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Almost Famous OG: Bachelorette Party · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hey everybody,
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  Speaker 1: it's Trista with Deanna here, and we are back. We
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  Speaker 1: had to break it up because we had a lot
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  Speaker 1: to say, but we are back and we're ready to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Before the Final Rows special. When you
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  Speaker 1: first met Taylor, had you watched Mormon Wives yet?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I have been jommling a lot for work, and some
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  Speaker 3: of my girlfriends are like, oh my gosh, while you're
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  Speaker 3: in the road, you have to watch the Mormon Wives.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what are you people talking about? And
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  Speaker 3: I did give it a go, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait, these girls only drink soda, and
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  Speaker 3: why are there twenty three different kinds of soda? And
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  Speaker 3: why why do they all have the most beautiful hair
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  Speaker 3: in the world, Like they all have the best hair height.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe my new calling is to move to Utah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I need to move and become a Mormon wife
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  Speaker 3: and live in Utah. Except I hate the snow. But
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  Speaker 3: they have such good skin and they have such good hair,
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  Speaker 3: and like if they just get paid to like hang
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  Speaker 3: out all day and talk about their cream soda, like
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  Speaker 3: listen that, I feel like I'm there in life now, Trista.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, do they talk about because I went to this
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  Speaker 1: place the other day? Actually I was at the mall
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  Speaker 1: with this place. I went to the mall the other
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  Speaker 1: day and there was like a little stand where you
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  Speaker 1: get the where you get SODA's and they had dirty
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  Speaker 1: sodas or whatever, and I was like, well what do
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  Speaker 1: I get? Do they ever talk about what their order is?
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  Speaker 1: Because I really want to know what's good, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to just just order they do.
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  Speaker 2: Did you not start on season one? I haven't yet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so cool. I'm so mad at myself. Okay, you
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  Speaker 2: got to start on season one.
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  Speaker 3: So season one, I feel like did a really great
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  Speaker 3: job of laying up these women, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: kind of what their lives are, what it entails in Utah,
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  Speaker 3: and it is a very different lifestyle because traditionally, if
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  Speaker 3: you are Mormon, you don't drink, there's no sex before
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  Speaker 3: marriage and all of these things. And I believe that's
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  Speaker 3: why Taylor Frankie Paul stood out because she was very
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  Speaker 3: much a part of this mom talk group, but like
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  Speaker 3: her life was not these things, Like she the whole
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  Speaker 3: scenario where there was the swinging going on and that's.
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  Speaker 2: So unheard of in their religion and culture.
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  Speaker 3: And you know that she was divorced, and then there
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  Speaker 3: was Dakota, and there's obviously sex out of marriage and
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  Speaker 3: these kids, and so I believe that's why the attraction
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  Speaker 3: to her started, because she seemed so real life like us,
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  Speaker 3: whereas a lot of the other women are very traditional
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  Speaker 3: Mormon and they're just prim and proper and pretty and
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  Speaker 3: sweet and so like, so sheltered, it feels like at times.
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  Speaker 3: So I actually found this show very fascinating in a
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  Speaker 3: sense that like, these women had this social media following
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  Speaker 3: for really the things that I'm telling you their mom
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  Speaker 3: talk account, and then they went on reality television and
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  Speaker 3: just like any of us who have been on reality TV,
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  Speaker 3: you don't necessarily know what to expect when you do it.
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  Speaker 3: And I knew by the end of season one. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, this is hot. There's gonna be like seven seasons.
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  Speaker 3: It's the New Kardashians, you know what I mean. The
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  Speaker 3: Kardashians for me are played out. I haven't watched it
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  Speaker 3: in years, but like, this is the New Kardashians. So yes,
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  Speaker 3: and they do a lot of social media too. Trista
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  Speaker 3: A lot of them talking about their soda order, like
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  Speaker 3: what they get. Like I see Jesse a lot running
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  Speaker 3: through and she's like, oh, today, in.
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  Speaker 2: My coffee I got.
