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On the Move with Rachel Lindsay · 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 IR Radio. I went to Canada this last week.
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Speaker 1: Um I did a little um Niagara Falls trip, met
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Speaker 1: up with some people when I was up there. Uh
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Speaker 1: you know, I had thought when I was up there,
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Speaker 1: why not bring in as many people as possible in
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Speaker 1: the Niagara area for dinner because I was going up
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Speaker 1: there alone. I think like a hundred seventy people showed up. Wait,
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Speaker 1: you said, I don't have anyone to have dinner with.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to come and meet me? Well, not
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Speaker 1: meet me, just like come have dinner. Guess what people
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Speaker 1: showed up? I bet a hundred and sixty five. Those
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Speaker 1: people avid Almost Famous fans. I mean we had so
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Speaker 1: many cool compliments, so many people saying thank you for
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Speaker 1: sharing your life, thank you for walking with us for
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Speaker 1: two years. Thanks were talking about the Bachelor. It was
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Speaker 1: a really encouraging trip because people are listening. So hey,
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Speaker 1: everybody in Niagara Falls, thank you so much. Listening Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous podcast. I got a ton of questions about Ashley Kennettie.
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Speaker 1: One of those was just how is Ashley doing? And
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Speaker 1: I need to ask the same question, Ashley, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm good that's not what I want conversation.
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Speaker 1: We got three minutes we talked about it. But I
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Speaker 1: think like I don't really respond well to general questions
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Speaker 1: like how are you doing? Like I need you to
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Speaker 1: ask me specifically what you want to know, um, because
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Speaker 1: usually if there's something I want you to know, I'm
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Speaker 1: open to sharing it, Like I will have no probablem
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Speaker 1: just being like, hey Ben, guess what happened this week? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Two questions that came up in Niagara that I think
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you directly. Thank so you gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about him? Um. But before I asked those questions,
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Speaker 1: I gotta let you all know that the podcast today
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Speaker 1: is maybe the best of the off season so far.
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Speaker 1: We have Rachel Lindsay that we're gonna call up talk
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Speaker 1: to her about life and all of her mini projects.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite people in the world. Then Andrew Firestone,
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Speaker 1: a former Bachelor and just great dude. Actually, two questions
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Speaker 1: before we call up Rachel lindsay, as you begin to
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Speaker 1: get married or as you're already engaged, do you feel
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Speaker 1: an odd disconnect now from your obsession with male like
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Speaker 1: stars pop stars? Like does it get awkward? Is it weird?
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Speaker 1: Do you still feel see do you foresee yourself being
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Speaker 1: a boy band, pop star, movie star fan into you know,
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Speaker 1: through your marriage because here and then I'm going to
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Speaker 1: leave to you because the fans like it, right, they
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Speaker 1: enjoy it, and I wanted the same thing. It was
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Speaker 1: a good question. Oh, that's a great question. It's a
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Speaker 1: love and passion of mine that I'm never going to
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Speaker 1: give up just because of Jared and which is which
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Speaker 1: is great because m Jared doesn't Jared likes boy bands too. Um,
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Speaker 1: We're going to Lance Pass's birthday party this week, which
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Speaker 1: is very exciting, and we are Jared will talk about
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Speaker 1: the Battary Boys for at length and then the only
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Speaker 1: thing he doesn't really like get is Jonas Brollers, which
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Speaker 1: is fine because he says that he's not threatened by
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Speaker 1: the Jonas Brollers. Plus they're all married, you know, Joe
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Speaker 1: is engaged. Yeah, that's good, you know, because it does
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Speaker 1: get a little weird. Ash I will say this and
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Speaker 1: like past relationships of mine, people have like celebrity crushes
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Speaker 1: in this world not completely uncommon for them too. Then
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Speaker 1: get together. Well, that's that's why Jared doesn't like it.
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Speaker 1: There's a couple of people who he says, are too
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Speaker 1: attainable for me to really like get that. Yeah, you'll
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Speaker 1: get annoyed at them, not donus though, because you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's cute and fun and it's fun and
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Speaker 1: relationships to have those. I do think now for you, Um,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're a faithful person and Jared
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Speaker 1: is your guy, so I'm not that that comes from
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Speaker 1: nothing there, but there is that little bit of like
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Speaker 1: jealousy and a hint of hey, this isn't healthy for
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Speaker 1: you to talk about this dude like this because we're
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Speaker 1: gonna be with him at the birthday party this weekend. Um,
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Speaker 1: next thing is, and then we'll call up Rachel lindsay,
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Speaker 1: as you prepare for your wedding, Um, how are you
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Speaker 1: personally handling it? Do you feel like your identity is
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Speaker 1: attached or do you feel like with everything you have
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Speaker 1: going on in your career and also investing into your
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Speaker 1: relationship with Jared and planning a wedding, are you able
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Speaker 1: to know yourself right now? Or are you just kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to get this stuff done? Like how are
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Speaker 1: you physically, mentally, emotionally healthy? And the Ashley I Connettie
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Speaker 1: that we all know in love I think I'm just fine.
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Speaker 1: I would say when I'm planning is like a hard
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Speaker 1: time job. But we have a wedding planner. He takes
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Speaker 1: all the stress away. It's really it's not like a
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Speaker 1: huge thing. I was talking to a friend who didn't
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Speaker 1: have a wedding planner and she goes, you are my
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Speaker 1: only friend who has a wedding planner, and it's just
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Speaker 1: amazing to see the lack of stress your wedding is
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Speaker 1: creating for you in comparison what my experience was awesome. Well,
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Speaker 1: I we wondered that, I wondered that there were good questions,
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Speaker 1: and I have to admits something. I was talking to
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Speaker 1: two of the biggest almost famous fans and I started
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Speaker 1: to tear up a bit and they saw it. And
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Speaker 1: it was at the end of the night, and I
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Speaker 1: was exhausted, but but I really did because they told
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Speaker 1: me how happy they were for you and Jared, and
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Speaker 1: I thought back, this is a moment that hit me
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Speaker 1: was I thought back the moment I first met Jared.
