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Mama Knows Best at this Almost Famous/Help I Suck at Dating Crossover Party! · 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. This is a very special episode. This
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  Speaker 1: is a very, very very special episode. We have Jared
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  Speaker 1: here as a co host. Yes, hello Jared. I love
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  Speaker 1: it when Jared's here. Guys, thank you. Let's get to
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  Speaker 1: the real meat of the podcast. Ashley is here, and
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  Speaker 1: we're here today to celebrate our mothers, the mothers that
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  Speaker 1: we love, the mothers that I think I can speak
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of all of us very quickly here and
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  Speaker 1: say that we've been very lucky to all been gifted
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  Speaker 1: and blessed with mothers that we love, admire and look
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  Speaker 1: up to and that we're very thankful for. And so
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  Speaker 1: today we're just honoring them with this episode. This is
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  Speaker 1: a very special episode for all of us. Especially I
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  Speaker 1: have a whole new appreciation for moms, of course, because
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  Speaker 1: now I am one, and I know how hard of
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  Speaker 1: work it is. Wow it neverse stops. I now understand
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  Speaker 1: why people say it's the hardest job in the world.
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  Speaker 1: We have one child and it's overwhelming. Of course, it
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful and loving and amazing, and I'm obsessed with him.
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  Speaker 1: And look at that facey right there, like it's amazing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we love him more than anything. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is about mothers, so you love him more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that, and it's I posted about it
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  Speaker 1: recently about like me viewing the love you have for
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  Speaker 1: Dawson through my eyes like his father's eyes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and seeing it's and we talked about it earlier. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody's you know, lucky enough to have parents in their lives,
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  Speaker 1: to have mothers in their lives, and so to see
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  Speaker 1: the way that you treat Dawson at such a young
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  Speaker 1: age and being new, being such a new mother but
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  Speaker 1: already being such an incredible mother is pretty awesome. And
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  Speaker 1: it's I think, you know, like every parent has that
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  Speaker 1: moment when their child is born. They're like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the hell I'm doing. Everybody thinks that they
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  Speaker 1: don't and like nobody knows what they're doing. Am I
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  Speaker 1: going to be a good parent? And seeing how Ashley, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just instinctually a great parent just because you love it.
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  Speaker 1: But you too, well, this is about mother's Father's day.
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  Speaker 1: Will do this. You can praise the hell out of
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  Speaker 1: me on fathers, but yeah, it's it's not easy though.
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  Speaker 1: I see what Ashley goes through there's a certain thing
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  Speaker 1: that you have with Dawson that I don't have. That's
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  Speaker 1: where Well, it's just it's not he came out of
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  Speaker 1: your stomach, you know, came out of my stomach. Well
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say he came out of your vagina. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how PG. Thirteen we're getting here is
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  Speaker 1: the vagina Pg. Thirteen, PG. I think that this is
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  Speaker 1: probably in this circumstance, it's PG. Yeah, it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's biology. Guys. Well, um, we do have a big
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  Speaker 1: episode in front of us. I want to take a
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  Speaker 1: second here and give a shout out to Pandora Jewelry.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can talk and share and praise our
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  Speaker 1: mothers and praise all the mothers out there listening, and
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  Speaker 1: all the future mothers out there, and all the people
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  Speaker 1: that hope to be mothers or that are, um let's
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  Speaker 1: call them mentors and guiders and um maybe their next
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  Speaker 1: door neighbors live, or their nieces and nephews lives. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many people out there, um, who have a huge
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  Speaker 1: impact on the kids of this world, and we can
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  Speaker 1: we can praise them with words, but it's oftentimes UM
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  Speaker 1: really special when you do something intentional like get them
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  Speaker 1: a gift. And Pandora Jewelry recognizes that and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they're sponsoring this episode today to highlight people that are
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  Speaker 1: mothers on this very special day and we want to
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  Speaker 1: thank them for doing that. We want to thank them
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  Speaker 1: for the gifts that were sent for our mothers. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It helps us show some extra love on this day
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  Speaker 1: as well. Thank you, because I didn't anything for my mom. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I did, now, thank you Pandora. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: don't tell her that. We're just gonna tell her that
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  Speaker 1: you got her something very special. Um. Right, Hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: take a break here. When we come back, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start bringing in our moms to this podcast. Before we
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  Speaker 1: do get our moms on, I just wanted to say
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things. It's gonna be so it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: seem really weird and random, but I feel like you
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  Speaker 1: would totally be thinking the same thing. I never, like
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  Speaker 1: when I worried about my family and stuff, but like
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  Speaker 1: I was away, you know, I always like worried about
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  Speaker 1: my family, but I never worried about like how I am,
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  Speaker 1: like my safety or my health or your parents think
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  Speaker 1: about your safety. Yeah, but I think about me being
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  Speaker 1: like safe and healthy for him so that he has me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, right. I never used to be concerned about myself.
