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Espresso Martinis with Justin Glaze · 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: This is the almost Famous podcast. We have Justin Glaze
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  Speaker 2: with us today, justin.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us, Thanks for having me Justin.
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  Speaker 3: I got to kick it off.
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  Speaker 2: One of the one of the things that's been a
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  Speaker 2: common theme, it feels like in my life is when
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  Speaker 2: we interview people getting ready for Paradise, your name pops
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  Speaker 2: up a lot with who they would like to see.
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  Speaker 3: There is that a possibility it popped up this year? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: This season it hasn't stopped. Oh why is that great?
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  Speaker 1: Great? Yeah? Is it.
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  Speaker 3: A possibility this year? Yes? Zero percent chances? Why this year?
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  Speaker 3: A couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: I just needed to I mean, that's a lot to
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  Speaker 4: go through that whole experience. Obviously I went through it
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  Speaker 4: season and I didn't have the most grand or enjoyable experience.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not exactly itching to immerse myself back in that.
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  Speaker 3: Do.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a format that can work absolutely, and
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  Speaker 4: on paper, it's ideal for somebody like me, just you know,
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  Speaker 4: in sense of the amount of time that you get
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  Speaker 4: to spend with somebody. But I don't know, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: still kind of a you know, a bit weary based
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  Speaker 4: on like how my experience last year went.
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  Speaker 2: My co host Ashley would say that the rhythm of
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  Speaker 2: the of Bachelor in Paradise is you're on it, you
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  Speaker 2: hate it, you get off of it, and you miss it.
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  Speaker 4: Have you missed it certain aspects? Certain aspects yes, other
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  Speaker 4: aspects no. And I think that's kind of where the
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  Speaker 4: dilemma is, you know, in deciding whether or not that's
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  Speaker 4: something I would want to throw myself back into.
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  Speaker 3: But there are definitely certain aspects.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, it's it's an experience unlike no other obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and there's certain things that even when you're there,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, this is you know, you find it's so
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  Speaker 4: easy to complain about the little things, but when you
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  Speaker 4: take a step back, you're like, wow, you know that
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  Speaker 4: wasn't so bad, and I, you know, I could have
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  Speaker 4: found success in this, you know. So yeah, there are
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  Speaker 4: things that you miss about it. But I guess I'm
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  Speaker 4: probably an over analytical person, so I weigh the pros
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  Speaker 4: and cons more than some others may, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is why, you know, I don't know if I would
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  Speaker 3: do it. It would take a combination of a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I cannot relate with and I'm really curious
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  Speaker 2: about I've never really thought about this until now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're sitting in this room. You're what two years
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  Speaker 2: removed from your time on the show, the first show.
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  Speaker 2: You're removed from Paradise. You're back to normal life, and like,
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  Speaker 2: you've tasted what the show brings you, right, It brings
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  Speaker 2: you a little attention, it brings people maybe recognize you
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  Speaker 2: on the streets more than they did before.
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  Speaker 3: But you're back in a rhythm. Yeah, I went.
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  Speaker 2: From you know, bachelorette to bachelor, and then I was
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  Speaker 2: pretty much off, Like I was done. I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: anything else, and so I never got to experience the
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  Speaker 2: in between, where like I normalized again, stuff slowed down
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  Speaker 2: for me again.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So as I say, you're talking to you today and
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  Speaker 2: you're saying, Okay, Paradise not this year, maybe next year.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say it's a possibility next year, sure, Like, how
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  Speaker 2: would you mentally go into it now? Like what would
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  Speaker 2: change with your mindset now, having years back in the
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  Speaker 2: normal world, knowing what you're walking into. Yeah, Like would
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  Speaker 2: it change? Would you be as nervous? Would you be
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  Speaker 2: more confident?
