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Night One for Season 21! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Holy Cow.
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Speaker 1: New season of the Bachelorette has started. We are kicking
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Speaker 1: it off, we are making things happen, we are breaking
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Speaker 1: it all down. Today It's Almost Famous podcast. We're back
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Speaker 1: in season with Jim season of the Bachelorette.
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Speaker 2: Ashley is still here. I'm here, not shockingly.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm shocked. Every day I'm like, today's
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Speaker 3: the deck, No get ahead. It's more like tomorrow is
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Speaker 3: the day, is how I've been saying it.
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm glad tomorrow's the day because I want
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Speaker 1: to have you here, especially for this first episode. It's
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Speaker 1: tough to kick off a really exciting new season of
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Speaker 1: the Bachelrette without you. I don't know how I would
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Speaker 1: do it. But let's dive into it now. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: season twenty one of the Bachelorette. Here's something crazy. Do
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Speaker 1: you know that Jared and myself were on the thirteenth
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Speaker 1: season of the Bachelorette and I was the twentieth bachelor.
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Speaker 3: Bachelor. I'll never forget that you were the twentieth bachelor.
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Speaker 2: They should have made a bigger deal out of that.
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Speaker 3: Keep going in our Bachelor seasons. There have been then
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Speaker 3: Bachelorette seasons. I can't believe they took that much of
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Speaker 3: a break in the two thousands from the Bachelorette anyway, Ben,
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Speaker 3: you know what jumped out as me as like being
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Speaker 3: the most like what's going on here moment? At least
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Speaker 3: at the beginning of the episode. What's that was, why
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Speaker 3: weren't they at the Bachelor Mansion? Right?
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Speaker 2: It's a good question.
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Speaker 3: Till the end then we found out why they were
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Speaker 3: not at the Bachelor Mansion.
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Speaker 1: I still don't know why they're not. I mean, even
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Speaker 1: if they're leaving after one date there, I don't know
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Speaker 1: why they still wouldn't have gone to the mansion.
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Speaker 3: My guess is that Marshall, the owner of the Bachelor Mansion,
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Speaker 3: probably didn't want to completely evacuate his home and have
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Speaker 3: them make it look like the Bachelor Mansion inside for
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Speaker 3: just one night. And I'm assuming that this house that
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Speaker 3: they used, which is also the house that they used
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Speaker 3: for what's that show called Listen to Your Heart, I
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Speaker 3: think that's probably just like a rental property, like that's
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Speaker 3: where they shoot things at, so they didn't they could
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Speaker 3: get it for one night and make it over.
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Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
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Speaker 1: It's you know, the mansion is iconic, and seeing people
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Speaker 1: walk through those front doors and take in a right
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Speaker 1: you know, always is exciting for me because I understand
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Speaker 1: and I've seen and I've been there before. But I
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Speaker 1: don't think this episode or this season is going to
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Speaker 1: miss the mansion.
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Speaker 2: It feels like.
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Speaker 3: I was just scared that we had gotten rid of
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Speaker 3: it forever and I was like, wait a second, I've
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Speaker 3: never going to be able to, you know, go back
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Speaker 3: there and be like.
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Speaker 2: This show your kids.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it must always stay the same.
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Speaker 1: Now going forward, well, we do have an episode to
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Speaker 1: speak about to talk about. I hope everybody listening has watched.
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Speaker 1: If they haven't, here's some just some ideas that have
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Speaker 1: happened in the past on the almost in this podcast,
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Speaker 1: we won't know all the names of these guys yet,
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Speaker 1: so I just want to let you know that there's
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Speaker 1: going to be some descriptors to categorize who we're talking about,
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Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to kind of piece that together. Also,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ashley and myself have never said that Night
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Speaker 1: One is our favorite episode. It's never been our favorite episode.
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Speaker 1: And I think for me, Ashley, I haven't heard your
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Speaker 1: thoughts yet. I would still hold that after the Night
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Speaker 1: one this season, it's not a marker of how good
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Speaker 1: or bad the season is gonna be.
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Speaker 3: No, it never is very telling.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's just the same thing over again.
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Speaker 1: But we did get introduced to some of these guys, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about some of our favorites and then some
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Speaker 1: of the people that might concern us after a period
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Speaker 1: of time.
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Speaker 2: So who are some of your favorites?