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  Speaker 1: I was always concerned about like me having my family,
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  Speaker 1: but like not me like my own well being. But
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  Speaker 1: now I actually worry about my well being because it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with his. Yeah. And then I also
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  Speaker 1: just want to say that we're thinking about like all
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  Speaker 1: the people out there that want to be moms, that
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  Speaker 1: can't be moms or having trouble being moms. We under
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  Speaker 1: you know, we understand just like how emotional that is,
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  Speaker 1: especially on days like today. Okay, I think Ben's mom
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  Speaker 1: is coming in first if um, yeah, so like what
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna do what we can to talk about
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  Speaker 1: guys with the mom? Should we like have the person
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  Speaker 1: whose mom it's not asked that other mom questions? Like
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  Speaker 1: I think that's fantastic, So Jared and I should ask
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  Speaker 1: Ben's mom questions. Okay, without further ado, here is Amy Higgins,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of me, who I love so much. I
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  Speaker 1: love my mother so much, not myself so much, but
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  Speaker 1: I love her. She's coming on right now. Hi. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to you too, Thank you. I wish we can show
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  Speaker 1: you him right now. He's so asleep in his swea.
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  Speaker 1: Do we look like new parents? You have the same disheveled,
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  Speaker 1: tired you look at all. Oh yeah, but you've also
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  Speaker 1: been battling your little not feeling so well. So all
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  Speaker 1: of that on top of each other. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: little trifector. But anyway, let's not talk about us about you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, how are you? I'm great Mother's Day?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, I thank you. I got an
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  Speaker 1: urgent question, dared, all right, I got one of you, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Your son was coined as the perfect bet? How does
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  Speaker 1: that feel raising somebody that was in the pop culture
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  Speaker 1: sphere referred to as perfect? And like, what did you
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  Speaker 1: do right? What did you do so right to create
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  Speaker 1: that human? Uh? Well, you know every mom thinks their
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  Speaker 1: child is perfect, So yeah, in some senses, it's spot on. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I think having one helped too. I he got my
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  Speaker 1: all of my attention, which I don't know if he
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  Speaker 1: found that to be necessarily the best, but um, and
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  Speaker 1: he's also just a great kid. You know. He was
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  Speaker 1: the kind of kid like he was the person today.
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  Speaker 1: He was always so inquisitive and and asked a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great questions and just wanted to know a lot
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  Speaker 1: need a lot of people, so you need it pretty
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  Speaker 1: easy to to raise a pretty solid kid. What's the
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  Speaker 1: what's the most embarrassing thing Ben has ever done? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the most embarrassing, like the worst thing he's done. If
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  Speaker 1: you can't think of something that's embarrassing, like we're one
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  Speaker 1: time he got big trouble when he wasn't perfect. I
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  Speaker 1: think probably, even though I didn't get to witness it,
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the most embarrassing things maybe for him,
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  Speaker 1: and that one of the funniest things for me to
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  Speaker 1: hear is the story is when is that the y
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  Speaker 1: And he was on a treadmill and and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: was running along and I don't know, got caught in
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  Speaker 1: the treadmill and like a cartoon characting right lifting right
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  Speaker 1: off the back end of it right there. Oh wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you fell the treadmill and then you then
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  Speaker 1: you fell in the wall. And here's the best part.
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  Speaker 1: I had a Higgins basketball jersey on, so that Higgins
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  Speaker 1: was on the back of the back of my shirt,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody knew who it was. There was no hiding.
