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(Secret) Wedding Bells?? with Juliana Pasquarosa and Michael Fiore · 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: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost in his podcast. Today
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  Speaker 2: we are joined by a newly launched couple. It's Juliana
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  Speaker 2: pascor Rosa, who you know from Grand Season, and her
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  Speaker 2: new boyfriend Michael.
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  Speaker 3: That was a good way of saying her last name.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you took that.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna say it is right like that, right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he crushed it.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are so cute together.
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  Speaker 6: Think gosh, the last time we talked to Juliana was
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  Speaker 6: the end of the year five, and you were kind
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  Speaker 6: of hinting that there was somebody that you really liked.
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  Speaker 4: And now, lo and behold, six months ish later, you
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  Speaker 4: have moved.
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  Speaker 3: In with him. We should ask that first.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so cute. So well, you're living together
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  Speaker 4: in New York and Juliana.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of big for you because you, well, we
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  Speaker 2: know her from Grand Season. Michael, so like, forgive me
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  Speaker 2: for bringing up her ex but he.
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  Speaker 4: Was going to move to Boston.
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  Speaker 2: But you like Michael so much that you decided to
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  Speaker 2: move away from your family for him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, I never thought I was
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  Speaker 5: leaving Boston, but you know, he's worth it, so and
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  Speaker 5: he's been so awesome about like going back and forth,
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  Speaker 5: so I don't have to miss anything and I have
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  Speaker 5: severe fomo and he's so awesome with that. So we've
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  Speaker 5: been back to Boston a bunch already, and the summer's
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  Speaker 5: packed with trips back to Boston and Cape Cod trips
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  Speaker 5: with my family and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So sequel right now, Michael, did you know Juliana's backstory
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  Speaker 3: when you guys met.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, no, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We met in the Hamptons last summer and that was
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  Speaker 1: the first time you know, i'd met, I'd heard of
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  Speaker 1: Juliana's name, So yeah, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: And when you found out, kind of what was your
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  Speaker 3: internal reaction?
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  Speaker 7: Good question. I don't know that I had one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I guess I'm around a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: that kind of come from the reality world. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't have any sort of crazy reaction.
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  Speaker 1: I had already kind of we'd already had quite a
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  Speaker 1: number of conversations by that point, so for me, it
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  Speaker 1: really kind of didn't change much.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Well, tell us your meat story, what's your meat?
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  Speaker 7: Cute? Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: So I got invited to a few events in the
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  Speaker 5: Hampton's and I was very hesitant to go, just because
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  Speaker 5: it was like the first time I was going into
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  Speaker 5: that world alone and like going into a weekend house
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  Speaker 5: with like different people from reality TV and.
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  Speaker 2: All daminating the Hamptons is itself. The Hamptons freaks me out,
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I was like begging the people that were inviting me.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, can I bring a friend? And they
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  Speaker 5: were like no, And I wasn't even going to go,
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  Speaker 5: And so it was super last minute that I ended
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  Speaker 5: up getting there when they were still kind of like
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  Speaker 5: setting everything up for the weekend before anybody else was there,
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  Speaker 5: and he was there, and then we just ended up,
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  Speaker 5: you know, spending the whole weekend together and going He
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  Speaker 5: was at all the events that we were going to,
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  Speaker 5: like set up the whole weekend, produce the whole you know, spiel,
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  Speaker 5: and so I ended up spending a lot more time
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  Speaker 5: with him, I think than most other people that I
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  Speaker 5: was in the house with, and then.
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  Speaker 7: That's how we met.
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  Speaker 4: It was super cute and fun and flirty.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, give me some clarity there for those
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  Speaker 3: that don't know, including myself, Michael, you set up the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: Juliana says, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 7: So I want a creative agency.
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  Speaker 1: We worked with a number of different brands to build
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  Speaker 1: out product launches, UH influencer houses, different events that they
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  Speaker 1: do throughout the year. And so I had been part
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  Speaker 1: of the particular influencer house that Juliana was invited to
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  Speaker 1: last summer, So something that you know, we set up
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  Speaker 1: for the month of June or July.
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  Speaker 7: Was it July, and so just one of.
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  Speaker 1: The weekends that that I had worked on when when
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  Speaker 1: Juliana was invited out, I had been part of that event.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was my event that I was producing with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a media company, and so we we just
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  Speaker 1: you know, from start to finished, we take care of
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  Speaker 1: everything that that goes.
