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Single at a Wedding with Chris Soules · 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 I our Radio.
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  Speaker 2: It's the almost famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are here with one of the sweetest and one
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  Speaker 3: of the people from Bachcination with the best giggle, Chris Souls.
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  Speaker 2: Chris welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having me. Good to be here.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Chris, I was just thinking, you know, he
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  Speaker 5: was talking about how you are so sweet. You're also
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  Speaker 5: one of the most popular wedding guests in Bachelor Nation.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like every Bachelor wedding I go to, you're there.
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  Speaker 4: Well he's not.
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  Speaker 2: He just comes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. I'm the best wedding crasher. I mean I
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  Speaker 4: learned that on my on my season. You know, remember
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  Speaker 4: Waitning and I crashed that wedding actually remember that?
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  Speaker 6: Well that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And it was a big debate on whether or not
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  Speaker 5: you guys came up with the idea and you actually
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  Speaker 5: for fore went the rest the actual date plan for
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  Speaker 5: the day, or whether it was this grand scheme from
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  Speaker 5: the production standpoint to like make you guys think that
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  Speaker 5: you were crashing the event, but like somebody put it
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  Speaker 5: in your head.
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  Speaker 4: It was a combination. It was funny because it was
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  Speaker 4: production of course, but Winnie. It was like, we should
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  Speaker 4: crash that wedding. I'm like, yeah, should like And I
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  Speaker 4: like looking at Bennett and this is perfect because she
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  Speaker 4: was already into it and it was already planned and
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  Speaker 4: we had there was cameraman.
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  Speaker 5: Ah wait, it was already planned, so that was your date.
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  Speaker 6: But she came up with the idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we both kind of agreed that we should crash
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  Speaker 4: the wedding without it, you know, anybody putting it in
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  Speaker 4: her head. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we all like were quite threatened by that move
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  Speaker 5: because it just seemed like an intimate move, like something
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  Speaker 5: that you two came up with together.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we did. We did. But then they're
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  Speaker 4: just as as chance would have. A production wanted us
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  Speaker 4: to do it as well. Interesting, so they were there.
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  Speaker 4: We was a teamwork without us, without Whitney even knowing it,
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  Speaker 4: we were crashing. Whitney thought we were crashing wedding on
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  Speaker 4: our own the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. I mean that's what that's what they want.
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  Speaker 3: They want, they want that real reaction, which is so
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  Speaker 3: hard sometimes on the show.
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  Speaker 4: It was special. I mean we were like we were
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  Speaker 4: Whitney thought we were like we were so well and
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  Speaker 4: we all, yeah, one hundred per and like we were
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  Speaker 4: literally talking to the wedding guests and the friends of
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  Speaker 4: the family, and Whitney's like trying to sell that I'm
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  Speaker 4: her boyfriend and nothing to do with the show. And
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  Speaker 4: she was on her game the whole time. It was funny.
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  Speaker 4: She was was like, yeah, what she says?
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  Speaker 6: Have you ever had that couple again?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Whose wedding you crashed? Was it a real wedding?
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  Speaker 5: Because I would have been annoyed that they took the
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  Speaker 5: spotlight from me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we took the spotlight. We enhanced it
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 2: They had a nationally televised wedding. That's special.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of enhanced weddings, we were all just at Nick
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  Speaker 3: and Natalie's wedding in Savannah, Georgia. We had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: It was great to see everybody. Chris, your ex Victoria
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  Speaker 3: Fuller was also there.
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  Speaker 2: How did that go? Is that a Is that.
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  Speaker 3: A weird run in for you now? Or is that
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  Speaker 3: just a run in? How does how do you process that?
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  Speaker 3: Entering into it?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's I knew she was going to be there.
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  Speaker 4: I knew her and Natalie were good friends and still is.
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  Speaker 4: Nick and her are good friends, and I was good
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  Speaker 4: to see her. You know, I don't know, it's always
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  Speaker 4: a little bit well, I don't know that it's weird
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  Speaker 4: anymore in this world that we kind of live in,
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  Speaker 4: that we've you know, I've got enough xces that's maturity.
