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Red Roses on the Red Planet with Adam Rippon · 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: Hello everyone, welcome to a special edition of the Almost
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  Speaker 2: Famous podcast where we're not gonna be talking about The Bachelor.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking about mostly Stars on Mars, which
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  Speaker 2: is a news show that I am on on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: It airs not next to not the same time as
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  Speaker 2: The Bachelor at It airs at eight on Fox on
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  Speaker 2: Monday nights, and then you can roll right over to
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  Speaker 2: ABC and watch The Bachelorette after you watch Me on Mars. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: So we did a little preview a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: Ben's here obviously, and he was asking me about what
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  Speaker 2: the Stars on Mars experience was like. And it was
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  Speaker 2: in Australia in the middle of the outback, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like it was a place that looked like Mars.
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  Speaker 2: Do I think they probably could have used like North
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  Speaker 2: or South Dakota probably, but you know, we went.
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  Speaker 3: To the middle of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Ben, do you have any questions before we get on
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  Speaker 2: our My co star from Jars ar Mars, Adam Rippin,
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  Speaker 2: who is a very well known figure skater, Do you
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  Speaker 2: have questions for Adam and I about what Mars was.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I have a lot of questions for the two. OK.
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  Speaker 3: Great, well let's get him on. Hi.
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  Speaker 4: Ben, Hello Adam, it's nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to meet you. Well, Adam is on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Adam, so thrilled to have you here. Talk about
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  Speaker 2: the planet Mars. You were there before me, significantly before me,
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  Speaker 2: and you formed I don't know what I want to say, alliances,
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  Speaker 2: but like friendships and such before and I got there,
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  Speaker 2: and tell us just how it was the first week
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  Speaker 2: or so on Mars before I got there.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so before you got there, I mean sort of
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  Speaker 5: just like how when you got there, you didn't know
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  Speaker 5: what you were signing up for, right.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. No.
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  Speaker 5: I knew that I was going to like a Mars simulation,
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  Speaker 5: and I was like, Okay, I don't know what that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm assuming that means.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to like the gram wie Lea and I'm
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  Speaker 5: just going to be hanging out and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 5: When we did the first few challenges, it was so physical.
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  Speaker 5: I did think, and if I do think back, I
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  Speaker 5: think that I was in danger.
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  Speaker 2: You were in danger, I thought, so I was like
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  Speaker 2: concerned because I saw the cast list beforehand, and I
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  Speaker 2: saw that there were so many athletes, yourself included, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a second, this has got to be
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  Speaker 2: like a challenge show like the one that Hannah Brown
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  Speaker 2: was on. What was it called Special Forces? I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: is this special Forces? But on Mars? Like I told
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  Speaker 2: the casting producers, I'm not in shape.
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  Speaker 5: No, and I I got asked to do Special Forces
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  Speaker 5: and I they were like, you know, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to do these things, these marine like tasks.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, there's a better chance of me
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  Speaker 5: actually joining the Marines than me doing this show. And
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  Speaker 5: then like a year later, they're like, would you like
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  Speaker 5: to go to Mars? And obviously I'm an idiot and
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  Speaker 5: was like yes. And so when we got there, it
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  Speaker 5: was just it was the challenges that we did before
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  Speaker 5: you got there were so physical and like, yes, I'm
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  Speaker 5: an athlete on paper, but in practice, I'm I wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: consider especially with the likes of like Ronda Rousey, who
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  Speaker 5: could fare handedly kill me. So if she had to,
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  Speaker 5: she wouldn't, but if she had to, she could she could.
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  Speaker 4: Now don't I don't know how much you're able to
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  Speaker 4: give away.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like there's a way to do this
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  Speaker 6: and keep it very secretive, because my thought is when
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  Speaker 6: I heard about this show that yes, so I'm claustrophobic.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell Adam what happened.
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  Speaker 6: Well, so I got an email saying, hey, are you
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  Speaker 6: interested in doing the show. I couldn't give up as
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  Speaker 6: much time as they originally needed. I'd give up a
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  Speaker 6: lot of time, but I had like two commitments in
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  Speaker 6: the beginning, and then I didn't hear anything, and so Ashley,
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  Speaker 6: I think took my place in a way or kind
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  Speaker 6: of represented the Bachelor franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Wells also was asked, Yeah, Crawley was asked, and then
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  Speaker 2: Jojo was asked, all couldn't do it for other reasons?
