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Almost Famous In Depth: Tyler Norris · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth.
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  Speaker 1: Hevery one. Welcome to a special episode of the Almost
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  Speaker 1: Areas podcast Today. We were able to get Tyler Norris
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  Speaker 1: to come on, so we wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we added it into this week's podcast. Tyler, Hey, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm doing good. So last time we
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  Speaker 1: saw you, you were getting dumped by Rachel at the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore and just like the cutest hometown date ever,
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  Speaker 1: and all of us were still like, all of us
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  Speaker 1: collectively Bachelor Nation was so sad to see you go
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  Speaker 1: so early. Um, a lot of us I think expecting
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  Speaker 1: and hoping to see you as first sand uh, the
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  Speaker 1: original cash and Bachelor in Paradise. But you were in
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  Speaker 1: amongs that among that, amongst that crew. Why not why
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  Speaker 1: not um heading down to the beach, head down to
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  Speaker 1: the beach. Yeah, So like what do you mean like
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  Speaker 1: where you headed down? Where you at your own beach?
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  Speaker 1: You're being like king of your own Jersey Shore. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, you know what, I got my own beach.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, why do any Bachelor in Paradise when I
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  Speaker 1: have my own Jersey Shore Paradise where like every girl,
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  Speaker 1: every Jersey girl is after me there, No, not at all. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on, I just have unlimited tequila at home. So
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  Speaker 1: I imagine your life at the Jersey Shore where you
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  Speaker 1: run a Was it basketball? I mean, only the best
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  Speaker 1: carnival arcade game in the entire world is basketball. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's the one that I get most competitive over, and
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  Speaker 1: it happens to be probably the only one I could
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  Speaker 1: like even attempt at. I go, oh, man, I have
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of tangents I can go on right now.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna go back to basketball at the beach
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  Speaker 1: because you have to tell us of the tricks of
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  Speaker 1: the trade there. But but but even though you were
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  Speaker 1: in First Sandy, are we going to see you on Paradise? So?
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  Speaker 1: Um so yeah, promo just came out. I was in
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  Speaker 1: the promo I will be on the sand. Yes, Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think the reason, my theory is the reason you
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  Speaker 1: weren't there first Sand was because you're the kind of
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  Speaker 1: guy that would shake things up massively, and it would
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  Speaker 1: it would have been a waste of drama if you
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  Speaker 1: were there to start a waste of drama. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: I think they were just like you know, and he
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  Speaker 1: needs a little time to heal a little bit more time.
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  Speaker 1: They were just like, then we'll set them down there.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like if you semi in later it
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  Speaker 1: calls it's even more drama. Right, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been a waste of drama to have
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  Speaker 1: you early on, because you're way more dramatic as a
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  Speaker 1: late entrance, because then you can win solid ish relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I want to do that at all, the
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  Speaker 1: last thing I want to do. But but yeah, it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess yeah, I guess they were
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  Speaker 1: just like, you know what, we're gonna wait. Um, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna wait for everything to get fun, get great going
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  Speaker 1: on the beach, and then just mess with these people
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll throw some guys down there. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: but we're so excited that you're actually coming. Now. Who
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  Speaker 1: did you tell the producers you wanted to see down there?
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I really didn't. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really watch any seasons. Give me the goods. You
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  Speaker 1: had to have looked on people's instagrams. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: I looked at like, there's like a few people they
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  Speaker 1: asked you there, like, is anybody from like prior seasons,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't really know anybody just looking at instagrams.
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  Speaker 1: You look at everybody, Yes, everybody at the entire test.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're all gorgeous obviously, sure, but who was
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  Speaker 1: your type? Physically? My type? Um? Well, I thought Britney
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  Speaker 1: was cute. Yeah, so we all think Britney is starting.
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  Speaker 1: I obviously thought Victoria Fuller, yeah, Um, I thought Teddy
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  Speaker 1: was super yeah. Um, trying to think who else? I
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  Speaker 1: think those are like the main three. I would say, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see if anything happens with Victoria or um, Britney,
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  Speaker 1: because they will, it seems, I would say, will be
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  Speaker 1: down there when you arrive, hopefully. I'm so excited. Okay, Well, um,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything you can do for us to tease
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  Speaker 1: whatever Jesse may be alluding to when he talks about
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  Speaker 1: like the most dramatic thing to ever happen in Paradise history. Yes, so, um.