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  Speaker 4: Is is a level where I can handle that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: she's a great person and happy for what she's doing,
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  Speaker 4: and so yeah, still care a ton about her, and
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, it was just nice to see her and
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  Speaker 4: got to talk to her a little bit at the
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  Speaker 4: at the wedding reception, and so it was good.
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  Speaker 5: Did you did you secretly wish that she was just
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  Speaker 5: still going to be with Greg and then you have
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  Speaker 5: a quick hello like Hi, I know you're with someone,
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  Speaker 5: just wanted to acknowledge your presence. But then when she's single,
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  Speaker 5: you're like, oh man, this really adds a layer.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, You're right, Ashley, it does add a layer
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  Speaker 4: of like okay, but.
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  Speaker 2: Not potential, potential, potential.
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  Speaker 4: It's just question marks then instead of like black and white.
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  Speaker 4: You know. So, but no, it's a truly good friend
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  Speaker 4: and hope to keep it that way.
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  Speaker 7: And and but yeah, well the wedding was a really
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  Speaker 7: spectacular event, and it is always fun to be at
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  Speaker 7: these weddings because there is run ins.
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  Speaker 3: With other people from Bachelor Nation. But today we're here
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  Speaker 3: to talk to Chris and Chris specifically Chris. Now we
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  Speaker 3: just talked about your ex Victoria being at the wedding.
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  Speaker 3: We have another one of your exes here on the
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  Speaker 3: podcast today, Ashley.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I'll say it does anymore question marks
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  Speaker 4: are gone. We get Jared so.
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  Speaker 3: And I wonder if you're dating anybody today. It's kind
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  Speaker 3: of been kept secret for a while. We haven't got
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  Speaker 3: to hear about your dating life, and I'm curious, are
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  Speaker 3: you out there?
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  Speaker 4: I'm definitely out there. I guess I'm not in a
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  Speaker 4: relationship at the moment, but yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 4: of yeah, class myself is single and out there.
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  Speaker 6: How do you get out there?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I forget the name of the town Arlington, Arlington, Iowa. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: what's out there? Do you have to literally go out
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  Speaker 5: there to find people?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you really do have to. The one fact still
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  Speaker 4: remains is that Arlington is not a hotbed for dating.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we're right in the middle of planting right now.
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  Speaker 4: We're kind of have a rain day today, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so getting away and going to weddings and doing things
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  Speaker 4: are sort of my getting out there.
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  Speaker 3: So when you show up to a wedding, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're a very handsome fella, You're looking good. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to Nick and Natalie's wedding? Are you walking in kind
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  Speaker 3: of surveying the crowd seeing who catches your eye?
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  Speaker 4: Of course?
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  Speaker 5: Can you tell us a good like wedding story, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not not like I say, wedding crashers, because in wedding crashers,
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  Speaker 5: the guys always used to hook up with somebody. You
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  Speaker 5: already you are told your wedding crashing story, but like,
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  Speaker 5: can you tell us a good story of like you
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  Speaker 5: really hitting it off with somebody at a wedding?
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  Speaker 6: Have you? Is there anybody that was like the one
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  Speaker 6: that got away? You had a wedding the.
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  Speaker 4: One that got away? Oh man, I can't remember any
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  Speaker 4: of those things. But I don't know that I have
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  Speaker 4: any great, wonderful stories that I can share. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's I wouldn't say it's that's the number
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  Speaker 4: one goal at a wedding for me. I don't get
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  Speaker 4: take me the wrong way. I do go for you know,
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  Speaker 4: yes to support my dear friends Nick and Nadlie and
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  Speaker 4: those that are celebrating their day. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's anywhere now when you're single, I guess it's you
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  Speaker 4: have to be able to be open minded anytime that
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  Speaker 4: you are in a public place, not in a farm,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in a cornfield. So I have to actually
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  Speaker 4: be pursuing in order to figure this out.
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  Speaker 3: So when you are getting out there to date, then
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  Speaker 3: we just mentioned weddings, uh, and you do attend a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them because you're a good friend with many people. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and you're a supportive friend. Where are you going in
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  Speaker 3: your life to date? Then if Arlington is not exactly
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  Speaker 3: the hotbed that you are interested in, where are you
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  Speaker 3: traveling to and going on these dates most often?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? You know it's sort of I don't have a
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  Speaker 4: specific place really. It just depends, you know, looking to
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  Speaker 4: come out to Denver soon to come visit you, but
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  Speaker 4: you're never there, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: That's Menver.
