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Almost Famous OG: Exes and Ohs with Graham Bunn · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Bob Trista, Hi, you look at dar. I thought
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  Speaker 2: you said you were feeling sick. You look lovely.
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  Speaker 3: I've been sick the past two days and I'm so
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  Speaker 3: sorry I was running late you guys to start this.
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  Speaker 3: I love it when when I get a text and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, wait, why are they Why are they texting
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  Speaker 3: about Almost Famous? Oh, it's because you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: actually recording right now.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I came running in my house. I
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  Speaker 2: come around the corner, I go straight upstairs. Canyon and
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  Speaker 2: Blaker downstairs are like high.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, Hi, gotta go, gotta go run upstairs, get
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  Speaker 4: myself all situated. I think I'm gonna be the late one.
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  Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, she's
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  Speaker 4: not here. Thank god, you actually gave me. You gave
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  Speaker 4: me a breath of relaxation in a hasty and very
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  Speaker 4: busy day.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're so welcome. You're so welcome, Bob.
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  Speaker 2: I can actually hear a little scratchiness in your voice.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I always always wanted to be to me
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  Speaker 3: more with like the sexy scratchy voice you know when
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  Speaker 3: I was whenever I'm sick, I'm like, yes, lose your voice, your.
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  Speaker 2: Voice, this is what we want, we want this. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad to be back with all of our almost
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  Speaker 4: famous the Og friends. And it is great to see
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  Speaker 4: your beautiful face. And I'm loving it that today is
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  Speaker 4: going to be such a fun day because we got
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  Speaker 4: one of my best buddies on and I love this guy,
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  Speaker 4: and we have quite a history ourselves, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: so I'll be happy to talk about that. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: we have on the show today our dear friend Graham Bunn,
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  Speaker 4: who much beloved member of the Og family from back
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  Speaker 4: in the day. He was on Deanna Poppus's season, and
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  Speaker 4: I believe, I mean he was. He was right down
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  Speaker 4: there to the end, I'm pretty sure on that season.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, he's got quite an interesting story himself.
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  Speaker 4: Our our story of how he and I met is
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  Speaker 4: really really funny. And we kept each other in the divorces.
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  Speaker 2: How's that going, I'll tease it that way.
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  Speaker 4: So Graham and I we became buddies and kept each
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  Speaker 4: other in the in the splits. But yeah, he was
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  Speaker 4: from Deanna season. He was on Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this guy has been around, He's been around
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  Speaker 4: the block in the Bachelor of Family.
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  Speaker 2: So were you a fan of Grahams.
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  Speaker 3: I was a huge fan and still am. I just
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  Speaker 3: I love him, Adoram. He's always been so supportive and
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  Speaker 3: so kind. He just is so kind, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: was a huge fan when he was on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Just found out something that we're going to get into today.
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  Speaker 3: I won't spoil it, but I had no idea of
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  Speaker 3: this piece of information. So I'm very excited to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him about the show. I actually was a judge
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  Speaker 3: on Bachelor Pad when he was on, so that was fun.
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  Speaker 3: So I've seen him a couple times. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we used to do those, like those reunions with Jesse Sinsak.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that. I feel like he probably came
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  Speaker 1: on one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't make any of those, but I wanted to go,
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  Speaker 4: but I was just at this different place and didn't
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  Speaker 4: make those.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, those were fun.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I used to love all the readings, So
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  Speaker 4: I did some of the earlier ones before Jesse was
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  Speaker 4: doing them, and I always enjoyed those. And then and
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  Speaker 4: then as they kind of came along after. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: was there a cruise? Was when was a cruise?
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it or something?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go on the cruise, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: there was a cruise. We did have something up in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it was in Breckenridge or something. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, but I feel like he was probably at
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  Speaker 3: at one of those. Anyway, We've stayed in touch too,
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  Speaker 3: but I know you guys have a long history, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm just excited to chat with you today and to
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  Speaker 3: bring Graham on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So let's welcome in Graham.
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  Speaker 4: Bun, there's my guyon everybody, My man.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, buddy? What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: How does this guy get better looking with age every
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  Speaker 4: time I see him? Finest of the fine ripples, the
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  Speaker 4: fine ripples, Now, I will tell you, Trista. We had
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  Speaker 4: to meet some pretty shrewd demands to get Graham on
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  Speaker 4: this show. His people called our people, and my goodness,
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  Speaker 4: I had to acquiesce to something that I wasn't happy about,
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  Speaker 4: but it was the only way to get my guy
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  Speaker 4: on the show. Graham and I have a very very
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  Speaker 4: complex relationship. We love each other like brothers, best of friends.
