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Connecting the Dots with Tayshia and Wills · 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 our radio. It's a sunny day here in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley is out east, Ashley, why aren't you here with
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  Speaker 1: me today? Jared and I have had a wild week. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Poor guy, he's like home and he wants to spend
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  Speaker 1: time with his family and his friends, and we are
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  Speaker 1: just NonStop. We had four days of wedding planning. Um.
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  Speaker 1: On Thursday we went through all the florals, the lighting
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  Speaker 1: and the sound at our venues, and then the Friday
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  Speaker 1: through Sunday we did tastings. And it's so it's so
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  Speaker 1: interesting because, like you wish you could combine all the
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  Speaker 1: caterers because there's something nice from each of them, but
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  Speaker 1: we're working with the venues designated caterers and we have
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  Speaker 1: to make that big decision this week on who we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick. Everything was so delicious, but I was looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to tastings, like, oh my god, I was so
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to them. I didn't know it's almost torture
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  Speaker 1: on your body if it's possible to be hung over
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  Speaker 1: by food. I got hung over by food because of
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  Speaker 1: like the like, the heaviness, the like what is it
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  Speaker 1: about the through that really gets you. It's so crazy
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  Speaker 1: because so they ask you to pick seven appetizers that
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  Speaker 1: you want to try, and then you're gonna end up
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  Speaker 1: limiting it, eliminating it down to about five so Pasto
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  Speaker 1: Derv's at the cocktail party, and then they give you
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  Speaker 1: two to three salads to try and then you limited
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  Speaker 1: downs usually one, and then you try about three or
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  Speaker 1: four three or four entrees, and then you limit that
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  Speaker 1: down to two or three plus all the dessert table.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not the cake. We're doing your cake with
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. Um. But we had like all of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I had seven appetizers, I had three entrees out
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  Speaker 1: of sitting, you know, and it was crazy. It was
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  Speaker 1: like Thanksgiving. But I'm not complaining because I was so
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  Speaker 1: full or anything, but it was. It was interesting because
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  Speaker 1: you can't just be like, you know what, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: wrap this up and take it home, Like no, you
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  Speaker 1: have to. You have to eat it all. Have you
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the wedding like planning process. It's just been so
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  Speaker 1: easy because our wedding planner, Troy Williams, has just he
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  Speaker 1: set us up with the best people. He sets up
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  Speaker 1: all the logistics, all the meetings and then we just
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  Speaker 1: pick our favorites. It's been so easy and great. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like a whole bunch of choices to make. But
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  Speaker 1: what I love is that we've eliminated having to like
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  Speaker 1: reach out to these companies. He does that for us,
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  Speaker 1: and he he makes sure is that that we only
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  Speaker 1: talk to the best of the best. Hey, I am
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  Speaker 1: so pumped this wedding. It is gonna be the wedding
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  Speaker 1: of the century. Hey. Also, before we move in, we
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  Speaker 1: have a packed episode. Uh, we're gonna push. I bet
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  Speaker 1: we're pushing an hour and fifteen a day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have so much stuff to talk about. But uh, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: before we move on here, because we're gonna dive in
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  Speaker 1: head first. How's the book sales going for Jared and
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  Speaker 1: Atlee's first book, UM children's book. It's going really well.
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  Speaker 1: You can still get it at Lucy and Clark book
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  Speaker 1: dot com. I'm pretty sure this week you can get
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  Speaker 1: it on Amazon. But why get on Amazon when you
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  Speaker 1: can get it today at Lucy and Clark book dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Jar and I are doing a signing in Providence, Rhode
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  Speaker 1: Island tonight. You can buy the book there and and
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff to take a picture chat with us.
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  Speaker 1: We love it all, Ashley was diving in. Mark, You've
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  Speaker 1: got an important email for us to read and then
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  Speaker 1: a caller to follow up with it. Well, the person
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  Speaker 1: that this email is about is on the line right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tasia. Hey, Tasha, Hi, you have a really big
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  Speaker 1: question for you. One of our listeners. They think that
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  Speaker 1: they they saw something and we need to get to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of it. Mark, take it away, all right.
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  Speaker 1: This is from Vanny. It says I was watching the
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  Speaker 1: lip sync battle between Ben and Rachel and for us,
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  Speaker 1: but a second, I thought Tasia and the audience. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, I heard this. This is before she was
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  Speaker 1: on the Bachelor, so it's son and cool to see
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  Speaker 1: her as a Bachelor and lip Sync Battle fan pre show.
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  Speaker 1: Sure you got lip Sync Battle, you guys? I was
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  Speaker 1: there body, Okay, So it's a funny story. My best
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  Speaker 1: friend Brenda, she actly is in love with you Ben
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  Speaker 1: and this because he knew it was for lips and
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  Speaker 1: Battle edition and she's like, you have to come with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I don't know, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going tomorrow. Said okay, this was and yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: in the crowd. This is wild. So wait, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you had no clue you're gonna be going on the show? Correct,
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  Speaker 1: I had no clue to quite honest with you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even watch the last season in the backroom
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  Speaker 1: at that point. That's too air. That's so funny. Of
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  Speaker 1: all episodes of lip Sync Battle, I'm just trying to say,
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  Speaker 1: of all Bachelor edition. And then I saw all of
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  Speaker 1: you guys on stage. I saw who was it? Nick?
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  Speaker 1: I saw you? Um, I think somewhere in the Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Becca was next to me. Yeah, yeah, that's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: The picture we're pulling up the picture now of Tassia
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  Speaker 1: at lip Syne Battle. Tashia, you're glowing in this picture,
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  Speaker 1: like you definitely stand out. It's not hard to spot
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  Speaker 1: you because you have the biggest smile on your face
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  Speaker 1: during this picture it and you were just singing out
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  Speaker 1: yeah real quick? What were your thoughts? Like? I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I put on an effort and at least attempted
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  Speaker 1: to do something incredible during that whole lip syne that
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  Speaker 1: I took off my shirt I wore leopard print. I
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  Speaker 1: semi thrust it against the floor. Actually don't remember. Did
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  Speaker 1: you win or lose. Oh, I got crushed. That seems unfair.
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  Speaker 1: That was everything? Yeah, I mean it's kind of tough. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's not great for your confidence when you take off
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  Speaker 1: your shirt and you whip it around your head like
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter. And then I'm done. I'm like staying shirtless,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel pretty good about myself, Like I worked
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit. I had trimmed my chest up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit for this. This. And then Brian gets
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  Speaker 1: out of the pool and he's glistening and his abs
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  Speaker 1: are shining in the water. Yeah, it was tough. So
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  Speaker 1: but skale a to f Tasha? How did I do? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a B plus? What about what about
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  Speaker 1: the girl that you were with? Your good friend who
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  Speaker 1: loves plus from her? I'll give you that. I like Brenda.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Brenda? Uh? Tasha? How's life? How's everything going?