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  Speaker 1: I actually thought, um, she was gonna say that, you
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  Speaker 1: know my very and this is actually sad and it
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  Speaker 1: all worked out. But my very first car accident was
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  Speaker 1: sixteen years old. First it's actually I think my only one.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been in another. Cross my fingers, knock on wood. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was with my buddies early in the morning. We
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  Speaker 1: were heading to like McDonald's or something to get um breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: and I was distracted and I rear ended um a
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  Speaker 1: lady pulling to the y m c A. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I thought she was gonna say this. This is probably
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  Speaker 1: the most trouble I should have gotten in. But I
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  Speaker 1: think I was felt so bad myself that the lesson
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  Speaker 1: was already learned. So that's not the end of the story. Um.
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  Speaker 1: What happened was she unford like she was on her
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  Speaker 1: way to the hospital to have her child. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is a really scary moment for us. Everybody was healthy,
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  Speaker 1: everybody was good. But you can imagine how much guilt
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  Speaker 1: I felt in that moment, and how much like fear
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  Speaker 1: I had in that moment. She was in labor and
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  Speaker 1: you hit her, well, she was in labor. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. She was picking up her mom at
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  Speaker 1: the why to bring her to the hospital. She was pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: you rear ended her, then she went into labor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so super scary moment for so many people. Like as
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  Speaker 1: a teenager, you're really scared. You're like, you know, you've
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  Speaker 1: learned your lesson already on being distracted, Like that's not
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  Speaker 1: a thing I'm gonna do again. But here's where the
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  Speaker 1: story maybe gets like embarrassing for me. Um The cops come, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're questioning me, like what how this happened?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling them and they're like, okay, um, we
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  Speaker 1: need to serve your car, and I'm like okay, And
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  Speaker 1: they poppleed my trunk and the night before, my buddies
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  Speaker 1: and I had gone out teeping, and so there was
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  Speaker 1: like a hundred rolls of toilet paper like bounding out
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  Speaker 1: of my trunk when they opened it up. Um. So
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  Speaker 1: the most Indiana thing I've ever heard about. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: that's what I thought she was gonna say. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: she was hesitant this year too much, um, But that
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  Speaker 1: was that was what comes to mind for me, is
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  Speaker 1: where I think everybody was the most disappointed in me.
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  Speaker 1: Um Amy, what's the best age for Like, you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people say what's the worst age? I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you've you you have a wonderful son. Uh
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  Speaker 1: he's in his uh early thirties. Now, Uh, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think the best age? Because I'm curious. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have Dawson right now. He's credible as as a
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  Speaker 1: as a baby. I'm curious with you know, hopefully, knock
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  Speaker 1: on wood, we're all healthy and you know, alive in
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years when he's an adult, and I'm curious,
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  Speaker 1: like how much the relationship is going to change. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I really feel like for me, even though it kind
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  Speaker 1: of was some of the hardest too, but some of
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  Speaker 1: the best. I really liked the sixth grade through freshman
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  Speaker 1: year um age. You know, he was growing so fast,
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  Speaker 1: there was so many things to be involved in. He
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  Speaker 1: was really enjoying kind of his independence. Um. We did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of really cool things together as a family, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with vacations and sports, and you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was it was just to me that was a really
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  Speaker 1: kind of really alive and fun time he started to
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  Speaker 1: really see the person that it was evolving and been. Um,
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  Speaker 1: even though I seriously am loving the adult man stage. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a weird thing. At time of being
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  Speaker 1: a mom too, and then I just had this kind
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  Speaker 1: of really cool conversation about that much long ago. But
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  Speaker 1: I would say the most fun time was for me
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  Speaker 1: the like sixth grade through freshman year. That's when my
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  Speaker 1: dad started really appreciating having us around. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: probably because you can start having adult conversations with the kids,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, there's still kids enough where
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the making stupid teenager mistakes. Sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I guess my last question for you is,
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  Speaker 1: as a fantastic mother who has raised the perfect Ben,
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  Speaker 1: what are some tips that you have for Jared and
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  Speaker 1: I in parenting Dawson that maybe isn't stereotypical, like the
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  Speaker 1: things we wouldn't really think about. Um, well, I feel like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it happened on accident, but I also feel like
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  Speaker 1: it was a good thing. Um from the time that
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  Speaker 1: Ben was a toddler all the way up through today,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, and you can ask him to verify this,
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  Speaker 1: but I really felt like I was pretty good about
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  Speaker 1: giving been the opportunity to make decisions for himself. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, right down to just you know what, stupid
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  Speaker 1: T shirt he put on a combination closed or what
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  Speaker 1: breakfast serially picked, you know. Um, and some of it
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  Speaker 1: was not always great, you know, but I I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I was ever much of a helicopter mom or