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  Speaker 4: I'd take a bullet for this guy. But what I
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  Speaker 4: will not do is allow this man to cheat at
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  Speaker 4: the game of Madden NFL Football. And I am I'm
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  Speaker 4: a staunch defender of my reasoning here. My rationale is
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  Speaker 4: a talented player. Okay, he's a talented, talented man when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to the video game sports. But I was
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  Speaker 4: one of the few people that I know of that
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  Speaker 4: could beat Graham Bun occasionally, not often, until I found
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  Speaker 4: out his trick. He was using a playbook that was
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  Speaker 4: the same playbook no matter where he was, no matter
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  Speaker 4: when he was playing. He'd pull up this playbook and
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  Speaker 4: the dude knew every play and there were a couple
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  Speaker 4: unstoppable plays in there, and he would just whoop it
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  Speaker 4: every single time I let him have that playbook. So
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  Speaker 4: I had to agree that the next time he and
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  Speaker 4: I are together, that we're gonna sit down, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: play Madden again, and I'm gonna let him use his
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  Speaker 4: go to playbook.
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  Speaker 2: So there it is behind you, the lies and the
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  Speaker 2: commands up by the screen. He's ready, he's already practicing
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  Speaker 2: for this game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh brother, Oh my goodness, and he's got the beer
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  Speaker 4: for you.
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  Speaker 5: With the demands I went and bought this. Today, you
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  Speaker 5: owe me twenty four dollars in eighty eight cents. I
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  Speaker 5: saved the receipt The deal was a case of beer,
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  Speaker 5: and I can use whatever playbook I want when we play.
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  Speaker 2: That was the right, that's right. I'm here, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to collect. I am gonna Venmo.
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  Speaker 4: You are the money on this, and I appreciate that
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  Speaker 4: you kept on the receipts.
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  Speaker 2: I should.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I would have kept the receipts when that won.
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  Speaker 4: I'll never forget this. One game we were playing and
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  Speaker 4: it was a it was a dog fight. It was
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  Speaker 4: a dog fight, and man, at the very last play,
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  Speaker 4: I just somehow, I think I think I had an
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  Speaker 4: interception and I scampered into the end zone.
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  Speaker 2: Bob has giving me a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 5: Bob, Bob beat me a bunch of times, but he
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  Speaker 5: would never let me use He would never let me
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  Speaker 5: use my playbook.
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  Speaker 2: And that that really I hated that.
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  Speaker 4: It's so good to see my brother grahamn my brother
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  Speaker 4: from another mother.
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  Speaker 2: Man, the list must be getting short, you guys pulling
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  Speaker 2: me in on this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Come on now, no, sir, the ogs only.
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  Speaker 5: This is the second time I've done the Ogs, but
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  Speaker 5: I got I got the Cousins from uh Dukes of Hazzard.
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  Speaker 5: You know when the Dukes of Hazards went to the
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  Speaker 5: Cousins and it didn't work. You know, I got the Cousins.
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  Speaker 5: The last time I did this show, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: what's going on man?
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  Speaker 2: The Cousins episode. That's right, I got the Cousins episode.
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  Speaker 4: He did the actual, the actual, the starting grounds, he
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  Speaker 4: did the actual almost famous Yea, the almost famous Ogs comes.
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  Speaker 2: Along and we just we started.
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  Speaker 4: We start shining up some pennies, setting up all the
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  Speaker 4: diamonds and the rough and we bring them out. What
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people might not know about my buddy
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  Speaker 4: Graham is that when I was still living in la
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  Speaker 4: and Graham and I actually met because of our respective exes.
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  Speaker 5: We did Bob's if this is if this is a
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  Speaker 5: podcast about heartbreak, Bob has lived through the two like
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  Speaker 5: just heart wrench gut wrenching. I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to recover heartbreaks that in my lifetime. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: hoping third times a charm. If that happens for me,
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  Speaker 5: it will. It was for me, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes, you know, we got to take our gotta take
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  Speaker 4: a lick and to keep on tickings sometimes, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But but Graham and I were on a I actually
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  Speaker 4: was kind of helped organize this cruise for the daytime
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  Speaker 4: soap opera community, and we called it Rock the Soaps,
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  Speaker 4: and and.
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  Speaker 2: We were out there, rocked the boat. We rocked the Soaps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and we did it.
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  Speaker 4: And Graham was there with his girlfriend at the time,
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  Speaker 4: who was a star and all my children, and I
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  Speaker 4: was there with my now ex wife who was a
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  Speaker 4: star of all my children. And Graham and I thankfully
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  Speaker 4: found each other on this boat. And at the end
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  Speaker 4: of that trip, you know, we everyone that sailed off
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  Speaker 4: in their own directions, and Graham and I we we
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  Speaker 4: we flew into the same place. We're like, all right, this,
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  Speaker 4: this is the best relationship I can find on that
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  Speaker 4: damn boat.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: And this was us, and Graham and I lived together.
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  Speaker 4: We we spent several years together out there in LA
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  Speaker 4: and I was lucky to have them and as my
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  Speaker 4: as my sounding board and my and my my buddy.