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  Speaker 1: In the promo, it did show that there's a split.
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  Speaker 1: So they take the women that are on the beach
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  Speaker 1: right now and they throw them back in this amazing hotel. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and then they send a new group of girls in
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  Speaker 1: and there's a good chance that there's a few guys
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  Speaker 1: that come in at that hotel, but you gotta remember
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  Speaker 1: that all these girls are already investing guys, so it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be tough. We're gonna see who ends up ending
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  Speaker 1: their relationships back at the beach for somebody new. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so are you one of the guys at the hotel
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  Speaker 1: that enters for the quote old girls one of the
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  Speaker 1: new guys? All right, so then there's new girls that
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  Speaker 1: come down to the beach for the quote old guys
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  Speaker 1: for the old guys. Now actually like age wise, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that is so juicy. Alright, we're really really excited.
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  Speaker 1: What was um not, like love wise? Your highlights of paradise?
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  Speaker 1: Your favorite part of being part of the Bachelor Paradise
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  Speaker 1: gust Oh, I would say, meeting Michael A that's my guy,
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  Speaker 1: well the sweetest. Actually, you kind of remind me of
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  Speaker 1: a young version of him. I have heard that before,
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  Speaker 1: and I literally him on Instagram. I sent it to
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  Speaker 1: him because there's like a post that said Tyler is
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  Speaker 1: literally the younger version of Michael. I called Dad all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Now I'm like, Dad, question, why you guys
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  Speaker 1: look similar, you sound similar, and you're just overall demeanor
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  Speaker 1: from what I know of you right now in this
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  Speaker 1: conversation is similar. Yeah. I mean after meeting him and everything,
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  Speaker 1: I was just like I would absolutely aspire to be
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  Speaker 1: someone like this because he's just such a nice, good hearted,
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  Speaker 1: genuine guy and and the end, he's just so easy
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  Speaker 1: to talk to and like literally like a dad figure.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you about anything, will help you through anything.
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  Speaker 1: So what was your least favorite part of being in
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  Speaker 1: Paradise least, David part Um, I would say seeing people cry.
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  Speaker 1: I just hate it. I love being happy, so I
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  Speaker 1: want to see everybody be happy. But seeing like the
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  Speaker 1: downside of people going through stuff, it's it's heartbreaking. So well,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying that Michael Lay is an idol of yours.
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  Speaker 1: Makes me sad that you or Michaelay aren't the Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: because I find that you had a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: gusto both of you than Zach. But you know Zach
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  Speaker 1: better than I do. What's your take on Zack as
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  Speaker 1: a bachelor. I think Zack's going to be a great bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: I think I just all around like he's yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like the same ages me six, So he's a
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  Speaker 1: younger guy, but he knows what he ultimately wants. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that he's very sweet, very genuine. It's a
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  Speaker 1: quirky guy. Um, he's just he's all around just funny.
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  Speaker 1: So and he's got an awesome uncle, So I think
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  Speaker 1: I think that he's going to do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Was he picked because of his uncle who's very a
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  Speaker 1: missle for being like a side kick on Seinfeld? I
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  Speaker 1: can't agree in your did not no, but maybe I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. No, he was definitely picked because he's just
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  Speaker 1: he's act. He's awesome. He's going to narrate his whole journey,
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  Speaker 1: isn't he I would love Yeah, I would literally love that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much he needs to get paid
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  Speaker 1: to do that, but let's work it up. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back to you for a second.
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  Speaker 1: You and in the Jersey Shore and Rachel. So you
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  Speaker 1: and Rachel really adorable together, but she just felt it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't right enough so that she like cut off your
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  Speaker 1: hometown date short, didn't get you didn't get to introduce
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  Speaker 1: her to your family. Do you feel like, in hindsight
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  Speaker 1: that was a good decision or are you the kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy that was like I would still love to
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  Speaker 1: have introduced the family to a girl that I thought
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  Speaker 1: was special, even if she wasn't like my forever. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think that it was definitely the right decision because
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  Speaker 1: ultimately I know how important that is, like meeting family
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  Speaker 1: and even in real life like dating, when you get
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to meet somebody's um parent figures, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a huge step, Like you're not just opening
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  Speaker 1: up your relationship to one person, but it's to their
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  Speaker 1: entire family. Now, So if she knew that, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: it at the time, being um, why get more invested?