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  Speaker 1: Everything's going good. I'm actually at work right now. Um
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  Speaker 1: working happened? People always want to know, what is your
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  Speaker 1: regular job? You know what? I actually look at company?
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  Speaker 1: Um Tior Design company. What happened to the blood collector
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  Speaker 1: for botomy? But I'm not talk to things for botomy
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  Speaker 1: right now? UM schedule is actually not very flexible, and
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  Speaker 1: I need something that kind of go with me with
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  Speaker 1: this crazy journey of life at the moment. So um,
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  Speaker 1: in college, while I was getting my degree, I started
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  Speaker 1: doing bookkeeping for a couple of companies. So I kind
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  Speaker 1: of right back to that because my job isn't learning
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  Speaker 1: me to take care of all of the business. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to do some bookkeeping for me, Tasha, it
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  Speaker 1: is the one thing that I struggle with the most generous. Um,
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  Speaker 1: how's lie real quick before we let you go here?
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  Speaker 1: How is life post bachelors? So now you're back in
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  Speaker 1: the job, things are still swirling around you. You're still
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  Speaker 1: just just an incredibly big present presence in Bachelor nation.
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  Speaker 1: You know who knows Bachelor and Paradise is coming up?
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  Speaker 1: Do you are you in limbo? Are you pretty good
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  Speaker 1: with where you're at? What's going on? Works going well?
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  Speaker 1: I love it python that I meant to summer in
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  Speaker 1: stantilization and I'm getting to change up MS today hands.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Yeah, I think so Ashley, should
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  Speaker 1: she or should she not? Of course she should. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's honestly very dumb to be given that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and not do it. Honestly, I think that if you
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  Speaker 1: were to ask anybody who thought they were too cool
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  Speaker 1: for school and said no to Bachelor in Paradise coming
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  Speaker 1: off of their season of The Bachelor, they will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that they regretted it. Okay, well, let's not being no.
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  Speaker 1: We can't complain. Tassha, thank you so much, come on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for coming to lipsteing Battle too. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little late. I should have thanked you months ago,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll do it now. So Brenda, wherever you're at
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  Speaker 1: out there, thanks for bringing Tasha, and thanks for changing
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  Speaker 1: all of our lives by giving us a little Tasha. Bye, Tasha,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen them yet, but I hear not
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  Speaker 1: all of them are that that happy with me, and
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  Speaker 1: I would love to go to battle right now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna start with one of those from Sam. Y'all were
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  Speaker 1: so harsh about Hannah best guys, and I disagree with
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  Speaker 1: you all. I think that's the best the headshots have
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  Speaker 1: ever looked. Everyone's so much more relaxed, and the differing
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  Speaker 1: outfits give a little more insight to the guy's personalities.
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  Speaker 1: I'm making a bold prediction right now. The winner was
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  Speaker 1: Garrett p He's some Alabama. He's smoking hot and a
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  Speaker 1: golf pro. I'm drooling. That's Sam, not me. I like.
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  Speaker 1: I like the drooling comment when I mean I'm good
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  Speaker 1: with everything up until the fact that I have to
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  Speaker 1: imagine this person drooling. I'm not. Hey, that's the best
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  Speaker 1: part about podcasts is that we can disagree. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: really great that I I take no offense to you
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  Speaker 1: thinking these boys are better looking than I did. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's great, and I hope they are. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope that somebody out there is drooling at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this and love and lust and everything good in
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  Speaker 1: this world concur But Shae, are you for real? We
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  Speaker 1: can this is This season is gonna be interesting because
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  Speaker 1: I will say this Ash. I don't know if he
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  Speaker 1: saw Mike Flakes flight is Twitter the other day, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a picture that he had posted of the guys
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the living room and h they're kind of
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for it. Looks like a rose seramer or
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  Speaker 1: cocked party. And the dudes looked a lot better looking
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  Speaker 1: in that picture than they did in those head shots. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that is I have to check out that picture.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not doubting your opinion at all. Let me
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  Speaker 1: look at let me look at this. Disagreeing with us
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  Speaker 1: it makes us a lot more fun. Here's one now,
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  Speaker 1: But I think you would You're actually on the same
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  Speaker 1: page here. Okay, she says, I had not n easy
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  Speaker 1: feeling this past week when you discussed Handa Bey's guys.
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  Speaker 1: Ben mentioned that the guys are not physically attractive enough
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  Speaker 1: for Hannah G. I know that everyone's judging the guy's
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  Speaker 1: bath in the looks. But why Ben had to say that,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a pretty big insult to Hannah B. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember this at all. I don't remember you saying
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  Speaker 1: that at all. Maybe you got your confidence mixed up.
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  Speaker 1: I might have got my But but here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I could even at this point confidantly say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's better looking the other when it comes to these women.
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  Speaker 1: I think probably we were talking about what just was.
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  Speaker 1: Hannah be deserves some really great guys and after the
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  Speaker 1: head shots, I wasn't confident in any of them. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fit that more. But Brittany thinks you're saying that
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  Speaker 1: Hanny Hannah G would deserve better looking guys than Hannah B.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that's what. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: play out in that, Like, I don't know how how
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  Speaker 1: you even argue that you were saying that you thought
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  Speaker 1: Hannah G was more attractive than Hannah B and therefore
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  Speaker 1: deserved better guys. But I don't think you meant that
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  Speaker 1: at all. And I like, it's like beautiful people just
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  Speaker 1: always want to be a beautiful people. I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest, like, no, not in my marriage, but I
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  Speaker 1: got lucky. No, I don't think I was saying that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't saying it if it came off
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  Speaker 1: that way, I'm just nervous after seeing these head shots.