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  Speaker 1: two two opinionated and when he decided to make choices,
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  Speaker 1: you know, unless it was just going to be really damaging.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, uh, but I really feel
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  Speaker 1: like that is one of the best things you can
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  Speaker 1: do for your kids. I did not grow up really
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  Speaker 1: feeling like I and it was kind of just the
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  Speaker 1: time of the era that I grew up in. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't make or even have the opportunity to make many
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  Speaker 1: decisions on my own. It was there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of expectations or things were just pretty nor there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of norms to that. But I think now
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  Speaker 1: it's just really really good to develop in your children
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  Speaker 1: the ability to just make voices for themselves. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to briefly follow up on that, because that's the
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  Speaker 1: type of parent that I think both Ashley and I
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  Speaker 1: want to be. I think one thing that concerns me
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  Speaker 1: is how are we going to, like really in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: do it, like let Dawson make his own decision, even
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  Speaker 1: though we know it might not be the best decision,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense, because we love them so much, Like,
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  Speaker 1: of course we want to be the parents that like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go go to the playground, come back at six, dinners
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  Speaker 1: at six, like you know what I mean. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: say now he's allowed to do that. He is allowed
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  Speaker 1: to choose the breakfast a serial he wants, or a
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  Speaker 1: stupid outfit. Well, we'll find that out. Yeah, there's I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's also, like you know, more serious decisions that
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  Speaker 1: Amy's getting at. Well, Jared and I are really concerned
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  Speaker 1: because we were both like very well behaved kids by nature.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if his nature or sure. All I
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  Speaker 1: know is my sister and I are totally different when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to our young adulthood and the decisions that
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  Speaker 1: we made. So in my case, I feel like it
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  Speaker 1: might be nature. Jared, just like they're both of us
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  Speaker 1: just really good kids, like the kids that you like,
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  Speaker 1: wish that you'd have. And I get scared that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have a rebel child and don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with that. How did you? How are you
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  Speaker 1: able to come to that point where like, even though
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  Speaker 1: I love you more than anything, and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to make what I think is the right decision. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to let you decide on your own and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, live with you the consequences or the positive ramifications. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think, Um, a lot of it just comes through practice.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, you start that says when they're young,
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  Speaker 1: and so as they get older, you know, it gets
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  Speaker 1: a little easier also too, I really feel like, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that then always felt like if he made it,
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  Speaker 1: ever was making a decision or in a situation where
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't in a good place or there was an issue,
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  Speaker 1: that he felt like it was safe for him to
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  Speaker 1: call home. Okay, Jared free parents and my parents definitely
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  Speaker 1: did the same thing. I think Jared's especially not that
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  Speaker 1: he always did. But I think you also have to
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  Speaker 1: make it very comfortable for your children. Are very there
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  Speaker 1: must needs to be a real security and them knowing
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  Speaker 1: that if they ever made that phone call, it was
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  Speaker 1: safe for them to do that. I think she's I
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  Speaker 1: was actually thinking about this. There's many things. There's many things, um,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that we've talked about a hundred times on here. Um. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you and I especially on what we love and appreciate
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  Speaker 1: admire about our parents so that you could go on
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  Speaker 1: and on. But I think I was like, what's the
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  Speaker 1: one unique thing it's funny to you ask that question
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  Speaker 1: that my parents did and we did just talk about
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  Speaker 1: it was I never I think there's a level of
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  Speaker 1: respect to it that I felt. But I I had
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  Speaker 1: the ability to question, like, why are you telling me
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  Speaker 1: to clean my room three times in one week? Is
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  Speaker 1: it not my fault that my room's dirty and that
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  Speaker 1: I want to live in filth? And they would say yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but and we would have a conversation that was very
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  Speaker 1: open um and I never felt like I couldn't ask
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  Speaker 1: a question. I never felt like my questions needed to
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  Speaker 1: become arguments because I felt like, hey, I've already been
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  Speaker 1: given the respect to ask a question. There's no reason
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  Speaker 1: to like jump on them for every decision that they
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  Speaker 1: tell me to make. And so I do. I think
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  Speaker 1: what the thing my parents did was they implemented a
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  Speaker 1: sense of curiosity in this world and me that I
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  Speaker 1: greatly appreciate. Um, I don't think it was easy. It's
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  Speaker 1: not easy for your kid to like go out and
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  Speaker 1: hang out with the wrong people and you know, go
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  Speaker 1: out on a Saturday night and they don't really know
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  Speaker 1: where you're going, but like then I would always have
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  Speaker 1: the ability to tell them and talk to him about it,
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  Speaker 1: or like be like, hey, the last night was weird.