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  Speaker 1: Why have me be more invested when ultimately you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get hurt. So I think what she did
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  Speaker 1: was I I appreciate it if anything, because it didn't
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  Speaker 1: get even deeper and your heart of hearts, did you
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  Speaker 1: think you're going to make it through that hometown week
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  Speaker 1: or did you think your time was coming to an end?
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  Speaker 1: I really did, only because I got the group date
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  Speaker 1: rods and at that time it was kind of just
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  Speaker 1: like the date during the day, Tina was the chiefe king.
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  Speaker 1: They kissed in front of all of us, and just
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  Speaker 1: like this is the worst, Like I have to watch
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  Speaker 1: this happen in front of me, and I'm just like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like thinking to more stuffing, like okay, like I
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  Speaker 1: know where my relationship. The relationship is with um is
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  Speaker 1: that with her? But now you're liking to yourself. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's stronger with other people, and you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: something that's part of the process, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But when I got that group date Rose and she
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  Speaker 1: said I can't wait to meet your family, I was
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  Speaker 1: just like, okay, like this is awesome. Yeah, in the
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  Speaker 1: same way as me. So I was super excited and
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  Speaker 1: like coming home and everything. I was just like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I have something good and I could show her my hometown,
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  Speaker 1: I get to know her even more and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just have a great day with her. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was going great, But it's not. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what order your hometown was, because sometimes it's not air
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  Speaker 1: in the same order. I think mine was second. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: who do you think was first? I'm pretty sure it
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  Speaker 1: was even So do you think that she had such
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  Speaker 1: a great time at Aven's hometown that like it was
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  Speaker 1: directly compared? I would, Um, maybe I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was second. Obviously you have a connection first
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  Speaker 1: like the first one, and we all saw her connection
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  Speaker 1: with Avan, so obviously she had a great time, and
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  Speaker 1: then you're thinking to yourself, Okay, I'm at this point
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  Speaker 1: with this guy. Am I here with with me? And
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't. So definitely I think that had something to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. Lots of people have been giving Rachel
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  Speaker 1: flack for the way that she reacted when Aven was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much saying that he wasn't ready for proposed right
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  Speaker 1: there on the show. What was your take on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that even I love Evan, he's my boy. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think that the way that he went about it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I think that he was very levelheaded and he was
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  Speaker 1: just being honest, and you know, he's at that point
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  Speaker 1: in his life, is what he kept saying. I'm at
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  Speaker 1: that point in my life where I'm not scared to
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  Speaker 1: get engaged with somebody or anything like that. But I
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  Speaker 1: think realistically we see this through after this. But you
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  Speaker 1: got to think of it like the pressure just on
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  Speaker 1: the show, like being a lead, when ultimately it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to getting engaged at the end. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: why you go on the show. You make these amazing connections,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately most of the time you get engaged. So
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  Speaker 1: I think having that pressure was on Rachel the entire time,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that's she just kept thinking to herself,
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  Speaker 1: probably I'm supposed to be here to get engaged. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not here for that, why are you here? Um?
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  Speaker 1: So I heard it out from both sides. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think either of them were in the wrong. I think
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  Speaker 1: they were Ultimately Rachel was pressured and even was just
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  Speaker 1: getting level headed. So respect respect. Um. Okay, So just
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  Speaker 1: to talk about your hometown for one, because I have genuine,
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  Speaker 1: genuine curiosity. What is it about the hoop at the
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  Speaker 1: basketball game on the shore that makes us all the
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  Speaker 1: worst basketball players in the world. What do you guys
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  Speaker 1: do to that rim? I don't do anything to the end, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but the manufactur does either him as is, and it
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  Speaker 1: just so happens. The rim is a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: of like an oval rather than a perfect circle, because
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  Speaker 1: if it was a perfect circle, I would not be
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  Speaker 1: in business. Because Okay, so, if like Lebron James went
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  Speaker 1: and played with that hoop, he still would be pretty
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  Speaker 1: bad at it. Now I think Lebron would do pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some like college like basketball players come up
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  Speaker 1: and shoot and they nake it, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: have like the perfect shop for it. I will say that.