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  Speaker 4: I did make demands on him at that time, so
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  Speaker 4: I think it was only fair that he demanded I'd
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  Speaker 4: be like Graham tonight we are going to this party
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  Speaker 4: and then.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to eat Mexican food at this place. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, yeah, He's like, all right, let's go. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: It was Graham was there when I met Canyon.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, we often say that if it weren't for
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  Speaker 4: Graham Bun, there would be no Bob and Canyon, because
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  Speaker 4: Graham was so sweet to Canyon when I was trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure out if I even wanted to be in
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  Speaker 4: a relationship, and he was like, you know, the only
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  Speaker 4: reason he he would say, hey, why.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you grab your girlfriend and we'll go do this.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd be like, I'll have a girlfriend. He's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: oh that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you grab the only girl that you ever
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  Speaker 4: spend time with that you really enjoy hanging out with
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  Speaker 4: Canyon and bring her to this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd be like, damn it, he's right again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So Graham was the brains of the operation for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was. It was a great time.
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  Speaker 5: Bob's definitely been a part of a lot of milestones
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  Speaker 5: in my life. So this is the least I could
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  Speaker 5: do again. I mean, hopefully I have some answers for
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  Speaker 5: any kind of Cloe. I don't know what you guys
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  Speaker 5: could ask me that people would be interested in.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we've got lots of lots of questions, lots of questions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about I want to hear about the new
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  Speaker 4: show before we get into anything, though. This is I
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  Speaker 4: want to hear about this because this kind of came.
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  Speaker 4: This was a surprise even to me when I when
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  Speaker 4: I saw it on Instagram. I mean, You've been obviously
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  Speaker 4: in the country music community for a long time, but
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  Speaker 4: it was one of those moments where I was like,
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  Speaker 4: wait a minute, back back to NC, hold on, back
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  Speaker 4: to MC. I was so fired up, man, can you
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  Speaker 4: tell us a little about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back to living like I did with Bob.
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  Speaker 5: This is where I sleep, It is my sister's couts,
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  Speaker 5: this is my sister's house. Luckily, my brother in law
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  Speaker 5: treats me like I'm his brother and has accepted me.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, I heart offered me a job in Charlotte,
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  Speaker 5: North Carolina to be the new morning show host, and
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  Speaker 5: so I have accepted that opportunity. And there's some some
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: interesting things going on already that it had started off
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  Speaker 5: really well. So it's been I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Very blessed very luck.
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  Speaker 5: Bob was a part of my I was landscaping when
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  Speaker 5: I got the call to do country music in LA
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  Speaker 5: I was living on bob scouch and he bought me
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  Speaker 5: my first pair of headphones.
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  Speaker 2: So that's right.
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  Speaker 5: So Bob has done a multitude of things for me
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  Speaker 5: in my life, one of which I don't even know
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  Speaker 5: if he knows this the first breakup that I went
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  Speaker 5: through that almost killed me and ended up how I
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  Speaker 5: got on The Bachelor at I went to Bob's house
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  Speaker 5: the next day and he paid five hundred dollars out
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  Speaker 5: of his own pocket, never asked me for a dollar
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  Speaker 5: of it back, to pay for me to go to
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: Marquy Costello's hosting class because he thought that I would
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  Speaker 5: make a good host. He paid for that out of
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  Speaker 5: his pocket and never once asked me for one die.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have a dime to my name, got me
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  Speaker 5: into the class, paid for it himself, and this was
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  Speaker 5: before we were friends, so he knew. He knew what
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  Speaker 5: I was going through. He was familiar with my ex
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  Speaker 5: girlfriend because she was a co star of his. I
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  Speaker 5: think they were still together at the time, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, you know, he said, hey, look I think
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  Speaker 5: you would be great at this. I've already paid for it.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a question. I want you to go do it.
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  Speaker 5: And it was like the day after I was going
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  Speaker 5: through a breakup. So it was a great distraction. And
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  Speaker 5: so Bob has has definitely had a heavy hand at
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  Speaker 5: whatever small amount of success that I've had in the
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  Speaker 5: hosting world. Obviously we all know Bob's a very talented host.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm gratefully appreciative of that support.
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  Speaker 2: I love you, brother. Well still still owed me for
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  Speaker 2: the beer bro the beer Imo today for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I actually I actually took that Mrquy Costello
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  Speaker 3: class too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember you take that She's I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: guys crushed it. Me.
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  Speaker 5: I was in there a shell, just like, oh man,
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  Speaker 5: she's not.
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  Speaker 2: She's tough.
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  Speaker 1: She's she's tough for sure.
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  Speaker 2: This story what oh no, I said? She do you know?
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  Speaker 2: She was related?
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  Speaker 4: Like the reason why she is who she is was
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  Speaker 4: her great great grandfather or whatever was Costello of Abbot
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  Speaker 4: and Costello.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that at some point, but it has lost
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  Speaker 1: my brain.
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  Speaker 5: Like family also, Trista, before before you ever met me,
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  Speaker 5: you were very very kind, and my family.
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  Speaker 2: Has always loved you. You were very kind to me
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  Speaker 2: on my first season.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember, you said some very
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  Speaker 5: nice things about me. You had never met me, and
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  Speaker 5: hopefully over the years those things have proven to be true,
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  Speaker 5: and I would like to think they are. But you
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  Speaker 5: were fresh out of the gate. You were very complimentary
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  Speaker 5: and very supportive of my time on the first show.