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Speaker 3: Okay, so favorites. I don't have a ton. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: be honest, don't have a ton. I understand her attraction
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Speaker 3: to Sam, the general contractor, who looks to me exactly
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Speaker 3: like Woan Pablo meets Sean Booth. He has definitely there's
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Speaker 3: an old to him. He's sexy. I worry about him,
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Speaker 3: and you even see in the scenes to the next
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Speaker 3: you know, the season that he might be a little
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Speaker 3: bit of a troublemaker, he might have a bit of
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Speaker 3: an ego on him. But I acknowledge that you know,
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Speaker 3: he as the first Rose recipient, the first impression Rose recipient,
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Speaker 3: definitely has I think the most chemistry with her. She
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Speaker 3: finds him most appealing Right now, what I loved is
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Speaker 3: that she didn't kiss anyone until after she met everyone. Now,
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Speaker 3: I mean, did she have one on one sessions with everyone?
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Speaker 3: I guess we can't be certain. We don't have any
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Speaker 3: guys complaining in the house that they didn't have a
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Speaker 3: moment with her, so I'm going to go ahead and
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Speaker 3: say that she probably had a little time with everyone.
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Speaker 3: I think that this episode, or like the time it
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Speaker 3: took to film this episode, perhaps was longer than any
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Speaker 3: other for episode because it got it got light light
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Speaker 3: outside so early, it got light outside by the time
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Speaker 3: that she gave out her first impression rose. Normally we
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Speaker 3: see the sun rising in the background of the rose ceremony,
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Speaker 3: but here the roads what the first rose wasn't even
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Speaker 3: given out, and the sun was straight up out And
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Speaker 3: it gave me the willies because by the time she
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Speaker 3: had that moment with Sam, the guys hadn't even lined
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Speaker 3: up for the rose ceremony, which in my head means
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Speaker 3: there was at least two hours more until the rose
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Speaker 3: ceremony was done at that point.
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Speaker 1: I like that this is what you're focused on now,
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Speaker 1: Like you know, most people are saying, yeah, that's crazy,
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Speaker 1: it gets light out, but Now as you get older
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Speaker 1: and I get older, the amount of time that each
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Speaker 1: contestant has asked to stay awake is now focus of
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Speaker 1: all of our attentions.
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Speaker 3: How red are their eyes? How bad is their breath?
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Speaker 3: Are they hungry? Like? Are their eyes just like just
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Speaker 3: so dry?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's.
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Speaker 3: Aughaking out at you making out? So you were making
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Speaker 3: out at like six thirty am.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's why these contestants go on to win all
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Speaker 1: these other competition shows, because they've been through the grind.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Your question to me was who stood out?
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Speaker 3: And here I am talking about the sun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't really answer the question why.
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Speaker 3: Sam obviously stood out is what I'm saying. I didn't
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Speaker 3: feel immense chemistry with a lot of other guys, but
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Speaker 3: I do have things to say about other guys. But Ben,
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Speaker 3: please your feedback.
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Speaker 2: Bring this back around.
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Speaker 1: I think Sam is definitely somebody we'd have to speak about.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Was he my favorite?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: Do I think he got the first impression Rose because
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Speaker 1: he he is gonna have a target on his back
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Speaker 1: and he's not going to respond well to it. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do. I really liked Marcus. I think Marcus came
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Speaker 1: in very first person out of the limo. He was humble,
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Speaker 1: he was kind, he has a great story. I do
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Speaker 1: think he's one to watch now. I don't know anything
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Speaker 1: about these guys character at this point. There's not one
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Speaker 1: guy I could say hey after night one on this season,
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Speaker 1: they made me concerned or they made me excited. I
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Speaker 1: think everybody is kind of showing their best face. You
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Speaker 1: give it time, you give it some pressure, then we'll
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Speaker 1: see who these guys really are. But I think Marcus
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Speaker 1: really stood out to me. I also think Noah's brother
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Speaker 1: is one to look out for. I think he seems
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Speaker 1: very sweet. I think he also has the advantage of
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Speaker 1: having Noah, who has probably told him about how this
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Speaker 1: process works, who to look out for, who to stay
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Speaker 1: away from, and the things to say not to say,
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Speaker 1: which is interesting because we do see a clip of
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Speaker 1: I think his name's Aaron, Aaron being the guy that
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Speaker 1: says not everybody here is here for the right reasons,
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Speaker 1: which is never a good thing for any contestant to do,
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Speaker 1: to be the person that says fat m But I
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Speaker 1: actually one of my questions for you is, honestly, when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the first impression, Rose can remember a
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Speaker 1: season as of late, where the first impression Rose Getter
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Speaker 1: ends up being there at the.