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  Speaker 1: And then sometimes some people get lucky. I've had people
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  Speaker 1: go up just one hand and just throw it up
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  Speaker 1: and it gives in. It's crazy how many people get
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  Speaker 1: a hoop in the basket every day? Like how many? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How many shots do we get? I would say anywhere
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  Speaker 1: between throughout an entire day, like on average, Like really,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. That's a good amount, not bad. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Well then I want I want to talk more to
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  Speaker 1: Tyler about his summer romances at the Jersey Shore and
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  Speaker 1: some other bachelor stuff. But for us, we have to
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break. All right, Tyler, this is how
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  Speaker 1: I imagine like your summer over the past decade for
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  Speaker 1: yourself at the Jersey Shore. I feel like you are
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  Speaker 1: basically a country song and you take girls on roller
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  Speaker 1: coasters and the ferris wheel, and like you eat cotton
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  Speaker 1: candy and cameral apples and it's like the cutest thing ever.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about some stories of romance at the
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  Speaker 1: shore that are like a country song. Yeah, Like what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? Like, what are your moves? My moved
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  Speaker 1: so back in a day, my move was I had
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  Speaker 1: had two jobs at the time. I used to go
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  Speaker 1: down to the beach. I'd push around an ice cream
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  Speaker 1: court and I'd sell ice cream. Oh my god, you
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  Speaker 1: were probably selling so many ice cream cones to girls
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't normally not buy one. Well, I think they
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  Speaker 1: ultimately wanted the ice cream, but they would. They would
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  Speaker 1: come up and till there's so much fun. I go
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  Speaker 1: down there, just get a tan, pushing around an ice
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  Speaker 1: cream cards on ice cream, making good money. And then
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  Speaker 1: right after that, I literally would run off the beach
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  Speaker 1: right up to the boardwalk and start working on the
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  Speaker 1: boardwalk with the basketball games. And you would meet so
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  Speaker 1: many people through that, and I love talking with people socializing.
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  Speaker 1: Um And ultimately the boardwalk there's a lot of women
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  Speaker 1: on the boardwalk, so they approach it to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: This Matt, I love when it comes to dates and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. Um. I wouldn't do the boardwalk more
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  Speaker 1: than once. I was more of like a mini golf
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  Speaker 1: type of guy. Um, or dinner on the water or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. Fawn. Um, Yeah, that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like like me. But the boardwalk, it's it's a one
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  Speaker 1: of dumb thing because you overdo it. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: water park. Throw a water park in there, We're doing
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  Speaker 1: it awesome. How did casting find you? So? I had
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  Speaker 1: a friend that nominated me. My friend's girlfriend nominated me,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, I got a random call one day and
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  Speaker 1: they said to me, would you be interested in the show?
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  Speaker 1: And at first I was just like, really, who is
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  Speaker 1: this and he's just like, seriously, this is whatever from
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  Speaker 1: the casting process. Would you be interested? I said, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: tell me what I gotta do. So, yeah, you have
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  Speaker 1: all the interviews and everything afterwards. But it was just
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  Speaker 1: it was crazy to me because I said on like
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  Speaker 1: other podcasts and everything, I was the only season I've
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  Speaker 1: watched all the way through was Clayton's season. And I
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  Speaker 1: had d m rachel Um two weeks into their season
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  Speaker 1: and yes, I told her, if she ever ends up
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  Speaker 1: as the bachelorette, yeah, if she can say don't work
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  Speaker 1: out with playing you ever end up as a bachelortte?
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  Speaker 1: Signed me up because I literally think you're gorgeous. Two
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  Speaker 1: weeks later in that call, what yeah, nuts, you alreaty
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  Speaker 1: even in the casting process yet Nope, did you tell
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  Speaker 1: when you told her that story? Was she swim? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I still thought like Rachel and I are friends. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she saw the message. I told her during our one day,
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  Speaker 1: like we were in a room and I told her.