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  Speaker 1: But I love that your family too.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: I love that's actually something so sweet about this whole
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: like Bachelor Nation thing is just meeting people's families, like
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: Caitlin Bristow just posted her sister's birthdays today and I
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: wish your happy birthday, like I've met her a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times.
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  Speaker 1: Like It's just, you know, such.
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  Speaker 3: A small world and just love everyone's family. So tell
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  Speaker 3: him hip.
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  Speaker 1: So you mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of the reason that you went on the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard the story.
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  Speaker 3: I just heard about this story, and we want to
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  Speaker 3: confirm that what I heard is the truth. Yes, of course,
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  Speaker 3: not the one who shared his couch. No, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he knows this story, but we would love the rest
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  Speaker 3: of us to hear the whole story. You can mention names,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, but yes, we we hear.
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  Speaker 2: That is it long enough that everything is public knowledge?
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  Speaker 2: Now is everything? Because for a.
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  Speaker 1: Long time it is.
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  Speaker 2: For a long time, I was asked to keep this
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  Speaker 2: under wraps.
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  Speaker 5: And again my side of this story is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: most people were going to be like, there's no way
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  Speaker 5: it's out that's too outland, there's no way that happened
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  Speaker 5: for real.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, what did you hear? And I'll confirm it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you all the details so people don't think, oh, well,
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  Speaker 5: this guy's just offering up whatever his weird version is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So the girl that you mentioned maybe having your
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  Speaker 3: heart broken by Krystles, Yes, Krishelle from selling Sunset and
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  Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars and all the other things. And
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  Speaker 3: the rumor is that she was going to be the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys had broken up and you actually actually
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  Speaker 3: signed up for the Bachelorette because you heard that she
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  Speaker 3: was going to be on the Okay, that's not correct. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so then tell us what is the true story between you,
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  Speaker 3: Krischelle and the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, first of all, if Chrischelle ever sees this one,
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  Speaker 5: you're the best And I am so happy for she's
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: happily married, and yes, Bob knows this as well as
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  Speaker 5: anybody you know. Incredibly hard worker and when I say
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  Speaker 5: a self made human being. We don't have the greatest
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: relationship right now and maybe one day, maybe never, but
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: I'm only proud of that in that sometimes when you
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: love really hard, the breakup's really hard. And so I
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: think we I don't think she would mind me saying
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: that we were young love and Bob got a chance
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: to spend time with us, and our relationship fully existed
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: outside the parameters of real life. Like we didn't think
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: about future, we didn't think about money, we didn't think
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: about All we thought about was, man, I can't wait
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: for my day to be over so I can get.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Back to spend time with this person.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Like I was addicted to her, and I think in
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: some spaces of her life she would. I don't know
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: if she could. She's married, but in this space of
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: her life before she was married, I think she was
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: also falling in that space where I just need this human.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: I need time with this human every day. And so
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: when the breakup happened, it was very messy, and I
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: still have.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Struggles with it because I've never loved someone in that way.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: I've only loved one other person, and I loved that
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: person completely different than the way I loved Rachelle. So
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: we were dating, and Krishelle had gone through something very hard.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: She had gone through a broken engagement and those things
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: I can imagine, you know, that relationship probably took its
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: toll on her. So she didn't want anything serious. So
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: when we started dating, it was like in group settings.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: She was actually set up to be with one of
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: my friends. Ended up taking a liking to me, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: we just started spending time together. And so on December seventh,
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: this is not going to paint a pretty picture of me,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: but I'm going to give you the.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Accurate account of what happened.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: It was my birthday, and Bob knows my best friend
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: from home how and his nickname is Hurricane How and
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: when alcohol gets involved, like just anything, it was crazy
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: New York City. So we went out and they took me.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Out for my birthday. And I'm not a big drinker,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Bob and I would have the occasional cocktail and play
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Madden at home home or something, but I played sports
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: and just alcohol was not really a big thing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Of my life.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I did abuse alcohol after the breakup of Croschelle because
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't know how to deal with how hard I
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: was taking it.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: That was really challenging for me.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: But I got into a bar fight that night and
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: somebody was like aggressive with Koshelle did not know we
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: were together. I saw it from across the room. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: took extreme exception to it, and I'm not proud of it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Anybody watching this, please, I don't condone violence. I mishandled it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I was at a position where it was not the
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: right thing to do. But anyone that puts their hands
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: on someone that I'm with, I've never been afraid to
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: address that, and so it was bad.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: They drug me out of there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: I've also been drug out of it after party for
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: smacking somebody at Bachelor that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You can look that up on CMZ. So I Bob
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Bob loves that one.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: We're going to tell that story after it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: They touched me first. That's why I didn't get in trouble.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: They touched me first, and I did tell them what
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: was going to happen if they put their hands on me,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: and we fulfilled that agreement. So so anyway, long story short,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Chrishelle's like, hey, listen, I can't be with someone that
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: reacts that way. And I was like, you're You're totally correct,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: like you know what, you know, it's heartbreaking, but I
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: totally understand. So we had a very mature conversation on
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: like December eleventh. It was like four days she didn't
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: talk to me after my birthday and then we talked. Well,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: a little bit of time goes by and she kept
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: like checking in, Hey, just you know, want to see
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: how you're doing. And you know, I had it bad
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: for her, and so I was like, I'm doing I'm
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: doing good. You know, is the agreement off? Like are
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: we still hanging? And she told me she came to
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: me and said, hey, listen, I can't. I don't want
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: you to hear I was I misrepresented why I wanted
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: to break up or I wanted to stop spending time.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: I said, Okay, what's going on? She said that I
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: have the opportunity to be the bachelorette because the Bachelor
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: had approached her. The franchise had approached her after hearing
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: you know, she was on an ABC show. He had
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: been through a broken engagement and they wanted to pursue