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think I would be, you know, even
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  Speaker 4: because I did even have a little bit of time
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  Speaker 4: after our Bachelorette season, because they filmed that Paradise like
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  Speaker 4: before ours even aired, ok, so we could have gone
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  Speaker 4: on that one. I said no to that one, So
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  Speaker 4: I had a little bit of time in between, you know,
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  Speaker 4: where I went back to working and all that before
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  Speaker 4: I did go on Paradise last year. So I've kind
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  Speaker 4: of experienced that already, of kind of going back to
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  Speaker 4: quote unquote normal life before re entering. But having been
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  Speaker 4: through Paradise already, now I think, you know, yes and no,
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  Speaker 4: like there are things that going into it, and now
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  Speaker 4: if I were to go again, you know, I probably
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  Speaker 4: would do a bit differently. But at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, I've been able to step away from both
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  Speaker 4: shows knowing that I was my true self and there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing I didn't try to play a game. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: try to you know, do anything orchestrated. So I've been
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  Speaker 4: able to step away from both situations knowing, like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: I showed up as Justin and that's the best I
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  Speaker 4: could do.
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  Speaker 3: Did it work out?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Does that suck?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: But is it okay? Yeah? You know, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it is what it is, right.
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  Speaker 4: So I would go if I were to go back
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  Speaker 4: into it, I don't like there's no strategy or anything really,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think I would just know what it
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  Speaker 4: is and kind of have a bit of a different mindset.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, what would be.
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  Speaker 4: The things you do differently, So I would, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I I think I tried to be in it, although
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  Speaker 4: it didn't work out. Like I said just a few
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  Speaker 4: seconds ago, I'm very like analytical, I guess, and I
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  Speaker 4: like overthink or like weigh pros and cons and just
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  Speaker 4: try to very intentional, which I don't think is a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I would probably just like let my.
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  Speaker 4: Hair down a little bit more. And you know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, I would be better at communicating. I think
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  Speaker 4: that kind of got me into some troubles. But I
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  Speaker 4: think honestly it's like it's a personnel thing as well.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you just don't get the right mix of people.
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  Speaker 4: So I think I would just be better at communicating. Why
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  Speaker 4: I'm being so like analytical because in my mind, everything
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  Speaker 4: even when I stepped like these guys, know, when I
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  Speaker 4: came back from Paradise, I was like, all right, I
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  Speaker 4: think I did everything right, you know, but then watching
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  Speaker 4: it back and having conversations, I'm like, Okay, in my mind,
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  Speaker 4: I know what my intentions were, but I didn't communicate
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  Speaker 4: them as effectively as I could have. So I think
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  Speaker 4: I would just be like overly communicative with whoever.
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  Speaker 3: I would, you know, be in a relationship or whatever with.
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  Speaker 3: Would it play a big factor for you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have a very strong friend group from
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  Speaker 2: your time on the show and the people you've met
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  Speaker 2: since your time on the show. Yeah, would it be
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  Speaker 2: a make or break for you for one of your
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  Speaker 2: buddies to be committed to go on the beach as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know people may hate this because they
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  Speaker 3: think they're like, oh, they're only going to brow out
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  Speaker 3: on the beach, right, But it's more than just that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like having a support system then because you are
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  Speaker 4: cut off from friends, family back home, you have no phone, nothing, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so yeah, it would be a make or break
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  Speaker 4: if I had, you know, one of these guys or
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  Speaker 4: Rodney to go with me. Absolutely, I wouldn't go down
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  Speaker 4: there by myself, because when you're in the trenches like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, God forbid, you're in a situation where things
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  Speaker 4: aren't going great with you know, you're partner whoever you're
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  Speaker 4: you know, matched up with at the moment, like you
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  Speaker 4: need that night time, daytime, like side conversation, night chats
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  Speaker 4: with your with your guys to get their perspective.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm jealous, Like I would love that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that would be a massive deal for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I never got to experience, but just
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  Speaker 2: showing up someplace with some familiar faces that know you
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  Speaker 2: on the outside exactly now with you on the inside
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  Speaker 2: would be huge. Yeah, just also for enjoyment and the
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  Speaker 2: fact in the part that nobody understands if they're listening
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  Speaker 2: is the stories afterwards. You leave the show most of
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  Speaker 2: the time in an isolated world and there's nobody to
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  Speaker 2: talk to really that relates with it. But if you
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  Speaker 2: had buddies on the inside, you get off the show
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  Speaker 2: and be like you remember that on the beach, just
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  Speaker 2: breaking things down together would be healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody, nobody would understand unless you're there and it's
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  Speaker 4: like it's crazy because you know that's kind of obviously
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  Speaker 4: just being on the show and going through this unique
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  Speaker 4: experience that's the basis of which our friendships were kind
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  Speaker 4: of like founded on and that's like, you know, your
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  Speaker 4: most common reality when you come off the show, but
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  Speaker 4: then you just kind of branch out from there. So
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  Speaker 4: like nowadays, like we barely talk about Yeah, the show.