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  Speaker 5: They call it Menver for a reason. Yeah, you got
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  Speaker 5: to go somewhere with a higher female population.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, And some of that kind of can
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  Speaker 4: happen through social media too, right, you know, so I
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  Speaker 4: don't really spit pick a specific area, and being from
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  Speaker 4: a small town, I still like to travel. So I've
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  Speaker 4: been sort of looking at different places that maybe have
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  Speaker 4: you know, winter winters are pretty tough and in Iowa,
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  Speaker 4: so being able to sort of build a have a
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  Speaker 4: place place where I can go for weekends and and
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  Speaker 4: uh weeks at a time when it's whether it's crappy
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  Speaker 4: or not in the field. But I don't have a
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  Speaker 4: like a go to and but so it's a little
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  Speaker 4: little social media, a little direct messages here and there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, whatever that.
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  Speaker 2: Works, it works.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great plan. Yeah, I have no problem with
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  Speaker 3: the direct message. I mean I found my wife direct
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  Speaker 3: messaging her.
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  Speaker 4: That's how.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got there at midnight. And then the I
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  Speaker 5: called them crystalism because like, for some reason, like it's
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  Speaker 5: just funny when it happens to you, right, you got
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  Speaker 5: you got to the hotel at midnight, and then they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we gave away your room, which is the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 5: I've never had a hotel say that, like, because you
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  Speaker 5: didn't get there until late in the evening that they
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  Speaker 5: gave away the whole tell Normally they call you and they're.
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  Speaker 6: Like, hey, it was your flight light or like you
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  Speaker 6: still come in. They're just now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they just they just happened to happened. It next
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  Speaker 4: my reservation. So I got there at midnight and found
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  Speaker 4: out that I didn't have a room, and so they
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  Speaker 4: relocated me to downtown Savannah at it's kind of been
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  Speaker 4: over a little rougher area, and they had an eight
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  Speaker 4: and I was a little concerning, but yeah, it's quite
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  Speaker 4: a quite an evening and and uh yeah it's things
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  Speaker 4: got I was at my flight was a little delayed
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  Speaker 4: out of Iowa and had some we were in the field,
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  Speaker 4: and so yeah, it was kind of comical. The guy
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  Speaker 4: at the friend desk just was not interested in helping
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  Speaker 4: me out, so he just shipped me off to another
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  Speaker 4: hotel and.
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  Speaker 6: And they made you pay for that hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was weird. And then they booked me a
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  Speaker 4: room for the following evening. I don't understand. He said,
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  Speaker 4: there were a full and a lot of it is
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  Speaker 4: just the things that happened to me.
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  Speaker 5: And then the next day, very funny, we saw you
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  Speaker 5: downstairs in the lobby. You're happy to have a hotel
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  Speaker 5: room at that hotel. You text me when we are
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  Speaker 5: already twenty minutes into the trolley ride and go, hey,
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  Speaker 5: when's the trolley leaving.
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  Speaker 6: It's a classic. And then you actually made it with
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  Speaker 6: plenty of time.
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  Speaker 4: With your guy. That was perfect. It was perfect. I
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  Speaker 4: had a great Uber ride. The guy actually picked me up.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, you know, I'm not supposed to. I don't
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  Speaker 4: I don't want it. I don't want this ride. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why they I don't know why they gave
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  Speaker 4: me this ride. I'm like, well, sir, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: a wedding and I'm kind of late. Can you make
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  Speaker 4: it work today? He's like, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why they gave me this ride. I just don't
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  Speaker 4: want it. I'm like, well, I can't help you there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't work for Uber, but I'll give you a
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  Speaker 4: good tip. And so we became friends though, and we
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  Speaker 4: got me over there. He's like, the only reason I'm
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  Speaker 4: taking you is because you're going to a wedding. Whatever it takes, man.
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  Speaker 2: You did.
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  Speaker 3: You showed up in style. But outside of the wedding
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  Speaker 3: now kind of switching gears than Chris, we just uh
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  Speaker 3: were a part of the Golden Wedding. Ashley and myself
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  Speaker 3: attended the Golden wedding just uh, a few short months ago.