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  Speaker 3: Like they're not supposed to even have caffeine, so like
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they're like coke float is the highlight
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  Speaker 3: of their day. I'm like, damn, I wish I lived
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  Speaker 3: a simple life like that, Like what a joy it
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  Speaker 3: must be to only stress over what's gonna be in
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  Speaker 3: your fruity soda at the.
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  Speaker 2: End of the day, Like take me along, just let
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  Speaker 2: me come and visit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny, Heather, our producer, just said that Taylor's
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  Speaker 1: order is doctor Pepper, coconut cream, vanilla, and a squeeze
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  Speaker 1: of lime.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what's funny.
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  Speaker 1: That day when I needed a soda, I was craving
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  Speaker 1: it and I don't drink caffeine normally, but I had.
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  Speaker 1: I got a Doctor Pepper with coconut cream, so I
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  Speaker 1: was halfway there. If I just had gotten the vanilla
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  Speaker 1: and squeeze of lime, I would have been there.
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  Speaker 3: So listen, I don't like like sweet things, Like I
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  Speaker 3: could probably go the rest of my life without dessert.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have Coffeeah, you like savory. I do.
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  Speaker 3: I am a very savory human being, and I put
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit of like the lowest amount of
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  Speaker 3: sugar creamer in my coffee. So when I was reading
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  Speaker 3: Heather's message, doctor pepper, coconut cream, vanilla and a squeeze
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  Speaker 3: of lime, I'm like gagging. Trista, Like that just sounds
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  Speaker 3: like sugar overload to me, Like, do you know that
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  Speaker 3: as women we are only supposed to have twenty five
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  Speaker 3: grams of sugar? I think, Okay, don't quote me on that,
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  Speaker 3: but I think it's twenty five grams of sugar a day.
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  Speaker 2: A day.
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  Speaker 3: I would be like, I would be so jacked up
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  Speaker 3: that Nope, my dog wouldn't even want to be around me.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, I have like twenty five grams a breath.
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  Speaker 3: You know, life, What sweet life it is to worry
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  Speaker 3: about your soda.
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  Speaker 2: So, so your time before her.
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  Speaker 3: First episode next week is to catch up on the
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  Speaker 3: Mormon Wives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that believe too.
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  Speaker 3: That will give you so much more of a background,
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  Speaker 3: not just on our girl Taylor Frankie Paul, but also
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  Speaker 3: on all of the women. There's a lot of story,
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  Speaker 3: you know, on each of them. There's a lot of drama.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and sometimes people are like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: the drama. The drama. Well, I don't know. You take
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  Speaker 2: seven or eight women like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in any day to day life, there is
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  Speaker 3: drama you cannot have. And you said it when we
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  Speaker 3: started this episode, You're not gonna love everybody, right, You're
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  Speaker 3: going to try to like people, but.
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  Speaker 2: You're just not. You're just not.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone doesn't have to be your cup of tea. I
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  Speaker 3: don't have to be everyone's cup of tea. That's just
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  Speaker 3: the way it is. So I imagine it is the
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  Speaker 3: same scenario for these women. They're not all each other's
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  Speaker 3: cup of tea. And there is drama. And somebody's on
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  Speaker 3: Dancing with the.
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  Speaker 2: Stars, somebody's on the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's not getting famous, someone has too much facework and
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  Speaker 3: regrets it. Like there's all of this stuff, and I
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  Speaker 3: believe like the good news is like we get to
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  Speaker 3: be viewers, Trista, and as a viewer, it's really good TV.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and also I feel like a lot of it,
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  Speaker 1: from what you're saying, we can relate to, like family issues,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I feel like her father didn't her father,
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  Speaker 1: her father passed away right.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: She has a really tough relationship with her mom, and
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  Speaker 3: that plays out on the show in the first well
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  Speaker 3: in every season, but you know, for sure you get
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  Speaker 3: to know it in the first couple of seasons, that
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  Speaker 3: sticky relationship. You know, it's, yeah, here's what I Here's
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  Speaker 3: the other thing. I'm gonna say. The other thing that
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  Speaker 3: I can really appreciate is like Taylor Frankie Paul hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been anything that she's not. She shows up as a
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  Speaker 3: bachelorette on The Mormon Wives as herself good and bad, and.