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: her to be the bachelorette, and she felt at the
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: time that it was the best opportunity for her, and
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: she was like, you know, I care about you, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I don't want you to beat yourself up about what
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: happened on your birthday because you know that wasn't cool.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: But I wouldn't you know, that wouldn't change the way
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I feel about you, because you were trying to stick
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: up for me and I appreciated it, and I was.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: I was hurt and heartbroken, but for myself, not for her.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Like we had a great talk. I wished her well
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: and I think I handled it as well as you could.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: And then I went on to live and live my
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: life like I you know, was struggling, but you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I was in my late twenties and living in New
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: York City and I was I was a bartender in
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Times Square, so I was meeting a lot of people.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: I lived with my best friend from college, like I
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: had a great support system around me to like, all right,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: well we're going to get through.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: This, like it's okay.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: And so fast forward to like into January, something happened
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: and they gave the show to Deanna, so Chrishelle reached
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: back out to me and said, you know, some things
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: are changing. I don't know if I'm going to la anymore,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: and you know, if you're up for it, I'd love
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: to continue to spend time. And I was hesitant because,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: like I, it was really hard on me the first time,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: like stepping away, and so we did.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Then my grandfather passed.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Away unfortunately, and he died on February tenth, and I
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: flew home, and to Chrischelle's credit, this was my dad's
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: like my hero, and so it was the first time
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I ever had to see my father in a compromise
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: position where he needed a little bit of support. My
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: dad usually handles everything. He's a dressed, lose winding marine
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: and like just the toughest dude I know. And so
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I leaned on Forrschelle. I kind of did some adult
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: things when it comes to the funeral and the services
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: and the presentation of my grandfather and took some things
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: off my dad's plate. But the person that I leaned
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: on was Forschelle And so when I came back, I
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: flew back to surprise her on Valentine's Day because the
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: funeral was on the thirteenth, So I didn't tell her
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I was going to come back and surprise her. Well,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: she had plans, and that was that was really hard
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: on me because I had in my mind, I was
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: thinking we were somewhere else, and that's on me. She
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: never promised me anything. She was being a supportive person
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: in my life. But when you have plans on Valentine's Day,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: you know, as a guy who just lost his grandfather,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: who was the closest person to me that I'd ever lost,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I went right to the bar that I worked at
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: with my best friend from college and indulged myself. And
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: so I think by midnight, now it's Valentine's Day. By midnight,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I had no shirt on one. I'm super poor. So
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I was shredded out of my mind. Like if anybody
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: remembers what I look like on that season, it wasn't
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: because I was a workout feed. It was like I
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: had no money and I was living on like salads
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: and like sandwich Deli sandwich me.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: You know, I was a poor kid right out of college.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: So someone came up to me and was like, Hey,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: if you can pass a blood test.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I put you on TV next week. I'm like what
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: And I thought it was a joke, Like I was like,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: no way.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: And they told me what the show was, and I
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: first I was like, no way, that can't be real,
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: like someone setting me up, someone that I've told at
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: the bar, like all the girl that I.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Wanted, she's going off to do this show.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: So because I couldn't believe that that would actually happen,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Like what are the odds of that? You know, I
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: didn't apply. I didn't I didn't look for it. Someone
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: just came up to me in the bar that I
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: worked at and was like, this guy looks like a
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: complete he'd be great.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: You know this guy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: This guy's walking around holding a bottle of Maker's Mark,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: just talking to every girl in here with no shirt on.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Like we got to get him on the show. This
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: dude was built for this show.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Like we we are getting green lit for a decade
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: with this guy, Like here's the originator of the spin
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: off walking around the bar right now. So they called back,
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: and honestly it was my parents they reached out to me,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: and I think maybe my friend from home that was
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: living with me. It kind of shared, Hey, I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: know if Graham is handling everything.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So well, and so.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: They encouraged me to go. They're like, hey, listen, this
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: get you out of your bubble. Like you get away
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: from New York, maybe you meet a nice girl.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Granted they showed me that night, they showed me a
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: picture of Deanna, so I knew it wasn't Krishelle. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: had a little headshot of her, and they're like, hey,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: if you think this girl's attractive and you'd like to
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: meet her, we'll put you on TV in a week.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: I mean I showed up with like a like a
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: carry on in a book bag, like I didn't have anything.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: But yeah, so Chrishelle originally was supposed to do the show,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: and then I ended up on it, and it probably
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: wasn't fair to Deanna because I was a mess I had,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: you know, I was still heartbroken and I felt like
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: our relationship ended for reasons that weren't that wasn't me,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: you know. And then my one of my best friends dies,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: is someone I had never dealt with that, and now
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I find myself drinking and I've never done that before.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: So it just it was it was a wild like
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I couldn't I couldn't understand what was happening, and like
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: the first week I was there. I don't know if
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: anybody knows this. I don't think I've ever told Bob
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: of this. One of the pas on set for the
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: show walks up to me and goes, hey, I know
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: who you are. I'm like, great, I've been here a week.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: You're not very good at your job.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: There's only ten of us.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: I know, I'm not crazy memorable, but I'm still here.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Like fifteen of those dudes went whole night one. So
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: he was like, no, I guess he was a PA
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: on Dancing with the Stars when Cameron Matheson was on,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: and he was like, so, Chrishelle, her his co star,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: would come to the showings and talk about you all
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: the time. So that was on set and he was like, so,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: what's the deal there? And I was like, there is
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: no deal. I don't I mean, I don't know, like
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about. So like and again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: I didn't know anything about TV shows. I didn't know
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: about anything. I was just there like am I a
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: fraud or am I doing the wrong thing? Or should
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I leave? Like every day it was like should I leave?