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  Speaker 3: M h, so my moral reasons.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, moral reasons. So I have these like things that
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  Speaker 6: I don't love. I can do heights, I cannot be claustrophobic.
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  Speaker 6: I cannot be stuck in something small and thrown to
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  Speaker 6: a dark place for very long or I paint out.
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  Speaker 6: And so, can you explain a little bit of what
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  Speaker 6: you were feeling once you showed up and then once
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  Speaker 6: you started to hear about some of the top petitions
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  Speaker 6: and challenges you were going to be a part of
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  Speaker 6: like what went on inside of you.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, nothing went on inside of me because I had
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  Speaker 5: to a part of me had to die to make
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  Speaker 5: it through that. And so I'm I'm just like you
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  Speaker 5: because I don't, like, I'm claustrophobic, and so I didn't
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  Speaker 5: think that this was going to be an issue because
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  Speaker 5: I was like, there's nothing on Mars to be claustrophobic about. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a scientist.
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  Speaker 3: Space shuttles and the helmets.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I figured that out once I got there, and
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  Speaker 5: when we put on like the spacesuit for the first time.
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  Speaker 5: You know, in my mind, I'm like, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: be a costume like in which it is. But it
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  Speaker 5: was heavy, like astually. You remember, the backpack was like
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  Speaker 5: thirty pounds and the helmet was like ten pounds at
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  Speaker 5: least at least And Ashley and I actually bonded because
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  Speaker 5: I by the time Ashley got there, I had realized that, like,
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  Speaker 5: I need to take a beta blocker before we do.
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  Speaker 3: Have some on you, yes, because I was.
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  Speaker 5: Like, maybe you know, maybe I'm it'll be like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'll have anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: You you were definitely the one that like seemed to
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  Speaker 2: understand my physical uncomfortability the.
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  Speaker 5: Most because one it the most claustrophobic part about it
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  Speaker 5: all was the helmet, because like, oh, it felt like
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  Speaker 5: I felt like I was like that Mexican woman who
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  Speaker 5: was like buried and she wasn't dead and like and
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  Speaker 5: she like knocks on the coffin at her own funeral.
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  Speaker 3: I was That was who I was.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you mean by you had to die
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, because like I had to really psych
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  Speaker 2: myself up out in the helmet to be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're not in that, Like, don't don't think about the helmet.
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  Speaker 3: You can't think about the helmet because if you.
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  Speaker 2: Like take a second to be like my head is
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  Speaker 2: in a glass case.
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  Speaker 3: Yes you're dear, you're gonna go into the panic zone.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to go into the panic zone.
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  Speaker 5: The thing I didn't like, but I there's uh, ben,
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  Speaker 5: if you ever do go to Mars, there's some tips
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  Speaker 5: and tricks of the trade that I'm I'm willing to
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  Speaker 5: share is that they buckle the helmet in.
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  Speaker 3: They like buckle it in.
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  Speaker 5: And every time they buckled it in, that's when I
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  Speaker 5: felt like, Okay, this is the end. So I would
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  Speaker 5: and don't tell anyone unbuckle it. And so there would
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  Speaker 5: be times when, like you know, I'm in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of like a challenge and the whole visor like flips
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  Speaker 5: right up and they'd be like buckle your blazer or
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  Speaker 5: your blazer, your visor. And but it was the only
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  Speaker 5: way I could do it because I was like, there's
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  Speaker 5: no air in here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then like Richard Sherman, he decided to really
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  Speaker 2: kind of he was over Mars a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: because there was so much hurry up and wait.
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  Speaker 3: So we would have to really get to the.
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  Speaker 2: Location of the challenge hours before we would participate in
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  Speaker 2: the challenge because getting the suits on everyone would take
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  Speaker 2: just as long.