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  Speaker 1: And come on, let's be honest. These head shots are
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  Speaker 1: not that great, Like these guys might be good looking
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  Speaker 1: fellas and in real life they could be studs. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: out there is looking these head shots being like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is the picture I would want representing me for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of my life. Okay, but Ben. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at the fly's picture right now of them. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like night one and they look so much better. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not super clear, but like world of
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  Speaker 1: a difference. Do you think that was on purpose? Ash, Like,
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  Speaker 1: do you think the show put these headshots up to
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  Speaker 1: start the conversation like we're having now and being like
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be like Okay, here's here. And I
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  Speaker 1: even thought through this thought, but I kind of think
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it to a place. It's in the
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  Speaker 1: sense the Colton strategy, like let's make Colton, like, let's
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  Speaker 1: show Coulton's bad sides, you know, kind of his like uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: that the fact that he doesn't know who he wants
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  Speaker 1: to be, with the fact that he's pursuing to be
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelor the whole time. Let's get like everybody against
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  Speaker 1: Colton and then surprise them once the season starts. Could
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  Speaker 1: be Yeah, it works for them when you're trying to, like, um,
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  Speaker 1: make somebody feel one way or another about a personality,
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  Speaker 1: but about their appearance, because like all this is about appearance,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel still kind of weird about talking about it. Well, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: just let you know we do past a little week.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about reality television every week, and we've done
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  Speaker 1: it for Yeah, We're gonna feel weird for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of our lives, all right, Mark next bottom line from Britley.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Brittany, She says, I think Hannah be is beautiful, authendic,
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  Speaker 1: and charming, and I think she deserved the very, very best,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you agree with that. Great Shay. Shay
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the epicenter of this next season of
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  Speaker 1: The Bachelorette. She says, I just finished the podcast we
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  Speaker 1: introduced Hannah's guys for the season. I'm from Alabama. I
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  Speaker 1: know both Garrett and Hannah. I went to Alabama with Hannah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: We were in the same sorority, and I went to
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: high school with Garrett. Let's get her on the phone.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I heard actually mention that Hannah's friends said she's attracted
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a goofy guys. Well, Garrett is super goofy, but in
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a good way, down to earth nice. He's gonna make
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: it far this season. He's from Birmingham, which less than
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: an hour away from Hannah's hometown of Tuscaloosa. I'm calling
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: it now, Hannah picks Garrett. That's our second vote. For Garrett.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: My goodness, didn't I call him to be one of
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the top three last week? Yeah? Yeah, because he was.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: She was cute enough super he was cute. And then
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the Alabama saying I think that's really important to her too.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I think it's different. I like, how Mark, Ashley, do
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you like this? How Mark says Hannah from Alabama? Alabama?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: That's really cute. Brea. I had to run in with
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Ashley here, she says. Actually, I talked briefly a few
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: months ago about how I've been singled these past five years,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and like her, I'm also a hopeless romantic. I know
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't Bet have been trying to say, David up
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: with someone and I would like to go on a
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: date with him. I'm a sweet, going down to earth
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Jewish girl who has her life together, twenty nine years old.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I live and work in the fashion industry. I like
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to travel, explore new places, try new restaurants. If he's interested,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: let's trade numbers. Are going on a date, go for
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's confident. Hey, ash you met Brand at the the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: live podcast that we did up in Malibu. Brand a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: number of times you have what do you what do
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you think does this work. She is like, really, she's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: really interested in him, and I love that. Yeah, she's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: super sweet, she's very soft spoken. Um, she's Jewish, which
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: is probably important to David's mom. And yeah, i'd like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: think that they should definitely give it a world'll be fun.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And she likes to try new restaurants, which I'm telling you,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: if you like try new restaurants, you're a catch in itself.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Why is that advoice of anything because you have a restaurant. Well,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it's just something she mentioned. I thought it was funny
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that she had to mention that. But it's like, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: like taking long walks on the beach. I like new restaurant.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I'm adventurous and honest, and it's like, you know, it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: just my thing. But I think we set up David
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and breath. She shot her shot, and we try to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: make it happen. I don't know if it will works.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We can try. All right, Well, how are we gonna
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: do it? I have David's number else she mula text
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: send of the picture, put out her her description. Yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we got the Instagram bread we're listening. Uh, we know you. Uh,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: we we welcome you onto this podcast, and we would
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: love to be a peace of your love story. If
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we possibly can be, let's do it. If you want
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: your email read. By the way, it's Ben and Ashley
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and I Hurt media dot com. Benn and Ashley and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I Hurt media dot Com. Stephanie says, I saw pictures
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: on my social media of Hannah By on night one.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: The Limos had not arrived yet with their girls. The
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: caption said Matt d from Florida was eliminated by producers
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: before Hannahby even met him. Do you think it's possible
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: producers are wanting social media to eliminate shady contestants? The
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: strategy could have eliminated to Mario Jackson's drama with a girlfriend,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: but it also could have eliminated Garrett You're going in
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: from Becca's season and caused them to miss out on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: True Love. What are your thoughts? My thought is, oh,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it's a caption said that he was eliminated from the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: show before producers let her and meet her. Okay, well,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I'm confused, like, what did he do on social media
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that got him kicked off? You don't details. I've got this.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I did some independent research. This guy has a scumbag,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I think after it I'll I'll go on record here.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: A lot of from what I saw on the internet,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of girls came forward and said, this guy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: hits me up. This guy, yeah, he's sliding. He's sliding
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: into some d m s and he's trying to make
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it happen in a really creepy way. Oh I didn't.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't put two and two together. Okay, so this
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: is the guy. I'm going through the pictures now. Uh yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He was like, are you up? Are you out? Can
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you see me? I want to see you? Can I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: please see you? Man? You're really demoralizing me. Um, should
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I give up? I don't want to give up? Those
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: are like his Those were his texts. Oh he would.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: They were all over the internet last week. Matt d
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: let me say, Bachelorette. I just I didn't know that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: they eliminated him. Uh let me see just like over
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: so Eastern clarify this a little bit. So he was
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: just he was overly aggressive. He was constantly texting people.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: One screenshots I saw he said something like, um, well
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: You're gonna regret this because I'm gonna be on TV
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be famous and stuff like that, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh boy, oh, I haven't started filming yet,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: my man. Yeah, this is that's not good. Um. It's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the original tweet that started at all as it comes
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: from Sam Smithburger on Twitter. She goes this guy on
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor I used to d m me on Insta
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: for like two years and now he's a contestant on
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the New Bachelor. These are the quotes, Sam, What the heck?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving up on you. Maybe I should, Sam, Hey,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I'm still alive. These are all within like five days apart. Um.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Sam Smith Sam, why do you hate me?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Rude F Sam? Hook a brother up? Seriously rude as
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: F Sam? I better I expect more from you. Sam.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened to us, but can we
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: at least meet? Sorry, Matt not interested anymore. I'm sure
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you're a nice guy, but can't take the risk. Have
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a nice days. You gotta read through these. Uh, this
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: is pretty intense. Um, wild that it came out. You know.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: This isn't the first time though, And I think they're