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Speaker 1: He was standing in a driveway introducing himself to Caitlin
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Speaker 1: and Britt and he took off his shirt and he
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Speaker 1: had a supermin shirt on and he was the nerd
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Speaker 1: in the house, and I would tell him that today, um,
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Speaker 1: and he walked in and he made me feel like
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Speaker 1: I had a friend in the house right away, like
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Speaker 1: I could tell that that Jared and I had a
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Speaker 1: very similar wavelength. And then for the last two years, actually,
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Speaker 1: I've gotten to see year progression in relationships in life
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Speaker 1: through tears and triumphs and shows and all that. And
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Speaker 1: now today and I got really emotion because I think
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Speaker 1: for two years, I think these have been the most
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Speaker 1: and from a distance, probably the most transformative two years
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Speaker 1: in your life. And I've gotten to like sit and
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Speaker 1: watch those and witness that, and then our listeners have
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Speaker 1: also got to sit and watch those and like be
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Speaker 1: engaged and entertained by your transformation. And it's been a
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Speaker 1: beautiful one. So yeah, that was really cool for me
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Speaker 1: Rachel Lindsay is definitely one of our favorites. Rachel, welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the Almost Famous podcast. Thanks for having me
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Speaker 1: that guys. Good to talk to you. Good to talk
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Speaker 1: to you. Hey, Rachel, where did you move to? Because
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Speaker 1: I saw that you were moving out of Dallas on
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Speaker 1: your Instagram, but I couldn't figure out where you moved to.
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Speaker 1: I'm in Miami, Yes, I did it. I didn't so Miami,
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Speaker 1: which wasn't the easiest decision for me to make, but
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Speaker 1: it's what's best for our relationship right now. So um,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't complain. But right here on the water,
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Speaker 1: it's beautiful, the weather is always perfect, it's hot. But
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Speaker 1: I'm from Texas, so I'm used to that, and uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a new thing for Brian and I. Has it
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Speaker 1: been best for your relationship? Yeah, just because where we
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Speaker 1: are right now, because I'm not practicing law full time,
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Speaker 1: which is why we were in Dallas. Bryan wants to
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Speaker 1: set up a practice here in Miami and he's working
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Speaker 1: on that. So it just makes sense because I traveled
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Speaker 1: so much, there's just really no reason for us to
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Speaker 1: be in Dallas. Career Live, you know, Rachel, have a
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Speaker 1: question for you before you get started. You're doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of projects, You're You're very busy right now. We've
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Speaker 1: got a lot to catch up with you on UM.
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Speaker 1: I was working out of a gym in Denver this
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Speaker 1: week and somebody came up to me and I want
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Speaker 1: your advice on how to answer this question because you
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Speaker 1: and I just did a project together a few months
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Speaker 1: ago on the Ringer UM and we've got to know
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Speaker 1: each other just really through the Ringer and lip sync battle,
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Speaker 1: and uh, those are two of my favorite things I've
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Speaker 1: done really post Bachelor. But anyways, here's the question I
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Speaker 1: was asked me. Hey, Ben, you know Rachel Lindsay. Is
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Speaker 1: she as much of a boss, as fierce and as
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Speaker 1: confident as what she shows on television, and Rachel, I
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Speaker 1: obviously think those things about you, those are characteristics that
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Speaker 1: I would use to describe you as a person. But
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Speaker 1: I was a loss for how to answer her because
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Speaker 1: I felt like, no matter what I was going to
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Speaker 1: respond with, it wasn't either gonna do you justice or
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Speaker 1: it was gonna make you sound like you were too confident,
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Speaker 1: too much of a boss, too much of a leader. So, Rachel,
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Speaker 1: if somebody would ask me that question you were staying there,
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Speaker 1: how would you want me to answer that? First of all,
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Speaker 1: shout out to the lady and Jim who asked you that.
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Speaker 1: That's like such a compliment, And I love that you
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Speaker 1: were at a loss how to answer the questions. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, I I definitely feel like I work hard.
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Speaker 1: I'm like you. I'm like, I don't want to sound
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Speaker 1: like I've to do my own horn, but I feel
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Speaker 1: like I work hard, and I feel like I you know,
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Speaker 1: I try to go into everything I do with with
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Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. And when I do go speak
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Speaker 1: to different colleges and universities, I always encourage people do
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Speaker 1: the same thing because I don't feel confident all day
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Speaker 1: every day. But I like to give the persona persona
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Speaker 1: that I always am, because I feel like that's contagious
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Speaker 1: and I feel like if you if you give that out,
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Speaker 1: then then you can also be that. And so I
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Speaker 1: did like to think of myself as a boss without
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Speaker 1: sounding conceited. But UM, yeah, so there you go. That's
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Speaker 1: how you need to answer the question next time somebody
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Speaker 1: asked you, hey, you know what? You know what? When
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Speaker 1: I think of Rachel, I do think of a boss,
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Speaker 1: But I don't think she's conceded. I think she's fierce
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Speaker 1: and competitive and that she will try to always do
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Speaker 1: what's right and inspire others in the process. That's how
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Speaker 1: to explain Rachel Lindsay favor. Rachel, you've moved Miami. Now,
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Speaker 1: Brian setting of a practice? Are you wedding planning? We
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Speaker 1: are wedding planning, and I am trying to do the
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Speaker 1: least amount of wedding planning as possible. I feel like
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Speaker 1: Ashley will get me when I say that. I know
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Speaker 1: the both hired wedding planners and we've talked about this,
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Speaker 1: so I want it to utilize them as much as possible. Um,
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Speaker 1: things are starting to pick up now. The closer we're
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Speaker 1: getting to it. I mean we haven't even sent out
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Speaker 1: invitations with the work. Have you sent out save the dates? No? No? Okay, Um,
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Speaker 1: well I think you're I think you're You're just around
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Speaker 1: the part of the year where for you where you'd
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Speaker 1: be like, Okay, it's probably time we get those out now.
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Speaker 1: But it's not as I want people to not be
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Speaker 1: able to come because you're like nine be a little
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Speaker 1: the targeted number, and so I'm like, oh, if I
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Speaker 1: just keep waiting a bit, It's like we want you
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Speaker 1: to be there so badly, but we just can't. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we understand that you just can't fit it into your schedule. Hey, um,
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Speaker 1: Ben just asked me if wedding planning is at all
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Speaker 1: affecting affecting like my heart and soul. But I said
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Speaker 1: that my wedding planner is preventing that. Do you agree? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my wedding affecting much? What does he give me by
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Speaker 1: affecting heart and soul? That's not what I said and
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Speaker 1: always been always you know, makes it like really much?
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Speaker 1: I said, No, I said, hey, during wedding planning, do
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Speaker 1: you all feel like it takes away from your identity?
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Speaker 1: Like do you feel like you're so much of a
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Speaker 1: then get things checked off the box, planning, processing, inviting people,
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Speaker 1: probably hurting people's feelings, those things that it has taken
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Speaker 1: away from, like you a little bit. Oh no, no, no no, no, no, okay.