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  Speaker 3: As the challenge.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the first mission that we did, I'm such like
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  Speaker 5: an astronaut now doing missions. The first mission that we
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  Speaker 5: did took six hours, and it was because they had
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  Speaker 5: never put the costume on anyone before. They had to
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  Speaker 5: figure out how to put it on ten people. It
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  Speaker 5: was just it was chaos. And then like we held
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  Speaker 5: at before we did the mission for like an hour,
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  Speaker 5: and then we held back after for an hour and
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  Speaker 5: a half or two hours. But the whole thing took
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  Speaker 5: like five or six hours.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So I have so many questions here. The one
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  Speaker 6: is and this is a shore and how often, like
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  Speaker 6: what percentage of the day were you actually in your
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  Speaker 6: helmet and space shoot suit.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that maybe every other day.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you'd have to do like a like a B
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  Speaker 5: scene where it was like you had to do like
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  Speaker 5: a chore and they would make you go and shoot
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  Speaker 5: like a scene with someone else and it was like
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  Speaker 5: you were doing chores and it was like to like
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  Speaker 5: clean a.
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  Speaker 3: Piece of or something.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, it was like, and so you'd have
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  Speaker 5: to put the suit on to go shoot that scene.
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  Speaker 2: I had to do something with Ronda Rousey in the
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  Speaker 2: suit as a bee as a side project.
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  Speaker 3: It was like my worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 6: It's always impressive to me, you know, And let's group
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  Speaker 6: the two of you into this. You know, you have
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  Speaker 6: a bunch of you know, celebrities who are very successful
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  Speaker 6: in whatever they've done, and they have certain standards for
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  Speaker 6: care and for treatment. I've been around it, I've seen it.
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  Speaker 6: I've been that person before you go on a show
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  Speaker 6: like this and I and I've never done a reality
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  Speaker 6: show where there's been a mixed bag of people kind
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  Speaker 6: of coming in. What is the what is the the drama? Like,
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  Speaker 6: maybe what is the attitudes like of all these celebrities
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  Speaker 6: as they sit and wait and really heavy outfits, they're
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  Speaker 6: running through the desert, They're being asked to clean you know,
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  Speaker 6: toilets and floors, Like I can't imagine everybody's just going
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  Speaker 6: with it because now they're on a show, So now
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  Speaker 6: they're like super accommodatable and like cool.
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  Speaker 5: I think that because it's like you have the living
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  Speaker 5: situation of it all everybody, not everybody, but I think
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  Speaker 5: everybody kind of like a balance of how to be
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  Speaker 5: a roommate with everyone, And that felt totally separate of
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  Speaker 5: the show of like of the things that they would
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  Speaker 5: put us through while we were there. But I do
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  Speaker 5: think that they were like I think Richard Sherman, he's
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  Speaker 5: too rich to wait that long? Yes, not too rich to.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, Adam, this was me okay.
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  Speaker 2: So as soon as like, I may have done it
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  Speaker 2: in the bunk, but as soon as I left Mars,
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  Speaker 2: I googled these people's network. Oh yeah, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a second, why did they come here?
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  Speaker 3: Ends of millions? I remember waiting. They came for fun.
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  Speaker 3: They just truly came from.
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  Speaker 5: Because they went because they were like, this is going
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  Speaker 5: to be like space camp. I went, this is amazing
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  Speaker 5: to make money. And so I remember that like in
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  Speaker 5: the very beginning, you know, to season one of a
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  Speaker 5: reality show. So there were there's like a lot of
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  Speaker 5: like hiccups. One of them when we first got into.
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  Speaker 3: The ab when we first got home our home.
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  Speaker 5: When we first got there, before we got in, they
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  Speaker 5: said to pack one suitcase. You're allowed to bring one
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  Speaker 5: suitcase in and we will leave it in there for you.
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  Speaker 5: We're like, okay, So I brought two suitcases. Basically I
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  Speaker 5: brought like everything that I thought maybe I would need.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you I have no idea what you need.
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  Speaker 3: We literally only needed underwear. They gave us everything else, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and so I packed my one suitcase. I go in.