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Speaker 3: End, it's been a while.
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Speaker 1: I think my point is, I think the trend is
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Speaker 1: that the first impression Rose receiver has as of late,
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Speaker 1: reacted really poorly to getting the first impression Rose. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they've had the target on their back and they haven't
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Speaker 1: joked with themselves, they haven't handled it well. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they got a little too big an ego. Their confidence
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Speaker 1: kind of gets big, and they annoy the rest of
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Speaker 1: the house, and then over time they end up becoming
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Speaker 1: contentious with the rest of the house. I think this
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Speaker 1: is gonna happen with Sam. Now we've gone through some
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Speaker 1: of the people that sit out to us. You said Sam,
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Speaker 1: I said Marcus. Obviously, Aaron's there.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you with Marcus for sure. When she
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Speaker 3: was sitting down with Marcus at the cocktail party, I
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Speaker 3: was like, Oh, this could be him, this could be
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Speaker 3: the first impression for us Getter, and then even with
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Speaker 3: Aaron a little bit too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there is definitely some standouts. Again, though,
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Speaker 1: I think this night one stands out and separates itself
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Speaker 1: to me, because there isn't that person that everybody's gonna
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Speaker 1: be like, Oh my gosh, this guy's it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now let's just go generalities here. Who, Ashley, do you
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Speaker 1: want to talk about? Who kind of just go off
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Speaker 1: on your tangent. Now, who is memorable to you for
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Speaker 1: who they are?
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Speaker 2: What they did?
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Speaker 3: Okay, this is shocking. What was his name? I have
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Speaker 3: this written down. Jonathan the guy with the head wrap,
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Speaker 3: the patient who came out of the limo with his
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Speaker 3: butt showing. My sister and I were so grossed out.
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Speaker 3: We're like, oh, no, girl wants to see a bare
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Speaker 3: ass as a first impression. And then like the whole
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Speaker 3: gimmick of the head wrap. I'm like. And then he
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Speaker 3: unwrapped his rap and I was like, wait, he's cute.
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Speaker 3: Like I was like, I'm like, most attracted to him
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Speaker 3: out of anybody else, really, Yeah, And so interestingly, I
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Speaker 3: think that he might have a future. So that was
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Speaker 3: interest That was interesting to me. Sam m the love
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Speaker 3: Virgin made a big deal about never having a girlfriend
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Speaker 3: before he's twenty five. I hadn't had a boyfriend at
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Speaker 3: twenty five, so I'm not gonna I do no fault
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Speaker 3: him for that. I was weirded out by the fact
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Speaker 3: that he came that his package included him curling his
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Speaker 3: eyelashes with a lash curler, so that that's interesting.
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Speaker 2: Why is that interesting?
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Speaker 3: I've never seen a guy prepare himself for a night
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Speaker 3: with an eyelash curler.
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Speaker 2: I told you.
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Speaker 1: One of the only things I do aesthetically to my
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Speaker 1: face ever, especially on the show.
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Speaker 2: No, well, I do that. I guess if that counts.
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Speaker 1: I have one of I got a eyelash comb one
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Speaker 1: of those little things, and I comb out my eyelash.
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Speaker 3: That's fun because it feels nice.
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Speaker 2: And it feels really good, I must say. But I
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Speaker 2: just say it feels good. How many dudes do you
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Speaker 2: see do that? Not a lot? Is it a weird thing?
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Speaker 2: Could you say it's a weird thing.
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Speaker 1: If you want to curl those eyelashes, because you've got
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Speaker 1: long enough eyelashes to curl, go for it, dude.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm not yeah again, A little bit
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Speaker 3: of maybe a beige flag, a base flag, Okay, based flag.
