys some the wife and Ashley send
1:11:30
Speaker 1: you guys and stuff. Don't help me out. I like
1:11:33
Speaker 1: myself some lifestyle pieces. Let's send you the dress that's perfect.
1:11:38
Speaker 1: Thank you Ashley. Thanks again, Annia Hill dot com. Check
1:11:43
Speaker 1: out Ashley's brand. Also, thanks for coming on and talking
1:11:46
Speaker 1: Paradise best of luck. Thanks for your advice and joining
1:11:50
Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. Yeah thanks guys. By So obviously
1:11:57
Speaker 1: it's been a big week with Paradise. As we just mentioned, Uh,
1:12:01
Speaker 1: they had their launch party, Uh that Kendall was able
1:12:04
Speaker 1: to go to. It was great talking to her. Now,
1:12:07
Speaker 1: we mentioned at the beat of the podcast that we're
1:12:08
Speaker 1: finding new waves ways to be interactive with all of you.
1:12:11
Speaker 1: We want to continue to connect with you and have
1:12:13
Speaker 1: fun with you and experience the show alongside of you.
1:12:16
Speaker 1: And so we thought one of the cool ways to
1:12:18
Speaker 1: do it was to bring on the Batch Bracket. Start
1:12:22
Speaker 1: a bracket for Paradise. This year, Ashley and I are
1:12:25
Speaker 1: competing in it, UH doing the best we can uh
1:12:28
Speaker 1: to win it. The winner will uh get a prize.
1:12:32
Speaker 1: So we're bringing Batch Bracket on now uh to discuss
1:12:37
Speaker 1: the details and everything good about it. Welcome to the podcast,
1:12:41
Speaker 1: Caitlin from Batch Bracket. Caitlin, as you're coming on the podcast,
1:12:47
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about what this means, the Batch Bracket.
1:12:50
Speaker 1: Do you mind just given a quick recap of what
1:12:53
Speaker 1: a batch bracket is and then how our listeners can
1:12:57
Speaker 1: join in and compete against so many other people. Yeah? Absolutely,
1:13:02
Speaker 1: I am happy to So. I love Batch Bracket because
1:13:06
Speaker 1: it does give you an opportunity to compete against all
1:13:09
Speaker 1: your friends watching the show that we all spend way
1:13:12
Speaker 1: too much time watching already. UM Batch Bracket is essentially
1:13:16
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1:13:21
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1:13:26
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1:13:30
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1:13:34
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1:13:37
Speaker 1: they do that week. So whether they're saying, um, you
1:13:40
Speaker 1: know that someone is or isn't here for the right reasons,
1:13:43
Speaker 1: or they're making out in the ocean or reading a
1:13:45
Speaker 1: date card, things are worth positive points, things are worth
1:13:48
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1:13:51
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1:13:54
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Speaker 1: against in the scoreboard. UM updates and scores automatically after
1:14:17
Speaker 1: every episode, so it's not like your regular like n
1:14:20
Speaker 1: C double a bracket, right. So for Paradise, especially because
1:14:25
Speaker 1: so many people are coming in and out the whole time,
1:14:28
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of consistency a week to week,
1:14:30
Speaker 1: so UM very much more so like Fantasy Football than
1:14:34
Speaker 1: March Madness type bracket style. UM very much choose your
1:14:38
Speaker 1: team every week. Every single episode is a new chance
1:14:40
Speaker 1: to win points and a new chance to pick a
1:14:42
Speaker 1: new team. It's uh. I think it's gonna be a
1:14:44
Speaker 1: really fun way for the listeners out there to kind
1:14:47
Speaker 1: of join on and get even more involved in the show.
1:14:49
Speaker 1: I know fantasy football, I've loved football forever, but fantasy
1:14:52
Speaker 1: football really gets me hyped on every game and watching
1:14:56
Speaker 1: every time a game is shown. Now, you had some
1:15:00
Speaker 1: success with batch Bracket. Do you mind sharing where it
1:15:04
Speaker 1: started and then where it's at today? How many users,
1:15:06
Speaker 1: how many people are actively involved? Yeah? Absolutely So. A
1:15:11
Speaker 1: group of friends, three other friends and myself started batch
1:15:14
Speaker 1: Bracket back in UM just kind of as a fun whim.