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a listener and actually you could be to this to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: our listener out there is a little confused on how
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: they limited somebody before the season even started. One that
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the show wants to protect the contestants and themselves and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: just not allow people like this onto the show. The
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: second is that this isn't the first time that somebody
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: has been eliminated once they've already gone to l A. UM.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: It might be the first time that somebody's been eliminated
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: when they are announced as a contestant, but and before
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: like the show started. But there's people that go to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: l a that end up you know, background checks or
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: whatever doesn't work out and they have to go home
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: before the show even starts. Aren't there usually like three
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: backups that don't wait in the hotel and they aren't
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: officially cast in and they don't. That's so horrendous. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: would never ever, like, please, don't even put me in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that position where I'm like number twenty eight and I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: don't get to go out of the limo? Can I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: say that this girl sam Her tweet got over twenty
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: eight thousand read tweets what twenty um two D and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: twenty tho and likes wait, whoa over a contestant that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: hasn't even aired on Is this show becoming like even
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: bigger than we ever imagine? It's twenty eight thousand retweets.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That's nuts. This is this not the guy that I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: said last week looks like the guy that would come
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: up to you at a bar and never get a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: hint and never leave you alone. Well, I guess that
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: was all right. Actually you're good, thanks face. That is wild. Wow,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: this is that's craziness. Mark, what's the next? One question
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: from Christine that I think it's kind of interesting, but
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you guys might be able to shut some light on this.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: She's wondering. Since they've released the names of all the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: men for the season's Bachelor berets so early, it's not
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a spoiler of who makes it how far because everyone
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: finds them on social media and as soon as as
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: soon as the guys become active on Instagram again, we
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: as viewers know how many weeks they made it through.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Am I totally overthinking this or not? Well, technically, if
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you're going by your theory, you can always just go
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: back once they're the names are released and figure out
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: when they started posting based on the hosting dates. So yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: whatever your theory is, you could have done that if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you found out the guys before the season started as well.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But technically, you're not supposed to post anything until you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: actually the show has wrapped. Here here is just a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: little tidbit for anybody out there listening. If you want
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to find out who wins every season, it's pretty easy
• 25:24
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• 25:28
  Speaker 1: not do that much research. Just go along with it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Listen to this podcast. We try not to spoil you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: We've done it before, big mistake on our parts. Uh,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna spoil it for you from here on out.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We're just talking Bachelor week by week by week. Um So, yeah,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I just don't do that much research. Actually, doesn't you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: never get spoiled? Do you? I try not to. It's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: annoying because I feel like I just somebody always just
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: brings it on me, like text me like, can you
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: believe that this this person one? Or yeah, they just
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: assumed that I know. I'm like, no, I'm trying not
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to know. Thanks. One of these days, one of these days, hey, ash,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Like I said, this podcast is gonna be packed uh
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: with guests today with emails. I'm I love the off
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: season because we get to answer those emails like we
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: did today. We get to dig deep kind of be
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: put on the spot and the off season is one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite times. Actually, before we bring in a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: very special guest that we I don't think we've ever
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: had on the show. We're gonna bring Wills onto the show,
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  Speaker 1: very scary for you guys. That about that the instro.
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  Speaker 1: back in September, people thought that, like something happened to you,
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  Speaker 1: like you were kidnapped. Yeah, for like two weeks and
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  Speaker 1: didn't respond, and you didn't respond days. I really thought
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  Speaker 1: you were missing man. I just went dark. I was
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  Speaker 1: the fact that people not keeping tabs on me. I
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  Speaker 1: bit more let people know I'm doing Okay, we miss you, buddy. Hey,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you've never been on the podcast before. You're a hit
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  Speaker 1: on your season of The Bachelor. At What does life
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: look like for you of the last few months. It's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: It's honestly crazy. It's an amount of support and love
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• 32:56
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  Speaker 1: My favorite kind of support that I get just when
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  Speaker 1: of the women that watched the show because they are
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: just over and above enthusiastic when they meet me, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it's just so amazing. Is that almost everything with time
• 33:18
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  Speaker 1: that you thought really drew the audience to him? I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: love that you just didn't stand for any bs and
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• 33:54
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• 33:57
  Speaker 1: thank you. I think my path to being on this
• 34:00
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• 34:03
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• 34:05
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• 34:09
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• 34:11
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• 34:13
  Speaker 1: night one, and then after that everything else. I think
• 34:16
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• 34:18
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• 34:20
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• 34:22
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  Speaker 1: together in less than a week. You're looking soon and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you look Yeah, I appreciate it. I um. I find
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: it that the California Native contestants tend to be cast
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: in the latest as if like that's when they round
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: up people, like if they need extras as people fell
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: through or they need some good gems. They always seem
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to pick those California Natives within a month of taping,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and everybody else throughout the country is casting for over
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: six months. I mean graphically, logistically it makes sense. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: mean I lived twenty minutes from the menses, so I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: mean in terms of getting everything ready, I don't need
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: near love much time. If somebody who's been lived in
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Utah or North Dakota or something like that, yeah, well
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you know what is it like being so here's my thing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I had never been to l A before the show,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: before the Bachelorette. Yeah so what like what I actually
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I think you and I I don't know you. You
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: were meant for this. You're a star but like I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was so intimidated and so confused and where I was
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: at in the world that it felt like a foreign
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: land for me. But for you all, like you're driving
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: down to l A for like a date and you're
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: recognizing like places that you eat every day or like
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: you know, shops that you you go to, or you
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: know whatever. Is that a weird feeling or is it
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Does it feel like you're in your own little world
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: up there as well? It felt like that was like
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: kind of already in a hometown before I was in
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the hometown. Yeah, it's kind of like it kind of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: actually like motivated me and at me up. I remember
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the spot that we're driving back to where we're having
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like the cocktail hour and everything, and I'm pointing out
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: i think Jason Coulton during the car I'm pointing out
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to them where I live and you know, this is
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: where the Colosseum is and all this best stuff. For me,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it was really exciting because I got the show, you know,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: you know these people that I was becoming fast friends with,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: you know, a flight of right city already, and that
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: was really fun for me. And when I was hanging
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: out with you know, Becca already, like I felt really comfortable,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: like where we're in the cocktail. I was literally like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I think, like ten minutes from more of my apartment
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: is So it was just like really easy for me
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, get into this environment just
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you know, get off on the right foot. I felt
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: like Rosalie and win a date with Tad Hamilton's. I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: was like looking out, like you know, in the black
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: car that they pick us up from the airport in
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, oh my god, this is