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: You know, like am I hurting someone? So everyone looks
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: at that show, and like, man, you didn't talk much
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: or you didn't do much, And I was trying to
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: be as authentic of a person, Like I didn't want
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: to act for the show.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't want.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: To act for Deanna and act like I was madly
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: in love. I was trying to figure out myself. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: was trying to respect her as a person because I
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: love Deanna. I'm still close with Deanna. I wish the
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: best for her, and I think that she's she respects
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: me and that I never lied to her. I did
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: my best in the hand that I was dealt. I mean,
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: that was a while scenario to think of, because that
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I hear all these crazy stories that people want to
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: get on this show so bad, and it's such a
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: wonderful opportunity, and like it was just surrounding my life.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: You know, yeah, it was meant to I had to
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: lie for years. I was you know, I taught to
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: my parents after they met her, and you know, my
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: parents didn't want me to go to the fantasy suites
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: if I wasn't gonna pursue her or be in love
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: or ask her to marry me. So I asked to
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: leave the show, and then I had to pretend like
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I got kicked off the show, and it was just
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: really confusing and then live for years about it, and
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: nobody knew about Herschelle's part, and it was just a weird,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: yeah thing, you know, for someone who's like average Joe regular,
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: you know, like like.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: This whole I thought a lot of credit to you, though,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: because you and Deanna created a really nice friendship too.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: After the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I went to her wedding,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: I I know that it's it's a challenging time for
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: her right now from from what I've heard, but I
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: will always support her, always love her. She's always been
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: crazy con Even when she found out some of the
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: backstory of this, she reached out and she couldn't have
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: been more supportive, and like, hey, I value who you
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: are as a person. You've continued to be a steadfast,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: you know, constant in my life, you know, and I
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: appreciate that. And I think some people go on the
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: show and it's okay with motives to continue certain roads
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: and paths, And for me, I've always just tried to
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: make sure that whatever I do, whether it's being filmed
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: or not filmed, that I'm the same person, and I
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: stay true to who I am as a person and
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: never kind of used that. Like when I left the show,
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: I didn't. I know, I did some spinoff years later,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: but I didn't blog about it. I didn't, you know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: I didn't ever try to use the franchise for anything
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: other than it was a wonderful opportunity experience to meet
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: like really cool people.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, So wait, you mentioned that you had
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: to lie for years? What were what what were you
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: lying about? Just I got a little confused there.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: We set up that she sent me home.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so the produce I wanted to.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Make sure I protected her. I was like, hey, look,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: I'm going home whether you you know, no matter what happens,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I'm not coming back tomorrow. So tonight at the Rose ceremony,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: you know, let her know, because it was it was
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: presented to me that she that they really wanted her
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: to get a proposal. You know, she had been through
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: a lot with the season before and I can't remember
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: her handler's name, and I was say, well, I'm not
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: going to propose, and I've talked to my parents about it,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: and I don't want to get in the way of something.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: That is really important to her.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: So just let her know I won't be coming back,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: and if she wants me to excuse myself, I will,
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: But if she wants to send me, so maybe it's
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: a little bit easier on her, you know, just let
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: her know, just don't pick me, and I'll go home
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: quietly and I won't I won't talk about it, which
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: and I didn't.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: For years, which I think is cool too, because I
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: often thought, you know, we've we've seen it when they
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: do the season and they'll be like, you know, the
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: line up for the rose ceremony up before you get started,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I'm out of here, you know, and it's such a
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: grand stand moment.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And I always the fact that you.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Didn't, you didn't, you made it the complete opposite of
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: a grand stand bowed out gracefully, and I think that's
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: that's a very gentlemanly way to handle that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: And I think that that was says a lot about
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: your character too, you know, which I love. I appreciate it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, I have a small ego. Hopefully I keep
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: it in check. But like so for years I was like, yeah, yeah,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: and then people you know, you know, for years to
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: come out you got dope, don't television.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, yeah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I did by myself.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: That was And then like honestly, I'm talking a bomb
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: about this. Uh.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: ABC found out like the whole backstory because Chrishelle and
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: I uh picked it back up when I got home
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: a couple of months later, and you know, communicated and
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: and again, I was living in New York in the
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: in the soap world. We had mutual friends, so we
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: would run into each other a lot, and we started
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: kind of hanging out and communicating. And ABC flew to
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: New York to our apartment we had moved in together
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: six months seven months later, and filmed a special with
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: us about it. Yeah, and I've never seen it. I'm like,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: never seen a last day of that. Yeah, like what
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: happened to that?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It was a special just about you and Chrischelle or
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: was going to it was going to be.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Part of Oh I don't know that you would have