1:15:18
Speaker 1: UM begged our friends and family to join our little site.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: We had three hundred people our first season of v
1:15:24
Speaker 1: I p Um that we launched for As of the
1:15:27
Speaker 1: last season of Bachelor that we had over two hundred
1:15:29
Speaker 1: thousand people playing um or. Yeah. So it's been pretty wild.
1:15:35
Speaker 1: It's been a wild ride kind of learning what that
1:15:37
Speaker 1: means to be able to support a site for that
1:15:40
Speaker 1: many people. UM Since its creation, over five hundred thousand
1:15:43
Speaker 1: people have played on batch brackets, So it's been pretty
1:15:46
Speaker 1: fun to navigate that and just um keep trying to
1:15:50
Speaker 1: improve it, just keep trying to build a better experience
1:15:53
Speaker 1: for everyone. And um, it's it's been fun to see
1:15:57
Speaker 1: how it's how it's grown. Well, congratulations, that is so cool.
1:16:00
Speaker 1: Then you did already fill out your bracket. I still
1:16:03
Speaker 1: have to do. Mind my bad. What were some of
1:16:07
Speaker 1: the things that you like wagered on? Yeah, so I
1:16:12
Speaker 1: to not give away who I picked, though, I really
1:16:15
Speaker 1: went with some of the consistent faces. I thought the
1:16:17
Speaker 1: veterans uh in Paradise would do well this season. I
1:16:21
Speaker 1: thought they knew how, they would know how to navigate
1:16:22
Speaker 1: the process. I also wanted some people that would make, um,
1:16:26
Speaker 1: make some noise, like maybe some of those bigger characters
1:16:30
Speaker 1: that would shake things up, that would be on camera
1:16:33
Speaker 1: a little bit more, even if the camera time wasn't
1:16:37
Speaker 1: maybe healthy time for them, because I know that the
1:16:40
Speaker 1: more they're showing probably the more points that I'm gonna get.
1:16:42
Speaker 1: And so I kind of weighed both. I took my
1:16:45
Speaker 1: safe picks with the veterans. I also picked some more
1:16:47
Speaker 1: outliers that I thought would make some noise in Paradise.
1:16:50
Speaker 1: Um and and and it is fun. Now we're obviously
1:16:54
Speaker 1: one weekend to Paradise already, and some of the people
1:16:56
Speaker 1: are just hearing this for the first time. So, Caitlin,
1:16:59
Speaker 1: is it too late for listeners to sign up for
1:17:02
Speaker 1: our bracket? No, So that's one great thing is that
1:17:06
Speaker 1: the bracket is open throughout the full season, and there
1:17:09
Speaker 1: are so many opportunities to win points throughout the season
1:17:12
Speaker 1: that just missing one week does not, by any means
1:17:16
Speaker 1: exclude you from coming up at the top the next week.
1:17:20
Speaker 1: So definitely tons of opportunities to win points still, no
1:17:24
Speaker 1: matter when you join within the season. Awesome, very good,
1:17:27
Speaker 1: so great, Thank you so much for joining us. That's
1:17:30
Speaker 1: such an amazing platform with amazing growth. So I'm excited
1:17:33
Speaker 1: to play this season with Ben. Yeah, we're super excited
1:17:36
Speaker 1: to have you and uh cannot wait for the rest
1:17:39
Speaker 1: of the season. So before real quick though, before you go,
1:17:43
Speaker 1: the winners of this season's almost Famous Batch bracket are
1:17:47
Speaker 1: going to get a prize. What is it? So this
1:17:49
Speaker 1: season we're very excited that that the winners of the
1:17:52
Speaker 1: almost Famous league are actually going to be able to
1:17:55
Speaker 1: make their own appearance right here on the podcast. So
1:18:01
Speaker 1: very excited and Ashley hang out, um and yeah, definitely
1:18:07
Speaker 1: high stakes for this league. Let me tell you, it's
1:18:09
Speaker 1: worth it. To win because getting to hang out with
1:18:11
Speaker 1: Ashley Connetti is a dream. Caitlin, thanks for joining us.
1:18:16
Speaker 1: You're the best. We're gonna fill out of brackets every
1:18:19
Speaker 1: week at batch bracket dot com, go to the Almost
1:18:22
Speaker 1: Famous League. It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be great.