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I can igine. Yeah, no, Ash, I'm with you. I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: remember that very first card from the airport and when
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you start driving up to the mansion to that hotel
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: that you stay up out there looking out that cars
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: windows and like, Ash, I don't know if you're anything
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: like me, and this I was like I really was
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: star struck with like how crazy and exciting and weird.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: And then you see the Hollywood sign and everything starts
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to feel massive, like so overwhelming. Oh absolutely, it was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: like a little fairytale land. It was something I can't
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine being an l a native and comfort
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: that it must bring in those first couple of weeks
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of the show. I never really had. I mean, I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: guess I kind of have that experience the first one
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: with New York. But yeah, kind of big city atmosphere
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: is just something that I'm just so used to. So
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: it's kind of, you know, just inbred and me already.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: So I don't, you know, I can't really resonate with
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you guys on that one, but I'm sure it is
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a huge culture shock. So well, um, you are getting
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: some emails into the almost now. Yeah, people really want
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to see you with either Hannah ge or Tasia. So
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: let me actually pause you for a second here, And
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: this is from Jillian. Uh Mark, I gotta hear your
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: voice again. You can know, you know what. Here's the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: thing is, anytime I can hear Mark's voice, I want
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. And so I'm just looking
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: at this email and I was about to start and
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I just paused and said, I'm never gonna do it
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: like Mark does it. So Mark, what you please read
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Wills and all of us an email. I'm just gonna
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: start leaving your voicemails. This is from Jillian Wills and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to meet you. By the way, it says,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I was just listening to you guys, just because options
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of past contestants for Hannah G to date. What about
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Wills triple question Mark. I feel like he is the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: sweetest person and I was so bummed that he didn't
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: date anyone in Paradise. Wow, Dillian, thank you. I appreciate that. Um. Yeah,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I think I am an option. I am a thinking
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Uh it is nice to be considered for that. H
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: You know, I obviously know I have been and heard
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of the potential pairings for a lot of
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the women's called the dud and I haven't heard my
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: name a lot, which you know. It's fine, um, because
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the only opinion that I really only really matters to
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: me is the women's opinion themselves. Uh. You know, it's
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: easy to pair, you know. I know it's fun for
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: people to just pair hypothetically, all these you know, batination
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: people guys with girls and all that. But at the
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: same time, I, you know, I would be more word.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I care more about what the women themselves thinking, what
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: they want, and what they need in their lives right now.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's a major you know, aspect of it
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: as well. Um. But yeah, I have not heard myself
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: paired with Hannah G. At all. I don't think well.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: You hear it first here on the almost famous podcast, Um, Ashley,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you think I mean wells Will's is a catch? Will's?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, though, Ash and are just we
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: love matchmaking. We've never done it successfully, U we feel
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: it at every time. But if there's some of the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: women that could be at Paradise that you'd be interested,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: who would it be? Oh, my goodness, the first one
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I believe I was asked this question. I would asked
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that you asked me this questions and I said a name,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and I don't regret it, but I just I don't know.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I want to keep it close to best this time.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to say so
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: much the same and then it's not happened. But I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: will admit at the beginning of the Colton Stephen and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: kind of watching throughout, UM, you know, I was kind
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: of just, you know, indifferent. But I will admit in
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the last few episodes there was a few women that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: began handling situations and speaking in these situations like I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: would have handled them myself, and that that spoke felt
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: love to me. The emotional maturity I saw from these
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: women and the stuff awareness from women. It's just you know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: made them so much more attractive to me in my eyes. Um,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: for me, what I'm looking for is not just you know,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: someone is beautiful with someone is also beautiful, insight and
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: can handle themselves in tricky situation. And I saw that
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: for a few women, and that's what I'm drawn too.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: So if it's the last three episodes, then Ashley and
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I are gonna this is what the game movement play.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: We're not going to ask you to name there was
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: another woman that was going to put me Ontie. Yeah, yeah,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: that's the way. I don't care, just the way I
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: don't know. Both live in l A too, so this
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: could really happen where you guys have heard it here, Wills, Hey,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Will is there is nothing We saw Colton's behavior during
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the season. We saw how Ashley and Jared you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: quartered each other during Paradise, like, there is nothing wrong
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: with you putting your foot down saying hey, I'm open,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I'm interested. But that Katie girl, she's got my eye
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go after her with the best of
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: my abilities. There's nothing thing wrong with that. Nope, not Yeah,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree with you. I definitely. I definitely learned
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: that from my last Paradise. If there's something that you want,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you know, hasn't that I'm I'm perfectly a very shy
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: and introverted person. When I'm going after a woman. Um,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: it takes a little bit, a little bit trying for
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: me to warm up, and you don't get going, and
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I think in Paradise that was to my detriment. So yeah,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree with you. There's something I want, I'm
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go get it. Hey, you definitely got a limit
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: from Paradise way too early. I thought you the most
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: attractive people there and one of the coolest personalities. So
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: it's too bad. We hope to see you back there
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: again this year. Yeah all right, it sounds like you're
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: already tired. I'm goodsidering it. Okay, great who We'll see
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: you soon, hopefull than you and can't wait to uh
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: hopefully see on Paradise. Bye Will, good bye. The the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: next part that we have, I mean Will's, Will's is fantastic.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: He's gonna do great. I thought last year's Paradise for him.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: He just didn't seem like you ever gotten his groove.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: It never felt comfortable to him and feel like he
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: kind of came in and like he said, he shy,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: he's a little reserved. And the crazy part about watching
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Paradise and and actually tell me, if I'm just so
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: far off, which typically in life I am, you have
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: to hit the ground running, like there is no time
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: to be reserved, especially when you don't come in on
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: night one, Like if you just walk down those stairs,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you have to start going a sap. Yeah, that's one
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: of the reasons Paradise freaked me out and probably wasn't
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: for me. You had no time to build at least
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: in The Bachelor, You're like, Okay, we had a good
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: conversation this week, now moving on to the next week.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You know, like a conversation. But like in Paradise, if
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: you are not like one percent feeling someone within forty
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: eight hours, he could be screwed. Um. I also wanted
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to talk about how much people are shipping Hannah g
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: and Blake. I was with Blake this weekend. We had
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: an event at the Foxwood's Casino and we this meet
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: greet with like two people, and I'm telling you, like
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: every fourth person would be like, we need to see
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: you with Hannah ge this summer. I don't know what
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: it is about those two. I guess it's just because
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: they're both two very sympathetic frontrunners that didn't end up
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: getting the lead, but people want to see them together.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Do you do you see it? And how is his
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: reaction to people would say that, I feel like they're
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: already talking. Oh really do you think? I mean, how
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: often does that happen going into Paradise? Well do you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: remember when Samantha and Joe are totally crucified for it?