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Speaker 1: So actually I feel like we'll fill me on this
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Speaker 1: when I say this. I'm not a romcom person, but
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Speaker 1: you know the movie Bride Wars, remember when she's like
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Speaker 1: the wedding planners explaining things and they're saying, I feel
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Speaker 1: like it brings couples closer together or it separates them.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's brought us closer together, like I
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Speaker 1: don't feel like it's affecting us in that way. We're
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Speaker 1: both really excited to make this thing official and too,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to take his last name, like we always
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Speaker 1: like play to each other. I can't believe I'm about
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Speaker 1: to call your husband. I can't believe I'm about to
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Speaker 1: call you lives like. It's just it's a very exciting
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Speaker 1: time for us, and so that eliminates the stress of everything.
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Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to talk to you about the
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Speaker 1: guest list and it being like, uh, you having to
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Speaker 1: deal with the Bachelor guest list? How many people do
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Speaker 1: you think you're going to offend along the way question Wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: which one bachelorette or wedding? Um, no, with the wedding,
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Speaker 1: how many bachelor family members do you think you're going
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Speaker 1: to offend by not having them on your very small
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Speaker 1: guests because you want only a hundred people? Are right?
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Speaker 1: A hundred and fifty goal? I think I could. I
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Speaker 1: could settle for like one seventy five um max or confirmed. No, No,
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Speaker 1: that's how much the venue will hold. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: we're going to have to do some things to try
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Speaker 1: to um extend that, to try to open it up
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Speaker 1: some more. I just feel like people are going to come,
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Speaker 1: even though I'm trying to make the list smaller. But
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Speaker 1: I do think that I'm going to hurt some feelings.
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Speaker 1: But this is how I feel. Everybody has been affiliated
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Speaker 1: with the wedding in some form or fashionating. It hasn't
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Speaker 1: been your own. You know this is difficult. If you
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Speaker 1: love me, if you really are my friend or family,
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Speaker 1: you know whatever, you will love me at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day and you will understand it. That's how
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Speaker 1: I feel. I would never stop being friends someone because
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Speaker 1: they couldn't invite me to their wedding. That's you know.
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Speaker 1: I was. I just to officiated a wedding, uh two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago from my cousin. It was a beautiful wedding
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Speaker 1: and such a great couple. Is fun because I got
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Speaker 1: to kind of talk with him up until the wedding day.
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Speaker 1: And and one of the things that you, really, as
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Speaker 1: an officient are supposed to say at the beginning is
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Speaker 1: for those who are able to be in this room
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Speaker 1: and those who are not, who love and support this couple,
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Speaker 1: this day is about them, please wrap your arms around
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Speaker 1: them as they move into the future. And I do
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Speaker 1: think that it's very true if I was able to
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Speaker 1: be there and not, we have a responsibility as friends
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Speaker 1: and family and as people to support because here's one thing, Rachel,
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Speaker 1: and actually that I've realized here, especially recently in my
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Speaker 1: life with some of my friends, what marriage is not easy.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't supposed to be. It's very difficult. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like as an outsider to these things, and you
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Speaker 1: please tell me here and if you agree to disagree,
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Speaker 1: my only job is to support and not try to
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Speaker 1: cause more division because relationships are hard. Yeah, relationships are
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Speaker 1: really hard, but so beautiful at the same time. And
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Speaker 1: I I never believed people when they talked about the
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Speaker 1: list and the guest lists, and it's the hardest thing
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Speaker 1: you'll have to do. And it really is the hardest thing,
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Speaker 1: because as as easy as I'm answering that question that
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Speaker 1: you guys asked me about, like oh, if you're my friend,
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Speaker 1: just will be my friend, it's still hard. And you
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Speaker 1: don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. And you understand that
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Speaker 1: people want to be there to celebrate you in their
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Speaker 1: day but in your day, but you can't. It just
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Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. I I always thought I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: everybody who I have in my life will be at
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Speaker 1: my wedding, you know, absolutely, And you're like a hundred,
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Speaker 1: You're like maximum hodern You're like, yeah, I don't have
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Speaker 1: a people in my life. Then you start like counting
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Speaker 1: it all up and then like adding plus ones with
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Speaker 1: people who have, you know, like a serious relationship or spouses,
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Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, holy moly, this is definitely the
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Speaker 1: hardest part of it. And then you're trying to juggle
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Speaker 1: the feelings of of friends that are definitely coming to
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Speaker 1: your wedding and their relationships with people that could be
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Speaker 1: possible guests. You don't want to make an awkward You
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Speaker 1: don't want to make there to be any awkwardness in
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Speaker 1: the room on your day, no tension, attention free room,
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Speaker 1: the well you'll you'll prop you probably won't even be
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Speaker 1: around to see any of that. At least I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: hope that that's how the day goes for you, where
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be affiliated with any trauma if there it
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Speaker 1: would be any any mishaps like that's like, it's not
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Speaker 1: for you. It's also the wedding planner's job to eliminate that. Hey, Rachel,
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Speaker 1: a moment of realness. We know you don't hold back.
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Speaker 1: It's something we love and appreciate about you before we
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Speaker 1: let you go here. Two last questions one uh and
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Speaker 1: and let's just let's do this for our listeners. What
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Speaker 1: has been the hardest part in your relationship with Brian
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Speaker 1: since your time on The Bachelorrette as you move into
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Speaker 1: your wedding. Sorry you're gonna want to say that again.
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Speaker 1: It's the pouch is barking, Hi, carber umark is barking
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Speaker 1: at our folks. What has been the hardest part in
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Speaker 1: your relationship with Brian since the bachelorette leading up to
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Speaker 1: this wedding day. What is something that maybe you expected
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Speaker 1: or didn't expect it's been a hurdle or something you've
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Speaker 1: had to work through or that you are working through
18:22
Speaker 1: for all the listeners out there, Um, I've kind of
18:26
Speaker 1: answered the question a little bit, but I guess I
18:29
Speaker 1: feel like it's changed since it's almost been two years
18:31
Speaker 1: since we've been together. Initially, I would just say it
18:34
Speaker 1: was the pressure from from the outside about our relationship
18:39
Speaker 1: and then having their own opinions of who they thought
18:41
Speaker 1: you were, and that was a lot. And you're so
18:45
Speaker 1: you're so new and you're you're flash and trying to
18:47
Speaker 1: show your family it's real and your friends it's real.