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  Speaker 5: I still have toenail polish on from that wedding. So
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  Speaker 5: my toenail polish lasted longer than in the relationships. The
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  Speaker 5: relationship but you know, yes, I do need another predictre.
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  Speaker 5: That's my toenail since then. Okay, guys, and just the
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  Speaker 5: lingering effects not going on.
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  Speaker 2: There was no judgment on this show.
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  Speaker 6: There's body I haven't painted them.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any.
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  Speaker 3: There's not, but there is still fresh memories. It feels
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  Speaker 3: like it was yesterday and it really wasn't that far
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  Speaker 3: past yesterday. And the big reason now this couple has
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  Speaker 3: decided to split is distance. They've realized that distance is
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  Speaker 3: an issue in their relationship. Now, Chris, you also at
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  Speaker 3: one time were the Bachelor and you were in a
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  Speaker 3: relationship following the Bachelor with Whitney, and publicly you ha
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  Speaker 3: said that distance was one of the main reason, if
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  Speaker 3: not the main reason that relationship did not work. Can
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  Speaker 3: you walk through for any listener why distance is such
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  Speaker 3: a hard thing to figure out coming off of this
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  Speaker 3: show and maybe also answer to why people don't figure
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  Speaker 3: it out before they get engaged or married.
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  Speaker 5: It's just bs and it's a great excuse to put
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  Speaker 5: out in the public.
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  Speaker 4: Which part would would be BS. I don't think any
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  Speaker 4: of it's BS. I guess really, I mean I don't
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  Speaker 4: think the individual. I mean, I guess my personal experience
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  Speaker 4: none of it was BS.
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  Speaker 5: I mean real you actually you actually broke up because
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  Speaker 5: of distance?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't say that. I mean there was that
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  Speaker 4: part of I mean, it's part of any relationship is
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  Speaker 4: you know, proximity to your partner, right, So I think
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  Speaker 4: it's I don't think you can put one thing on
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  Speaker 4: my personal experience and how that relationship why it was
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  Speaker 4: not successful. But distance, you know, after the show, I
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  Speaker 4: think has a lot of effects on on relationships just
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  Speaker 4: because it's a you're you're living a different life right
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  Speaker 4: off the bat for a few for a few months, definitely,
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  Speaker 4: and for a few years and maybe forever. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that, you know, and then then having all those
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  Speaker 4: different dynamics thrown at you. I mean, I know that
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  Speaker 4: my life was much different prior to being the Bachelor,
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  Speaker 4: much different, and my relationship relationships were much different. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they weren't the same, and so you know the reasons
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  Speaker 4: that we had distance were different from like what I
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  Speaker 4: would have had normally in my normal life because of
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  Speaker 4: agriculture and farming has always created a challenge with with
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  Speaker 4: being able to live near each other in previous relationships.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that, you know, I don't think you
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  Speaker 4: put one thing on any relationship after going on the Bachelor.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a such a tough experience. You're just taking
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  Speaker 4: on so many different life experiences. And whether it's social
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  Speaker 4: media or being public in a relationship, is is changes.
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  Speaker 4: It changes the game no matter what who you are,
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  Speaker 4: so and distance is I would say if that was
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  Speaker 4: something that affected them, Maybe it is not quite one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent, but I would Yeah, kids, I wouldn't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm answering that question if there
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  Speaker 4: is a good answer. Really it's a loaded question.
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  Speaker 5: You know, But I think you're right when you say
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  Speaker 5: it can be a factor which causes relationship.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I want.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if the path too is, Hey, we're needing
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  Speaker 3: to make a decision on where we're gonna live, right,
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  Speaker 3: If we want this relationship to work, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: get closer to each other. And then as you start
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  Speaker 3: having that conversation, then it starts opening up the door
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  Speaker 3: to do we actually think this is gonna work, Like,
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  Speaker 3: is it worth us to move closer to each other
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  Speaker 3: because we have other issues that are very prevalent, and
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  Speaker 3: distance is definitely the culprit for bringing those issues up,
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  Speaker 3: because maybe we wouldn't have talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Them for a few more months. But you know what,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna work.