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  Speaker 2: I like love people like that. I gravitate.
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  Speaker 3: I have a no bullshit meeter, like I don't want
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  Speaker 3: any part of that. And I do appreciate that good
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  Speaker 3: or bad. With everything that she's been through, the arrests,
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  Speaker 3: the drama, the drinking, the sexcapades, all of the things,
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  Speaker 3: she's pretty consistent with who she is, not just on
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  Speaker 3: the show, but I felt when we filmed the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Bachelorette special as well, but also on her social media,
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  Speaker 3: like she comes yeah as she is good or bad,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm here for that. I would much
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  Speaker 3: rather hang out with someone like that versus like someone
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  Speaker 3: who sweeps that shit under the rug and pretends like
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  Speaker 3: life is perfect. I would much rather be on the
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  Speaker 3: other on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Of it same.
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  Speaker 1: I was just having this conversation with one of my
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  Speaker 1: best friends about I am just craving like deeper relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I don't the superficial stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I mean, it's fine, it's fine to have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm I have. I have good friends that
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  Speaker 1: we just talk about mostly superficial stuff. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to get into the deep conversations, the like being vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: with each other. And that's who she is, Like, she
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  Speaker 1: is vulnerable. It's laid out for all of us to
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  Speaker 1: see and judge, even though we shouldn't. But I feel
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  Speaker 1: the same way. I even not watching Mormon Wives. Going
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  Speaker 1: to the special and meeting Taylor, I know that, or
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  Speaker 1: I knew going into it that she was like controversial,
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  Speaker 1: but I was like, well, good for her for just
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  Speaker 1: being her and not giving two shits about anything, like
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  Speaker 1: just being like, listen, this is me, Take me or
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  Speaker 1: leave me.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this because they're asking me to
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  Speaker 1: and I would like to find love. And if you
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  Speaker 1: want to watch, go ahead. I would love for you
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  Speaker 1: to watch, but if not, that's fine too.
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  Speaker 3: Even when we film the special, like I I'm with you,
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  Speaker 3: I have no capacity for surface level. I am a
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  Speaker 3: deep human being, Trista. I crave at my core deep
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  Speaker 3: relationships you.
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  Speaker 2: When we get together, it is never surface level, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like we have great conversations and talk about difficult things
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  Speaker 3: and wonderful things, but I have no capacity for surface
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  Speaker 3: level at all. And even when we filmed this special,
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  Speaker 3: and I'd love to get into that more because it
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  Speaker 3: was such a great day. She showed up as herself,
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  Speaker 3: Like she walked in and I know they didn't show it,
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  Speaker 3: but she looked at us all and was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so nervous right now. I'm really anxiously overwhelmed. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of you and one of me. Like I thought
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  Speaker 3: she did a really good job of advocating for herself
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  Speaker 3: and walking into a room of women who have gone
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  Speaker 3: before you, which is really intimidating, but also showing up
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  Speaker 3: as the new bachelorette and trying to find her feet
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  Speaker 3: on her own. I thought she did a great job
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  Speaker 3: of that, of that being like, I'm nervous, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what to say, I don't know how to give toast.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to be this person that men
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  Speaker 3: want like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought she did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I love that about her.
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  Speaker 1: Totally agree, And honestly, she was so genuine you could
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  Speaker 1: tell like she was in it. She wanted to learn
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  Speaker 1: everything she could from all of us. She wanted to
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  Speaker 1: hear everything that everyone had to say. She had great
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  Speaker 1: questions and they were genuine. They weren't like it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like a producer was feeding her a question. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: they were, but she truly like thought about it and said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know the answer to this question. And
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  Speaker 1: she asked and would look you in the eye and
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  Speaker 1: listen like she wasn't there to be performative. She wasn't
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  Speaker 1: there to just be the bachelorette, you know on camera.