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Speaker 3: I Dylan, the twenty four year old medical student, stands
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Speaker 3: out to me as a good potential. I liked him
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Speaker 3: and it's just his bio, and I am eager to
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Speaker 3: see more of him. But right now he's kind of
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Speaker 3: like the strong, silent type.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think he'll get far though. And then the other
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Speaker 3: things worth mentioning, I think were it was the disgusting
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Speaker 3: moment between the real estate developer who from New York,
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Speaker 3: who just cringes me out. Does he think that, like
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Speaker 3: his travel and his money is impressive.
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Speaker 2: Here's just a note here to pause you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Anybody that wants to brag about how much money they have, yeah,
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Speaker 1: should just creep you out in general, and typically they
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Speaker 1: ain't telling the truth.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh he was, like, I shipped my Maserati or
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Speaker 3: whatever the heck that was Ferrari all the way from
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Speaker 3: New York. Oh, yes, that car they shipped it for you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the dumbest thing you could ever do.
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Speaker 1: You won't need a car now for the next three months.
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Speaker 1: Why is what you're already gonna do with your Maserati
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Speaker 1: sitting in Los Angeles? Hopefully that was a cool two
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Speaker 1: minute drive. It doesn't make any sense. It's not rational.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be and marry somebody who's going
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Speaker 1: to be making weird decisions like this. This doesn't speak husband,
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Speaker 1: it speaks child.
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Speaker 3: Yes, And then to make matters worse, Brian, the aesthetics
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Speaker 3: guy with the completely frozen forehead, comes and like tries
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Speaker 3: to interrupt the Ferrari moment, and it's just disgusting. I
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Speaker 3: can't these guys only got through for the sake of TV,
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Speaker 3: because come on, now, there's no way she was attracted
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Speaker 3: to anything between the two of them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I do really like the med school student. I think
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Speaker 1: that the strong silence hype definitely somebody you know, there
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Speaker 1: is some guys here that even in just their intro packages,
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Speaker 1: you could tell they were very excited to potentially find
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Speaker 1: love and not just be on television. And I think
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Speaker 1: you saw that in some of their actions. Even at
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Speaker 1: the mansion, there were some quiet people around, which is great.
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Speaker 1: I think those are the people that are going to
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Speaker 1: stand out in the end switching gears, because we have
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Speaker 1: gone through some of the standouts now in terms of
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Speaker 1: the contestants a little bit. To go back to our
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Speaker 1: breakdown episode where we broke down each of these guys,
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Speaker 1: I do think, as usual, the guys who were a
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Speaker 1: lot more handsome than we saw in the pictures that
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Speaker 1: were taken and posted online. This is a good looking
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Speaker 1: group of guys. There's definitely some people I think as
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Speaker 1: we get to know them better, will become even more
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Speaker 1: handsome and you know, attractive to us all. But I
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Speaker 1: do think I was a little nervous after looking at
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Speaker 1: all the pictures. I was like, this be rough and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was not rough at all. They put
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Speaker 1: a suit on. Well, there's definitely some studs. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about Jen. We still did not get to know
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Speaker 1: a lot about Jen even on this episode. She is
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Speaker 1: our bachelorette and one of the things that we were
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Speaker 1: not concerned about, but what we wanted desired was to
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Speaker 1: learn more about Jen because we did not get to
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Speaker 1: see a ton of Gin on Joey's season of the Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: And honestly, I felt like we didn't get to know
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Speaker 1: a lot about Jen even after this episode. We got
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Speaker 1: to hear a little bit about her family dynamics and
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Speaker 1: what she wanted and desired for life and kind of
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Speaker 1: her schooling. I will say I want to know more
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Speaker 1: about Jen for one reason and one reason only. I
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Speaker 1: think I really like Jin. I thought she handled Night
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Speaker 1: one with her responses, her ability to listen, her ability
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Speaker 1: to make fun, to laugh, to kind of ease the
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Speaker 1: nervousness of all these guys better than any that we've
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Speaker 1: seen in recent history. I thought she was amazing on
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Speaker 1: night one, so I want to I just want to
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Speaker 1: know more about her.
