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The OGs Return to the Bachelor Mansion PART 3 featuring Ben Higgins and Joan Vassos · 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: So to take us down the path here because I
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of like curiosity towards the situation. So
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  Speaker 2: I do believe that this show, The Bachelor and Bachelor
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  Speaker 2: got themselves into trouble. I have this theory. I can't
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  Speaker 2: prove it, but I can say from my viewing experience,
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  Speaker 2: when Trista and Bob are on the show, the show
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  Speaker 2: not only was beautiful and people got alarm, but some
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  Speaker 2: people weren't here for the right reasons. But the show
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  Speaker 2: started to get into this drama centered experience where every
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  Speaker 2: year the drama had to be one step more, one step.
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  Speaker 3: More, once step more, and then you run out of it.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, literally, you can't make any more drama unless
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  Speaker 2: you do something on TV that's offensive and absolutely so
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  Speaker 2: hard to watch that nobody wants to tune in. So
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Bachelor kind of like cleans the slate again
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  Speaker 2: and you say, hey, we're back at the beginning, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope you know yea. As the show continues, drama
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  Speaker 2: doesn't become the thing that this things build on.
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  Speaker 4: I hope not. I hope not, But I feel like
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  Speaker 4: my prediction is that it will go back to like
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  Speaker 4: Bachelor or Bachelorette, regular Bachelor Bachelorette, then Golden Bachelor or Bachelorette,
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  Speaker 4: right yeah, and so regular Bachelor Bachelorette. There will constantly
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  Speaker 4: be drama. Yeah, there just will Golden. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: it will be.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe so like I feel like, so we thought, like
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  Speaker 5: our generation, we're going to be our only viewers. We
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  Speaker 5: honestly thought that the younger generation really wasn't going to
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  Speaker 5: view this, but so not true. So so many people
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  Speaker 5: from younger from you know, the you know, twenties and
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  Speaker 5: thirties are watching this and maybe maybe maybe maybe they're
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  Speaker 5: learning something from this.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be about trauma.
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  Speaker 5: It could be about like being cohesive and being friendly
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  Speaker 5: and being supportive of each other and how attractive that
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  Speaker 5: really is. And you don't need to be, you know,
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  Speaker 5: knifing each other in the back. You can be like
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  Speaker 5: hugging each other and like same way to go.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe you know I love.
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  Speaker 7: About that is that when when we were the first
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  Speaker 7: season on Winterest, it was.
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  Speaker 3: The Bachelor at the first Bachelor atte.
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  Speaker 7: The first group of guys, and I remember saying it
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  Speaker 7: like we were talking about it, and we're like, guys,
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  Speaker 7: it doesn't matter. I mean, she's gorgeous and we all
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  Speaker 7: adore her, and she's funny and witty and everything, but
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  Speaker 7: she's gonna like who she's gonna like. We can still
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  Speaker 7: be friends, and we made a conscious choice that that
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  Speaker 7: group of guys. And I'll never forget it. I mean
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  Speaker 7: we got some heat over it, but not publicly, more
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  Speaker 7: internally from the producers standpoint there, like yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 7: I remember I got pulled aside twice being like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we're done with the Kumbe bay astap, and I remember thinking, well,
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  Speaker 7: then I just should I'll go home, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: if she doesn't want to give me a flower, she
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  Speaker 7: doesn't have to.
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  Speaker 3: And it was one of those things where it's like
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  Speaker 3: I kept sticking.
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  Speaker 7: Around, she kept kept me around, point being I got
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  Speaker 7: a flyer. I stuck around. But I love these guys,
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  Speaker 7: like we're still friends to this day. Ryan walks in
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  Speaker 7: today and I see him and I'm overwhelmed because he
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  Speaker 7: was my bunk mate, right, So I'll never.
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  Speaker 3: Forget you what Trista was first mad at me.