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  Speaker 5: We shoot that scene of like everybody entering for the
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  Speaker 5: first time, and then they're like, you know, go pick
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  Speaker 5: up your bag. And then so we went and what
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  Speaker 5: happened was there was like a miscommunication where it's like
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  Speaker 5: the they went through all of our stuff to put
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  Speaker 5: it in a box that looked like more space like,
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  Speaker 5: so like they accidentally went through all of our stuff
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  Speaker 5: and then like before you got there, we actually did
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  Speaker 5: run out of food.
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  Speaker 3: They just didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like they were freaking out. They're like, you actually
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  Speaker 2: knew people. There's no food, like and all the food
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  Speaker 2: we get is crappy and like because it was like
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be like food that really only would be
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  Speaker 2: surviving on Mars. Right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like mostly Eminem's That's mostly what I
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  Speaker 5: ate while I was there. But what did you ask me?
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  Speaker 5: And what am I talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I was gonna say. Well, I will
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  Speaker 2: answer the question for myself. Ben said, who did you
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  Speaker 2: like because it was a more of an all star cast, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and less of like a Bachelor cast or all newbies?
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  Speaker 2: Did you feel like intimidated? Was there anybody who was
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  Speaker 2: a diva? Was there anyone more humble than you would imagine?
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  Speaker 2: Like for me, we walked in late, so I was
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  Speaker 2: already in a position of like intimidation where I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the new kid here. But then also I gathered
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  Speaker 2: very quickly that it wasn't a situation like the Bachelor
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  Speaker 2: where everybody just bonds instantly because we're all in it together.
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  Speaker 2: Like everybody here felt like they were just the most
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  Speaker 2: confident people on earth. Because they truly were like the
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  Speaker 2: top tier of all of whatever the things.
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  Speaker 3: They're all their fields. So I was just shy. I
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  Speaker 3: felt like I couldn't talk the first like five hours.
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  Speaker 5: Well, also you came in and there was a big
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  Speaker 5: fight before you got there.
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  Speaker 3: That really like change the vibe that much.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, okay, it was like a very it was like
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  Speaker 5: a very jarring experience. Everybody had been we had like
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  Speaker 5: just been having fun and whatever like, because at that
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  Speaker 5: point there were a few people who were there who
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  Speaker 5: were like, I need to go next. I can't do this,
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  Speaker 5: like please vote me out next and be like okay,
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  Speaker 5: and then you know, then there's some people who are
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  Speaker 5: like no, no, I'll stay Okay, well I'll go next, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'll go after you.
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  Speaker 3: So it wasn't like there was no drama to it.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was.
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  Speaker 5: Like a big fight one night and it created this
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  Speaker 5: like riff and so when you got there, everybody is
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  Speaker 5: still like on edge.
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  Speaker 6: That'd mean wild, I mean, and that's gonna be something
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  Speaker 6: interesting to watch too, because you know, obviously Ashley's experiences
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  Speaker 6: I have that the cast is incredible for this show
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  Speaker 6: Stars on Mars has an incredible cast. They got some
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  Speaker 6: amazing people to go over the two of you included, Adam,
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  Speaker 6: you are very successful in your sport. You are an athlete,
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  Speaker 6: and Ashley is my beautiful, wonderful co host who I
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  Speaker 6: probably wouldn't say athlete would be a top ten but
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  Speaker 6: she is competitive. She is very competitive, and she does
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  Speaker 6: like to win, and she does like to have success
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  Speaker 6: and whatever she's doing, do her.
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  Speaker 2: Best, you know, like when it comes to like competition
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  Speaker 2: with me, though, it's like can I win Bachelor Trivia?
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  Speaker 3: I will turn up for Bachelor Trivia, but like.
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  Speaker 6: Right, hey, let's sprint one hundred meters versus like a
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  Speaker 6: Glance Armstrong Richard Truman. I'm saying Ashley is gonna give
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  Speaker 6: you know, she's not getting that one.
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  Speaker 4: So is it?
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  Speaker 6: Was it interesting for you, Adam because you were there
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  Speaker 6: for that first week, especially when people were helped, like
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  Speaker 6: feeling good and excited to see these other professional athletes
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  Speaker 6: and their competitive drive and like how they prepped to
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  Speaker 6: win a competition.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get to see that up close?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, But I'm gonna sae, this is what Okay, at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, you're pretending you're on Mars
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  Speaker 5: and it's a reality show and So my favorite thing
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  Speaker 5: is like when they would talk about like who's gonna
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  Speaker 5: make it all the way or who's going.