1:18:25
Speaker 1: I hope it is something that has so much traction
1:18:28
Speaker 1: to it from all of you listeners that we do
1:18:31
Speaker 1: it every season from here on out. Caitlin, thanks again,
1:18:34
Speaker 1: thanks so much. As the first headline of this week
1:18:39
Speaker 1: uh includes Grey Grippo and it says that him and
1:18:42
Speaker 1: mckinnadorn we're talking before he went on The Bachelor. ET.
1:18:48
Speaker 1: I know, isn't that crazy? So McKenna and Greg used
1:18:53
Speaker 1: to talk last summer. According to an insider, they really
1:18:58
Speaker 1: hit it off, but long just came in the way. Um.
1:19:03
Speaker 1: They talked for about a month before things cooled off.
1:19:06
Speaker 1: They never met in person. She lives in Canada, he's
1:19:09
Speaker 1: you know, lives in New Jersey. Um. There's some proof
1:19:13
Speaker 1: of this connection because the reality stars both liked each
1:19:16
Speaker 1: other's instagrams in the early twenties. In early UM and yeah,
1:19:26
Speaker 1: so that's that's interesting. I wonder if I wonder how
1:19:29
Speaker 1: that even came to be. Yeah, yeah, that's weird right, like,
1:19:33
Speaker 1: because I don't even know whether he would have been
1:19:36
Speaker 1: in casting early feels less juicy because they never met.
1:19:43
Speaker 1: They never met. Well, next headline is this, obviously, well,
1:19:47
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to have Justin Glaze, who was
1:19:49
Speaker 1: Katie Thurston's runner up on the season that just ended
1:19:53
Speaker 1: at the Bachelor, on this podcast. So if you haven't
1:19:55
Speaker 1: listened to it, I'd recommend going back and listening to it.
1:19:58
Speaker 1: It's a great episode and he was very honest. Well,
1:20:01
Speaker 1: Katie Thurston reacts uh to some of the things said
1:20:04
Speaker 1: by Justin Glaze. Uh When he said he was blindsided
1:20:08
Speaker 1: by their split, she said, I'm not surprised he was blindsided,
1:20:12
Speaker 1: just because of what him and I experienced. Unfortunately, there's
1:20:16
Speaker 1: a whole love story you guys didn't get to see.
1:20:19
Speaker 1: But him and I both agreed it doesn't matter what
1:20:22
Speaker 1: people got to know in terms of our connection. But
1:20:25
Speaker 1: he said on art and then this is how he
1:20:27
Speaker 1: responded um on our podcast, he said that you know
1:20:30
Speaker 1: we've you guys should go back and listen. It's a
1:20:32
Speaker 1: great episode with Justin. We loved having him on. He
1:20:35
Speaker 1: really opened up and you get to know what a
1:20:36
Speaker 1: sweet guy is. And it was unfortunate we didn't get
1:20:39
Speaker 1: to know him better on TV, but he said, we
1:20:41
Speaker 1: spent a month together getting to know each other, talking
1:20:43
Speaker 1: about our families. Um, this morning, I'm picturing how great
1:20:47
Speaker 1: today is going to be and like what our life
1:20:49
Speaker 1: is gonna actually look like. And that's that. But it's
1:20:51
Speaker 1: so hard you don't want it to end. It's hard, man,
1:20:54
Speaker 1: It hurts. Man. I gave this my everything. There are
1:20:57
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions. Well, we really enjoyed having them on. So,
1:21:01
Speaker 1: like I said, I would recommend going back and listening. Well. Uh,
1:21:04
Speaker 1: speaking of Katie Thurston, it seems like her and Blake
1:21:06
Speaker 1: moy's are having a lot of fun and enjoying their
1:21:08
Speaker 1: first week out in the public. Uh. And we see that.