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Speaker 2: I hope we get to.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know how we talk about when they go
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Speaker 3: on one on ones, they usually just learn about the
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Speaker 3: new contestant and not the bachelor, not the lead. I
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Speaker 3: do hope that they have they show the conversation in
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Speaker 3: full so that we can get to know both of
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Speaker 3: them at the same time. I also want to go
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Speaker 3: back to what I was saying earlier about the fact
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Speaker 3: that she decided not to kiss anyone until she decided
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Speaker 3: who her first impression Rose was. I just thought that
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Speaker 3: was refreshing because I feel like every night one we
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Speaker 3: keep getting more and more kisses, and it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: how much do you you really feel the urge to
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Speaker 3: kiss this person after a five minute conversation. So I'm
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Speaker 3: just really glad that she reserved it for her first impression,
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Speaker 3: Rose Getter, and that she went through like everyone and
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Speaker 3: then she was like, I've been thinking about you like
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Speaker 3: I keep thinking about you. So I just felt like
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Speaker 3: there was a lot of meaning to it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I do. Sometimes that's just luck too
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Speaker 1: that it works out that way. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: any lead that I've talked to when we, you know,
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Speaker 1: are having drinks and just talking about the experience, says, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I went in the nine one just ready to make
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Speaker 1: out with everybody. I don't think that's ever actually a
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Speaker 1: desire or something that anybody believes will be the healthiest
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Speaker 1: for the long term relationships of all of these people.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes it just happens, right Like sometimes you're just
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Speaker 1: in a position, you're small talking and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, there's a kiss and it happens on night one.
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Speaker 1: I think with Jen one of the reasons I would
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Speaker 1: say that there wasn't as much kissing or there really
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Speaker 1: wasn't any until the first impression or is get her
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Speaker 1: was because she's a good conversationalist. Like the conversations continued,
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Speaker 1: they never stopped.
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Speaker 2: I think she's engaging.
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Speaker 1: I think these guys were nervous and she kept them
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Speaker 1: kind of asking good questions. She was asking good questions back,
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Speaker 1: and when the conversation is flowing, there's no need to
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Speaker 1: stop and have to make out, which you know what.
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Speaker 1: For the first couple of dates, I know you and
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Speaker 1: I are like, this is awesome. We won't have to
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Speaker 1: watch Jin make out with everybody. What we do get
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Speaker 1: to do is see Jin connect with people and we
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Speaker 1: get to learn about the contestants. That makes a better season.
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Speaker 1: So that's my prediction now for the rest of the
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Speaker 1: season is that we're actually going to get to know
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Speaker 1: some of these guys, because we've had leads who are
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Speaker 1: so bad at talking and so bad at asking questions
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Speaker 1: that we've only seen them kiss people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know. All right, Well, Ben, is
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Speaker 3: there anything else, Like I have a couple more random thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Before we jump into random thoughts, I want to
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Speaker 1: talk to you about now your overall idea that they
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Speaker 1: won't be at a mansion, that they're going to be
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Speaker 1: traveling right away internationally with this massive group of people.
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Speaker 2: Are you excited for this? You know? Are you nervous
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Speaker 2: about it?
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Speaker 1: I'll say my opinion is the mansion always seems to
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Speaker 1: bring out drama. I'm nervous that traveling internationally might cause
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Speaker 1: less drama than what we've seen in the mansion. Because
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Speaker 1: the mansion, you live on top of each other, you're
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Speaker 1: in bunk beds with each other, you're sharing a bathroom,
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Speaker 1: with each other. You're waking up around each other, You're
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Speaker 1: around each other all the time, in very close proximity,
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Speaker 1: and you're just sick of being in the heat of
19:28
Speaker 1: la sitting outside while somebody else is on a date,
19:31
Speaker 1: you know, twirling your thumbs. I am nervous that that drama,
19:37
Speaker 1: kind of the anxiousness to continue on will be less
19:42
Speaker 1: because they're traveling internationally.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I agree with that. I do
19:49
Speaker 3: agree with like being in the house. It's closer quarters.
19:54
Speaker 3: You are in a bedroom with like twelve people versus three.
19:59
Speaker 3: But I also so feel like you're on these long
20:02
Speaker 3: flights and you're going through time changes, and you're probably
20:06
Speaker 3: crankier and like more out of your element. So that
20:09
Speaker 3: could also bring up some bad feelings. Yeah, so I
20:14
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't have a problem with them going
20:16
Speaker 3: right off the bat traveling. I don't think it's going
20:20
Speaker 3: to make a whole different vibe. But I hope it
20:22
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like and it shouldn't. I shouldn't. I was
20:26
Speaker 3: gonna say, hope it doesn't feel like the quarantine seasons,
20:30
Speaker 3: where like we never had a place if familiar. Well, yeah,
20:36
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't I don't have any strong
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Speaker 3: opinions on this, okay, but Ben yours what's interesting?