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  Speaker 3: To do this?
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  Speaker 5: The other athletes and some of the people on other
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  Speaker 5: people in the cast would be like, well, we need
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  Speaker 5: them here because we need strength on Mars. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: what do you mean we need strength on Mars Marshawn
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  Speaker 5: doesn't clean any dishes.
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  Speaker 3: Ra there's somebody who's gonna wash a dish, then strength
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  Speaker 3: on Mars.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, if that satellite falls down again,
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  Speaker 5: we're not actually gonna lose connection to Earth. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: what are you talking about? But you could see everybody's competitive,
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  Speaker 5: And I think that like everybody had their their own
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  Speaker 5: way of being competitive. And I think with like the
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  Speaker 5: athletes specifically, is that like when it was really physical,
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  Speaker 5: you could see people who have done a lot of
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  Speaker 5: physical things at varying levels, but like you could see
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  Speaker 5: the focus in like the Wuyet intensity of like everybody
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  Speaker 5: when they were in these like physical challenges. For sure,
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  Speaker 5: when I do physical things, I don't talk at all.
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  Speaker 4: You're in it. You're in it.
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  Speaker 6: So did the two of you ever start to actually
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  Speaker 6: think you're on Mars? Like did that ever happen in
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  Speaker 6: your mind where you at one moment had like a
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  Speaker 6: weird like week point of weakness and you're like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: living on Mars and you forgot that you're on Earth
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  Speaker 6: in the middle of the outback.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I will say what I thought about a
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  Speaker 2: lot was how anybody lived where we were in the
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  Speaker 2: outback of Australia. So the nearest like they go to,
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  Speaker 2: they go to Kmart. The nearest Kmart is an eight
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: in something hour drive, so it's like us like the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: nearest target being like or Walmart being eight hours away,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like their nearest like big conveniences were eight hours away.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And the population of this town was two thousand and
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: like when you're in the plane. So the s is
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: actually adventure that I went went through getting there was
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I took four planes to get there.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: But the last plane, where did you fly from?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I flew from I was leaving from DC, Okay, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: then I went to San Francisco, and then I went
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: to Melbourne, and then I went to Adelaide, and then
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I went to the middle of nowhere. So when you're
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: going from Adelaide to the middle of nowhere, it's a
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: little bit less of a two hour flight. And guys,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: it was a prop plane, but like one that wasn't
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: a celebrity jet plane. It's one of the ones where
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: like people, there's like one that goes down every day
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, or they lose it on like on the satellite.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: They're like, we'll never see Yeah.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: So here I am with like an Amelia Heart and
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: still missing. Yeah, she's.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: So I'm with Kat Cora, Paul Pierce, Andy Richter, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, we are all go, We're gonna go down.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: The guy who's packing our suit ca onto the four
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: seater play. It's four seats and then there's two seats
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: in the front. The guy who's packing it up. I go,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: are you the pilot? And he goes and no, And
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden he gets in the captain's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: seat and he is the pilot.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: He was just joking with me. And then there's no.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Co captain and I'm like, if this guy has a
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: heart attack, we're conners. And it was a two hour
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: so but then again, yeah, okay, so almost a two
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: hour flight to the middle of nowhere, and when you
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: are flying over no society, no one, and I'm like
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I got stressed.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Thinking of all the people that live in that town.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, when they go to the dentist, to the doctor,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: they have to like plan it out to fly into Adelaide.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, two thousand people's quite a bit of people too,
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: It is, it is.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I grew up in Indiana.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: There's towns of seven hundred and nine hundred everywhere, So
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: two thousand people isn't a small I mean it's small,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: but it's not like the you know that no nobody
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: lives out there.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: It's a mining town. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: And and also it gets so hot there that a
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: lot of the living situations are underground and living caves.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's so interesting.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: So, Adam, after being on this show, would you ever
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: I if they called you next and they said, hey,
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: we're we got a better budget, the show did really well.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: We're actually going to Mars. We're gonna we're gonna take off,
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: We're living Mars for a month.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: You're coming with us. Would you say yes to that?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Nor?