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  Speaker 1: She was there to learn from everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Mind you, she flew in that morning. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: we were told she flew in that morning. So you're
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  Speaker 3: walking into how many of us were there? Trista eighteen
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  Speaker 3: nineteen women. I thought it was sixteen, but it's something
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  Speaker 3: I've seen or whatever. Yeah, we all got a good
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  Speaker 3: night's sleep. We're not filming NonStop right now, we got
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  Speaker 3: to go in visit with each other, have dinner, have
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  Speaker 3: a coffee, get her hair and makeup done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they told us that she flew in
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  Speaker 2: that morning.
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  Speaker 3: She must have been exhausted and showed up that day
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  Speaker 3: to a bunch of happy women who are just going
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  Speaker 3: to do this one day and go back home and
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  Speaker 3: sleep at her own comfy beds, and she still had
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  Speaker 3: to finish filming a show like she I'm sure she
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  Speaker 3: was exhausted, and probably don't you remember this about filming
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  Speaker 3: just being like mentally tapped.
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  Speaker 1: I took naps on pretty much every date.
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  Speaker 2: I swear I did too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I literally fell asleep in Ryan's lap in
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  Speaker 1: the limo on the way to SeaWorld, or maybe on
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  Speaker 1: the way back.
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  Speaker 2: I was so tired.
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  Speaker 1: Thank god, my guys were, especially Ryan, were very patient
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  Speaker 1: with me and how exhausted I was. But okay, so
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the mansion. So we get to the mansion,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was so cute. I walked into
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  Speaker 1: the mansion with Katie Thurston. She was around me, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the first time she had been at the
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  Speaker 1: mansion because she's.
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  Speaker 2: So film there I almost was shocked to hear that Trista.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait, what, You've never been here and
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  Speaker 3: she was like, no, it was COVID. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, girl, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, I know, and then walking into it with
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  Speaker 1: it had been renovated from the show I had just
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  Speaker 1: I just found out about the Bachelor mansion takeover renovation
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  Speaker 1: on HDTV. When we got there and it looked amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was very different, Like walking in there,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, whoa this is this is a huge change
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  Speaker 1: and no more purple walls.
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  Speaker 3: There were parts of the house that I had never
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  Speaker 3: seen before, like the rose ser ceremony room, Like I
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  Speaker 3: had no idea that there was that in.
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  Speaker 2: The rose ceremonies.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no I have I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize. Well, again, my back was always to
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  Speaker 3: that side of the wall. But there's a whole bar
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  Speaker 3: right there and a wine cell that I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: know existed, you know. But again my back was always
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  Speaker 3: to it because I was handing out roses.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, or maybe they had So this was.
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  Speaker 1: On your season, So the first season was it? Brad
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  Speaker 1: Wellmack's season was the first season where the Bachelor Mansion.
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  Speaker 3: Brad okaved in one of Mike Flice's homes and the
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  Speaker 3: women lived in that home. That was the first season
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  Speaker 3: that we actually lived in that home. Got it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was so.
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  Speaker 3: Funny because I saw somebody, maybe it was Ali, posted
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  Speaker 3: a video last night walking through and she's like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, if these walls could talk, I thought, well,
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  Speaker 3: shoot me and my girls were the first ones to
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  Speaker 3: film there, and I can remember walking in and seeing
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  Speaker 3: five or six girls in that shower and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what in the world have I gotten myself into?
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  Speaker 2: There were six girls in one shower. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 2: one master.
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  Speaker 3: Shower that was so big, And we filmed my season
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  Speaker 3: of the Bachelorette there and that shower was so gross.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't drain Trista it was and I remember that
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  Speaker 3: was like my bedroom and they'd be like okay, And
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  Speaker 3: the door didn't walk either, So when I would be
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  Speaker 3: naked in the shower, production would accidentally walk in and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, lipping's sake, could I just have a
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  Speaker 3: little privacy.
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  Speaker 2: I just want a shower.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like it wasn't like they did it on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: It just was everybody is busy and setting up for
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  Speaker 3: the next thing, and I would be trying to get
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  Speaker 3: ready and that shower, I swear to God, was the
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  Speaker 3: grossest thing I've ever experienced in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Trista.