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: In fact, in Paradise too, it's not a thing anymore.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: People almost I want people to be talking beforehand so
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: they can really see the romance rev up as soon
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: as they get there. Interesting, So like you think that,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna be there night one they start dating,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: They've probably already had a little background. I don't hate
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that idea, Like I don't hate that they have a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: little history walking into Paradise me neither. I think as
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: long as they're upfront about it, it's just gonna be
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: weird if they ten as if they have never talked
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: to each other before. Maybe they haven't. Maybe I'm just
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I I swear to you, I have no confirmation from
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Blake that he's actually talked to her. I didn't want
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to ask that question point blank. You know, I don't
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: want to be the interviewer in real life. Are they
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: probably did? Yeah? I mean you just got to think,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: like even if it was like a nice little message, hey,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: congrats in your season. You were so great. If you
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: need anything, let me know, Like I could see I
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: could see Blake doing that at least if you go
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: back though, I mean obviously started with Joe and Samantha
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: on Bachelor in Paradise too, they got absolutely destroyed for talking.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But then you go to Dean and Christina and they
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: didn't hide the fact that when they when Paradise took
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the break two years ago, that they met up together
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: in Kentucky and spent quite a bit of time together
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: before filming, presumed right right. And I think Christina and
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Dean are both on the maybe or maybe not not
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the maybe list, but like the consideration list again for Paradise.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: And I was talking to Doing this weekend. I was like,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen if you and Christina are there together?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: He seems to think like absolutely not a storyline anymore.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I like he's saying there's no chance they'd
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: like even pursue dating each other. Interesting do you see that?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, and this is just coming from you know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: your own perspective on how things are going. Do you
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: see that at all like that they could start talking again.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I don't see them necessarily started talking again, But for
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: not to be a storyline, it seems naive. Yeah. Yeah,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I think it's at least a storyline, like it's got
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: to get brought up. Yeah, totally. Speaking of things we
• 46:39
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  Speaker 1: almost famous. Uh it's it's I just I don't know.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I sometimes this podcast most weeks, this podcast just makes
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  Speaker 1: me smile in unique ways, especially when I get to
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: see this side of Ashley, where like her soul some
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: like just kind of like explodes through her eyes and
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: her mouth and you can feel how excited she is.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: This week is no different. Joey Fatone is coming on
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the podcast to talk about some new exciting products, products
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: that he's doing. Ashley, how are you feeling about this,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: you guys? I just I can't even describe how this
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  Speaker 1: this is for me. I was doing a little research
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: on what Joey's up to today, and this man is
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: dabbling in everything. I'm proud that Joey and Lance and
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of course Justin have kept their relevance throughout the years.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: They just they keep custling. They're always around, even though
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: in Sinca seems to be the only boy and from
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the early two thousands who yet is yet to tour unite.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Come on, guys, they're my number one? Are they coming
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: back together? But I feel bad, like you know, every
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: time they do an interview, like they get asked that,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: and I just I don't want to do that, but
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: I probably will today just because I was at Caitlin
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: bristows Um Live podcast yesterday and her tour manager mentioned
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: that he heard rumblings of a reunion. I feel like
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: there's always a rumblings of a reunion within sync. But
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask because this guy seemed to be in
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the in the know. So I'm all right, I guess
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I'll have to ask again tomorrow. So here I am.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I'm about to get on the phone with joe Tone
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and I'm very very excited. You guys. I just can't
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: describe to you how what this is for me, because
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I used to have three hundred and fifty posters on
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: my wall, and I wouldn't us plaster Justin's face. I
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: did all of them. I'd have a pin up of
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: all five of the guys, and then I had like
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the jumbo ones of Justin. This is fantastic. Take a breath.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Take a breath for one second, because I think, no, no, no,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: he is on, he is waiting. Here's something. Actually, there's
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: two things before we bring them on, because it's kind
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: of like that that calm before the storm storm. Any
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: of our listeners just found out how excited you are
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: just by the fact that you did not take a
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: breath of the last three minutes. So I am just
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna take a step back here and just
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: listen because I want you to just ride this this
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: interview the best you can. With that, I'm gonna just
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: sit back, but I'm gonna do this. Hey, Joey, Welcome
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: to the Almost Famous podcast. Oh hello, Joey. This is
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: an iconic moment for me. I thank you, thank you
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: for being here because I love you. At one point
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: in my life, I had at least seventy posters on
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: my wall of your face. You told me this, You
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: told me this, so I don't know if you remember me.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: We met at the Fantastic Beats Beasts premiere was remember
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. I want to say you were sitting
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: in the row behind me and I showed a picture
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: of my room and you're like, I'm so sorry you
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: had my face. Well, don't be appreciate it. I appreciate it. Oh, well,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: thank you. Um. So you have a lot going on.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I was just talking about how I'm just so proud
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: of my in sinkers because you guys really never went away.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: You continue to have your hand in like so many things.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: You have a new podcast called two Cops of Joe,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: and you're you're doing that with your manager five years. Yeah.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Well yeah he first was I always I always told
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: him and always tell everybody that, Yeah, he used to
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: carry my bag within sick and I used to know God,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I used to work with him when I was seventeen
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: at Universal Studios, so we were a friends before anything.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Then he actually get carried my bags with him think
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and then as we followed, he started to uh make
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: a pretty good name himself, know a little bit about
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: more about the business than I wanted to say. Hey,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I love to be you know, your manager for for
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: for stuff that you do, and that's kind of how
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: it started. And he became a manager of Voice to Man.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: He does a lot of other us works with a
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: lot of other artists as well, so that's good friendships.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: So you guys talk about the industry, but you also
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: talk about just life and family and being dad's yep,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: anything and everything. I mean, you know everybody's experiences, you know,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: with with with their families or kids or whatever. They're
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: all different. So this gives a different side of light
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: coming from a celebrity perspective but also a manager's perspective
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and how we see things around the world and hopefully
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: give it insight to other people about that. But also
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: when we talk to other celebrities, how it's not just
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: promoting things of what they're doing, it's literally off kind
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: of the cuffy is some things will take us in
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: the left field. And we interviewed Wayne Brady and the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: funny thing was a good friend of mine. I known
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: him that she's just back in the day when he
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: lived in Orlando and uh, because we both lived there.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: And the crazy thing was this he brought his daughter
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to the to the show, uh to do it. And
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: then the crazy thing was that I had my daughters there,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: so I was like, and they haven't seen each other
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: in years, and they're going into them They were really
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: really young. It was really cool to have this kind