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  Speaker 7: She's like, I go on a date with everyone but
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  Speaker 7: Bob and I come back to the drunk fast. But
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  Speaker 7: when I go on a date with when I'm when
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  Speaker 7: Bob's gone, I come back to reading the Bible. I'm like,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about this. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: these are my buddies. Yeah, but truth be told, like
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  Speaker 7: we were genuinely friends and we still are to this
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  Speaker 7: day twenty some years later.
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  Speaker 3: And that starts to the top. I do believe it
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  Speaker 3: starts at the top. You guys made that happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, I can sense the the supportiveness
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  Speaker 4: and the sisterhood were exchange.
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  Speaker 3: It starts at the top.
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  Speaker 5: Man, So there's makeup, we're curling hair, yes, like we
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  Speaker 5: were really but once again I told you, it's a
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  Speaker 5: lonely place to be in your six seasons have trying
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  Speaker 5: to date. So we came into a house of people
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  Speaker 5: that were just like us. Hard to find out, like
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  Speaker 5: when you're out in the wild, they're not there.
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  Speaker 7: I gotta say I think I think here from a
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  Speaker 7: casting perspective, I do think the show really did itself a.
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  Speaker 3: Famous because they picked wonderful people.
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  Speaker 6: Is amazing. I know, I love her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone I've met is just amazing.
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  Speaker 5: They did a great job and you know, I kind
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  Speaker 5: of I keep saying that, like, how in the world
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  Speaker 5: did I get picked?
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  Speaker 6: Because there were thirty thousand people that applied to this,
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  Speaker 6: So I have really no I did not know that
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  Speaker 6: thirty thousand. What's insane? So I don't even know how
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  Speaker 6: they even look through thirty thousand applications.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty thousand applied as the women or did men also
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  Speaker 4: apply to be the batchel?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: Thirty thousand women?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know? Do you know what how many people apply?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I couldn't even tell you. I
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  Speaker 2: mean probably twenty thirty when I was a bachelor, thirty.
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  Speaker 6: On the end of that shadow, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I said, let's find them. If not, we're going out
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  Speaker 2: to LA the night before and bringing.
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  Speaker 6: Up We'll find some on the streets.
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  Speaker 3: So it is.
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  Speaker 2: I hope the Golden Bachelor does this, and I do
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  Speaker 2: believe the show is focused on this is the love
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  Speaker 2: story behind it, and the love story is so important
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  Speaker 2: to me to talk to you about. And if you
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  Speaker 2: don't mind, I want to get a little vulnerable for
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  Speaker 2: a second because one of the things that has been
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful for me, and you know, when I did
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  Speaker 2: this thing with Gary that won't be shown. We went
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  Speaker 2: around to these public places and it's really fun. I'm
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  Speaker 2: requesting this excerpt. Yeah, I hope it makes funny reals.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to meet the public and their opinions
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  Speaker 2: of Gary and the season, and the thing I kept
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  Speaker 2: hearing was I will just say this. I'll get in
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  Speaker 2: trouble for it. I know it. But there was a
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  Speaker 2: lady at one of the events we went to who
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  Speaker 2: stands up. She's probably in her sixties. She goes, my
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  Speaker 2: husband died four years ago and I was lost and
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  Speaker 2: I've watched this season and she starts bawling and she goes,
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  Speaker 2: I believe I can.
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  Speaker 3: Date a get yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so for me, I'm standing up there as like
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  Speaker 2: the fill in. I don't even know what I am,
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  Speaker 2: like the moderator, host or whatever. John Yeah, the fake Jesse,
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  Speaker 2: the fake Jesse. And I'm crying because I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: this is what this show was so fun for me
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  Speaker 2: when I did it, Like there were people actually personally
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  Speaker 2: touched by a story of a cast member. The drama
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  Speaker 2: maybe wasn't the center, and maybe for some it makes
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  Speaker 2: a more boring season. For others, it brings in the
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  Speaker 2: motions and the heart and you get to live vicariously
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  Speaker 2: through these characters they watch on TV. Yes, so you
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned that your husband had passed away three years ago, Joan.