18:50
Speaker 1: But then everyone's wanting to believe everything they read or
18:52
Speaker 1: whatever they saw on the show. So once we stuck
18:55
Speaker 1: together and walk through that, it really was like nothing
18:58
Speaker 1: else is going to be as hard as this was
19:01
Speaker 1: because it was so much, But I guess little things
19:04
Speaker 1: would be. I had never lived with another guy before,
19:08
Speaker 1: so I learned a lot about myself. I thought I
19:12
Speaker 1: was like so cool, calm, collected when it comes to things,
19:16
Speaker 1: and I am so type a overchel. We all know
19:19
Speaker 1: your type A. But but in my professional life I
19:23
Speaker 1: knew that, but not at home because nobody had ever
19:26
Speaker 1: invaded my space. And so I've really had to work
19:29
Speaker 1: on the way that I am in the way that
19:32
Speaker 1: I communicate when it comes to that, and then just
19:35
Speaker 1: like bringing bringing our lives together in that sense, that's
19:38
Speaker 1: that's going to struggle for me. Hey, Rachel, Um, anything
19:42
Speaker 1: you want to tell our listeners about before let you go?
19:44
Speaker 1: Any cool projects, anything you want to promote, talk about
19:47
Speaker 1: share that our listeners can get on board with. Oh,
19:50
Speaker 1: I have two things I really want to tell you
19:52
Speaker 1: guys about. They that are around the corner. We're just
19:55
Speaker 1: working things that was legal that I'm very excited about,
19:57
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. But in the mean time, I have
20:01
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20:21
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20:23
Speaker 1: than planning a wedding. We've moved. That is the hardest
20:27
Speaker 1: thing I've done is moved halfway across the country. I
20:29
Speaker 1: did not realize that would be but we've accomplished that.
20:34
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's all I can talk about for now.
20:37
Speaker 1: That's going on. All right, Well, thank you Rachel. You
20:40
Speaker 1: are always just so awesome to talk about. I really
20:42
Speaker 1: feel like you add good, good content to every podcast
20:47
Speaker 1: you're on of ours. Thank you. Well, you know I
20:50
Speaker 1: say the things people won't exactly what. She's a real one, Hey, Rachel,
20:57
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. Thank us guys. Later on the podcast,
21:01
Speaker 1: we're going to discuss a topic that has been blown
21:03
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21:09
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23:36
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23:38
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23:57
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24:00
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24:03
Speaker 1: topics in Bachelor Nation. Actually, yes, Ben, what do you
24:08
Speaker 1: like talking about? First? Um, let's say true. It says
24:11
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelor condestants often gain weight on the show.
24:14
Speaker 1: There's no gym, and there's a lot of sitting around,
24:17
Speaker 1: and a lot of Bachelor contestants put on a few
24:19
Speaker 1: pounds during filming. I put on four during Crystal season,
24:22
Speaker 1: so it's four pounds in three weeks. So in my case,
24:26
Speaker 1: this is true. What about you, I mean we knew
24:28
Speaker 1: you had a tape worm. Yeah, I mean I was
24:30
Speaker 1: gonna say we've talked about any times I lost twenty
24:32
Speaker 1: five pounds, but that's just because I couldn't keep anything
24:36
Speaker 1: in my body. I mean literally, I we've said it
24:40
Speaker 1: before in the podcast, but I was like, it's a
24:41
Speaker 1: funny story and people still are shocked by it that
24:44
Speaker 1: we literally canceled a cocktail party because I was so
24:48
Speaker 1: sick in the bedroom that I couldn't have a student.
24:51
Speaker 1: I'd start sweating and so I'd throw a suit on,
24:53
Speaker 1: go out and pass out some roses. Run back there,
24:55
Speaker 1: stripped back down, like do what I had to do,
24:57
Speaker 1: go back out into the living. It was a brutal time.
25:00
Speaker 1: Life pounds later, I was still on the show. But
25:03
Speaker 1: it is true. But most people are like me, And
25:07
Speaker 1: there's an we're talking about this because there's an article
25:08
Speaker 1: floating around the internet about it, and uh yeah, Basically,
25:12
Speaker 1: you look forward to your next meal, you know, on
25:14
Speaker 1: off days, on days or not on a date, there's
25:16
Speaker 1: not much to look forward to other than your next meal.
25:18
Speaker 1: And damn are those meals big things are great. All
25:22
Speaker 1: you can eat next on the agenda, Joe and Kendall
25:26
Speaker 1: have moved in together in It's a big deal. Yeah,
25:31
Speaker 1: I didn't know they weren't living together. Honestly, well, they
25:33
Speaker 1: coul kind of have been, because she went on tour
25:35
Speaker 1: with Dancing with the Stars with him, and she was
25:37
Speaker 1: like sleeping on a bunk on the tour bus. So
25:41
Speaker 1: like they've been pretty much living together, but they haven't
25:43
Speaker 1: signed a lease together until now. Okay, so they're doing well. Yeah,
25:47
Speaker 1: I feel like these have we had any Bachelor in
25:51
Speaker 1: Paradise couples break up since this last season? Kevin Astrid,
25:56
Speaker 1: Joe and Kendall, Jordan and Jenna, Chris and Crystal. That's
26:01
Speaker 1: those are the four and the only one Jordan's and
26:05
Speaker 1: Jenna Jna. How crazy? Hey, um, as we have for
26:09
Speaker 1: Caroline to get done with the Apple store. Uh, one
26:13
Speaker 1: of my buddies is calling today. This is a true
26:15
Speaker 1: friend of mine. Uh. He might be one of the
26:18
Speaker 1: most interesting men in the world. He has an amazingly
26:22
Speaker 1: beautiful family. I think we can all agree to that.
26:25
Speaker 1: It's so cute, it's so awesome. This guy radiates. Have
26:30
Speaker 1: you ever met Andrew Firestone? Actually I haven't, but we had.
26:33
Speaker 1: We did have him on the podcast about six months ago,
26:36
Speaker 1: and he was great. Just like he's like a Bob Guinea.
26:39
Speaker 1: He just kind of radiates. Joy. Um, Andrew, thanks for
26:43
Speaker 1: coming back. Well, you know, I've missed you since our
26:46
Speaker 1: airport encounter in Nashville, and so it was good too. Uh,
26:49
Speaker 1: it's good to death. They're in in Terminal three in Nashville.