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna work, and so we're gonna blame it
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  Speaker 3: on distance because distance kind of is the factor. However,
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  Speaker 3: if you know, if there was so many other good
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  Speaker 3: things going on, then distance wouldn't be a factor at all. Chris,
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  Speaker 3: could you agree with that or do you see holes
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  Speaker 3: in that?
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  Speaker 4: No? I think it's easy to make kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: you can make a broad paint a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: with a rod brush just to publicly say, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And so there it's their right to kind of keep
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  Speaker 4: some things personal and regarding their relationship. And I'm sure,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, if it's one percent distance and then
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  Speaker 4: there's a million other things that are affecting that, then
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  Speaker 4: putting it on distance and that being the the public reason,
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  Speaker 4: and then you know, I'm sure there's a lot more
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  Speaker 4: to any relationship.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a lot easier than being coming out
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  Speaker 3: and being like, well, he's selfish and you're you know,
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  Speaker 3: and you're controlling, and he's this, and she's like just
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  Speaker 3: distance is kind of this very level equal, like hard
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  Speaker 3: to criticize it. I actually appreciate that distance is the
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  Speaker 3: excuse more than no. This here's how I really think
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 6: No, you do not.
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  Speaker 5: You would so much more appreciate that that would be
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  Speaker 5: fun for us.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, distance really is the issue because I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to move to you because I don't like you
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: enough to move to you.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: That's what it is. And there's that, you know, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: the other challenge, like I mean, I've gone through a
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: public breakoup. It's like, well, the reasons may be different
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: for both parties, right, So the one thing that they
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: can agree on is distance. You know, maybe the one
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: person has body odor, you know, we're not going to
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: talk about that on social media. I Mean, there's there's
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: reasons that each person may just not want to, you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: and they might disagree on the reasons that they're even
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: not going to be together. So but they can agree
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: on one thing, it's distance.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I have an insider's story, Chris that I want to
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: bring up. This is a rumor. I want to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: clear that, as I preface preface this, this is a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: rumor of a generalization of a conversation that that Gary
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: and Teresa had and I and I think you're going
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to find it interesting. Now, this rumor is speculative, but uh,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: it does seem to carry some weight in truth that
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: something like this did happen between them and it was
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: kind of the.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Culprit for the breakup. Ashley. Should I share it?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Have you shared this with me yet?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I've not shared this with you.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: I love it. Go for it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: This great.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: So there's a rumor.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I want again, I'm going to be clear, this is
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: a rumor, and if anything, we can at least and
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: maybe not even speak to the fact that one of
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: them said this or didn't say this, but talk about
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: how it would feel to you if somebody said this
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: to you, Chris, because it will relate to you. There
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: is a rumor that on Teresa's visit to Indiana, Gary
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: picked Teresa up at the airport. It's about two hours
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: from Gary where Gary lives. Now, that's just the thing
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: about living in Indiana. You're going to drive to an
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: airport two hours every time, trust me.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: And if she wants to go home a lot, see
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: the grandchildren.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It's tough.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: That's tough.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Com Yeah, So after he picks her up, they're both excited.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: But there had already been some issues in the relationship. Okay,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: there'd already been some just grumblings and some things happening.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: But they're excited to be with each other, but they're
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: not seeing eye to eye in life. They're driving this
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: two hours from Indianapolis to his lake house, and most
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: of that drive is through cornfields. Most of that drive
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: is through agriculture and untouched land in a.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Lot of ways.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: And the rumor is that Teresa made the comment to Gary, Wow,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: look at all this beautiful untouched land. Think about what
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: could be done if they developed it condos, office buildings, apartments.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Think about the towns that could congregate in these open fields.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And think about the people that would be interested in
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: moving here, because look at that lake. There's a lake
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: with only cornfields around it. Think about if they build
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: up a resort where people could vacation too. And Gary's
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: comment back to her again a rumor was, you don't
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: take land from a farmer, And that was the star
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: of them realizing that they did not see the world
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the same way.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: That are you taking this story up for Chris specifically.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Storyteller. I'm can you keep going?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: So this does have again, this is a rumored story