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  Speaker 4: It'll it'll come up every now and then we'll crack
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  Speaker 4: a joke or something like that. But it is nice
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  Speaker 4: to have people that you know can relate back to
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  Speaker 4: those experiences like that were in there with you at
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  Speaker 4: that moment in time. It's it's like you can't replicate
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  Speaker 4: that with your you know, friends that you're known for decades.
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  Speaker 4: It's they would never get it.
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  Speaker 3: They never get it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm in that. I mean I've been in that.
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  Speaker 2: They never get it. They try, they just can't. They
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  Speaker 2: don't say the right things, they don't ask the right questions.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that's so cool that you guys
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  Speaker 2: have stayed so close. I imagine, like you said, you've
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  Speaker 2: branched off from the show now. Uh so for you
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  Speaker 2: all as a friend group, for you personally, what does
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  Speaker 2: life look like?
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  Speaker 3: Uh day to day?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I you know, contrary to what a lot
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of people think, I I work a
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  Speaker 4: finance I'm in finance, So I have like a corporate career.
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  Speaker 4: I still do my my painting, and you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: working on some some other fun projects. Anyone who knows
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  Speaker 4: me knows I am pretty obsessed with expresso martini. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of immersing myself into the spears industry working
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  Speaker 4: on some fun projects there. So yeah, just keep you know,
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  Speaker 4: gout my hands full with keeping keeping busy.
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  Speaker 3: So if you need a coffee provider, I'm your guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I've been coffee company for five years, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: I've done the espresso world.
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  Speaker 3: Before we got to.
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  Speaker 2: Talk what's like having a full time job. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of your friends, a lot of people come
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  Speaker 2: on the show, a lot of them do keep their
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  Speaker 2: full time jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Some people do, you know, choose a different path.
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  Speaker 2: So has that been hard to like balance that when
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  Speaker 2: maybe on a Wednesday afternoon, you know, there's some freedom
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  Speaker 2: in your friend's world to go and do something and.
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  Speaker 3: You're you know, at an office. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely So right after after the Bachelorette, I went back to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the same job that I was with before,
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  Speaker 4: and then took about six months off just you know,
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  Speaker 4: personal reasons and what have you. And so during that time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I was just painting. I was doing like
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  Speaker 4: the social media stub, and I was like, this is
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  Speaker 4: great for a while, right, and everyone you know, teaches
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  Speaker 4: their own. But for me, I didn't feel as fulfilled because.
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  Speaker 3: I started to kind of like for the first couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks it was great.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I'm like, I can go to the gym when
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  Speaker 4: I want, I can have freedom where I can travel.
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  Speaker 4: But I wasn't feeling as fulfilled, and I like, I
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  Speaker 4: liked being in a routine and I liked just you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I missed that routine. So I went back to to working.
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  Speaker 4: But it does get tough because I just had to
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  Speaker 4: miss out on a trip to Cabo with these guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: because it was like smacked up in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: it was a Monday through Friday thing, and even though
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  Speaker 4: I work remote, I'm just like, I know.
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  Speaker 3: I can't I can't make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be in the hotel room like crunching away while
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  Speaker 4: you guys are like, I'm like the SpongeBob, meaning like
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  Speaker 4: should everybody have fun, you know, and I'm like, bhy
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  Speaker 4: my laptop.
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  Speaker 3: So it is it is tough to fomo.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it can be difficult to get over, but
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  Speaker 4: it is what it is, and this is the lifestyle
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  Speaker 4: chosen for now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, see yeah, I did it for two years.
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  Speaker 2: After my time as a bachelor, I went back to finance.
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  Speaker 2: I worked it for two years and then started the
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  Speaker 2: coffee company. And that's really where I stepped out. But
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  Speaker 2: I still work, right, I can't. I can't do all
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  Speaker 2: the things that my friends on the show you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing now. Everybody kind of settles in a few
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  Speaker 2: years later and they start to go back to they
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  Speaker 2: start to settle down in something. But I do imagine
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  Speaker 2: that's tough for you. Would it be is it something
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  Speaker 2: that you're looking I mean not to get you fired,
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  Speaker 2: but would you be looking to find something like new?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you really love where you sit right now?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: Great question. So here's what I'll say.