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  Speaker 3: There was like five or six inches of sitting water
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  Speaker 3: in that shower.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is this is like not healthy.
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  Speaker 3: This is so gross, so gross, gross, so gross.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so who were you excited to see? Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: won't you But I've gotten to see you so much.
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  Speaker 3: You know when we said this, you take a group
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  Speaker 3: of women and put us all together, You're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: love everybody. I have love for everybody, but I am
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  Speaker 3: really close to you, Desiree. I just like we are
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  Speaker 3: cut from the same cloth. And I love her. Ashley,
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  Speaker 3: She's just the most fun, sweetest girl. Andy Caitlin. You
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  Speaker 3: can't help but laugh and be around her.
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  Speaker 2: Becca totally see. I'm gonna run through the list because
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  Speaker 2: I love them.
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  Speaker 3: I have love, you know, I have love for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely do. Rachel. I was beyond thrilled that Rachel came.
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  Speaker 3: I know that she has distanced herself from the Bachelor
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  Speaker 3: and Bachelorette franchise.
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  Speaker 2: I know she has, but I do. I love everyone.
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  Speaker 3: I love Rachel and when she was going through such
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  Speaker 3: a hard time and her divorce it was after Minds.
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  Speaker 3: I made a point to reach out to her all
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  Speaker 3: the time because I just flipping no and all the
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  Speaker 3: headlines and everything that was going on.
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  Speaker 2: I just love her.
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  Speaker 3: And I was really thrilled that she came to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of the group because I know that's not
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  Speaker 3: something she really wants to do anymore, so I was
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  Speaker 3: thrilled to see her.
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  Speaker 2: Meredith, I'm so glad she came.
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  Speaker 3: It's so nice to not be the star of the
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: show anymore either, because we can all just show up
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: and get pretty and visit with our friends. Like literally,
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I could have cared less Trista if they put me
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: on camera with Taylor Frankie Paul. I was so happy
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: just sitting upstairs in the bedroom. We had all of
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: the chairs around in a circle and the women who
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: weren't filming at the time, and Emily.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Emily is so funny. She's gold. She is so funny, funny.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: The show did not do her justice when we filmed
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: that real and she said, I'm a backwoods Virginia hood rat.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I was like, I like love her. I want her
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and all of her children to move into my tiny townhouse,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: and I just want to spend every day with her
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: because she is so funny.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: But that's the parts that I wish that it was.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: You know more, or that people can see all of
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: us sitting in that bedroom with our chairs surrounded each other,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: just catching up on life, just catching up on things
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: and talking and.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Where we are and laughing.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: There was so much, yes, so much laughter, and sitting
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: in the big bathroom that's connected to that big bedroom
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: with Carrie Fatman and Gina and I love each and
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: every one of those girls for all different fun reasons,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: but gosh, it was so epic.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: How much fun did we have that in the same
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: room after we were done films.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: In this how much fun did we have? And then yes,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: so we film all day long.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: We did probably ten twenty six tiktoks, Like how many
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: tiktoks did we do?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: And that I was there for every single one.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I want to do everything. I
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: know I'm the old lady, but I am so here
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: for this because it was just like I felt young
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and youthful and just it's so fun.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: It's just it just makes me so happy.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's tell this little story. We were done filming
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: and it was my birthday the next day when we filmed,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: and so I'm like, let's go out. Well, the only
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: people who wanted to go out was me, myself, Trista Caitlin,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and one of the producers, Katie I know, a couple
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: of girls Emily joined us for a little bit, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: then everybody went to bed and for us animals right,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: and we're still wearing our red sweatsuits. And I am
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: laughing because I went to my profile grid yesterday and
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: it absolutely gives Handmaid's Tale, Like all the pictures of
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: all of us.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: In are red and we're smiling and pretty, and we're like,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: oh my god.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Anyway, we all go out that night and we're sitting
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: at a table and this guy comes over and he's like,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: why are you guys dressed like that? And I'm like, oh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: we're part of a dodgeball team and he was like wow, really,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, we're really really, really really
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: good and he was like, oh my gosh, like where
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: And I just like loosely came up with this whole story.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: He's not he's it is That's the fun thing about
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: being sober is that you don't have to you don't
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: have to worry about all these people who are so wasted.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: He wasn't looking at my shirt where it literally had