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  Speaker 1: I ran into some odd stuff. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: So just that openness is something that um, I think
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: was not easy, but it was really healthy and I
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: think it's been even healthier as I've gotten older. Yeah, well, mother,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I love you a ton. Thank you so much for
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: coming on. Happy Mother's Day again. Enjoy Florida. You look
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: really tan, soaking in. I love you. Thanks for coming on.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's my pleasure. It's all right. Well, it's my mom's turn,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and she's been dreading this because she has some serious
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: stage fright, even though she's just really talking to you too.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And Jared is her son in law. And Ben my
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: mom has said before she feels very comfortable with you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: There's something about you that puts her at ease. I
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: love your mom. I don't know why she's nervous. Maybe
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: we should make you're nervous. Let's make your nervous. Well,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you should be looking in yourself. I'm her son in law. Okay,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to do the opposite of making her nervous.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So Ben, this is all on you to ask the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: tough questions. I'm literally gonna be like, hey, Audrey's great.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: There she is. Welcome to the podcast. Mom so happy
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to be here. Yes, I know you're absolutely thrilled. All right, Well,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: we're doing this thing where we're gonna let the other
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: two interview the mom who's not ours. So these two
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: are going to be asking the questions. Yeah, and and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you're kind of I mean, you are Jared's mother now,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: like your mother in law, and so I'm I'm gonna
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: guide us through this. Jared's gonna chime in with some
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: great questions about Ashley that I'm sure he's asked you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to do for or if he hasn't, now is the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: time to do it. But again, thank you for joining us.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: You're always great. I'm happy you're here. Thanks man to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: look for young. By the way, my mom was very young.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Well she's very tan right now, so she has that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: going for It's a it's a very special day for
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: us because as you know, I don't think there's ever
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a question in your mind. And and I want you
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to respond to this with your thoughts. But I guess
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: i'll phrase in a question. How big of a gift
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: is it, Audrey, for you to know just how much
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you're loved by your daughters like that you don't doubt
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: their love for you. Wow. Okay, Well, um, we have
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a really good relationship. We're very close and I'm very
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: blessed that we are, you know, a very close family.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't have that growing up. So I think that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you know, either you repeat right or you go the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: opposite way. Either you act like you know, you do
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: exactly the way that you were raised with your children,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: or you decide, you know, we're gonna make some changes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's probably why I spoil them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm the mother that I am because you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't have all that growing up. What what are
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the things that you do that you chose to do, um,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: maybe differently or that you just chose to do so
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that that relationship was always there, um with your with
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: your daughters. I think we spent a lot of time together,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you know. Um, well right now, you know, living in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island. Um, it's hard because they're they're not living
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in this area. But you know we talk once through
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: twice a day text. Um, you know, twice a day dirts,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: like your mom's calling, am I get. I get to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: elaborate a little bit more on examples for my mom,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because my mom, you know, she gets stayed right. There's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: just like a few things I'm thinking, Like when I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: was younger, we'd go home, should be home, We'd watch
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Dr Philip Oprah together, We'd probably learned lessons from that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: We would eat dinner together, and then we'd like always
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: have little outings like how many times do we go
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: with them all? Like those are like little bonding things
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all the time. We always were doing things with my mom.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I never wanted to I but also like there's something
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in me like I always wanted to be with my mom.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I was never embarrassed by being with my parents. Like
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: on field trips, when everybody wanted to say at the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: back of the bus with their friends would be cool,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I was like it didn't even think that seemed weird
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to me. I was like, no, I'd rather send in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the front of my mom. Yeah, Ashley always says that
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Lauren is her best friend, but I would also say
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that Audrey, you are her best friend as well as
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: three of you. Also don't like the thought of a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: parent being a friend. It's different when you're thirty four.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: You know, I would say if at as sweet as it,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: we always say, Audrey, you know this that it's like, hey,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: we we want Dawson is our son. He's not gonna
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: be our friend, you know, because we want to be
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: able to raise him. And yeah, but of course, yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: your mom is your best friend your thirty four you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I always had a problem with that when people said, oh,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: my mom is my best friend. It's like, that's your