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I couldn't say, you think I'm actually gonna go to Mars?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: No? I don't know.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: No, I never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever would do that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That's insane. Desire. I have no desire to leave Earth.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I barely had a desire to go to that outback.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: So I mean the fault that would be Okay, so
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: you've done the show, you're back now. If you were
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: on the show, would you watch it?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I yes, because okay, I would watch it because my
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: taste level is Middle America and so like I love
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: like Master Chef, I love you know those shows.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: And before.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I watched the show, I was like, I, you know,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I hope it's good. I hope it's you know, whatever,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: I'm sucked in. Even if I wasn't on the show,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I would be watching it because it's just dumb enough
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: to be really fun, okay, because it's like Big Brother.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Huh or like Surreal Life.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's something like that, but it's like there's this
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: weird twist that makes it different. And I think it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: so funny when people start talking about like, well on Mars,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: we need like just so if I love that. So
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I actually really like this show. I'm gonna if they
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: do more seasons, which I think that they're going to do,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: I'm going to watch them because I do enjoy watching
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: it a lot.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Would you watch it?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Ashley Yeah, for sure. It's a lot more tongue in
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: cheek then I thought it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Was going to be edited to be because when we
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: were in those interview rooms, I was like the producer
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: behind the screen, because guys, unlike The Bachelor or we're
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: talking directly to somebody in the room, they had you
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: basically talking to a speaker. You're in the room by yourself,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: and the questions are like dead serious, or like what
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: do you think that you bring to the Mars team?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Like is there a skill that you have that will
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: help them survive on Mars? Or like they're dead serious,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: which is money. Yeah, on the show, it comes across
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: like what do you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Bring to Mars? And you just flew in from DC?
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: All right, Adam, I got a question who were you
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: most starstruck by?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: And did you know the cast before you walked in there?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Because I knew the cast going in there because they
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: had released your names a couple of days before I landed.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I did not know the cast.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: They wouldn't and when we got there, since it was
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: like the beginning of the show, they tried to stagger
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: us in so that we wouldn't know who anybody was
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: before we got there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: But I didn't cheat, but I did a little bit.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: You saw you saw the sheets that they had.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Well, I saw when we were getting our like final
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: fitting for the costume, like the day we were about
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: to go in. I saw first names on all of
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: the costumes, and so I was trying to put together
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: what I got. So I saw like Porsche and I
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: was like, I'm assuming that's Porsha Williams from Atlanta Housewives.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I saw Tanache and I went, she doesn't use her
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: last name, it's going to be Tanache. I saw Ariel
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: and I was like, Okay, I think Aeriel Winter. I
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: saw Ronda and I was like, oh, Ronda Rousey.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: And I think Ronda was probably the person that I
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: was most taken back with what sense in the sense
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: that like, uh, I don't know, I just I've I've
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: watched her like compete before, and.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I just think that she's like a really impressive person.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: And I think that like she's super nice and like
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: very kind. And I think that it was like the
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: way that I had always seen her. I wasn't expecting
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: her to be so nice. So I think that that
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: was the thing that shook me up the most okay.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's like far more like motherly and gender.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, very gentle. She's like a cartoon, like a good
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: like a Dragon ball Z character.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: For me, it was I was excited to see Richard
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Sherman and Marshawn Lynch in competition together, like I wanted
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to see like their bromance. I loved the Seahawks back
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: in the day when they had the Legion of Boom
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and all that, so I was excited to see that.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: But when I got there, Richard was gone. But it
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: was okay because Marshawn really delivered, like he really didn't.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Holy moly, so funny, multifaceted right, Like he can go
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: from having a serious, like emotional conversation to just say
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the most outrageous thing the next second.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: He brought his own Hennessy, which I think is so funny.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Smart, What are you gonna have on? Mars He's like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I know how this is gonna go.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know how this is gonna go. Here's my
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: one suitcase. He packed one hoodie and four bottles of Hennessy,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: which was so brilliant.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Love. I love that man. Man. I would have him
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: You would have loved him, you would have had a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: field day.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: I would have loved it. Hey, Adam, we're gonna let
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: you go here soon again. You're starring in Stars on