26:54
Speaker 1: We actually, Andrew, I was in Nashville's airport. I was
26:58
Speaker 1: just getting gouty done see in Jazz. It was one
26:59
Speaker 1: of my is my second visit to see her in
27:01
Speaker 1: her family. I'm walking through the airport. I'm probably skipping,
27:04
Speaker 1: I would imagine. So I'm so excited, so joy filled,
27:07
Speaker 1: and out of a Mexican restaurant. Um comes Andrew Firestone,
27:11
Speaker 1: wrapping me up with a big old hug. And he's
27:15
Speaker 1: one of the odds of two bachelors are just going
27:17
Speaker 1: to run into each other and listen. And and so
27:20
Speaker 1: this girl, probably I don't know, Andrew, like fifteen years old,
27:23
Speaker 1: comes up and shows can I get a picture with
27:26
Speaker 1: both of you? Oh? That's awesome. Made that made my day.
27:30
Speaker 1: I figured she was in a hand me the camera
27:31
Speaker 1: and make it you and I was gonna purposely put
27:35
Speaker 1: it blurry. But thank yes for having for having me on.
27:38
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you guys are doing well. We're
27:41
Speaker 1: doing fantastic, um, and thank you for coming on the podcast. Andrew.
27:45
Speaker 1: One of my my favorite things about you is you
27:47
Speaker 1: are a family man through and through and you have
27:49
Speaker 1: a beautiful family. Uh as actually I was saying, we
27:52
Speaker 1: were just looking at here, Um what has may And
27:55
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a little bit outside the backstor realm.
27:58
Speaker 1: What makes up your kind of ethos as a family? Like,
28:02
Speaker 1: what is your do you have a strategy as a father? Uh?
28:05
Speaker 1: What kind of things do you want to like invest into?
28:08
Speaker 1: What makes your family click? Yeah, survive in advance with
28:12
Speaker 1: three three children ten, eight and five years old, and uh,
28:17
Speaker 1: you know it's uh, it is a total adventure every
28:20
Speaker 1: single day. And you know, the funnest part about being
28:24
Speaker 1: a dad, I think is just kind of watching these
28:27
Speaker 1: little people turn into their own human beings with their
28:29
Speaker 1: own personalities and loves and likes and dislikes and uh
28:34
Speaker 1: and you kind of get to be on the front
28:36
Speaker 1: row watching this happen, and you know, you do your
28:39
Speaker 1: best to try and influence or or be part of,
28:42
Speaker 1: you know, you know, directing them, but really, you know,
28:45
Speaker 1: you're just a spectator. And it's an amazing, amazing adventure.
28:49
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody thought Andrew Firestone must just be
28:52
Speaker 1: working in the family business, Firestone Tires. Everybody knew you
28:55
Speaker 1: for that, but actually you told us last time that
28:58
Speaker 1: you've been working in the hotel business and you actually
29:00
Speaker 1: have a new hotel in St. Luci Bispo. This it's
29:04
Speaker 1: opening this weekend. Tell us about that. Yeah, yeah, So,
29:07
Speaker 1: you know, one of the tough things about being a
29:09
Speaker 1: Firestone is obviously the name is name is so big
29:12
Speaker 1: and famous for all these things, you know, whether it's
29:14
Speaker 1: tires or my brothers built an amazing beer business and
29:18
Speaker 1: my father built an amazing wine business. So trying to
29:21
Speaker 1: go and cut my own swaths and and and kind
29:23
Speaker 1: of create my own path was something that I really
29:25
Speaker 1: wanted to do and not kind of living and living
29:28
Speaker 1: a shadow of that somebody else has done. So um,
29:31
Speaker 1: I in in college, I actually started off in hospitality
29:35
Speaker 1: and working a front desk of a hotel and cleaning
29:38
Speaker 1: rooms and folding into all sorts of things. And you know,
29:40
Speaker 1: twenty years later, and actually was about eighteen years later,
29:43
Speaker 1: I have built built our first hotel and and now
29:46
Speaker 1: this is our number fives that that we're opening in
29:49
Speaker 1: San Louis Obispo. So I'm really excited to finally go
29:53
Speaker 1: from you know, from the planning stages to construction to
29:56
Speaker 1: finally getting it open. So really really excited and just
30:00
Speaker 1: to get real for a second, if you don't mind,
30:02
Speaker 1: if you don't want to answer, you to um, you
30:05
Speaker 1: obviously do. I mean, the Firestone name does obviously carry
30:08
Speaker 1: a lot of weight. A lot of people know it.
30:10
Speaker 1: You probably get asked about it all the time, and
30:12
Speaker 1: it has become one of your I mean, it is
30:15
Speaker 1: your identity, is your last name. But and you come
30:17
Speaker 1: from a great family, um, and one that a lot
30:20
Speaker 1: of things have been offered to you. And I always
30:22
Speaker 1: like to stick by the saying, you know, when much
30:23
Speaker 1: as given, uh much as expected, or you could say
30:27
Speaker 1: vice versa. There's a lot of responsibility to those who
30:29
Speaker 1: have given much. How has your upbringing and then how
30:32
Speaker 1: you want to raise your kids because they're listeners out there,
30:34
Speaker 1: a lot of moms, a lot of dads, UM, and
30:37
Speaker 1: a lot of kids. How how have you helped kind
30:39
Speaker 1: of facilitate the fact that they're never going to expect
30:41
Speaker 1: anything because I've met your family and they don't. But
30:44
Speaker 1: they're gonna work for things, and they're gonna be appreciative
30:46
Speaker 1: for all that they're given. Coming from a family that
30:49
Speaker 1: you know, you do have a lot. So it's it's
30:52
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a weird dichotomy because of course,
30:55
Speaker 1: you know, I've been blessed to have the advantage of
30:57
Speaker 1: an amazing education and you know parents that were hard
31:01
Speaker 1: working and were successful, so there was you know, there
31:04
Speaker 1: were certainly opportunities there. So it's both an opportunity, but
31:06
Speaker 1: then it's also you know, at what point do you
31:09
Speaker 1: set the bar? Is it? You know, can you set
31:11
Speaker 1: the bar too high for yourself? And not? You know,
31:14
Speaker 1: I mean, am I ever going to recreate firestone tires? No,
31:17
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. But you know what is
31:19
Speaker 1: it is my own expectations for success and how do
31:22
Speaker 1: I how do I measure that? And I think that's
31:24
Speaker 1: one of the tough things for kids today is that
31:27
Speaker 1: there are so many measurables out there because social media
31:31
Speaker 1: of of you know, people always throwing up these images
31:34
Speaker 1: of their life and what they're doing and what they're
31:36
Speaker 1: traveling to and all of a sudden, I mean even
31:38
Speaker 1: I can see my kids at a young age where
31:40
Speaker 1: they're getting impacted and seeing this stuff and saying, Okay,
31:43
Speaker 1: what is what should be their their measurement of their
31:45
Speaker 1: own success and and whether it's in sports or in
31:48
Speaker 1: school or whatever that they do as a parent, I
31:52
Speaker 1: think you're always trying to go and create a reasonable
31:55
Speaker 1: expectation where if they if they don't reach it, it's
31:59
Speaker 1: not a fair in yere. But if they achieve it,
32:01
Speaker 1: it's a success. And it's it's a tough balancing act.