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: to talk to now, but they're like they spent a
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: whole day filming with us, and like the streets in
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: New York and our story, interviewing her, interviewing interviewing us
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: to get you know what I bet it was.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Remember that.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: It was like it was like a follow up they
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: would do like a follow.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Us one twenty twenty special or the six evenus. I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: can't remember. I think it was a twenty twenty special
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: they did a few years later.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And I'll bet you that's it was going to be
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: part of that somehow, some way, I'll bet you because
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I remember that, and I remember that that segment, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: that was definitely ABC. That wasn't the Bachelor producers that
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: were doing it. It was ABC, not you know what
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: So I bet you that's what it was. No, I was,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: it was Elon Gale, so he worked.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Okay to say they actually did on the show.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: They would do like just catch up, you know, catch
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: up with people.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I remember that. But anyway, they also were like, yo,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that's wild, Like how in the world did that happen? So, yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: it's crazy.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: I would love to know all the things that have
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: ended up on cutting room floors that like that. So
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: none of us even know about, Like we had no
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: idea that you and Krishelle were living together and you
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: know they were doing It's so crazy how much lage
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: is on the cutting room floor. Okay, so you're still single.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I assume, would you ever go on the show again?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: You've been on Bachelor in Paradise once, would you do
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: it again?
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: What's the what's the paycheck? Looked like I would hope.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I'm in Bob's world now I'm in the hosting world.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Come on, buddy, you got a gig now if they
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: let me be the main person like you two, like
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: you got you know, I never got to choose. I
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: never got hey, I've never gotten to choose.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Like I'm recommending it, I'm gonna I'm gonna create a
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: ground swell for this and make sure we get you
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: back on that show.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I think that would be awesome.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Hey, at this point, at this point, I'm not against it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you. I just got out of
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: a relationship that was long distance, which I was bragging
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: to Bob. I wanted I wanted to uh stoping in Michigan.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: She she lived in Canada and that was challenging. So
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: like I've I've definitely nothing like the two relationships that that.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, I have a hard time letting people in
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: once I do, like, it's it's full go. And Chrishelle
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: was the young love and the next young Lady Bob
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: also knows very very well.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: We have a.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Wonderful relationship as far as uh supportive and kind, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: she'll be someone that would reach out and say, hey,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I saw you got a new job, and I'm just
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: so proud of you, like just Falter the earth amazing
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: human being.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: But that one also almost killed me.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: So hey, I don't know how it's gonna happen or
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: if it's gonna happen, but I'm not turning away any
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: any any help.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: So if you guys know some people, let your boy know.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I said with Canyon, it's either three strikes you're out
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: or third times a charm, you know. So it's uh,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: thankfully we got we got it right on the third
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: time around. There you go. I think we're waiting for it, buddy,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: it's coming right. It sounds good. If you guys think
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: there's a hope for me, then I'll believe you.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: There's always help for there's always that's right, that's right.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And there are other shows, you know, like I don't know,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Special Forces, like Got to Get Out.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I think the Traders, which Chris was on.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I've actually been approached by Traders, I have. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: they were very kind. It was like a month before
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: I got this job, so I don't know how that affect.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, the people that do Traders also, they were
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: part of the executive team that launched the show that
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: I hosted that was on NBC. So some of that
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: team over at NBC Universal works on that show as well,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: and they also in the meeting were made aware of
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: my relationship with Chrischelle and.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: They're like, wait a minute. I was like, I want
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: to do something that's not predicated on Chrschelle.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: She's obviously incredibly successful and in her own right, and
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: part of me also hopes that I can do some
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: things with my life in a way where she was.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Like, all right, well he's doing it. He's doing good.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: He's doing good. Man. I think this new show is
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: so great. First of all, you know what a lot
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: of people might not know.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, you were you were so ingrained in the
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: country music community after obviously a big country one of five,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: and then you went off into your show.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I mean with gosh, who was on that show with you?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Had?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Uh the guy that I played the gig with that
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I love. I can't I was gonna say Conway Twitty,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: but I know that's not his name, Travis Tripp. Travis Tripp,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: thank you. And I met him at the Derby a
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: few times and we would sit there and.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Talk about you, and he just loves you, absolutely loves you,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: you know, and then you you obviously for all these years,
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've been getting really close with a lot
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: of the community doing your Amazon show and everything else.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: So I mean, you've been doing so much, and it's like,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: this is great that first of all, you get to
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: go back home, which I love because I know you
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: love North Carolina and you get to you get to
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: be I think it seems like you and your co
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: host have a great chemistry with one another.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: And yeah, she's awesome. She's an incredible human and so