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  Speaker 7: On in that house. And you as Juliana mentioned, she
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  Speaker 7: kind of shown up early.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first you know, I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: still there, you know, making sure things were going well,
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  Speaker 1: and when she came in, we just we had you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of time to kind of sit and
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  Speaker 1: talk before all the chaos really and so like actually said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it can be intimidating in Hampton the summer
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  Speaker 1: in and of itself, so you know, just we had
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  Speaker 1: some times to just kind of avoid all that for
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  Speaker 1: a little while and we got a chance to talk,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, that's.
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  Speaker 2: How we met doing on a How fresh out of
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  Speaker 2: the relationship with the grant were you when you guys
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  Speaker 2: met publicly?
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  Speaker 5: I think it was like a month maybe so maybe
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  Speaker 5: even like.
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  Speaker 4: Three weeks timing there, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Truly, I mean, and when I left, like I had
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  Speaker 5: you know, we had such a fun weekend and we
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  Speaker 5: exchanged like phone numbers and all of that, and I
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  Speaker 5: was a bit hesitant still, like even though I knew
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  Speaker 5: I liked him, and he was so like sweet and
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  Speaker 5: kind to me and made me feel like so welcomed
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  Speaker 5: and awesome throughout such a kind of emotionally crazy weekend,
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  Speaker 5: just because of everything you do and all the people
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  Speaker 5: year around and YadA, YadA, YadA, And yeah, I was
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  Speaker 5: like I was hesitant to like start something new. I
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  Speaker 5: don't love to like jump into anything. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: pre Bachelor, I had been singing for a very long
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  Speaker 5: time and it takes me a while to let anybody in,
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  Speaker 5: which I think is like the opposite of what people
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  Speaker 5: saw from me on The Bachelor. So it was like
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  Speaker 5: kind of funny to feel like I was like nervous,
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  Speaker 5: but that is like truly who I am, and Michael
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  Speaker 5: was very patient and kind with me, while it took
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  Speaker 5: me like a while to just be like, Okay, you
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  Speaker 5: know what, I do really like him and I'm not
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  Speaker 5: going to hold back anymore. And then you know, a
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  Speaker 5: few months later we started really really dating.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I want to drill into this a little
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  Speaker 3: bit because Juliana, we did have you on I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how long it was post breakup or whatever, but
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  Speaker 3: you I remember that conversation vividly because you had an
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  Speaker 3: enormous amount of empathy care consideration for the noise that
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  Speaker 3: is this show when a breakup happens, and I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like it was I remember Ashley and I got
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  Speaker 3: off the interview with you and we said about that,
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  Speaker 3: that's like one of the most mature interviews we've ever done,
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  Speaker 3: because you cared so much at you. It was very
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  Speaker 3: clear you had moved on and moved on fully, but
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  Speaker 3: you cared, which doesn't always happen in this world. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but there was also you know, the hint and the
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  Speaker 3: sprinkling in that you were happy about something. It was new,
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  Speaker 3: but you're happy. Were you nervous to bring up to
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  Speaker 3: Michael though the details of the past, like the breakup
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  Speaker 3: and the whole thing, since Michael didn't know that about you?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't know. I wasn't nervous because I think
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  Speaker 5: the way I look at it is we met and
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  Speaker 5: had such a good amount of time where we really
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  Speaker 5: just got to like get to know each other that
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  Speaker 5: you know, I don't judge somebody based off of their past,
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  Speaker 5: and he didn't seem like that type of person to either. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we talked about how it ended. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's public, right, you could look it up. He probably
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  Speaker 5: sees things online all the time about it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: But I think it was the reality is he got
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  Speaker 5: to know me as a person, and I just didn't
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  Speaker 5: feel like he was the type of person that would
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  Speaker 5: judge me because of, you know, the things I had
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  Speaker 5: to go through with the public breakup, the relationship itself,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, who I was presented to be like
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  Speaker 5: on a show. He knew the real me already. I
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  Speaker 5: think I did.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I. I think we talked about it
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  Speaker 7: until maybe December January.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you met in July, So you guys like
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  Speaker 3: dug in a few months in right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, like Juliana said, there was there was
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  Speaker 1: kind of that hesitation, you know, early on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we reconnected it up Otober November really started talking from there,
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  Speaker 1: but it probably wasn't until January that I had kind
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  Speaker 1: of known the full.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of full details.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we had talked about it together, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, like anything and change much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the hardest one, honestly. I mean, I remember my
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  Speaker 3: wife and I met. I wasn't necessarily nervous to tell her.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like she liked me enough that it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to change things. I was really nervous to talk
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  Speaker 3: to her parents about it.