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Speaker 2: Consider it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna transition now into Ashley's general thoughts on this episode,
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Speaker 1: everything that's just been swirling in your head after watching it,
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Speaker 1: after feeling it, Ashley, take it away.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So disappointed that the heavy set guy, the teddy bear, we.
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Speaker 2: Never got to know him. He was such a good character.
21:10
Speaker 3: I liked him. His personality went along with what I
21:14
Speaker 3: thought he would be like based on his bio, and
21:17
Speaker 3: I'm bummed. I also, you remember the Devin Okay, so Devin,
21:23
Speaker 3: the one that she said it reminds her of Pete Davidson,
21:26
Speaker 3: who owns like a freight company in Texas and was
21:28
Speaker 3: brought up by a single mom. He's the one that
21:33
Speaker 3: likes to poison himself with whatever he's allergic to. Remember,
21:38
Speaker 3: I don't know about my feeling they have something. He's
21:42
Speaker 3: definitely a big personality. He makes me nervous though. He
21:47
Speaker 3: makes me feel like there's something there might be some
21:51
Speaker 3: darkness there.
21:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something off.
21:53
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you you feel.
21:55
Speaker 1: I definitely feel it, and I think they tried to
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Speaker 1: communicate that touch show us that during this episode. I
22:03
Speaker 1: don't know, Ashley, if how it will play out, right,
22:10
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what the story will up being,
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Speaker 1: but yes, I think you are. My attention was attuned
22:16
Speaker 1: to him and what his decision making will be like
22:19
Speaker 1: now for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
22:21
Speaker 3: And then finally Marcus who, oh no, not Marcus Love.
22:25
Speaker 3: Marcus Grant the basketball player. Yeah, we were so right
22:30
Speaker 3: on about him during our profile breakdown. He was a
22:36
Speaker 3: professional basketball player and then he turned into a financier
22:41
Speaker 3: and you said interested like the final like, how what
22:46
Speaker 3: extent of finance are you doing? Is this just something
22:49
Speaker 3: that you say to make you seem fancy? And the
22:53
Speaker 3: guy just seems to really like to look fancy. He
22:59
Speaker 3: had an he's a basketball player, but he has play
23:02
Speaker 3: vibes all over him. Extremely good looking. But he's the
23:07
Speaker 3: kind of guy that will just kind of like say anything.
23:10
Speaker 3: He could come up with a line out of his
23:11
Speaker 3: butt and make it sound smooth and suave and seductive.
23:16
Speaker 3: It just seems like everything's like a seduction line, right,
23:20
Speaker 3: And I'm worried that she might be seduced by his
23:26
Speaker 3: overall being. But I don't think that there's a lot
23:29
Speaker 3: of substance right there, right now.
23:32
Speaker 2: I think him and Sam very much are similar in that.
23:35
Speaker 3: Yeah Sam, Sam general contractor Sam.
23:38
Speaker 2: Or No, who's got the first impression?
23:40
Speaker 4: Rows?
23:40
Speaker 2: What was his name? Oh?
23:41
Speaker 3: Sam m is the first impression get her? Sam En
23:47
Speaker 3: is the love virgin.
23:49
Speaker 1: I think those the first impression Rows, Getter, and Grant
23:52
Speaker 1: remind me very similarly to each other, based in just
23:56
Speaker 1: how they what they say, and how they have handled
24:00
Speaker 1: Night one. I'm always a little hesitant because both those
24:05
Speaker 1: dudes seemed a little too confident Night one or egotisticle?
24:12
Speaker 3: Which one is it? Yeah?
24:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you confident?
24:14
Speaker 1: Or is your ego so big that you just could
24:18
Speaker 1: never admit that this is actually an environment that you
24:20
Speaker 1: should feel very uncomfortable in, that this is something very weird.
24:24
Speaker 1: H And that's what you know, that's where my hesitancy comes,
24:26
Speaker 1: because where does that confidence come from? But you know what,
24:29
Speaker 1: in the past, we've had this similar feeling that we
24:31
Speaker 1: just said about Sam and Grant, and these guys or
24:36
Speaker 1: these women end up sharing their story and then we
24:38
Speaker 1: get to know them in a whole new light, through
24:40
Speaker 1: a whole new lens, and we're like, we really like
24:42
Speaker 1: them now that has happened, and I'm open to that.