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: my name in my season, or the fact that it
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: said the Bachelorette across the back.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Totally.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: And we had this whole story going on with this
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: noodle in the bar because he was so drunk he
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: could not I love it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You just called him a noodle. Oh my god, he's
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: a noodle.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: We laughed so hard, Trista, did we not laugh so
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: hard at this guy?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: The whole scenario going on.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: How I was the coach, Trista was the assistant coach
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: that we play out in Westlake Village and it's every Tuesday.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Night or whatever night of the week it was. And
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: this guy was like wow. And then finally, like fifteen
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: minutes later, he was like, are you bullshit me? And
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I was like, absolutely not. Why would I be bullshitting you? Yeah, totally.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: So I will tell you one of my favorite things
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: about the episode last night, like top top favorite thing. Oh,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I was watching baby Trista and baby Ryan canoodle in
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the hot tub, just being sweet little lovers as you are,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: just just all the basking in the water in the moonlight,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: whispering how much you love each other.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Oh no, we didn't do that, but what we did
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: do I love that it caught like the little banter
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that we have. We have a very sarcastic, like funny relationship.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: We're constantly like giving each other shit for whatever. And
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, I asked him, Oh, do you want
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to get in the hot tub?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And he's like sure.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, go right ahead, yeah, Trista, I twist
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: my own and I was like, oh, yeah, sure, I'll
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: do that or whatever.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I love watching you naked and I'm sorry, not naked
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: but shirtless.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And a hoto. No. I mean it was him like
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: he was like sure whatever.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Anyway, So last night the special ends, Blakesley was out
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to dinner with her boyfriend and his family. She gets
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: home and I'm like, so, do you want to watch
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the little parts? Because you were on TV last night
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: when you were a baby, but you were on TV
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: last night, and she's like, I know, one of my
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: friends texted me and just said, oh I saw you
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: at TV's so cute. Anyway, So she watches it and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you know, the parts where we're talking about the family
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and whatever and how I'm grateful and of course that's
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: all really sweet and everything, and oh and she had
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: never seen when we first met, when he got out
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: of the limo and walked to me and said, you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: look ravishing, And.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: She goes, how freaking cool I know that we have
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: that Ryan is wordy anyway, which.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I said, He has said that he has never spoken
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: that word. He had never spoken that word before. He's like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I have no idea where that word came from. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: she was like, it was so funny.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Because she was like, ravishing, What did he say?
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I love that because it genuinely describes what he felt
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: in that moment. And what it was going to say
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: is how beautiful is it that you guys have that
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: you know forever, you have the moment that the two
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: of you laid eyes on each other. And I've said
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: this a thousand times. I believe some people it is
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: just their story. You guys were meant to meet on
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: a television show and be married and have these children
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and have this life, like it just was meant for
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: the two of you. But how freaking cool is it that,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: like your kids can watch that that people can still
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: watch it to this day. There are so many comments
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: on my posts of being like, oh my god, Trista. Also,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: she doesn't age, do you know me? People said she
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: doesn't she doesn't age a bit. Okay, she does not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: She is gorgeous, but that's not true. They don't see
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: me when I smile and I've got those those lines
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: are important.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Those are lived in.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I know, and I and I like to laugh and smile,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: be sure.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And then and then we get to the hot tub scene.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And Blake slep and we were literally sitting right next
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: like touching arms. Okay, so we were connected, and she
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: was like.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Eh, like she made this. Okay, they're touching. Eventually they
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: have to have sex because I was born like.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: She was like ew, I.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Like she did not want to watch that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: She was not about watching her parents be like, oh,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: we're hot and heavy, and I was like, I think
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I need to go jump in that really cold water.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Like immediately he said, oh, that was.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Actually really funny. Who wants to like talk about their
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: parents being I know, but it's really beautiful.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: It's really beautiful full circle, you know what I mean.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Look at the life you've built, the life that you