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: of dynamic and conversator, like just sit in the room
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: and let's see what happens. And we all started just
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: talking about stuff. It was really really cool because, like
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I said, it was like more like you know about
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: parenting and about how you know you wrapped your man,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: your kids and all the other kind of crazy stuff.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: That was really really fun to get into that. And
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: it had nothing to do about you know, Wayne's career.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, we touched on it a little bit, but
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: we wentn't do another story, which is fun. Your daughter
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Brianna is about she's nineteen now she's eighteen. She just
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: turns Saturday. I remember when she was born. Me too.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Time flies. That's nuts. Um. Also have had Lance and
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Donnie Wahlberg on the podcast Lately Give Me. Can I
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: give you a suggestion of who would be so great
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: that I pair you with in life? I would love
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: for you to have Wade Robson on the podcast because
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: watching I would mean if we'd love to get sure
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: we'll could always have that conversation. Very interesting one. Uh, definitely,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Uh one that that I never knew about that whole
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: side of it, even though I've known you know way.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: So it's Wade nets cut That's that's would be the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: interesting thing if I get him on there. I always
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: felt like he was a sixth member of in Sync
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: pretty much because I broke, I messed up my leg
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: and he came in for me. Yeah, he danced and
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: everything for me. That's right. There was a couple of
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: days on tour that Wade needed to just fill in
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: for you on stage, right, No, never filled it on
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: stage with me on tour. No, that that that he
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't think it's good too my own horn there. So
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: he actually he actually came in when I broke. I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: actually crushed my late during a rehearsal, um when we
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: were rehearsing for a tour and I actually had to
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: have a brace on my knee everything and wait for
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: the rehearsals. But right after when it actually happened, that
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: next day, we're flying to go shoot the pop video
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: and that's where Wade filled in for me for the
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: pop video because he was Yeah, I couldn't walk, I
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: couldn't dance, so they kind of superimposed my face, but
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: they also colored in a goteene everything for him to
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: do it, and people didn't had no clue that it
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: was not me. It was way now that you say that,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: my memory is as clarified. Yeah, it's been so please
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: forgive me. No, no, no worries, just speaking of how
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: your voice is so good. You were just on the
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: masked singer. You got to the semifinals. How much? Right?
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Who knew on that? Right? It was great? No, I
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: had a really great time. It was really cool the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: way they didn't many other interviews that the cool thing
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: about it was how they kept it a really good
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: secret from everyone. It really did. They didn't. They didn't
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: be like even like for us, we had no idea
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: who the other people were. I had no idea until
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: way after the show was done that I found out
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: who some of the some of the cast members were,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: not even a way. It was one of those things
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: where just like, you know what, let's just have fun.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I was never scared too to perform. I think maybe
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the first initial thing was, but other than that, you
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: never saw who you were performing up again, so you
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: don't know how good or bad they were. You have
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: no idea. You commanded the stage. Some people were like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: this guy knows how to perform. You had boy band
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: or written all over you on that stage. I think
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: it's just in the blood from when I started, obviously
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: back in high school and stuff, and I really wanted to,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: you know, be able to love just for the love
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: of performing. So I guess that's good. I have no idea,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: just it's just fun. I enjoy it. Yeah, and you also,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: we were doing a press for your new show Common
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Knowledge during during um the airing of the Mass Singer
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and you kind of had to lie during some press.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I how to tell people. Note, wasn't me
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: straight to the straight to their fate like legit? I
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: mean not at all. And I was like, gosh, I didn't.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't like doing that. It wasn't kind of fun.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: It's fun to keep a secret for that, but that's
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: not fun to keep secrets in general, sometimes especially blatantly
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: lying to people's faces. But again that for the show,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: it was all good fun and I had a great time.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Like I said to it, it was really really really cool,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: just like they said it a whole completely different thing
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: where you weren't really judged on your on your looks,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: per se or performance. It's just more about the Actually
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: it's more about the performance than it was upun like
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: what your what your what your stage presences and how
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to deal with it facially obviously a lot more of
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: us physically. M m. You sounded great though, Um so
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you saw on the mass singer, but we didn't see
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: your face, but now we're can see you on Common Knowledge?
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little a bit about that
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: new show? Yeah, Coming Out was just a new game
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: show that's on a game show network week days at
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: five thirty every day Monday through Friday. And uh, it's
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: basically tests people basically common knowledge, everyday stuff that everybody
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: should know. Like you know, um, if a life bulb break,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: you know inside the socket of of a of a
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: of a a light socket, what do you do? How
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: do you get it out? You know without cutting yourself?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: What could you use? So like things like that are
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: like who's on the fifty dollar built? Some people don't
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: even know that either. So just simple everyday kind of things,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: whether it be within like um, medical or household or
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: cooking or you know, money and it's all like the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: US Constitution and states and stuff like that. So it's
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: it's a blast because people are like, oh, yeah, I
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: know that answered Joe, you know, like you know, blah
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: blah blah, and you're like, no, you're dead wrong, and
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: then we prove it out to them. I think that's
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: actually what's one of the things that's really cool about
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: the shows. We do let them know exactly where we
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: get the information from, but also give a little story
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: to say, hey, this is how we found the fact
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: or this is where it was. So it's basically approved
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: out to the people that you do get the answer
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: correct or wrong. That's so fun. That's like kind of
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: like Jimmy Kimmel when he goes out on the street
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: and ask obvious seeming questions. Basically, you got it. Everybody
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: loves that. It's the best. Um okay, I got two
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: more questions for you. The boy band con The lou
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: Perlman Story is available on YouTube on April three, and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: your best Friend Lance Bass helped produce this, and Ashley Parker,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Angel Aaron Carter, Agan McClain, Lance you Got. They're all
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: comment commentating on Luke Woman, who you know was crazy
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: con man the boy band con man Um and why
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: aren't you part of this? Yeah, I have seen it
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: and I've been a big supporter of it. I didn't
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: do it, I think because the fact that when it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: was approached to me just the way honestly it sounded.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: And again I'm a big fan of Lancer. I love Lances,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: my boy. I just didn't know if it was the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: right time to even talk about it, just for me
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: at that moment. But the greatest thing was the minute
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: I thought I said this, this is like no joke.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Is awesome, you know, and I fully freaking support, you know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: even even though I didn't do it, and I don't
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: think he wanted everybody because they really think about it.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: It was j C, Chris end Lance. It was almost
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: all because if me and Justin did it, so I think,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: you know, getting a different perspective from other people as