32:04
Speaker 1: And uh and and so you know, for me, you know,
32:08
Speaker 1: I I went through the same thing. And you know
32:10
Speaker 1: with the you know, when I was on The Bachelor,
32:12
Speaker 1: you know, of course everybody made a big deal about
32:14
Speaker 1: the fact that I was a Firestone. And it was
32:16
Speaker 1: around the same time, believe it or not, when Joe
32:18
Speaker 1: Millionaire came out and here they had Eric seriously and
32:22
Speaker 1: there was this character that was a fake millionaire and
32:25
Speaker 1: it turns out that it wasn't true. And then here
32:26
Speaker 1: it comes to Andrew Firestone. You know, what is the
32:28
Speaker 1: expectation there? So it kind of for me, you know,
32:31
Speaker 1: I had to kind of recalibrate and say, wait, wait,
32:33
Speaker 1: this is and this is you know People magazine or
32:35
Speaker 1: US magazine, you know, and this is you know, this
32:37
Speaker 1: is the story that they're telling. You know, this isn't mine.
32:40
Speaker 1: You know, this is necessarily my reality. So um and
32:43
Speaker 1: even now as my children are are growing up and
32:46
Speaker 1: and you know, my son and my daughter is there.
32:48
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're noticing Firestone tires and they're putting
32:51
Speaker 1: those things together. They you know, my brother's beer eight
32:53
Speaker 1: oh five or Firestone Walker Burrowing Company. It's a really
32:56
Speaker 1: big beer company until they see their name on that,
32:59
Speaker 1: and it's kind of thing. You know, that's your name
33:01
Speaker 1: and that's you know, your history. But you know that's
33:04
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta work for whatever it
33:06
Speaker 1: is that you that you do, whether your expectation is
33:09
Speaker 1: to be that, you know, a general manager of a
33:11
Speaker 1: grocery store, or it's going to be president United States,
33:14
Speaker 1: whatever that is. You know, there are they're all kinds
33:16
Speaker 1: of ways to be successful, and you cannot you know,
33:20
Speaker 1: measure yourself against someone else and what their impression is.
33:23
Speaker 1: Do you believe that you work cast as a bachelor
33:25
Speaker 1: because your name in your background? I think that I
33:30
Speaker 1: hope it was because of my you know, my looking like.
33:35
Speaker 1: I think I think that there's I think it was
33:37
Speaker 1: that that certainly had a lot to do with it.
33:39
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean there's there's kind of a built
33:41
Speaker 1: in storyline there. I think that people probably thought was interesting. Um,
33:45
Speaker 1: but you know, again, you know, if if I would
33:47
Speaker 1: have just showed up and smiled for you know, for
33:50
Speaker 1: eight weeks or ten weeks, whatever it was, and I
33:52
Speaker 1: had no personality or didn't you know, didn't you know,
33:55
Speaker 1: participate and be part of that kind of that whole
33:58
Speaker 1: journey as we like to call, I think that it
34:01
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been the experience that I had. So um, yeah,
34:04
Speaker 1: but I do definitely think that there's that's part of it.
34:06
Speaker 1: I think having a having a story, and there was
34:09
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Before we let you go,
34:11
Speaker 1: we know that you're not just a businessman. You also
34:14
Speaker 1: hold a specific charity very close to your heart. It's
34:17
Speaker 1: the Gwendoline Strong Foundation. And why is it so important
34:22
Speaker 1: to you? Well, so here they take a step back.
34:25
Speaker 1: My my eight year old daughter has been I loved
34:29
Speaker 1: music since she was about four years I saw this
34:31
Speaker 1: man this real quick fan. I just gotta pause. I
34:33
Speaker 1: watch this and this is so sweet, so continue, but
34:36
Speaker 1: I I do you know where you're going with this?
34:37
Speaker 1: And it is awesome? Yeah. Mysel my daughter, uh, you know,
34:42
Speaker 1: fall in love with to our first Taylor Swift concert
34:44
Speaker 1: when she was like five with and just absolutely loved
34:48
Speaker 1: singing and performing and she's really lucky to go to
34:52
Speaker 1: to a great public elementary school that has a very
34:55
Speaker 1: inclusive program and they have kids with all sorts of
34:58
Speaker 1: levels of abilities and disabilit these in class and and um,
35:02
Speaker 1: and she has befriended, uh you know a number of
35:05
Speaker 1: kids that have different abilities. And she wrote a song
35:09
Speaker 1: called where We Belong and she ordered alongside her music teacher,
35:12
Speaker 1: a local group here called Musicology here in Santa Barbara
35:16
Speaker 1: and her teacher, Earland and her put together a song
35:20
Speaker 1: and they recorded it and like you know, did the
35:21
Speaker 1: whole thing. We produced it and it's all about inclusion
35:24
Speaker 1: and you know, saying that every everybody has a place
35:27
Speaker 1: to be and even though it may not, you know,
35:31
Speaker 1: they may have different different ways they express themselves in
35:33
Speaker 1: different physical abilities, everybody has a place where they belonged,
35:37
Speaker 1: which is the song where they Belong. And that ended
35:40
Speaker 1: up striking a chord with another friend of ours, Victorian
35:43
Speaker 1: Bill Strong, who had a daughter named uh Gwendoline who
35:47
Speaker 1: passed away of spinal muscular atrophy s m A as
35:50
Speaker 1: it's called, and her legacy lives on in this G
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Speaker 1: next Bachelor? Would Bobby Bones be the next Bachelor? And
39:54
Speaker 1: why would be the next Batchelor? Actually, what do you think? Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Bobby Bones has a relationship with ABC now Dancing with
40:01
Speaker 1: the Stars season winner, and he's now mentoring American Idol contestants,
40:06
Speaker 1: which is you know now an ABC. Well, a couple
40:09
Speaker 1: of days ago, Bobby posted an Instagram and the captain
40:14
Speaker 1: was promo shoot at ABC network and then just a rose.