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: or rumored conversation that happened, and it did spark there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if there's a right and a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: wrong here, Like I'm not I'm not picking a side.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I know how I would feel in this conversation. But Teresa,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: being from the city, cees, you know, open land and goes, hey,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: how cool would it be if there's a park there,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: if there's a condo there, if there's people there. Gary,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: being from the country says, you know what, Like that
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: to me is what that land needs to be used for.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: That's what's beautiful. We don't take that land, we don't
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: develop that land. And this was a big start to
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: them disagreeing on how they saw the world and what
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: they imagine for the world and how they want to
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: invest into the world. And so Chris, if somebody were
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: to say this to you, how would you respond.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Probably someone has, but you know, I think there's a
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I view that subject. I mean, there are I can
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: see both sides to that one hundred percent.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's there's areas that that would benefit from development,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: there's economically it makes sense. But there's a ton of
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: land out there. Farmers have plenty of land to farm,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: and sometimes there's some misconceptions that maybe there's a shortage,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: but they're not making new of it any more new land.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: So there's that, But it doesn't seem like something that
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: should interfere in a fundamental breakup of a relationship. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: would say, I think there's a happy medium that we
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: can all live with and have. Farmers can have their
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: land and we can we can sure build plenty of
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: condos near the cities or where they need to be,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: So I don't think that should have resulted in a
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: But you know, each their own I guess. But I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: pro pro development. I mean, I'm pro farmland, so we
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: just have to I'll work together.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: The purpose of that story, Chris is to really ask,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: would that be a detrimental conversation in coming from a farmer,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: one of the most successful farmers in the Midwest, would
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: that be a conversation that would end a relationship for you?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And what you're saying is no, it wouldn't.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: It would actually do you could find kind of both
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: ideas and you could walk through that conversation.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, now I would have definitely embrace that conversation.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I think it's, you know, coming from this majority of
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: people I meet are not farming people, So it's I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: very accustomed to having those type of conversations just because
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: it is different. I mean, the one percent of the
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: population lest someone percent of the population actively farms. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: it's there's just a lot of unknowns out there, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: to be able to share them and help educate, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: people that aren't really familiar with agriculture and farmland. It's,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: you know, he someone misunderstanding, misconceptions and misunderstandings about land
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: and what it should be used for and shouldn't. No. Yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: it's a delicate thing because people get pretty strong emotions
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: about both sides of it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Actually, you really think I just made up that story,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: don't you.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: I'm one, And this is where do you reveal it?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: No, I did not make up that story.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: That is here the story from.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I cannot I cannot talk about my sources. I have
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: sources that stay in and involved and they're everywhere, and.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: So we're like planted this story in Ben's head because
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: they're like, this knows how to lie a little bit.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: This is not this is not a lie. There is
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: no lying involved here. Now, Chris, to kind of close
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: up here. I know you and I had this conversation
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit at the wedding. I always got this sense,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: and I don't know if it was coming from you
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: or coming from the public that coming off your time
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: as the Bachelor, there was always this hint or idea
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: in your head that you would be potentially leaving Iowa,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: or maybe there was a curiosity about what would life
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: look like if you did leave Iowa. I always found
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: that interesting because you have such an investment in Iowa,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: your family has such an investment in your town, you
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: have such a successful business being ran.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Out of that town.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I always thought it would be weird for you to,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: you know, move, and you obviously haven't. You know, we're
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: years removed from you be on the show. You're still
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: in Iowa. Okay, So again, in a two part question,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: were you ever actually considering considering leaving Iowa and where
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: do you stand today on that topic?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: It's a good question, Ben, You know, I've never really
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: wanted to move from Iowa. It would be more or
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: less having a place. You know, a lot of farmers
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: do have second homes, like because it you know, usually
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: you're in a very remote area without much social life.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I mean it is an aspect of mental health to
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: have some social life because inherently farmland is located in
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: what areas. So having a place you know, where I
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: could you know, socialized, date or have a family in
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: near school systems that are you know, maybe have more
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: access to different types of education whatever. But yeah, just
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: from a lifet lifestyle perspective, having a second place has
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: always been a goal of mine. Actually to haven't accomplished
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: that yet, but some of those you know, things I