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  Speaker 4: I and this is no secret, Like am I great
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  Speaker 4: at what I do in finance?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely? Is it something that I'm super passionate about?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Is that? Like you know, if I.
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  Speaker 4: Could do anything in the world and money didn't matter, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like what would like? Art is my is my thing?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Anyone who knows me like art is one of my passions,
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  Speaker 4: and so if the right opportunity came across with that's
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  Speaker 4: art or or something else where, I was truly passionate
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  Speaker 4: about it, and I looked at it as something like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: there's longevity here, this is sustainable. Then yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's a different conversation. But I'm very much
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  Speaker 4: so a proponent of like security, and I'll you know,
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  Speaker 4: I know, sometimes you gotta take a leap of faith,
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  Speaker 4: but for now, you know, until the right opportunity came
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  Speaker 4: across where I knew it was something sustainable that would
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  Speaker 4: set me up for success more so than what I'm
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  Speaker 4: doing now, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I guess is stability. I did it for health care.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't do it south so that if you ask
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  Speaker 4: my parents, because I even like I'm i mean like
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  Speaker 4: I'm logical, my parents are like the extreme. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm still the risk taker. And so that's
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  Speaker 4: like the first thing my dad brings up. My my parents,
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  Speaker 4: they'll support whatever I do. If I told him I
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  Speaker 4: was like, I'm quit my job tomorrow and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: go paint murals on the street, right, they'd be like murals,
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  Speaker 4: this guy trying to bring me down obsessor.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be like, go for it. My dad'd be like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, yeah, go for it. But what about that healthcare?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What I mean, Like, so that's it's it's a real thing.
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  Speaker 2: But well, and then in the same breath, obviously you
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  Speaker 2: are in a full time job the show, no matter
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  Speaker 2: if you like it or not, everybody comes off and
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of like euphoria from the attention.
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  Speaker 3: It's exciting, it's new.
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  Speaker 2: Your ego can often replace like a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: like who you've you know, always been happens everybody you
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  Speaker 2: know going back to a full time job.
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  Speaker 3: Has that kept you humble?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Has it? Do you feeling steady? Do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: who you were before?
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  Speaker 2: This show has changed you as a person a lot
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  Speaker 2: to this point in time.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think we'd be lying if anyone said
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  Speaker 4: it didn't doesn't change you. But that's not necessarily a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing, right, Like I think it can change you
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  Speaker 4: for the better in a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of ways.
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  Speaker 4: It was weird because I naively thought that I could
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  Speaker 4: go back to the job and just like I guess,
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  Speaker 4: be justin at work, and then could be justin and
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  Speaker 4: like the social life that changed right. I didn't want
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  Speaker 4: my work persona to change, but it was impossible to
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  Speaker 4: separate the two because people at work want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about it NonStop and it's like hard to separate.
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  Speaker 3: Church and state, right, Like it just it is what
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 4: But it's actually funny because when I left that company,
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  Speaker 4: enjoy my new company. I think some of that a
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  Speaker 4: lower kind of wear or off because it's actually the
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  Speaker 4: same company that Romeo works at. So he like introduced
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  Speaker 4: me to the company while we were filming Paradise, so
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  Speaker 4: people still like initially wanted to talk about it, and like,
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  Speaker 4: I work remotely, so it was it was more manageable
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  Speaker 4: behind like a screen.
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  Speaker 3: But then when I went to the party, people like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god. I'm like, guys, i'm your coworker, but you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like it's weird.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, we work at the same place, so I
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  Speaker 4: think it's inevitable, but I just do my best to
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  Speaker 4: kind of separate like work mode and.
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  Speaker 3: Then like Bachelor Social World, Yes I can. Well it's healthy. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and it's admirable for you to keep this job. It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not something that everybody can do. It's not somebody
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  Speaker 2: something everybody chooses to do. But it is a big
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  Speaker 2: deal when you choose to do it. I don't say
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  Speaker 2: that lightly. I know how hard it is, but a
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  Speaker 2: long term I do believe it's the healthy and right choice.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm also probably like your parents, where I'm like
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  Speaker 2: stability's nice. Yeah, well you're back to work, You've got
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: your social life. The question that I have to ask
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: everybody are you dating?