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: have your children, Holy cal Blakesley has a boyfriend. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: can't even but like just everything that you have from
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: a television show, none of us really knew that's what
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: was going to happen. And you were the first bachelorette.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: No one knew how the show was going to take off,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and it's been on for how many seasons now? You know, right,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: us early women on the show, I don't think we
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: grasped the popularity of what the show was and really
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: truly trust to how it would change the trajectory of
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: our lives. And you and Ryan are proof of that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not with the person that I chose,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: but you and Ryan are. And look at the life
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: that you lived, look at the memories that you have made,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and the things that you have done that without the show,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: that wouldn't have happened.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And I just think that that's just.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: A beautiful part of your story and a beautiful part
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: of life. And now there's you know, this whole world
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: on social media that people who love the show, genuinely
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: love the show, can follow you and Ryan and keep
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: up with you and see how life is going and see.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Where you are. All of us really for that matter.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: It's just it's really beautiful.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It is. And I'm circling back to your share last night,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: like what a grateful, full heart that I have from
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: my experience on the show and my friendships and the
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: people that I am with and the opportunities that I
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: still get to do to this day, like filming that
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: special and recording podcasts with you and seeing you so
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: much in the last year, whereas like my life was
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: chaos and my God knew that I needed to be
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: surrounded by people that I loved in moments where I
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: couldn't carry myself, just like the beauty of life. And
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I'm like you, my heart is overflowing with some gratitude
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and some gratefulness.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: But this isn't it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Now we get to see each other in a week
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: and we get to be cool again and get all
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: dressed up and walk a red carpet and go to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: a premiere party. So I feel like we should regroup
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: here again next Monday for another episode so that we
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: can talk about the premiere here in Los Angeles, Like
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: how fun that we get to do that? Are what
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: are we wearing? Are we getting our make up done?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I'm in this like era Tristo where I need to
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: like look hot, like I want to be like, Okay,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I was cute, then I was married, and now I
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: want to be hot.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Oh well you are, so there's no worries there. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: love the history of this show. I love how it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: has It is such a huge part of my life,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: even if it doesn't factor into my everyday life. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: love that we have this sisterhood. And even though like
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: thank you for the very sweet words about you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Ryan and I and our family and and all of that,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and everyone's really family even if they didn't end up
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: with the person from their show. But what we did
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: end up with is a sisterhood, and I love that
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: we get to we got to be part of this reunion.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It was so fun and so happy and joyful and
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: no drama, like, no drama drama, Yeah, just really great
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: girls being girls and sharing love for the next girl.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Who yes, who who? I'm just so excited for.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: The laughter, I'm so glad that you said that. We
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: laughed so much. We laughed so much that day. We
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: laughed so much. And then there was a dinner afterwards
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: and going out and the next day seeing everybody as
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: they were leaving.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: It was I'm with you, Trista. I echo every bit
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: of that. It was a really great day.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: So oh my god, we should do this again next
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: week because we're going to have to discuss not just
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: what you and I wore, but what tailor war, who
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: else was at the premiere, what happened, who fell off
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: their barstool, like all of the things.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You know what.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I so, there were a lot of things on social
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: media about people who were not there, and I believe
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: as viewers are people who see it, maybe they want
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: to create drama like as to why they weren't there.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: But I know Jen wasn't there. Jen Scheft was not there,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: and also Gabby Wendy, but that's because she was busy
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: filming a new show, which Trista I am so excited about.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: She's hosting this new show called Love Overboard, and we
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: are going to be doing a new podcast talking about it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: You should come on. That's got to be okay.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: So you've got to get through it, Mormon wives, You've
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: got to get through that. Then you also have a
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: little homework get through Love Overboard. I'm not sure what
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you've got going on in the next couple of weeks,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: but they're both on Hulu. You could just like spend