40:17
Speaker 1: So it got people buzzing talking about whether Bobby Bones
40:20
Speaker 1: could possibly be the next Bachelor. Of course, it's way
40:23
Speaker 1: too early for a decision on that to be made,
40:25
Speaker 1: But I guess people are just trying to speculate what
40:28
Speaker 1: these shots could be for. Here Ben, you can see
40:31
Speaker 1: this as against a green screen, and he's got a
40:33
Speaker 1: rose in his mouth. I think, Um, I mean, obviously,
40:37
Speaker 1: I don't think he's he's the Bachelor. In order, I
40:39
Speaker 1: think he should be the Bachelor. We should keep it
40:41
Speaker 1: style than it is right now. You know some about
40:44
Speaker 1: a fan favorite from the past season, but uh, I
40:48
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe he has an appearance on hand in season. No,
40:50
Speaker 1: We've seen it before. I think it happens every year.
40:52
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Seacrest and Chris Harrison did one last
40:54
Speaker 1: year for American Idol where we saw like a joint
40:56
Speaker 1: commercial promoting the Bachelorette because the larious I'm sure that's
41:00
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Have you ever seen a more strategic
41:03
Speaker 1: move on ABC's part to slowly work Bobby Bones into
41:06
Speaker 1: the system of the ABC machine by saying he's a
41:10
Speaker 1: mentor on American Idol. Mean, Ryan Seacrest carries that show, right,
41:14
Speaker 1: he is. He's the main host. He has been since
41:15
Speaker 1: the beginning. It's like the Chris Harrison of the Bachelor,
41:17
Speaker 1: like you have to have him, but Ryan gets busier
41:19
Speaker 1: and busier times get you know, tough. Are you trying
41:22
Speaker 1: to say that, Like, I'm not saying that. I'm not
41:26
Speaker 1: saying that. I don't think that's the path. I think
41:27
Speaker 1: what ABC is testing is is their market for Bobby
41:30
Speaker 1: Bones to take over something else, another big show, something
41:33
Speaker 1: music American that could be. I mean, we've seen Bobby
41:37
Speaker 1: worked in now for a while. They're pushing him, and
41:41
Speaker 1: he's obviously popular with the people. He's he's really charismatic. Uh.
41:45
Speaker 1: He was terrific on dancing starts because he was a
41:47
Speaker 1: terrible dancer and he's still one because of his personality
41:50
Speaker 1: and his engagement with the fans. Um, it's very obvious
41:54
Speaker 1: what ABC is doing. I would like to hear if
41:56
Speaker 1: our listeners. It seems like the fan feedback well isn't
42:00
Speaker 1: super positive at least this is what the articles referring to.
42:03
Speaker 1: They think they did some searching on Reddit and people
42:05
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42:23
Speaker 1: possible bachelor, and not only that, which which um, famous
42:28
Speaker 1: man would you like to see as the bachelor? I
42:32
Speaker 1: know it's going to be. It's always a country artist, right,
42:35
Speaker 1: that would work? Like what's his name? Who? Does everybody
42:38
Speaker 1: love the tall guy? His dog? Yes? Bredge, Yes, Brett Eldredge.
42:46
Speaker 1: That's it. But I actually think like a lot of
42:48
Speaker 1: America would be on board with him. I think so too.
42:51
Speaker 1: People love him like a ton, They love him a
42:53
Speaker 1: ton of him. Do you think at all? Um? It
42:58
Speaker 1: has to do with taking pictures with his dog. Yes,
43:01
Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with the dog. I'm
43:03
Speaker 1: gonna post a picture with a dog tomorrow and see
43:06
Speaker 1: what it does. Maybe tonight, show you tonight and see
43:08
Speaker 1: how it does. I have to say that my pictures,
43:10
Speaker 1: my dogs don't do exceptionally well. But a man with
43:13
Speaker 1: the dog, girls will here. Let me show you a picture.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna post it tonight, um and everybody out there listening. Uh,
43:20
Speaker 1: you don't have to go like it, that's that's what. No, No,
43:22
Speaker 1: you do have to go on like you think that picture,
43:25
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is not only just like that's
43:30
Speaker 1: a great picture and then there's a dog involved and
43:33
Speaker 1: the dog has blue eyes. Yes, that's going up, that's
43:37
Speaker 1: going up. Um. I just found it on my phoneos
43:39
Speaker 1: from this weekend. I went skiing up in a rapho
43:41
Speaker 1: base and they're still snow in Colorado, by the way,
43:43
Speaker 1: which is wild. Hey with that, Ashley Ben, one more
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43:51
Speaker 1: about what is coming up in Batchel their nation. Ari
43:53
Speaker 1: and Lauren celebrated their baby shower. Here's a question I
43:57
Speaker 1: have for it, though, because a baby showers a baby shower,
43:59
Speaker 1: we don't talk about it. I'm sorry, guys. Is it
44:01
Speaker 1: a thing? And Market Easton feel free to chime in here?
44:04
Speaker 1: Is it a thing for men to be invited to
44:06
Speaker 1: baby showers? Because I feel like, quite honestly, I never
44:08
Speaker 1: want to be invited to one. Ever, I don't I
44:11
Speaker 1: think it's not traditional for a man to be invited.
44:14
Speaker 1: I think like as time goes on, guys are making
44:17
Speaker 1: more and more appearances, and I think it's kind of
44:19
Speaker 1: like during the last half an hour baby shower, the
44:21
Speaker 1: dad might show up, which is fine. I like to
44:24
Speaker 1: think of baby showers and bridle showers. It's just for girls,
44:27
Speaker 1: I think. So I was invited to one of them,
44:30
Speaker 1: the family one I was invited to, and the friends
44:33
Speaker 1: one I was not invited to. Oh I didn't know that.
44:35
Speaker 1: There's now too, I say. I. I say, I'm all
44:39
Speaker 1: for having multiple. They sound like a good time, but
44:42
Speaker 1: a good time that I don't want to be at. Well,
44:44
Speaker 1: you know, there's a very fun game where they put
44:46
Speaker 1: mushed up chocolate in a diaper and you have to
44:50
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44:52
Speaker 1: It's really fun that I'm down that sounds like something
44:56
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44:59
Speaker 1: are something really good. Eight and then then we're gonna
45:01
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45:04
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45:06
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45:09
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45:11
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45:12
Speaker 1: no, No No, I really would like that that hoodie. And
45:14
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45:17
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45:19
Speaker 1: He's a carrier um Capital one, Capital one to the
45:23
Speaker 1: Jennifer Gardner card hilarious. Just the Eastern the Eastern magic
45:28
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45:31
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45:35
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45:39
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45:41
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45:45
Speaker 1: of all time, though I'm sure it was still a
45:49
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. We're not wrapping it up right now.