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  Speaker 2: Now you end up on this television show that you're
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  Speaker 2: dating in public. What's that like for you? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how to ask a question around
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  Speaker 2: it more than just like what if somebody's listening and
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  Speaker 2: maybe in a similar position, like what went through your
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  Speaker 2: head to say yes, well through your head to say
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  Speaker 2: I want to? And then once you're in it.
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  Speaker 3: What makes you say this is a good next step?
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  Speaker 5: So it probably started out with the application process because
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  Speaker 5: like I can look around and see that there are
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  Speaker 5: lots of people who have had second chances at love,
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  Speaker 5: you know, in their later years, and so that kind
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  Speaker 5: of gave me hope. But like hope has to be
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  Speaker 5: backed up by action. You can't just have hope because
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  Speaker 5: hope doesn't get you anywhere. Because I came and applied
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  Speaker 5: to the show because I had gone out to dinner
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  Speaker 5: with a good friend of mine and we had sat
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  Speaker 5: at the bar at a restaurant, local restaurant that had
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  Speaker 5: you know, mostly people our age, you know, in the
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  Speaker 5: fifties and sixties and I looked around and I said
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  Speaker 5: to my friend, I go, everybody here is a couple. Like, look,
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  Speaker 5: there's not a single person a single And I said,
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  Speaker 5: and even if I saw somebody that was single, maybe
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  Speaker 5: I saw a good looking guy across the bar, I
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  Speaker 5: would assume that he's probably married, because everybody our age
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  Speaker 5: is married. So I realized at that moment, and this
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  Speaker 5: is like two years after my husband's passing, and I
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  Speaker 5: was just kind of getting in the mood maybe like
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  Speaker 5: I got to get out there like that your market,
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  Speaker 5: and that wasn't good. I wasn't ready yet, and to market,
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  Speaker 5: I'm to your market like I'm not getting any younger,
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  Speaker 5: Like I need to get out there. And I realized, like,
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  Speaker 5: it's not going to happen organically. I'm not just going
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  Speaker 5: to meet somebody. I'm not going to be at a
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  Speaker 5: wedding to meet somebody. I'm not going to meet some
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  Speaker 5: at the grocery store. I'm going to meet somebody sitting
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  Speaker 5: at the bar at a restaurant having dinner with my friend.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to happen. So I need to take action.
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  Speaker 5: And I came home and I sat down and I
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  Speaker 5: turned on the Bachelor because I'm a Bachelor watcher and
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  Speaker 5: they had doing a casting call for the Golden Bachelor.
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  Speaker 5: It was like the universe was telling me to do it.
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  Speaker 5: So I did it, and that was like my first step,
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  Speaker 5: like I had to do.
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  Speaker 6: I had to take some action.
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  Speaker 5: And my action just happened to be a really freakishly
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  Speaker 5: large one that and I didn't think so at the time.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, I'll fill this out, and like
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  Speaker 5: I didn't even it was kind of a long application
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  Speaker 5: I was doing at my phone. I had already had
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  Speaker 5: two glasses of wine, Like I'm not really very good
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  Speaker 5: on my phone anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you're right. The wine probably helped.
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  Speaker 5: And so I only filled out like half the application
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  Speaker 5: and then I sent my photos like they said to
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  Speaker 5: do it, and then all of a sudden, I was
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  Speaker 5: getting calls. So it kind of unfolded in a weird way,
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  Speaker 5: but really good for me because I don't think I
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  Speaker 5: would have taken the action if I hadn't like just
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  Speaker 5: happened to sit down and see that one little commercial.
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  Speaker 6: So like my message to like.
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  Speaker 5: The world of people that are sitting around waiting for
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  Speaker 5: it to happen, like in their later years, it's not
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  Speaker 5: going to You can't don't expect it to happen organically.
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  Speaker 5: You have to take action and once you do, good
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  Speaker 5: things will happen. And like even if it's scary, like
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  Speaker 5: somebody said, some famous person said, you should do something
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  Speaker 5: that frightened you every day, and this really frightened me.
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  Speaker 5: But I did it because it wasn't just going to.