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: well was good. But again I saw and I was like, dude,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: it's awesome. Let me know. I'll be I'll support you
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: whatever you need. And I actually went over to Stuff
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: by Stuff West to go, uh to go there to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: kind of support obviously, and then do an interview with
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: somebody that a Q and In and actually go see
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: the premier of the actual UH documentary, which again I said,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: is amazing. Now I've seen some you know, each Hollywood
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: stories of lou Proman before. And just to let you know,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: when I was younger, when we would play the would
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: you rather game? The horse would you rather? Somebody could
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: ever come up with and my circle of friends was
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: being stranded on a desert, deserted island with Nick Roman's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: swinging from trees. That was the ultimate nightmare, looked like,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: So I I never that nightmare, Say goodness, but I never.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: I would never. Was that nightmare never happens. Now you're
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: gonna have that nightmare. I'm so sorry. Had something we're
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: going to learn from this documentary that maybe we didn't
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: know before. Um, you know, I've seen the actual documentary
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: on the MSNBC. They did one called Greek Creed Greed Talking,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, you get a little insight story about it.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: You look at that. That's cool. This one with lands
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: did is unbelievable because you know, they talked about a
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: lot of the things that he did, a lot of
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: things that happened, and it's full, you know, it's from
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: from everybody that actually lived UH. And breathe what was
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: going on, you know, from like you said, from Backstreet
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: to to uh Lfo to uh Oh Town to um
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Innocence to another girl group and even then what happens
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: is the beauty part about this is you always hear
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: that story, but it actually rewinds and goes back to
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: his childhood, how he became, the way he became, how
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: did he was able to like, for instance, I honestly
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: didn't even know how did he get the money, like
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: in in he was in Florida, but he looked like
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: he had a really nice big house. You know, he thought, Okay,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: he owns all these air shifts and these blimps and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: he's playing, which you didn't. So it gives the whole
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: perspective of that. That shows interviews with like his close
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: friends that he had. You know, he didn't have that many,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: but he had a few close friends that they actually
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: interviewed them and got um some actual recordings from him
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: being in jail because one of his best friends gave
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: a call in uh in jail actually Luke called one
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: of the best things just say in jail, and he
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: answered it. And the crazy thing about it was the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: guy actually recorded whose losing the lose whose voice, whose recordings?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: So you see he hears the most recordings. So I'm
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: sure once this one comes out, don't definitely be probably
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: doing doing a second one because they said they have
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: so much other footage of a whole bunch of other
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: things that they haven't even strapped the surface yet. Oh
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. And I'm going to wrap with the most
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: annoying question of all of them. UM out this year
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: on bill Board and the number one album, so it's crazy.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Any talks about in syncri reuniting, No, no
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: talked about that. I always keep telling about it. If
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: that ever happens, I'll let you guys know. But we've
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: we thought, we never talked about it. We've never really
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: had that down the conversation said all five of us go, hey,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: do we want to do this or do we not?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: So I say, you know, never say never, but I
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: have absolutely no idea. Um again, I'd love to do it.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind doing it, but it's all that factor
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: of getting all five guys to go, hey, get your
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: nay on it. One day in my lifetime, I hope
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: to see it. Well, thank you so much. Do we
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: really really appreciate it. Thanks for letting me problem with you.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: My bleasure, my pleasure. All right, let's do it. How
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: we going? Hey Ben, we didn't talk about your birthday,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: which was this weekend. Thirty. What did you do for you?
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's just it's a transition time.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: I've always been and used to being the youngest. Like,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: I just feel like, for whatever reason, I've got really
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: comfortable being the guy that's younger trying to do something
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: that's most most adults do. I mean even as a child,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: as an only child, I grew up around my parents friends,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: and so I've always been used to being the young
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: person in the room. And at thirty, it just feels different.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: But then again, it's not like I don't I'm all
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: sorts of confused. But it was great. So what happened
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: was I went to Nashville, and uh, I had a
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: great party. Jessica Clark, my girlfriend's brother, turned twenty one
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: and so his party was we said, had a joint
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: party with a couple of other friends, and my parents
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: came down and met Jessica's family for the first time. Um,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: which was a big deal. And it went great and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: so we all went to Nashville, hung out with the
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt baseball game that Jessica's brother plays for, hung out
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: with them and had an awesome experience in Nashville. Oh,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. It was. It was funny. You want to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: hear something really cool. Um My one of my employees, Uh,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Maddie Short, who has just started listening to the podcast.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: I forced her to. Um, she did this really cool
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: thing where she reached back to people, UM, thirty people
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: in my life since I was a child, Um who
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: spoke truth to me. On my thirty birthday, she put
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: thirty thirty second videos together from people from my childhood. UM,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: just saying, you know, wish me the best, tell me
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  Speaker 1: you know, memories you've shared together, or impact I've had
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  Speaker 1: my life for impact they've had in my life or
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  Speaker 1: whatever that was. And uh, it was. It was really
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  Speaker 1: incredible to see all the faces and the people that
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  Speaker 1: have been a part of my world, really from starting
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  Speaker 1: on worse Sundy and a leading up to today where
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  Speaker 1: now I'm sitting in Los Angeles, um with with you
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  Speaker 1: beautiful people. But yeah, so it was a really good yet.
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  Speaker 1: But jerks supposed to send you a video that didn't
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  Speaker 1: even think about it until we sent the video on
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  Speaker 1: your birthday. The video you sent me would have worked
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  Speaker 1: perfect for that. Really okay, well at least you got
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  Speaker 1: it individually. I actually wondered, because like Harrison was a
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  Speaker 1: part of that, Bob Goff was a part of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um, a lot of my my friends from
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  Speaker 1: home were part of that. And then I was like,
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  Speaker 1: it was like I was thinking about the people that
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  Speaker 1: weren't a part of it. I was like, Ashley, like
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  Speaker 1: has been a huge piece of my life the last
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  Speaker 1: like a few years, like, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most consistent. And I was like, it's weird that Maddie
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  Speaker 1: didn't have her a part of this, And I wondered
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  Speaker 1: why she did. And I must have. I must have
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  Speaker 1: been traveling when I got the email and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. Hey, you sent me a great video. I'm done,
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  Speaker 1: no no, no harm, no foul. It was an amazing video.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's so sad, but I do really like the video.
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  Speaker 1: Always an you. Yeah, but you sent me a great video.
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  Speaker 1: You and Jared did um just just loving on me.
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  Speaker 1: So you you made up for it, or you you weren't.
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  Speaker 1: You had nothing to make up for so anyways, great birthday,
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  Speaker 1: it was an amazing time. UM, Ashley, this is a
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  Speaker 1: Can can I do this? We're we're gonna skip ben
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  Speaker 1: bitches this week for this UM. There seems to be
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  Speaker 1: uh one of the headlines right now is attempted suicide
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• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: I guess at this podcast what we've only I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the only reason we do this is to try to
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• 1:10:43
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• 1:11:06
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