45:52
Speaker 1: Next week we have the Bachelor at reunion. Who's watching
45:57
Speaker 1: next week? Who was watchings for the that is that
46:01
Speaker 1: is on next week? Ashley? I mean, you don't even
46:04
Speaker 1: know about it, but I know you're a big fan
46:06
Speaker 1: of all these bachelorettes. Are you gonna be watching? Yes,
46:09
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. It's gonna be on ABC. We're super
46:13
Speaker 1: pumped for Here on the podcast, we're gonna be breaking
46:15
Speaker 1: down talking about it. The ABC is don a great job.
46:17
Speaker 1: That Bachelor has done great jobs that kind of um
46:19
Speaker 1: releasing small little bits from the episode in that show.
46:22
Speaker 1: It's gonna be incredible. It's gonna be fun to see
46:25
Speaker 1: some of these familiar faces again, and then the week
46:27
Speaker 1: after that, the Beast is back. I feels so bad.
46:33
Speaker 1: I don't want to call her the beast. I'm done
46:35
Speaker 1: with the hand. I'm done with it. Jared does it
46:38
Speaker 1: all the time, had a beast and I'm like, okay, no,
46:39
Speaker 1: I'm just like Tanna. Now. Can no, let's color this
46:42
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Can we set a standard. It's Hannah
46:45
Speaker 1: the Beautiful. That's that's the reaction I needed. Um, Hannah
46:50
Speaker 1: the Beautiful is back on ABC. Is Our Bachelorette. The
46:54
Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast has endorsed Hannah b since the beginning.
46:58
Speaker 1: I actually want to say and again, actually Connettie has
47:01
Speaker 1: endorsed Hannah By as a bachelor. Just for the sake
47:04
Speaker 1: of everybody out there listening in to a reminder, can
47:07
Speaker 1: you give us like a thirty second little just speech
47:11
Speaker 1: on why you believe? Give us a monologue, E stand
47:15
Speaker 1: up tall and proud and speak from your heart on
47:18
Speaker 1: why you think Hannah By is gonna be the next
47:21
Speaker 1: best bachelorette. I just feel like Hannah is the girl
47:25
Speaker 1: that's not so polished, that is super relatable. She's that
47:29
Speaker 1: girl who never like had all the guy I feel
47:33
Speaker 1: like guys didn't come and stay easy for her like
47:37
Speaker 1: so many girls experience out there. She was like kind
47:39
Speaker 1: of the Taylor Swift, like she maybe like get the
47:41
Speaker 1: guy for a while, but like could she have him stick?
47:44
Speaker 1: She felt like she's so awesome and she's such a
47:47
Speaker 1: girl's girl. But I feel like we just haven't. I
47:52
Speaker 1: don't know, then I'm not the monologue. Here's the thing.
47:56
Speaker 1: What actually I've talked about the phone with your text
47:58
Speaker 1: off and on. Is Hannah By is going to be
48:00
Speaker 1: the most relatable, relatable? I can't, can't most authentic, most genuine.
48:06
Speaker 1: Well we're gonna see in Hanna By this year is
48:08
Speaker 1: the bachelorette? Is Hannah By is going to invest into dating?
48:11
Speaker 1: You know why I don't like saying that stuff because
48:12
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that pass bachelorettes haven't been
48:15
Speaker 1: relatable or that they haven't been authentic. They have, They've
48:17
Speaker 1: just been more polished. And I think there's like a
48:21
Speaker 1: lot of girls out there who are a little bit
48:22
Speaker 1: more awkward. It's just like a little bit less smooth,
48:26
Speaker 1: a little bit more quirky, and they haven't necessarily been
48:29
Speaker 1: represented on this Here's the best part of it, Hannaby
48:32
Speaker 1: to me, when we saw her announced as the bachelorette.
48:35
Speaker 1: She flopped miserably. I mean it was. It was a
48:37
Speaker 1: miserable It was cute, but it's a miserable flop. So
48:40
Speaker 1: the initial reaction, which most of the time is humans,
48:43
Speaker 1: is incorrect. Our initial reaction, as fans were, Oh, no,
48:46
Speaker 1: this is gonna be brutal. Then give it a couple
48:49
Speaker 1: of days, give it a week, give it a month, whatever,
48:51
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be saying, just like we did with Colton, Oh,
48:54
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48:57
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49:08
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49:11
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49:20
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49:24
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49:26
Speaker 1: impressive impressive group of thirty hopeful bachelors who are willing
49:31
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49:34
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49:37
Speaker 1: Bachelor are keeping an eye out on the men from
49:40
Speaker 1: the surveillance van. Part by the Batchelor mentioned this is
49:42
Speaker 1: a new thing this year. I don't like it. I'm
49:45
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna fight you and say I do not
49:47
Speaker 1: like the surveillance fan. I feel like it's it's there
49:50
Speaker 1: is a level of prestige tonight one, and it almost
49:53
Speaker 1: feels like the the exclusive party and the only people
49:55
Speaker 1: invited in, or the Bachelor at the Bachelor and the contestants.
49:58
Speaker 1: It feels like bringing other people into raylans Can. Then
50:00
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that they're just getting more reactions from the
50:02
Speaker 1: guys in the limo. No no, no no. Demi Burton
50:06
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50:08
Speaker 1: a band watching and responding to who the men are. Oh,
50:11
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like that. I don't like
50:12
Speaker 1: it either. For the first time in Bachelor history of
50:14
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50:16
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50:18
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50:21
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50:26
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50:27
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Speaker 1: Bring it back. I mean we could load up a
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51:36
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Speaker 1: show I'd like to get into. Obviously, we know how
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Speaker 1: the show ins. I said, dude, you just ruined seven
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Speaker 1: seasons or whatever seasons of Game of Thrones by coming tonight.
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Speaker 1: But hey, anyways, you still check it out. I stopped
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Speaker 1: watching when klosy and drug while he died. That was
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Speaker 1: season one. Hey, ash I love you dearly. It's good
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Speaker 1: to see you. Wishing the best to you and Jared.
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Speaker 1: With that, I've been been, I've been Ashley later. Okaya.
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