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  Speaker 1: I was just like listen, like I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you know this was but a DM do And you
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer, and she was just like, well, I probably
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it. I was just yeah, whatever you say, Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: no way, that's so crazy. It was nuts. You want
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  Speaker 1: to hear a crazy story. That's very that's similar, but
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  Speaker 1: like in a motherly way. So when my husband and
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  Speaker 1: I were like starting to try to have a baby,
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  Speaker 1: and I was all very open about it on Instagram. UM,
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  Speaker 1: the one of the O B G I M practices
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  Speaker 1: that was like part of my dad's like system because
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  Speaker 1: my dad's a doctor in Northern Virginia. UM, one of
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  Speaker 1: the midwives from one of those practices, she reached out
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  Speaker 1: to me on Instagram. She was like, hey, you should
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  Speaker 1: totally come to our practice. Uh, well, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 1: love to have you or great blah blah blah. I
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  Speaker 1: never saw it. Um. I ended up going with that practice,
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  Speaker 1: not ever getting the message, but because my dad recommended.
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  Speaker 1: And then lo and behold, that girl who deemed me
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  Speaker 1: was the woman who delivered my child, like literally the
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  Speaker 1: first one to have hands. Yes, and then she goes, actually,
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  Speaker 1: you have to follow me on I can't believe you
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: still don't follow me on Instagram. And I didn't can't
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe that by the time, like after all that,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I still hadn't followed her on Instagram. So like I'm
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: lying in the hospital bed follow Becca and then I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: see the message from a year and a half prior,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: or maybe it's like a year to the day, which
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: she was like, Hey, I'd love to, like, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you to come to our practice, and was like, oh
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: my god, you just delivered our baby and I didn't
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: even see this. Yeah, it's like almost just as crazy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: That's nuts. Yeah. All right, um, let's talk about this
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: moment meant that you had down and I think Florida
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: at a club with these bachelor guys, a whole bunch
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: of your bachelor guy friends. Okay, so somebody held up
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: like a light sign, you know, like one of those
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: bottle service signs that said like f tino, Uh huh,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: who was holding that? You're all associated with it? I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: definitely was not associated with it. I literally turned, I'm
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: looking at the guys I'm like, who. I'm like, you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guys are idiots? Why are you doing this? Just because
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like I didn't meet personally. I don't have an issue
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: with Tina whatsoever, Tino on the show and everything, but
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you have one of the I guess bottle service girls
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: were like holding it up, like carrying it around, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I turned and I was just looking at the gas.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we doing? Why? Yeah, why, It's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: so dumb. So do you think that one of the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: guys requested it as a joke or that like the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: bottle service girls were like this would be funny, you
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: know what. At the time, at first, I thought to myself,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I was just like, you know what, it had to
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be like one of like the people that got eliminated early,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: because I wanted your career that got eliminated early in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the time. I mean we kind of like had heard
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and knew kind of like what had happened transpired um recently,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so you know, we knew, but nobody else knew. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it had to be one of the guys. I don't
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: know who it was. I don't know whose idea it was,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I was definitely not involved with that whatsoever.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But of course it's my case in front of my association. Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I was just like, of course. My friend texted me
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the next day and they were just like, Tyler, this
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: is bad and I was just like, I wasn't even involved. Yeah, yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that sucks. It wasn't a good luck. But also like
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: none of us out there thought that sweet Tyler would
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: be the one to do you. Absolutely not no, okay, um,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I like to play a game of rapid fire to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: end interviews, But first, is there anything that you'd like
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to share with their audience that like has been weighing
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: on your chest since you've been off the show, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: before you start Paradise, Like, is there any warning going
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to paradise or anything you want to clear up from
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor atte I would say this, um, because so
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: many people going Tyler read the room when I got dumped. Now,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: when I got dumped, okay, the day was growing great. Everything.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We went into separate interviews. After the interviews, we met
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: together and I saw her and she looked tear eyed,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and I was just like, Rachel, was everything okay? All right?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And she told me, yes, I'm just cold, So it's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: just like okay. So I gave her a hug and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I'm warming her up. And when I sat down with her,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I like, I knew our day went well. So when
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I laid it all on her, I did not know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: whatsoever that she was going to break up to her