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: think will come. I do find a relationship that is
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: that works, you know, and and boways thought in my head, like,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: you know, until you make that move to have, like
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: go invest in a second place, probably want to have
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: somebody else that's wanting to be there as well, or
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: maybe already there. So that's always been part of the
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: master plan, you know, just to whether I go out
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: and invest in a place and have an Airbnb somewhere
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: or something like that that I can visit. It's always
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: been something I wanted to do. I mean I've I've
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: gone down to Phoenix quite a bit in the wintertime,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and that's kind of a that's where my grandpa used
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: to overwinter. My parents are visiting Florida in the wintertime
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: stay out of the winter, so you know, just uh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: they call them snowbirds, and you know, like you get
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: out exactly, say if they get your parents were so
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: kind of that would be my you know, eventual goal
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: is to have but this will always be where my
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: roots are, where home is. I mean, yeah, it's crossed
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: my mind, and I've had tons of people wanting me
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: to move to l A or Hollywood and do that
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: sort of thing, and I just not me, you know,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: and even no matter how you know, there's been enough
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: opportunity that I probably should have really considered doing it,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: But I don't think i'd be happy you did.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: For a little while before COVID.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was out there for that was just
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: a little short stint and kind of doing some stuff
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: on the hemp, the hemp CBD oil deal we were
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: doing out there, and that was nice. It was enough
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: to know that it's still home. I can still remember
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: being when COVID is kicking in and we were starting
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: to get ready to plant corn, and uh, I was ready.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: I was done with that part of my life.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Well, Chris, we are always rooting for you. We want
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: you to have a wife and kids, so we will.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: If you're listening and email Ben and Ashley, it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Sounds like Chris is checking his DM so so, so
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: feel free to slide in those dms.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Message Chris.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: He's active on social media. He's checking him every evening
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and filtering through his interest levels. So if you're out
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: there you know somebody that would love the date Chris souls.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: He is open to dating. And I can tell you
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: this going to multiple dinners with Chris, He's going to
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: be a really good date. Like he's going to be
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Yep, yes he is.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I know who's the best dancer on this podcast
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: right now, it's all there is to it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Well, this was the first wedding in a while or
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: ever that I didn't get the two of you dancing together. Oh,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: because it's just it's foolishness that must be seen from everyone.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I was like, is you know Ben? Darn it?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: I really should have made it a thing, not get
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: you on film. I'm like, it's so ordinary to me. Now,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, there goes Ben dancing. And then everybody
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: like kind of like nudges me during a wedding and
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: they're like, if you've.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Seen Ben dans.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yes, yes, his wife says that he goes
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: to bed alone those nights.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks good, it looks really good. It's a fantastic. Yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: it's so smooth. Everything just works in unison. Chris Soles,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you're the man. We appreciate you coming on. We wish
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you the best, keep us updated here. We're gonna make
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: a deal with you. As soon as you find a
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: relationship that you are dating somebody for more than let's
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: say three months, you're going to hit us up and
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you're gonna come on our podcast and whenever you're open
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: to uh introducing this person to Bachelor Nation, then this
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: will be your stop to do. It will be nice.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Real deal. That's a deal. You love you, guys, Love.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: You, Chrissy.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: That has been Chris Soles coming on to share his
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: life update. Obviously, this is the off season of the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Almost Famous podcast, and we commit to and promise to
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: bring back leads and contestants who've been memorable and left
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: a mark on Bachelor Nation. Chris is definitely one of
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: those we wish him the best. You know, I feel
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: like Ashley most of the time we talk to Chris,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: there is this deep desire to find love, and yet
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: it just feels like it hasn't happened for him. I know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: every time, it's like I want that update where he
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: comes on he's like, Yeah, I've been dating this girl
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: for two years. She's super great. She you know, just
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: you know, lives down the street and we're so happy.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: But as of right now, he is very single and
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: very open to being damned damned.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Uh, but we'll be back.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a big week for the Almost
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Famous podcast and we hope you tune in to every
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: episode because every episode will just add a little nugget
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: to Bachelor Nation into what's going on leading up to
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: the next season of The Bachelorette. Hey, so until next time,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: I've been Ben, I've been Ashley.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: See you guys. Thank you for listening.
• 32:08
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