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Mars alongside our wonderful co host here at the almost
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: famous podcast Ashley II, Kennettie Haven and Adam. Before they go,
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: I do want to highlight that you have two incredible podcasts,
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: Normalize This, and the run through tell us a little
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: bit about those podcasts where we can listen to them,
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: what they're about, and before we say goodbye.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: So the run through is very niche. So if you're
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: a figure skating fan, you'll love it because it's me
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: and one of my really good figure skating friends, Ashley Wagner,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: and we just talk figure skating stuff. I don't have,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: like anybody to talk figure skating stuff anymore, so that's
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: my outlet. And then Normalize This I co host with
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: my amazing co host Danielle Young, and we just talk
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: about different topics and culture and whether we should normalize them.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: And it's usually just me going off on a tangent
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: the entire time and then Danielle having to deal with
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: me and rain me back in, which is a fantastic job.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Can you give us an example of one of those rambles.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: So we usually talk about like anything, but like sometimes
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: we'll talk about like heavier things, like we talked about
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: like death, and we talked about religion, and we talked
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: about like when your parents get older. I think sometimes
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: you know, like when we talked about something your parents
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: getting older, I went into like a tangent of like
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: how I am going to continue to get like laser
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: work done on my face so I don't look older.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: And I talked about it for about twenty minutes, which
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: is important to me.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I agree too, I'm like stressed that I haven't had
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a laser in over year.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I like it when you, Adam, I got to respect
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: that when you start talking about your parents getting older,
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: your mind goes to but I'm getting lasers done, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: that's what I'm passionate about.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: See, I thought you were going to talk about parents dying.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Your parents dying is the scariest thing.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Right because your parents can get old, but that's on
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: their watch. But my skin is not going to lose
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: its elasticity.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Adam. We should have talked about this on Mars, I know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: but I was on a beta blocker.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: And Adam I guess our listeners will be upset. They
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: want to know because they're fans of yours. Do you
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: still skate at all? Like for fun?
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Yes, I do a little bit here and there, Like
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: sometimes I'll skate and I'll be like, wait, when was
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: the last time I did this? So I was like, oh,
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: three months ago.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I just I don't I go. Actually, when I where
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I go work out.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: I work out at the gym that's like connected to
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: the rink that I used to train at, because I'll
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: go visit like my friends who are like coaches and
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: work at the rink, so I go there often. I
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: just don't get on the ice all the time, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: I do love it, so we all have to go
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: one day.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I'll give you both a lesson. It would be so fun.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: We were on Bachelor Winter Games together. Ben doesn't need
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a listen, he doesn't need a lesson. He's very talented.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: It not it skating.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I you, I remember it took you a
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: few rounds around the rink, but before you know it,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you were skating by me. And I was like, oh, guys,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I used to skate as a kid, Like I'll.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Be able to stand and here's the thing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I am able to stand, and I'm able to knock
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: cling on the wall, but I.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Will go slow as molasses and.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: All these other super athletic people or just caught on
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: so quickly.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: You know, the best would have been if they brought
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: in at him and he just goes backwards and passes
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: me by seven laps.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Before Nancy Kerrigan come in.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: That's true, that's fun.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm super pumped for this show. I'm super pumped
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: that you're on it. Ashley talks very highly of you.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Thanks for coming on the Almost Miss podcast promoting the show.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: And do you watch the Bachelor Bachelor at all?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Be honest? No, okay, that's fair.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I'm scared of it because that's I'll see like visions
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: of myself having having breakdown. So that's why that's fair.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: That's fair.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Well, if you ever want to tune in, let us
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: know and then come back. I can break down an
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: episode with us. But until next time.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Oh wait, now I'll do that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I would appreciate it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: So hey, the two stars of Stars on Mars, Ashley
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and Adam joined us today. We're gonna keep talking about
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: this show because obviously Ashley's on it. And we want
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: to support the show in any way we can. But
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: it sounds fun, it sounds exciting. It sounds like chaos,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: it sounds like a mess, and that's what we love
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: to watch. So until next time, I've been Ben.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I've been Ashley, and I'm Adam RIPHN.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: That's all right, let's go, but
• 31:32
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• 31:35
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