1:21:13
Speaker 1: One of the examples of this is Blake moyne shares
1:21:15
Speaker 1: video in bed with Katie Thurston after the Bachelortte finale. Yeah,
1:21:19
Speaker 1: so there is a video Katie and Blake there in
1:21:23
Speaker 1: bed for the first time since our relationship has been out,
1:21:27
Speaker 1: and they're in there with his dogs and the the
1:21:31
Speaker 1: In the video, it says, I don't want it, I
1:21:33
Speaker 1: don't want your bone. Take that back, and that's what
1:21:37
Speaker 1: Katie says in the clip. I think there's like a
1:21:40
Speaker 1: little indu window there. But they're talking, you know, they're
1:21:42
Speaker 1: referring to the dog bone. It's just them being silly
1:21:47
Speaker 1: and bad. It's uh, it's a big week for them,
1:21:50
Speaker 1: first week as a public couple. Well, the last few
1:21:53
Speaker 1: headlines here, big one in Bachelor Nation, bachel Nations. Jeff
1:21:57
Speaker 1: Holme files restraining order against be Hazed. This according to
1:22:01
Speaker 1: E and well every other out there, Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Um. So, basically,
1:22:10
Speaker 1: Robbie and Jeff and Chase mcnarry they used to all
1:22:14
Speaker 1: live together in the Santa Monica area, and then Chase
1:22:19
Speaker 1: got out of that brow house. Good for him. Jeff
1:22:23
Speaker 1: and Robbie continued living together, and there's always like kind
1:22:26
Speaker 1: of a reputation for being a party house. Um. And
1:22:30
Speaker 1: apparently once Robbie moved out, he kept coming back in unannounced,
1:22:37
Speaker 1: so Jeff ended up filing for a restraining order. It's
1:22:44
Speaker 1: unclear from the documents whether their friendship was soured and
1:22:47
Speaker 1: Robbie moved out, but allegedly, according to the documents, Jeff
1:22:52
Speaker 1: states that at least once a week Robbie enters his
1:22:56
Speaker 1: property without permission and it becomes hostile. He says, I
1:23:01
Speaker 1: do not feel safe around him, and Jeff continues to
1:23:04
Speaker 1: say that he threatens me and still hasn't stopped to
1:23:07
Speaker 1: this day. He claims that he has belongings in there
1:23:11
Speaker 1: and that is why he enters, but he's not on
1:23:14
Speaker 1: the least and it's making me fearful. Wow, it's a
1:23:18
Speaker 1: big step to get a restraining order, and uh, follow
1:23:21
Speaker 1: that story as it continues. Obviously it's temporarily I think
1:23:25
Speaker 1: in in place right now, and over time we'll see
1:23:28
Speaker 1: if it goes and and becomes permanently granted. Well, Uh,
1:23:32
Speaker 1: Tasia Adams was on this podcast. Uh spoke very openly
1:23:36
Speaker 1: when she came on about her relationship with Zac and
1:23:39
Speaker 1: kind of how they're processing through this season of life
1:23:42
Speaker 1: or Tassia is super busy and Zack's running um his facilities. Well,
1:23:47
Speaker 1: the headline reads this. Tasia Adams responds after fan questions,
1:23:50
Speaker 1: then her cryptic never settle post about Zach Clark. Um,
1:23:56
Speaker 1: all right, so basically okay should put out a tweet
1:24:01
Speaker 1: on Friday where she said never settled dot dot dot
1:24:04
Speaker 1: and then a fan said this better not be about
1:24:08
Speaker 1: Zach and then Tasha responded saying, Chill Coralie and I
1:24:12
Speaker 1: think that was the girl's name, Chill Coralie. Um, I
1:24:17
Speaker 1: don't think it is about Zach. She was recently on
1:24:20
Speaker 1: our podcast, like Benj just said, and she talked about
1:24:23
Speaker 1: how she feels like their relationship while they have to
1:24:26
Speaker 1: be away from each other a lot, it still works
1:24:30
Speaker 1: for them. M Well, uh, obviously it's never easy to
1:24:34
Speaker 1: be in a relationship, especially when the two people are
1:24:36
Speaker 1: living apart and moving on. But again, she spoke about
1:24:39
Speaker 1: it with Ashley on the Almost Famous Podcast, which is
1:24:42
Speaker 1: this podcast, so it's pretty easy to go back listen
1:24:44
Speaker 1: to that episode to get even more details about that headline. Well, Ashley, UM,
1:24:50
Speaker 1: great podcast. Thank you to Ashley Frazier Williams for joining
1:24:55
Speaker 1: us today. Again, go out and fill out your Bachelor
1:24:58
Speaker 1: in Paradise bracket right now. Uh, it's not too late
1:25:02
Speaker 1: at batch bracket dot Com. Go to the Almost Famous
1:25:06
Speaker 1: League fill out your team updated each week. Actually, and
1:25:10
Speaker 1: I are competing the winner. Come on and get to
1:25:12
Speaker 1: hang out with us, which I think is just awesome. Well, hey, everybody,
1:25:16
Speaker 1: thanks for joining, Thanks for listening with that. I've been
1:25:18
Speaker 1: been Thanks guys, I've been Ashley See you next week.
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