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: mom and your parents saying it's like you know now
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that she's three four, Yeah, it's different. Changes, yes, of
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: course and for the best. So, Audrey, I want to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: get to the brass tacks of things. Who do you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: love more? Laura rashly, let's get real, Okay, they'll beating
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: around the bush anymore. Sophie's choice. It would be impossible.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: There's so many it's it's it's it's great seeing you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: interact with Lauren and Ashley because you you do well.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Of course, because you and Lauren are, while very similar,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: also you guys are very different in a lot of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: different ways, and so the way your mom interacts with
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you is different than the way your mom interacts with Lauren,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But I can see how you. Um, it's not like
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: for better or for worse, it's just different. You love
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: both aspects of different personalities, so I kind of like
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: adapt to each personality, you know what I mean. But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we have the grandson now, so you love her more now. Right,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: we've completed everything and that's she wanted. We got married,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I had a baby. It's all good. But now it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: all about Austin. Yeah, what's it like to be a grandma? Now? Fabulous?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: It's like changes the whole dynamic of the family. Right,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It's just she used to be you know, high, which
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: do today? Now it's like, show me the baby. By
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the way, Audrey, I don't know if you can hear.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: If you can hear Nancy, uh, just snickering in the background.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: You know, this is fantastic. I love Dawston. It's just
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: great that we're we love that we live. Gared's parents too,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: so it's not like there's no competition. It's just we
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: love raising our grandson together. And absolutely, well the talk,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you're gonna talk over each other, it's gonna be chaos.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Um oh. Because we had Dawson obviously in the house
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: for the first three weeks of his life. Were you
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: terrified of that? Was that before? Nervous going up and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: down the stairs? And you know, I'm just having a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: fear of stairs, I guess, especially at your house. So
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just more protective. Whereas you're the parents, you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you just grab him and you walk and when you're yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he's like a rubber bandise. I know, when you're not
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: used to being around an infant. It's kind of like
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I walk slower and just more cautious. If you had
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a joy like do you miss Dawson being in the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: house or do you like the fact that, like you
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: get to see him and then you don't have to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I wish you guys look closer. Yeah, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: because he changes from week to week. But I'm happy
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that it's a short flight, so I'm happy that I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: can see him as often as I can. Well, you're
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: welcome any time. We love having you here. She's hearing
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that she thinks that she she feels like you must
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: get tired of her in the house. No, I don't,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Audrey every time. First of all, you treat me like
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a king that I don't like. Every every time I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: go to the house. Your house. I walk in, there's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: like a chocouderie board set up for me, and you're
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, I put this thing together and it
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: has like seven different meats and cheeses and crackers and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it could feed a small army. But I love every
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: second of it. And then you're just so kind to me,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: especially during I mean every time I go over during
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the pandemic when I was there for four months, if
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: anybody was gonna get tired of anybody, I'll think about it. Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you spent a lot of time here, so yeah. So
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and then any time you come here, you're so good
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: with Dawson, you clean the house, You're just like always
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: doing something. Uh, it's nice and you're a wonderful human beings.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: So it's always been very nice to have you here. Say,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy I'm on this podcast today. It's really nice.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you. But I love coming and you know, I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: just I'm just getting used to having a grandson. So so
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: so it's all been good. I'd love to see you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: guys as parents, because you guys are really amazing parents. Well,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: thank you, mom. That's because you raised us very well.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: He raised me well, alright, do you want to say
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day to your mom. Happy Mother's Day to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you mom. You have a little Pandora gift coming your way. Yeah, really, well,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: thank you so much. All Right, here we go, Nancy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Are you in the world of zoom? You don't have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to turn your video on. Hello? Happy Mother's Day. Oh well,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: thank you, You're welcome. Welcome to the podcast Almost Famous
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: with Ben and Ashley. Hello, Ben, Hello, how are you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm well, it's good to talk to you. Thank you
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: for joining us today. Oh, thank you for having me.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You know what, Nance, I never really asked you this.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe I have, maybe years ago, but let's do it
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: for the people now. Do you think that you did
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: something to raise Jared so right to be the perfect gentleman?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I keep using the word perfect in this podcast,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: but seriously, Jared, you know that you're a gentleman. Okay?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Do you think nature or nurture? How much of it