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  Speaker 4: About the experience.
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  Speaker 3: They watched you, her parents, well, her mom watched me.
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  Speaker 3: Dad would never.
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  Speaker 2: Send you literally did nothing ever wrong. You were everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants you to be with their daughters.
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  Speaker 3: It's still nerve wracking, though, it is because you're like this.
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  Speaker 3: Dad probably thinks that I dated thirty women for every
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  Speaker 3: reason that I think like a lot of men would
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  Speaker 3: date thirty women, and like it was hard. Juliana, have
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  Speaker 3: you talked to Michael's parents about it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, well, like they know you know,
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  Speaker 5: I think and that was for sure are the most
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  Speaker 5: nerve wracking part of like meeting the family, you know,
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  Speaker 5: because it's just like they didn't watch, which I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it wasn't anything that they like, they're really
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  Speaker 5: interested in watching, and they do say they did say
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  Speaker 5: to me, you know, they just couldn't imagine like seeing
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  Speaker 5: me on reality TV because you know, it just you
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  Speaker 5: think of what type of person when you don't watch
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  Speaker 5: reality TV, like what was on and the motives and
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  Speaker 5: all that that they might have behind it all, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, I think it's a lot of a facade
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  Speaker 5: when you don't like know somebody truly that's been on
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  Speaker 5: reality TV. So I thought that was like a good compliment,
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  Speaker 5: even though you know, I think all the girls that
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  Speaker 5: were on our season are really genuine people anyways, like
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  Speaker 5: I would say of them went on, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And you're the cleanest bunch of reality TV out there. Yeah, yeah, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: please de convince us, de influence us that you guys
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  Speaker 2: aren't really married, because we think you're married because you've
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  Speaker 2: been calling her wifey and then Juliana you.
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  Speaker 4: Posted something about like I've gotten vows.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, there is a reason that camera is raised,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see anybody's hands, and you're.
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  Speaker 4: Trying on wedding dresses. So you guys are married.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we're just gonna say here are I guess tell
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  Speaker 3: us the question like Ashley asked, are you married? Yes
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  Speaker 3: or no?
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  Speaker 5: I think we're just it's not that oh yes or no.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no they are we got al exclusive.
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  Speaker 5: No. I think it's just you know, we're happy and
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  Speaker 5: we are, like, I don't know, I've taken my time
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  Speaker 5: with like sharing with the world our relationship at all.
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  Speaker 5: Michael like totally hard launched us online, which was like
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  Speaker 5: so funny because he didn't even realize what he had done.
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  Speaker 5: And now it's just a matter of like being comfortable
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  Speaker 5: with what we what we share because I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I like, I like our life and I like sharing
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  Speaker 5: parts of it when I feel ready. And I have
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  Speaker 5: such a big family and I love enjoying like life
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  Speaker 5: with them. So we will not confirm nor deny.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing. Yes, okay, say you are married. You mentioned
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  Speaker 3: that you are enjoying like keeping it kind of to yourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a conversation the two of you had together
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  Speaker 3: to keep this between the two of you and.
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  Speaker 5: Social media and conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Oh goodness, this is so good.
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  Speaker 7: It is so good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud. I mean, I'm I'm all for it. I
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  Speaker 3: just wish you would tell us here so I could
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  Speaker 3: get the headline out of it. But that's fine if
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: You guys basically already gave yourself the headline. So thank
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  Speaker 4: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be out there, especially on weekly I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: In a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 2: And that would mean that you are already a step mom, Juliana,
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  Speaker 2: because we have learned through you know, maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: Instagram stocking that Michael is a dad.
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  Speaker 7: That is true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of goes back to, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations that we were open about and talked
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  Speaker 1: about early on. That was something that I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I brought up obviously right away, not something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I hide obviously I'm very proud of.
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  Speaker 7: And so it was kind of both right. It's like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, talking about your past.
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  Speaker 1: And I obviously have one as well, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're both very comfortable with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to dig a little bit to Michael.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if you share much about
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  Speaker 3: but how old he's four years old. Four years old.
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  Speaker 3: What a fun time. I mean, just like the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 7: The fast time.
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  Speaker 4: I have a four year old boy too.
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  Speaker 7: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: What's his name, Dawson? About you, Lucas all cute.