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: there was something wrong. I just thought she was cold.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Oh that's sweet. How long between being cold? In the conversation,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I would say she started off the conversations that it
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: was a good day, she got my friends and everything.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: It had to be at the point where I don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: even know. She started crying when I said that I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: loved her, So that's I think. I was just like,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this is either go bad or just going really good.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And of course it was a bad one. Do you
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: feel like you actually loved her? Or was it sort
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of lusty at that point? In hindsight, I think in hindsight,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: looking at it, it's so different because when you're on
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the show, you're in this bubble and it's so easy
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to fall for somebody hard when you're in this bubble
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and it's all you think about so the time being, Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: in that world, I was definitely like all in, like
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: falling in love with her. But looking in hindsight, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like I'm gonna be all right, you know. Okay,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I just got lost in this world for two months.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, and then you just got thrown right
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: back into it. There was a very short amount of time,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: very very short amount of time between filming Bachelor in
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Paradise this season. Did that contribute to you coming in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: late for real? For real? Um? A little bit? I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: mean I when I first got the call, it's just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: like add or I really want to do this again,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like really put myself through this because it's mentally draining,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it really is. Um. So I was just like, I'll
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: think about it and then excided. I was just like,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you know what, like go down there and have fun,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: get to meet some people that you know, I've had
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the same experience as you, and ultimately like, yeah, there's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a chance you might meet somebody. So I was just like, Okay,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I really put myself out
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: there before. Why not try one more time? Okay. So,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was there like a matter of like two or three
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: weeks between you coming home and then you're going to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: fill Paradise? Had to be at least like a month Okay, Okay,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that's not super different because you were like top four
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and normally UP four does get about four weeks of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a downtime. Does that make it harder or easier to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: jump back in? I would say harder, Well, because you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: still thinking of Rachel. No, I would say you kind
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of know how it works, like how the whole journey
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: like works. You just saw it and everything, and um
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: like I went in just so gullible, kind of just
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: like I don't know how like how this entire process
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: goes so and then kind of like when I was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: told how Paradise works and operates, I was told as
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: completely different, which it is completely different, which is awesome completely,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: but at first, yeah, it was definitely's definitely hard because
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I was just like, I don't want to go through
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the same thing I just went through on the Bachelrette. Yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I totally understand that. All right, well let's play some
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: rapid Fire, but first we're gonna take a quick break
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: right now. Alright, rapid fire, what are you studying in school?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Right now? School? Yeah? I just heard that you were
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in class. I am a substitute teacher. Oh my gosh. Okay, yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: so Tyler couldn't could make our initial time because he
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: was stuck in school. I heard you're a substitute teacher.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Do all the girls have crushes on you? I don't.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, so yes, Oh my gosh, you're
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that teacher that girls like walk by the room and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they're like giggle at you, open up my joy that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: go hey, Mr, and like, oh my god, Mr Norris
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a substituting for us today? How did the kids at
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: school feel about you being on the show? Like, now
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you must get even more attention. Originally there's only a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: few that knew because it's middle school, so they don't
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: really watch and that. And next thing you know, they're like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: my parents told me that you were on a TV show?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Is that true? And I'm like, yeah, I was. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: then at one point, I remember some girl came up
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to me and she was like she's giving a little
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: bit of attitude and I was just like, all right,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you can leave and go to the office. She goes,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: why don't you go get dumped on TV again? And
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I was just like, wow, my god, that's crazy. These
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: kids are roasting me right now. Yeah, how did you
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: respond to that? I was just in awe. I was
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: just like I was a good one, not gonna lie
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: still good. Wow. Okay, who do people say your celebrity looklike?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Is celebrity look like? You know? I got one today? Um,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in class we were watching I put on a movie
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: from my one class. It was called Home Team, and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Taylor Lautner's in it, and I guess because of my