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: is both? You know, like, did you do something to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: just make such a handsome man be so respectable as well?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. There's very few combinations. Ben and Jared
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: are two examples of very handsome men who could probably
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: get away with being not as gentlemanly as they are. Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'd give a lot of credit to our fathers. Um,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that is true, and I agree with that. And honestly,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you know, I believe I have said this and you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: probably it will ring about. I do believe Shannon came
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: out with their own personality right out of the womb,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and so did Jared. And I do believe that. Sure
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we molded them, but I think he came out a kind, considerate,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: caring human being. And um, I think it's did we
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: help a little along the way, like making a cake. Yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: we might have put the frosting on and decorated it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a little, but well, if anybody saw pictures of me
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: as a child, they know that cakemaking. Love of God.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry everyone in my side of the family went
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: toward rubby stage and I'm still in it. So sorry.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: My favorite pictures, Um, Nancy, I uh, you know, from
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, right, Ashley obviously is in love,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: uh with Jared. They're married, they have a beautiful, beautiful baby.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Um you are, Um, You're somebody that's been along for
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that ride since the beginning. But I'm on the outside here,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and so sometimes I feel like in life the outside
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: opinion is the one that um is the most impactful.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And so you know, I remember meeting Jared for the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: first time. I remember sitting next to him, uh in
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor mansion on night one, looking at this guy,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and I said these words to him. I said, hey, dude,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I don't belong here, and he looked back at me
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and he said, I don't either. And now that's kind
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of funny. It was never shown, UM, but what he
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: did in that moment was he showed empathy and he
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: made me feel less alone in a moment that was
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: very overwhelming and very hard to process. And that's where
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you come in, Nancy. My question for you is, Jared
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: is an empathetic soul. Uh. He is a tremendous husband
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and a great father and a great friend. Was there
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: an intentionality to you raising him? There's it? Was there
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: things that you did on purpose to help him become that?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Or do you feel like it was still like you
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: said earlier, just you kind of putting the icing on
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the cake, just helping him walk down a path forward,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: or do you feel like there were some things that
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you said No, as a parent, I want to instill
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this into my son well of course. UM. I think
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: every parent wants to instill something in their child, whether
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it's Jared or whether it's my daughter Shannon, and UM.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And with a son, I did have an intention to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: make sure that he was uh sensitive and had empathy
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and certainly was respectful, not just a women of men
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of you know, because um, so, I don't know if
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I answered that correctly. I did do I did do
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: things with intention. What did you do? What specifically? What
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: do I need to do to Dawson to have him
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: turn out to be like Jared? Goodness, gracious, love him,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: love him, love him, respect him. UM, listen to him.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And I went to classes. You went to classes. I did,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and that's you know, we're gonna get down. And I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: think I've I've admitted this UM with Shannon. UM. Shannon
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was more of a UM. I told Shannon something once
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and she did it. I said no to Shannon, and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: she took no for an answer. Jared was not so
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: much just that same kind of child. I would say
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: something nine times and Jared would not listen, and I
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: would get frustrated. And so he was about four or five,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and I said I either I'm gonna go take a
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: course or I'm gonna kill the child. I don't know which. Well,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I'm still here. So she took the course, so I did.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I took a course and um it was like five weeks.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: But the one main thing that I took out of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that court was positive reinforcement with So if you did
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: something that like putting a little he put a kitten
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in the microwave, Listen, I didn't turn the microwave on.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I was a kid. I don't know what the hell
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: is going now. I know you didn't know what you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: were doing. But if he didn't, so as he got older,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: if he did something that you know was not acceptable
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: or just wasn't you know, I just talked back. I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't you know. We just I would go in first
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: with everything that he did really well that day, and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: how happy and how proud I am of him, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that would really work a lot better than what I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: was doing, because what I was doing is just like
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: grabbing his al open, pulling him in the bedroom, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that wasn't working so well. Nancy, there is there's a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: theme here, obviously, and you've I think you've been listening on.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: But from my mom and I have a great relationship
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: with my parents and a lot in a lot of