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  Speaker 7: He's a really good time loves.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen two people so giddy before.
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  Speaker 3: It is so fun. I want to be giddy me too.
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  Speaker 3: I wish Ashley and I were in the same room
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  Speaker 3: together with each other, just with you guys. It's exuding
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  Speaker 3: through the camera here, Juliana. When you found out that
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  Speaker 3: Michael was a father, obviously that is a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Uh to process quickly, right? Oh? I like this guy,
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  Speaker 3: and you know there's something else coming into my life
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  Speaker 3: and my world. How has that transition been for you
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  Speaker 3: from you know, dating to I want to say marriage,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll just say dating to now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean again, when we had first met, he
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  Speaker 5: was very open about it, and I think it was
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  Speaker 5: also one of the reasons that I kind of was
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  Speaker 5: like a little hesitant, just because that is it is
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  Speaker 5: nerve wracking, It's I don't know, I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: little intimidating too. I haven't really been around like children
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  Speaker 5: in my life I'm like the kind of on the
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  Speaker 5: younger side of my cousins, and I have my sister's son,
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  Speaker 5: my godson, and my nephew that I'm like obsessed with,
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  Speaker 5: And so that was like my first, I don't know experience.
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  Speaker 5: So I had a lot of conversation with my dad
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  Speaker 5: after I went to We went to Florida together for
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  Speaker 5: like kind of like the first trip, and I decided
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  Speaker 5: to kind of like, you know, just like let go
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  Speaker 5: of my fears of like rushing into something. I think
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  Speaker 5: I had like enough time had passed, and my dad
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  Speaker 5: asked me, like, you know, what did you like and
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  Speaker 5: what did you learn from the experience? And I just
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: like came back from Florida and I was like so
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: utterly obsessed with him at that point, just because we
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  Speaker 5: spent even more time together and he like proved to
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  Speaker 5: me that he's such a.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I could go on and on about the way he
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  Speaker 5: made me feel that weekend, and I said to my dad,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I had this idea of the person I
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  Speaker 5: would spend my life with, you know, and moving was
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  Speaker 5: not a part of that list. And you know, having
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  Speaker 5: a son, I didn't know if I would if if
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  Speaker 5: you would like me like how that would go? It
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  Speaker 5: just was so many like it's so much anxiety around that.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I think when I started to make
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  Speaker 5: the trips out to New York, one of the you said, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we're going to the band aid off of
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  Speaker 5: this one and I met his son and it was
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, it was life changing. You know, he's
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  Speaker 5: a very he's he's so welcoming, he's so kind his son,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I think the transition is still like happening.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's not something that you just like pick
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  Speaker 5: up on right away. I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: learning that comes with it. But it's been really fun
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  Speaker 5: and it's it's made me really excited to, you know,
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  Speaker 5: have have kids of our own one day. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's like as I get to learn, I get to
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  Speaker 5: learn a lot from him, and I'm really thankful to
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  Speaker 5: be in that position.
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  Speaker 3: It's so cool. It's it's a beautiful story. But your concerns,
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  Speaker 3: I think are so valid, Like that's a huge thing
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  Speaker 3: to like process quickly. Is am I ready? You can
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  Speaker 3: like me? Uh, Michael, how did you introduce Juliana to
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  Speaker 3: your son for the first time?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question. That we spent We've spent so
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  Speaker 1: much time together with him now. I think the first
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: time was at my dad's house.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 7: Came, yeah, kind of flew in one weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well, yeah, yeah, a whole bunch prior, as you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: kind of already had known, you know, how he was
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: going to react just from from multiple you know, face times.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: But obviously it's you know, it's not quite the same.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I picked Juliana from the airport one weekend.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: You know, I don't I don't remember you got date
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: by now, but.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I kind of eased into, you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: because at four, I'm sure you can imagine, you know,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: he's got a ton of energy, super excited.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: You know, we'd already again met her on FaceTime.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: We'd already kind of tried to, you know, explain the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: situation to him to a degree. So we we actually
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: were at my we're at my parents' house, and he
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: had been there, and you know, I went to pick
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Juliana from the airport and we kind of you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: met my dad, my stepmom, my sisters, and you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: my son all at the same time.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: So it was kind of again like being the band
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: aid off, but it's also just kind of.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Helpful and and the fact like again he's he's you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: he's he's four. He loves to run around, he loves
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to do all these things, and so they kind of
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: helped us, like you know, navigate that first introduction and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and at dinner that night, and it was just it
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: was kind of hopefully very common for you, but yeah,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it was it was that was like the first the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: first time, and then I think the day later we
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: kind of spent the day together, just the three of
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: us and got a chance to you know, see you
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: know how Juliana was going to react to this again,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know, like you said that it can be obviously