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  Speaker 6: Happen, Like love wasn't going to confind me.
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  Speaker 5: I had to go out and put myself out there
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  Speaker 5: and like it's you know, I still haven't found love,
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  Speaker 5: but now I'm not afraid to do it anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I did it like on the national stage.
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  Speaker 5: Like going to the local restaurant right now is like
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  Speaker 5: super eazy.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're a few months removed from the filming of
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  Speaker 2: the show. You didn't find love on the show. This
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  Speaker 2: is a very drastic choice to come on the Golden Show.
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  Speaker 2: What other ways are you now excited to try to
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  Speaker 2: meet somebody that maybe somebody listening could be like, that's
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  Speaker 2: creative and cool and maybe I could try to do
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  Speaker 2: that also.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm not a huge well, I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: say I'm not a huge fan.
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  Speaker 5: I tried the dating app So I tried to go
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  Speaker 5: on match dot com right actually before I came on
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  Speaker 5: the show. Before I got I filled out the application,
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  Speaker 5: but I hadn't gotten contacted yet.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm like, I, you know, I need to do something.
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  Speaker 5: I need to take action, and and I was overwhelmed
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  Speaker 5: by the response. And I think it was just because
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  Speaker 5: I was like the fresh face on the app and
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  Speaker 5: I had like the the only reason joul. So I
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  Speaker 5: had like two hundred responses, and I felt really responsible that,
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  Speaker 5: like people wrote real messages to me, and I should
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  Speaker 5: read every single one of them and I should respond
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  Speaker 5: to them. And I got through like forty the first night,
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  Speaker 5: and then I woke up the next morning there was
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  Speaker 5: like another sixty replacing those, and I saw like another
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and forty, And like, I'm not seeing this
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  Speaker 5: in a bragging way, because I'm just saying it's overwhelming
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  Speaker 5: to do a dating website. And so I'm not positive
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  Speaker 5: I want to go back on that, although I certainly
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  Speaker 5: believe that you get a lot of options that way.
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  Speaker 5: I would rather meet somebody face to face, and I
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  Speaker 5: wish there was a way to do that, Like I
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  Speaker 5: wish there was like you see speed dating or something,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't think it even exists anymore. I've never
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  Speaker 5: heard anybody doing it, but I'd rather meet somebody face
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  Speaker 5: to face.
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  Speaker 4: What about what about dms? Do you ever fall into
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  Speaker 4: anyone's DMS.
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  Speaker 1: Writing?
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  Speaker 6: I haven't been sing I've heard that.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, John, just before you say I met
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  Speaker 2: my wife through sliding into.
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  Speaker 6: How so how do I vet the people that I've
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  Speaker 6: had a lot?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that you vet and I have some
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  Speaker 4: book right or you can do a background check.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I think that we need to.
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  Speaker 5: So I've had Okay, I'm going to say it because
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure this will get beeped out, but I've had
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  Speaker 5: dick picks sent to me. Yeah no, many, No, not many,
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  Speaker 5: several though yeah yeah, yeah, yeh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah what And then I have like, wait, can I
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  Speaker 6: could show you them on my phone?
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  Speaker 4: Can?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to see them.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely want.
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  Speaker 7: O G podcast now on the almost famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: They might want to see that.
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  Speaker 6: They don't want this.
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  Speaker 4: One One I need to know is do they automatically
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  Speaker 4: send them to you or is this after talking to like.
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  Speaker 5: So this is like they'll say You're so beautiful, I
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  Speaker 5: love you in the batchel of the Golden Batchelor and
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  Speaker 5: I'll say, oh, thank you so much, thank you for watching,
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  Speaker 5: and then like that's on a conversation. Do you like
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  Speaker 5: younger men? I'm like, no, not really, not my thing.
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  Speaker 5: And then then it comes well I can't it's usually
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  Speaker 5: it's young guys.
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  Speaker 6: Normally I don't know. They think that that's my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: This is bad, this is so good.
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  Speaker 7: Now, this is actually it's as as a publish exactly.