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: ways I always have and there's just a lot of
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: love and um, a lot of respect that I have
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: for them and uh. And then obviously with Ashley's mom,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the same thing. There was a respect, there was love,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: there was a there was a friendship. It sounded like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: going on there, Nancy, you just said it. You have
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the positive reinforcement, uh and the respect again, you used
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a respect. There's a theme in this parenting of three
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: parents that we believe are incredible mothers where respect was
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: given to their child. How important now looking back was
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that to respect your child and to love your child.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: You you touched on something with your mom which really
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: hit home to me because I was brought up with
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: well why did you say that? Because I said so?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: That's the way I was brought up. I wasn't allowed
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: to ask questions right my generation. I wasn't allowed to,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you know, say well why do I have to go
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: well why because I said so? So that's what I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: had to re learn that behavior and not And I
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: didn't want to be that parent that just stood there
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and said because I said so, so we would have discussions,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: like you said, so, you touched on that and I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: think with that develops a friendship as they get older
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and in a mutual respect with each other. Hm. I Uh,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: it's it's something that your your spot on there, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: it's something I just don't want to under emphasize when
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: it comes to how we see our parents because today,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: because of that also, and because of that stance, and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and because of that intentionality, because of the ability asked questions.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: You know what I can still do. I can still
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: ask my parents questions at thirty three years old, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I can still lean on them because I know that
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: they've done it since the day I was born, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I know as I get older, it's only going to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: get easier to continue to have those more adult now conversations. Nancy,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You've raised an incredible child. Uh, you have an incredible
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: grandchild here who I know you're so excited for and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: proud of. Um. Thank you for joining us today. You
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: are a treat And Jared is an amazing son. I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: couldn't ask for a boutest son. And I just want
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to throw in one. I am so grateful because we
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: would go to like like Ashley touchdown in the front
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of the bus. We would go to movies together, when
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Jared was sixteen, he still go to movies with his
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: mom and we would laugh and we would have so
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: much fun together. So yeah, I know, I remember we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: saw we saw Mission Impossible three, which came out on
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: thousand and six in a movie theater, and I just, yeah,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I've a vivid memory of that. Why I don't remember,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: but any who, at the time, Mom, thank you so
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: much for joining us. I really appreciate it. Happy Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, Thank you, I love you, I love Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: I love Dawston. Thank you for Hey. Thank you, and
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  Speaker 1: don't forget you can watch Dawson. That would be great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Okay, love you bye. Man. I really wish
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  Speaker 1: your mom could have thrown in that story of when
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  Speaker 1: you played dead. One time she came home and Jared,
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  Speaker 1: why would you? And he pretended like it was blood
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  Speaker 1: and he put a knife next to him in the
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  Speaker 1: family room. Listen there, listen, there's their own fault. They
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  Speaker 1: love me. I was watching Halloween, I was watching Scream.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I had a very imaginative, imaginative mind, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I got a great idea. Well
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing, Jared. It doesn't sound like you're the
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  Speaker 1: easiest of children, But it sounds like he did the
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  Speaker 1: things that you needed to and the right things to
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  Speaker 1: make sure your mom knew that you loved her, that
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be a part of your life,
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  Speaker 1: and that she always was going to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of your life. And I think we can't underestimate that.
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  Speaker 1: And hey, I just want to say on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: all of this here. We love talking to all of
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  Speaker 1: our moms and we're going to continue this episode on
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  Speaker 1: Jared and Dean's podcast, Help I Suck At Dating with
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  Speaker 1: some other very special people in our lives. Guess who
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  Speaker 1: they are are significant others. Thank you to all our
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  Speaker 1: moms for coming on. Even though my mom hates to
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  Speaker 1: do things like this, she does it for her child
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  Speaker 1: and her grandchild. She was good. Um. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to continue this conversation on Help I Suck At Dating,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of moms, we're going to do it with
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  Speaker 1: significant others. And we want to thank Pandora for making
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  Speaker 1: this episode happen and for treating all our moms to
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  Speaker 1: some beautiful jewelry. It is the place to go to
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  Speaker 1: Day gifts. So if you're thinking what do I get mom?
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  Speaker 1: you or their stuff online. Follow after me. I've been
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Dawson's mom, and I've been Nancy's son, and I've been
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