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Are you single? What does that look like for you?
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Man sore subject.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: I am single. I'm trying my best to date. So
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: I just moved out to LA from Baltimore about I'm
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: two months ago, and it's it's been a bit of
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: a challenge because for a couple of like I'm not
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: on any of the apps or anything like that, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: I'm not a huge DM diver, so I haven't really
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: explored that avenue too much.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: But look into it. Yeah, I might have to at
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: this point. It's been tough.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Like I don't want to categorize, you know, people in ELLI,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: but so thus far, you know, I you know, we'll
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: go to events or you know, we're out and we'll
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: meet somebody, and for me, you know, like the next
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: step is like okay, if we hit it, off exchange
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: numbers like I want to take you on a date.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I want to do something right.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: And I've found that, you know, a lot of times
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: it's like you change numbers, you talk for a couple
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: of days, and it's like there's no like actual action.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: It's like, hey, like I've gotten stood up twice now, yeah,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: where I literally I'm like, hey, we got dinner seven
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: thirty at this place and then just like nothing, like
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: wait a minute, I'm like, yeah, so I I've tried
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: to be intentional. I've tried to like I don't know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: maybe I'm doing something wrong. I don't know, but it's
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: been tough out here so far. So keep my fingers crossed.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Is that a common thing that you're hearing from your
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: friends that live in LA, like getting stood up?
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I've heard so, you know, I've heard it
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: in New York right, like kind of like the mindset
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: that people just see date, like people are like serial daters,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Like I have friends in yourk They're like, oh, I
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: go on three dates a week and it's like this,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: it's like this known it's like unspoken thing where it's like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: you know, people are just dating to see if they're
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: like what's the next best thing, right, because there's so.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Many people in New York like you just you know,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: shoot your shot whatever. And I had heard a little
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: bit about that in LA, but I.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Was like, no, it's not gonna be that bad, and
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: that's just not my style to like serial date like that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, it takes a lot for me
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: to even want to you know, I'm not gonna waste
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: my time or anybody else's time.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: So it's more so diheartening when I'm like, Okay, I
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: thought we really hit it off, and like, yeah, I.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Don't know, so I'm keeping hope alive. But I have
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: heard that it's kind of like the culture out here.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: But well, periodise is still always uh you uh.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that is the reason when I talk to people
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: they go back on is they've had no success in
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the real world and they've just grinded to try to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: meet somebody, and they're like, all right, I'm going to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: go back on Paradise to see if that's a shot.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: The other idea that I wanted to ask was if
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: they were to ask you the Bachelor, because you are
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: currently single, would you say yes to that?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Would you consider it? Yeah, I'd consider it for sure.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I think it. I think obviously.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: You know my overthinking soft with analyze every which way,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: you know, whatever outcomes there could be. But at the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: end of the day, I think it's such a tremendous
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: opportunity that you'd be foolish to pass up. Yeah, because
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: in what like I'm out here just trying to get
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: a text back, right, and what other scenario are you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: going to be handed you know, thirty plus gorgeous people
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: to get to know and date and explore.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: It's just such a unique opportunity that I think.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I'm a huge you know, parent of like everything happens
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: for a reason if you and if you are potentially
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: being put in that situation, who are you to deny
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: that opportunity?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: You know so well, we'll be really excited here to
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: be following your journey. Is there anything next for you
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: in life that you want to promote talk about share
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: here on the podcast.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Not not just yet. Like I said, I do have
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: something to look forward to. I do have some things
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that are in the works.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: So if anyone is continuing to enjoy my Expresso Martini journey, We're.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Gonna do a collaboration generous Coffee is going to send
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: you some coffee and you got to make the perfect
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: espresso martini with it. You don't even have to share it,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you just got to text me and tell me if
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: you like it, okay, because it is the best.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Coffee in the world, is it? Oh yeah, let's do
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: it all right, buddy.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, Justin, thanks for coming on. We do look forward
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: to seeing what's next for you. Always a pleasure to
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: have you on. Almost appreciate Thank you. Justin Glaze is
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: honest and as vulnerable as usual. Wishing him the best
• 19:04
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• 19:07
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