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  Speaker 6: So like okay, okay, then let me tell you the
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  Speaker 6: other really disturbing thing that happens. Okay, please, oh men
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  Speaker 6: contact me and want me want to be my sugar daddy.
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  Speaker 5: No and offer me many many dollars a month or
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  Speaker 5: a week to just talk to them, and they say no,
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  Speaker 5: we're feet Yeah, oh guys.
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  Speaker 3: Can we send I'd like to offer my number of
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  Speaker 3: those guys you can pretend.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the here's the funny part of this is
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  Speaker 2: I'm meeting all these women tonight, all the Golden Bachelor contestants,
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  Speaker 2: and they're all telling me the stories of it's been
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  Speaker 2: wild that like their social media is now blowing up
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  Speaker 2: and it's so crazy for them to manage and figure
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  Speaker 2: out like, you know, a lot of them have never
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  Speaker 2: really been on social media before, but now, I mean
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  Speaker 2: they're in the world and people have watched them, and
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  Speaker 2: so their dms are blowing up, their messages are blowing up,
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  Speaker 2: like their social media is now getting a bigger following.
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  Speaker 2: And so there is a humor, like a comedic side
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  Speaker 2: to that where it's like this is hilarious to think about.
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  Speaker 2: But then also there's this like what am I What
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  Speaker 2: are you to do with this?
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  Speaker 7: Joan?
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  Speaker 5: And you know what, And I don't want to waste
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  Speaker 5: this opportunity, so like this is my this is my
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  Speaker 5: one and only here it is, and I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to waste it. And so I do look at all
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  Speaker 5: of those dms and and I want to do something
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  Speaker 5: that I wanted to be safe. So I do feel
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  Speaker 5: I do have a little bit of a fear factor
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  Speaker 5: that these strangers are contacting me and I don't want to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I don't want to actually meet somebody that
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  Speaker 5: would be not a safe thing. So I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how to vet the people. So my biggest problem right
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  Speaker 5: now is vetting them. What I do get a lot
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  Speaker 5: of really really sweet things is girls who want me
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  Speaker 5: to date their fathers, which is really cute.
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  Speaker 6: So I think that is probably the safest way I
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  Speaker 6: could go.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, down there girls that are acting like you, that are.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't trust everybody, Yeah I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's true, you can't trust everybody, so but I do. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: I haven't had a lot that are local. So I
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  Speaker 5: want to date somebody that like is like a feasibly
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  Speaker 5: you know, like within a few hour drive. I would say, like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to be like, you know, right next door,
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  Speaker 5: but I want somebody to kind of close. I haven't
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  Speaker 5: found a single one of those, and I've gotten a
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  Speaker 5: lot of them, but none of them have been like even.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, well anyone lives fighting, who's in Maryland, in.
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Maryland, DC, Virginia, be fine, be awesome.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: To kind of close up here. Uh, this is obviously
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: kind of getting back out there. But also have you
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: been hit up for like sponsorships now, like Instagram deals?
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Crazy?