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: very scary, and I felt that too. From my end,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that Guliana was comfortable with it,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and I, you know, I understand it's it's not the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you know, the most typical situation in the world, but obviously,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like I said, he fell in love with her right away,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and we're seeing that every single day now that you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: we're together, that that he really you know, enjoys having
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: her here as much as I do.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: And so cute. We know, you guys are living in
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: the Tri State area. But background looks like you guys
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: are a little bit more suburban. Where are you living.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It's a great should have covered that. We're all Long Island,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so we're just outside of the.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: City and can I see your finger?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Actually not going to leave this alone.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: The other hand, there's some hiding going on there, so
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: that's another clue for you guys. So you're living in
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: New York area, Long Island. What's the adjustment been like
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: since moving in? Because you guys have only been in
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: this place for two weeks or so together.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Is this a new place? Is it your place?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Actually?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I have this feeling that they only told us they've
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: been doing this for two weeks.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Well, no, we saw the moving process on Instagram, like
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the drive from.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Boston to New York.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I think it was I mean it could have been faked. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I think it was a trick.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: You never know.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: What's funny is I think, as Mike said, we've spent
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: so much time together, like when we came back from
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: our first trip in Florida in January, Like, I think
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: there was very minimal lengths of like stretches of time
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: that we didn't see each other. Whether I was here
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: or you were in Boston, So it does feel like,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: you know, I did. I moved all my stuff in here,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: which is like so fun and I don't know, it's it's, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: we've never had like a home like our own, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: so you know, going from an apartment to like a
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: full house has been really cool. But yeah, I mean
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: people keep saying like the first year of living with
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: each other is tough, and I can imagine, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: being realistic about it, We're going to have some moments
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: here and there where like things will disagree on or
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: whatever it is. But we've it has felt like to
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: me we've like already lived with each other, whether that's
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: been in Boston or here. Literally since January.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've spent you know, pretty long stretches in you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: both areas. So you know, we've we've been here for week,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: two weeks at a time. We've been there for for
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: even longer than you know, in Boston, for even longer
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: than that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: So yeah, it really.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Was more about just getting all the stuff here about
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the feeling kind.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Of is it was already in place at least from yours.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, But I think something cool too, is like, you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: this has been Michael's home for ten years.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Ish, Yeah, I bought I bought this house almost ten
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: years ago.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so like what's really fun is like making this
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: like our home, you know, together, and he is you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I'll give him credit though he's not like a like
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: a usual dude. That I feel like is like no furniture,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: like you know, no head over, you know, you you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Really good taste.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: I'm just making tweaks, is what I think you were
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: getting them together.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: So it already looks significantly better I did. I mean,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I grew up with four sisters, a mom and stepmom. Like,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of used to things being neater than average.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But it's already significantly better than it's been the last
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: ten years.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Neater than average goodness. I mean, and I love my
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: wife to death duest part, but I think my world
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: got a little messier when I got married. I feel
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: like I was probably too. Yeah, Jared's did all mostly
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the kids, though.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: I didn't say I had an influence getting Yeah, there's
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: there's it's wild.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I just had this side note here. I just had
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: this conversation with my buddy this morning, because there's something
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: about our wives that have like a shoe box and
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: they just stick it in the recycle when it's fully
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: still a shoe box, and I'm like, you can't break
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: that down. No, we don't.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: We don't break the breaking down boxes is for the men.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: I was just going to say, the first day in here,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: we had.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: A ton of hounds on packages boxes that we got. Now,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I got to attribute this to her dad, because I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: know it's him to start, but every single box that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: came in this house was broken down and it wasn't
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: me who did it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Juliana, keep that up, don't don't stop. It's a big deal.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Really, when I knew, yeah, that I should or already
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: have proposed.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: That leads me to my next question for you, Michael.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I think Juliana we've probably already answered this based on
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: our last interview with her. She was giddy. But when
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: did you know that Juliana was the one?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would I could argue right away. You know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I know that's probably hard to believe. You know, when
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: we talked about that Hampton's weekend, you know, she she
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: stepped into that, into that house, and you know, again,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I've I've been in that I've been in that world
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: for quite a long time, you know, in the experiential
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: space that I've I've worked in for years and years,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and I've met so many people that come in and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and just you know, either feel entitled to be there