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: eyes like a little bit, I got like squinting your eyes.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I was told it look like Taylor at her a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: little bit, and I was just like, I appreciate that. Guys.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I can definitely see Taylor a lot. Now that you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: say that. I think Matt Lawrence or Chris Allen, the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: winner of American Idol in two thousand eight. Allen, Yeah,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: this is the other one. He's from what TV shows
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I called World. That's what he's known for. So I think, wow,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you gotta go look at Chris Allen that it's uncanny.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You did the cheese date on the show. What is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: your true favorite cheese? Favorite cheese? Um? Of course you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: asked me, and I forget what's the cheese they have
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in like Greek salad cheese? That is a very interesting choice.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Do you like eating feta? Just plain or just yeah?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Because it seems like it's interesting. It's an interesting choice,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: not saying that it's not good. I'm just saying that, like,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of good like cheese out there that
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you can just you know, pick up an eat. But
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I would choose fatta to do that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I do like the wineries, just eating whatever cheesey put
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: in front of me. So not picky, not picky. Yeah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: if you could stunt cast the Bachelor or the Bachelorette
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: with a celebrity lead, who would you want the celebrity
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: lead to be? As the Bachelor? Yeah? As the Bachelor? Oh,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: put my boys at that front on there? Oh my god. Yes,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Zach Efron, Okay, I guess you have like Also, there's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: either like a little Zac Efron looked to you if
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you have blue eyes. I wish I would If anybody
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: compared me to Zack Affront, I think I'd pass out.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Why do you love Zach Effron? We
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: have just found a big commonality here. He's literally that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he's literally the best actor I think I've ever seen.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Why do you say that? Zafron fan for years seventeen? Again,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: his acting could have been nominated for a Golden Globe.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying he pulls up, he gets out
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of the car, and the songs in the background and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: like puts his jacket on. Stuff like that. I used
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to think I was like that, Oh my gosh, whenever
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that movie is on, I have to put it on
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and keep it on, watch it to the end. Everything.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: He's got such good comedic timing, and I think that's
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: under like underrated. I just it's got such a nice personality.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I tell you, I always tell Jared, I'm like Jared,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: if I'm at zac Effron, like it would be trouble
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: because like it's not like I'm just like physically attracted him.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I like love his personality so much. Zack,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: everyone would want to, like, you know, steal me away
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: from my husband or whatnot. But Za my ultimate crush
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: what Jared Jared would understand. But he's such he has
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: such a man crush on him too. He loves him.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Um And then have you did you watch his Netflix
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: show about travel? Yeah? Yeah, yes, it's so good. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: don't know. He's like so humble and regular and down
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: down to earth. So anyway, I could go on about
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: zach Ebron. He appeals to girls and guys. I love it,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: like I love it. Was like a teen heart throb
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that like just appeals to girls, grows up to become
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: somebody that even guys worship. It's kind of a Justin
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Timberlake effect or like Harry Styles thing. You know. All right,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: So what Jersey rep you know, like what stereotype of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: New Jersey is totally false too, totally false. Oh my gosh,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore when they watched Jersey gtl ye like
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that look just that like acting like that, that is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: not us whatsoever. But we're just like beechy vibes. Like
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: San Diego is prime example. What I think is like
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: most like my hometown. And when people think of themselves
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: like Georgy Shore, this and that, like I don't even
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: think they're from Jersey. I think through like Staten Island
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: or something like that. They were all over from Rhode Island,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: which I have never seen a poly d like figure
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: here in Rhode Island. But when people so I'm like
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: originally from Jersey to um my parents lived there for
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: over thirty years. That's where I was born in, people
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: always are like, oh my god, Jersey. You know, when
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: people aren't familiar with Jersey, they're like Jersey, you know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: like and it's like you guys, that's like maybe like
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: one mile there's like maybe you can find like one
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: mile of the beach like that exactly. Yeah, we're nothing
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: like that. Withever so s. That's the only serious. It's
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: pretty wholesome family fund over there. Okay, Well, thank you
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: so much, Tyler for talking to us and taking the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: time out of your day after you've been you know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: surrounded by middle schoolers all day. Yeah, that's always fun,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: helping me up a little bit. We can't wait to
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: see you on Bachelor in Paradise next week. We are
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: wishing you to find love with one of those ladies
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that you talked about, right all right, Well, thanks Tyler.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you against soon hopefully. Thank you. Follow
• 32:08
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