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: So I did make an effort, I have to say.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: So.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: I came off the show really really early, and I
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: had a fear that like my journey was completely over,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: and that made me really sad because I loved this journey.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: First of all, I love being part of vaccination. It's
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: like a really like a fun group to be part of.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: And you know, I even said in the limo that
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: as you get older, you get kind of invisible. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I finally felt like I was a little more visible,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: and not because I was on national TV, but because
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: I had found this group of friends that I really
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: really loved and they were I was kind of I
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: was on the outside now, and I didn't want to
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: be on the outside, so I started being more active
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: on social media and it did become a little crazy.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: So I've had an insane amount of interest, and not
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: just from dating, but also from because I've done a
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: few tiktoks from brands and so I probably get five
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: offers a day to for different brands. Yeah, and good brands.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: At all are not We're not allowed. Yeah, trust me,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: ask forgiveness. Asked forgiveness.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Guys, I could be doing fifty a day. It's insane
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: that we get.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: We get crazy, crazy, crazy, Like I was on my
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: laptop today, I was working a little bit because I
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: was in the hotel room and I had probably four
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: or five come through just today.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's it's crazy. Exactly.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: You're getting way more than we are. Yeah, that's what
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I can tell you right now. I would be like
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: ice cream and sure, I got a wine.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: One today was dog beed. Have you seen the human
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: dog bed? I got the human dog bat, the human
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: dog bed. It's the thing you've ever seen.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: It was tank and I got and I was like, God,
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I still want to do one of this, but I
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: can't do it until it covers.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You're all up at all the ones. It's a nice
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: big dog.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: It's like a big dog bed for a humans.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: This is a blast for us. And I want you
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to know that we are absolutely thrilled that you are here. Yes,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: this is very exciting for any of us who have
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: been on the other show, because this is a show
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: that we all got very excited about and we are
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: very excited about and we enjoyed like it didn't disappoint
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: And all of you that are here tonight are people,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: at least from our opinion, who have just like really
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: entertained us, but also that we fall in love with,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: that we've rooted for, that we care for, and that
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: now we're cheering for even more now that this show
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: is done and this whole new chapter begins, and so
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: We're very thankful that you came in gave us a
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: time on the almost famous podcast.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: You are absolutely wonderful. Okay to close this whole thing out,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: are you glad you did it?
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, yeah, you know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I toyed with it a little bit when I was
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: deciding whether I wanted to do it. When they offered
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: it to me. I had this daughter who was very
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: pregnant and had a difficult pregs and saying difficult birth,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: and I considered not coming.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: And now I look back and I go, what was
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: I think?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Like this was such a great privilege, such a privilege
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: should be on to first of all, be part of
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Acte Nation. To have met Gary, he kind of opened
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: up my heart a little bit. I kind of, you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: feel like there's hope in the dating world for me,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: and like hope of finding love. And then I got
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: to meet like these twenty one other women that were
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: like my They're like my tribe now my clan, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: they give me energy and they give me hope and
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: they give me people.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: To do this with.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: So like it's lonely doing this alone. You know the
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: world is full of couples. You know, there's not a
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: lot of people, especially at my age.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: So it's so nice to have.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah you have.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: So I have this tribe and like we're you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: making plans to go on vacation together. And Nancy lives
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: really close to me, so I know I can likes
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: come like, meet me for dinner. We'll sit at the
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: bar and hopefully somebody will walk up to us.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah the bar.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a psa. If if Nancy and owner at
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a bar come hit on them, they would love it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: You might feel yourself a fan. I just go leat right,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: they're really pretty. I sit down and buy your dream. Well,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: we look forward to many more stories, many more years
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to come. Thanks for coming alo Almost Famous podcast.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: It's so worth it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: So thanks for sharing your love story with all of us.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It means a lot. I know it's not always easy,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: but it's very exciting. And somebody out there is listening.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: I know it right now.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Who is going I hear this and I believe it,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: and now they're going to do something beautiful for their life.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And if that's all that comes out of this,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: if I never find love, but somebody like goes out
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: there and you know, other people do it like, that's
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: all worth it, because like I I had my chance,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: I raised my family, I had the love of my life.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I want to have it again.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: It made me happy, but everybody deserves that. And if
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: this like spurs somebody on and that's the like, that's
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: all I need. That makes me happy.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: They Yeah, the stories that will become that we'll never
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: know from this are absolutely beautiful. Well, hey, this has
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: been the Almost Famous podcast, So everybody followed my lead here,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: don't forget how to do this. I'm gonna go Joan first,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm around the circle. We'll be back very soon
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: with tons more content and incredible interviews with so many
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: people here at the Bachelor Mansion. You got to get
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: out to your tribe. They're all sitting out there having
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: dinner and you're in here with us. As cool as
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: we are in my life, Yeah, as cool as we are.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: You need to get out there to them.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: So until next time, I've been been, I've been Joan,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: I've been Trista.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: No, I want to do it that way.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: No, all right, I've been Trista.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next time.
• 21:46
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