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: or or just.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Enjoying, you know, their own time there, not that they
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: have to feel entitled to it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: But you know, Juliana just to me was was so genuine,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: so authentic, and and we had so much fun that weekend.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: And I had, you know, had a couple people come.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Up to me that were in the house that were
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know, friends of Juliana's, friends of mine, that were
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you know, that had made comments like that just seemed different,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and you know, I had said at the time, It's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like it felt different to me. I was like that,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I really thought that there was there was something there.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And so when that, you know, that last the few
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: weeks after that or post you know, that weekend, when
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: things kind of didn't pan out right away, I.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Was like, you know, that was upset. I was like that,
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I really thought that that was you know, something to me.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I think I felt that then
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: certainly when we had went on our first kind of
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: trip together. We were together for I think almost a week.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: You know, we went on, we went, we had New
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Year's together, we had you know, vacation, we had some
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: some you know post time together after coming back, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: you know, I think I knew at that point, you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: where where this was headed. Again, I'm not you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not twenty one. I'm in my thirties. Here, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: kind of know where I wanted things to go. And so,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't like I was just kind of,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you know, there for no reason. I really kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I was hopeful that this would turn into something more,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and you know, thankfully it went exactly where I thought
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Going to go.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my last question for you is how did her
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: dad respond to asking for her hand in marriage so quickly?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Because we love her dad from the show. He's the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: best Italian dude from Boston.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Sure, I'll have to ask him that to make sure.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: How did he react. It's a good question.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: So well last some other time and you guys are
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: more open about that element of your relationship.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: It's it's so good. I mean, I'm just happy her
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: dad's happy, really because I loved him so much on
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the show. I wanted him. I wanted him equally as
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: happy as I wanted Juliana happy. Honestly, that's that's all
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I've wished for.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my dad is truly, like I think, you know
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I've said this before, is my dad made it almost
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: so hard for me to feel like there was going
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: to be someone out there that I could spend my
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: life with just because he's so amazing, and I don't know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, I'm now I feel so lucky
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: that I feel like I have found that because Michael
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: makes me feel you know, as supported and you know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: as chosen and loved as you know my dad has.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: And it's of course a different kind of love, but
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: all the basics of when things are bad, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I want to call Now, I'm like picking up the phone,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: like do I call my dad or Michael? You know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: I've never had that before, Like when something so exciting, I.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Feel, well, my dad's still my emergency contact.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And that's okay, Sure you get used to it, trust me, fine, because.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I may I may call him first as well. He
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: is that he is that awesome. I'm going to be
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: calling you first.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: It's so fun. What's next for the two of you
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: as we close up here? Anything new you've done a
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: lot recently. But what's next.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I think just some a lot of things, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: but a lot of really fun things. I think turning
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you know, this house, like I said, into our home
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: is really fun. Learning you know, the area that I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: in is going to be exciting. I have the best
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: tour guide, and I don't know, just lots of family trips,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: lots of family moments and loving every every step of
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: the way.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Maybe planning a honeymoon, you know, yeah.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, yeah, it would be planning a honeymoon. This
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: is the most fun. Actually, I don't know if you
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: can remember this chapter of life, but it was so fun.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: It's so exciting. There's everything new that the rest is
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: super fun too. I have a blast. We're just in
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: bed at eight thirty now. Things the last.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Five years we fall asleep in our four year old's
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: bed together and it's a bed last night with him.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so things change, but it's great. Hey, thanks
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: for jumping on. You know, it's really fun to talk
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: to you, to the two of you, Juliana, it's really
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: great to kind of see this go full circle from
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the initial interview we did with you kind of like
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: hinting at things to the confidence and the excitement. Now, Michael,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: it's great to meet you and we wish you the best.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Just do us a favor when you do come out
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: publicly about the news of the wedding, and this is
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: just between us here and all the listeners that will
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: be tuning in, come back on and talk to us
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: about all the details, will you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: You got it?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: But you know there's going to be an actual wedding
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: because you've been trying on dresses and I feel like
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: you're a girly girl that would have to have the
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: dress moment and have to have your dad walked on
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: you down the aisle, so like we're excited for that already.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Well, guys, thank you so much. Until next time, I've
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: been Ashley and.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I've been Ben. We'll talk to you soon.
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