24:45
Speaker 1: I just think as of right now, my guard's up. Yeah,
24:49
Speaker 1: my guard's up for jin.
24:52
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, my guard's up with a lot of the
24:53
Speaker 3: guys except for Bill and the doctor Dylan medical student,
24:57
Speaker 3: I trust you, and John m he's also a medical
25:01
Speaker 3: student a year older, just a little bit more on
25:05
Speaker 3: the down low. We'll see.
25:06
Speaker 2: What's the age ranges of these men, Ashley.
25:10
Speaker 3: I think it's probably twenty four to mid thirties.
25:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:16
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's a pretty good range like that.
25:18
Speaker 1: In Jen's howel she is twenty six. Yeah, so we're
25:22
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, this is all it could be anybody,
25:25
Speaker 1: you know, there's nobody too young or too old. Really,
25:28
Speaker 1: twenty four is young, I get that, but that's also
25:30
Speaker 1: twenty four I think is Dylan right, the men's student, he.
25:34
Speaker 3: Seems very mature for his age. He was talking about
25:36
Speaker 3: wanting to be a doctor at the age of twelve
25:38
Speaker 3: and like sharing to shadow doctors at that age because
25:42
Speaker 3: of his grandmother's breast cancer. That was very sweet.
25:46
Speaker 2: It's very sweet.
25:49
Speaker 1: I am excited for us this season, Ashley. I do
25:51
Speaker 1: think there's some great things upon us. And to close
25:54
Speaker 1: out this episode, of episode one of gen season of
25:57
Speaker 1: The Bachelorette. Let's talk about now now the kind of
26:01
Speaker 1: preview for the rest of the season. Anything stand out
26:03
Speaker 1: to you there that makes you excited and nervous or
26:07
Speaker 1: just memorable.
26:09
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Ben, I don't think she's ending up with anyone.
26:12
Speaker 2: Not same, I would say the same thing.
26:13
Speaker 3: I'm like pretty certain in that, like to the point
26:15
Speaker 3: where I might just like keep saying it and just
26:17
Speaker 3: stand by my thought the entire season. Because when I
26:21
Speaker 3: interviewed her, which you guys, the interview comes out today,
26:23
Speaker 3: you can listen to it. She didn't seem giddy over anyone,
26:27
Speaker 3: you know how usually I can get somebody to sound
26:30
Speaker 3: giddy over someone. She didn't have that she didn't even
26:33
Speaker 3: have like the whole I'm happy thing. Well, maybe she
26:37
Speaker 3: was like I feel good or like, you know, she
26:40
Speaker 3: like feels like good about her decision making, but she
26:43
Speaker 3: didn't make it seem like she was happy in love
26:46
Speaker 3: and watching this. My only concerned about just being so
26:52
Speaker 3: firm on saying that she doesn't end up with anyone
26:56
Speaker 3: is because I think that that's what they're trying to
26:58
Speaker 3: make it seem like having her put down the rows
27:01
Speaker 3: and yeah, pick it up and put it down and
27:03
Speaker 3: lah lah lah.
27:04
Speaker 1: My feeling is that something happens in the course of
27:08
Speaker 1: the season that will make us very angry at a
27:10
Speaker 1: few of these guys, and that Jen is going to
27:13
Speaker 1: get the raw into the deal here and she's not
27:16
Speaker 1: going to end up with anybody, and she's actually going
27:17
Speaker 1: to end up hurt like she's not. I don't think
27:21
Speaker 1: she's deciding not to end up with anybody because she's
27:23
Speaker 1: just not interested. I think she ends up with nobody
27:26
Speaker 1: because she ends up getting hurt. And that's going to
27:30
Speaker 1: be very controversial. It is going to be extremely polarizing.
27:35
Speaker 1: It's also going to be very unfortunate. But this is
27:39
Speaker 1: my this is my theory. I've been wrong before, I've
27:43
Speaker 1: been wrong recently. I could be wrong now, but I
27:46
Speaker 1: would I'm in your camp, Ashley. I think you and
27:48
Speaker 1: I here at the almost famous podcast, we'll say with
27:51
Speaker 1: confidence we do not believe Jen ends up with anyone.