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: a few days binging it out, tell Ryan to cook dinner,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: love it and oh he always does, okay, okay, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: then call it a day.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: So we have so much like, we have so much
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to do over the coming week. I love it. So
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you're recapping Love Overboard.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's hosted by Gabby Wendy, So I'm very excited. Okay,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I haven't gotten to meet her yet, have you?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: No, huh, she didn't come. Well, actually she wasn't a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: bachelorette yet on the last reunion. But no, I have
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not met her yet in all of the circles. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: feel like she is more of a New York person.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Actually, she lived in Denver. What am I talking about?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Do you know when I met her?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And I assume that I met her. Blakesley was a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: junior Denver Bronco cheerleader when Gabby was a Denver Bronco cheerleader,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and she she helped with the little minis when she
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: was a Broncos cheerleader. So I know we were in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the same room one hundred percent.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: That's so fun.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if we officially met each other
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: because Blakesley wasn't with her exactly like they have you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: people that they're.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Under anyway, what a small world. Yeah, so fun.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll be recapping it on Almost Famous. Heather, our
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: producer is going to be doing it with me. She's
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: multi talented. Oh yes, she very You'll have to come
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: on and tell us what you think. I'm also like
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: really excited for a little bit more of a dirty show,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, in the sense that like
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: The Bachelorette is just so I mean, there's drama within
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the contestants a little bit, but like it's it's really
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: like g rated when it comes actual Louie.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know that the season is going to be
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And honestly we didn't ever talk about this, but with Taylor,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: with the preview that they showed last night after the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: before the first rows, I'm intrigued. Like if I hadn't
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: ever met her and just would be watching the show,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, I'm all in, get me in
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: front of my television on Sunday nights to watch this
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: show because it seems like she's like rules are out
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the window if you if you mess with me, I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: taking your Rose back, like I cannot wait to see
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that episode of when it seems like she takes all
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the roses that she gave. I'm like, yes, and I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: am here for that, here for us, I'm here for it.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: It makes me wish I tried very hard not to
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: live in the in the past of things, but it does, like,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: you know, because because I was on you were on
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: so long ago, it does make me think, Man, I
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: wish that I had a little more experience or a
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: little bit more balls, to be true to myself.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think you could have. I really don't think
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you could have. In my season, I could a teeny
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: bit because the producers and I were both figuring it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: out right, and so like one guy came out of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the limo and and Lisa Levinson was like, that's the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: guy I picked for Trista till the end. And I said,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: at the end of the rose ceremony, he's going home,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and she's like, no, why, And I was like, he's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: going home. I'm not keeping him because he looked right
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: at the camera when he got out of a limo. Anyway,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: she didn't fight me on it, and in your season
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: or any season after that, I feel like she would
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: have been like, it's not your decision. He's staying, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: don't get to decide this one guy that did, That's
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I feel like, even if you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to, I don't think you could have. And so
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I love that it has evolved into this where they
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: are allowing the leads a little more personal decision making leeway,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know, and they can break the rules every now
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and then, which I like, and I'm here for that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: for Taylor's season. So anyway, I feel like it's gonna
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be a it's not a it's not a clean it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: not as clean of a show and as innocent as
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: obviously back in the day. But even you know, last year,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I just feel like this season is going to be different,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm so I'm so excited for it and so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: excited that we could have been part of the special
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and the reunion. Everyone pay attention, listen up for Almost
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Famous the love Overboard recapping with Deanna, and also hopefully
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: we can get more people on here for almost Famous
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: ogs and you know, it's so funny I have to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: say an og thing so Ali, they posted all the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: pictures of each of the bachelorettes from the reunion and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Ali was in the like OG section. It was me
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and you and her and Meredith I think, and she
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: was like, well, I guess it's official.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I'm an OG now I was on.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: We've got to have Ali on. But yeah, it has
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: been so much fun reminiscing about our reunion and just
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: chatting about this season. I'm excited for it, and I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: hope you all too out there. Thanks so much for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: listening to the almost famous OG podcast. Bye.