27:55
Speaker 3: And I think it will be the first time that
27:57
Speaker 3: she doesn't like a lead, doesn't end up with somebody
28:01
Speaker 3: for the reason that it's going to be you know
28:02
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like we've seen Brad. What I guess
28:05
Speaker 3: Brad was just like I don't really feel it enough
28:07
Speaker 3: with you or like that. Those people will be like
28:10
Speaker 3: I just kind of want to date you. I feel like, yeah,
28:13
Speaker 3: you're right, there will be it'll be new, the ending
28:18
Speaker 3: will be unprecedented. Speaking of a guy comes back from
28:23
Speaker 3: her past who has not put on the show before.
28:26
Speaker 3: This is not like a Nick situation. This is somebody
28:32
Speaker 3: who's just random in her life, past boyfriend or something,
28:37
Speaker 3: and he wants to join the cast. Do you think
28:39
Speaker 3: he ends up joining the cast? No?
28:41
Speaker 1: I think this is way overplayed. I think this wouldn't
28:43
Speaker 1: have been a very small storyline that makes less sense.
28:47
Speaker 1: I think he's probably just like a hanger on her
28:49
Speaker 1: who shows up and she asks the group and the
28:52
Speaker 1: group's like, no, that's stupid, and she's like, I agree,
28:54
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't stand a chance, and he gets out
28:56
Speaker 1: of there. I don't think he joins the cast.
28:57
Speaker 4: Well.
28:58
Speaker 1: And I say that because she's very clear in episode
29:01
Speaker 1: one that she's never had strong feelings for anybody in
29:04
Speaker 1: her past.
29:05
Speaker 3: Right, so she sent her three boyfriends. Doesn't so much
29:08
Speaker 3: she's hanging on to anyone. She keeps saying that, like,
29:10
Speaker 3: the guys in my past are in my past for
29:12
Speaker 3: a reason, like sure, I've learned from them and I
29:16
Speaker 3: do not want to be with them, so.
29:17
Speaker 1: I'd have no I would think that there'd be nobody
29:20
Speaker 1: that would pop in that she'd be like, oh but
29:22
Speaker 1: I forgot about you.
29:23
Speaker 3: You knus it could be somebody who you know, things
29:27
Speaker 3: didn't go all the way with, you know, she didn't
29:30
Speaker 3: get into a relationship with them, but like there was
29:31
Speaker 3: always a crush there.
29:34
Speaker 2: I don't know.
29:35
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm believing it, Okay, I think
29:37
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a big storyline. I think
29:39
Speaker 1: that it comes and goes and it's a great teaser.
29:42
Speaker 1: But I do think the teaser that sticks is that
29:45
Speaker 1: in the end, Jin's really hurt and we're all going
29:49
Speaker 1: to be really mad about it, and we're going to say,
29:51
Speaker 1: what about that love story? And I won't have to
29:54
Speaker 1: wait till Jones season to hopefully find one, and we're
29:56
Speaker 1: all going to be really upset because we liked gin
29:59
Speaker 1: And and we like her with somebody but rock and
30:04
Speaker 1: roll Gin She's gonna be great. She's She's already on
30:07
Speaker 1: Night one showing signs to be captivating, to be funny,
30:13
Speaker 1: to be quick witted, and to be very flirtatious, which
30:17
Speaker 1: is obviously a very good thing for a lead. When
30:20
Speaker 1: they it feels like she has forty dudes. At this point,
30:23
Speaker 1: it's crazy, who goes to Australia.
30:26
Speaker 2: Ashley.
30:28
Speaker 1: For the rest of the season, we'll be here at
30:30
Speaker 1: the Almost Famous Podcast, at least one of us will
30:32
Speaker 1: be every week.
30:34
Speaker 3: Now.
30:34
Speaker 1: I think we should just sign off by saying, Ashley,
30:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the week, but if
30:38
Speaker 1: it is, I wish you the best.
30:39
Speaker 2: If it's not, we'll see you next week.
30:42
Speaker 1: The Almost Famous Podcast won't stop with or without Ashley
30:45
Speaker 1: and myself here.
30:46
Speaker 2: You don't keep going. That's the way we do it.
30:49
Speaker 2: So until next week. I've been Ben, I've been Ashley.
30:52
Speaker 3: See you guys.
30:54
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