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: much fun and one of the hardest workers I know.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: I think we could build something pretty special. There's things
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: floating around about what could happen with the show. So
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm very blessed and very lucky. And yeah, I mean,
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: outside of outside of my love life, I'm crushing it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: You boys was fire.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe we need to bring Trista in on this sooner,
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: you because Trista is very connected.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, a lot of ladies love trista man.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: They her about their woes and their whimsical thoughts, and
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: now she's got a guy to plug into this stuff.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they do, they do, they do. And then
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: on the show, I've heard it, I've heard. Well.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you, man. I love I love
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: seeing you so, I love seeing you happy, I love
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: seeing you so busy. I love seeing you back. I'm
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: sure I happen to know that Karen Bunn is very happy.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I am sure was very happy. She watches everything and
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: she loves Bob.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: So, Mom, I'm just so happy that you get to
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: be home because I know, I know what it meant
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: to me to move back home to Michigan and be
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: closer to my mom and dad and and and be
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: there for you know.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Some stuff and.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Not have to regret have regret, you know, And so
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: that as our as our families get older, it's nice
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: to kind of be a little more of a proximity.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: And I think knowing you the way I do, and
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: knowing where your heart is, I knew that that was
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: when I saw that. I'm like, oh man, this is
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: this is the way it should be, you know, and
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: it's it's great.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: So I'm so happy for you, and I'm happy that
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: you're my O G guy on the show and that
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: we can talk about all this great stuff.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, I appreciate it. I mean it was a
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: long ago. I was painting your buddy's fence in his
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: backyard for three hundred bucks.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, man, I'll never forget that as long
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: as I live. Oh, Graham does a nice so with
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: great like he said, if he if he's in, he's
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: all in. And he did such an amazing job on
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: this buddy, a mutual friend of ours, fence and he
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: was doing it, as you know, out of kindness.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But the guy said, I'm going to hire this job
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: out unless you want to do it. Graham's like, I'll
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: do it. Graham sands it down.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Graham buys all these tools, all this special stuff, does
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: an amazing job.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a big ass fence. This fence
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was this yard had a giant pull in the back.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: I mean it was seven it was seventy yards because
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: it wrapped around it was seventy yards.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: I hand sanded it. I sanded it with my hands.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: And you only got paid three hundred dollars.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And I spent four hundred on the on the supplies.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: No, no, that is bad business. Grandbund.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: You can tell me what he's gonna pay me. He
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: was like, he was like, i'll pay you, and I
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: was like, okay. So I went out and bought the supplies.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: And the funny thing was, so here's the kicker, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: then I'll stop talking and you.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Guys can hang up on me.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: We Bob and I have a friend that runs a
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: construction company and this guy hauls him and goes, hey, man,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I got this fence out back, and I'm gonna have
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: one of my buddies do it. I don't really know
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: what to pay him. What would you pay one of
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: your guys? And our buddy looks at him and says,
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: because he tells us this story later, he goes, yeah,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I told him I paid about six hundred and fifty
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: seven hundred dollars, but I you know, I wouldn't even
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: make him send it. And then goes, what do you
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: pay you? I said, I sanded it, and he paid
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: me three hundred four hundred less than he was told
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: to without sanding it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't pay for the supplies or anything.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: No, I lost some money on the gig those guys
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: when I'm partying in l A. I stayed home thinking
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: like I'm supposed to be working, like I shouldn't be partying.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I'm standing in this fence and I ended up it
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: was it was one hundred dollars lesson that, Like, you
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: know what, I gotta get a I gotta get a
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: radio job. Oh my god, this is it's funny because
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: it's so true. So what do you pay you? So
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: what do you pay? You pay you a thousand? I
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: maybe three hundred bucks. Yeah, grahams just like.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: But you know, Graham's the type of guy too. Though
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: he didn't even he didn't like count it all for him.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: He handed it to him like he man, thank you
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: so much for your hard work. And Graham, yeah, Graham.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Puts it in his pocket. You know it looks at
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: it later. Yea God of telling me, well.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: We're very happy for this next phase for you and
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: the new show and being with your family.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: The new show is Graham Bycessarily in the Mornings, ninety
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: six point ninety the Cat.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: It's on iHeart Country.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Obviously, it's already a huge hit and it's just going
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: to be exploding into your ears much.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I can't wait, I mean with all the people, you know.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, man, you've become.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Such good friends with so many of the country stars
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: over the years, and you know, I do want to
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: end with this really quickly. So Graham Canyon and I
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: had moved to Seattle and it was our wedding anniversary weekend,
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: and she surprised me unannounced with a trip and we
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: fly into la and she's got a car rented and
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: I get in the car and she drives me and
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: we go to Laguna Beach to this beautiful hotel and
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't she surprised me with all of it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: And I hear when I feel like, sounds like live
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: music out there somewhere, and I look down over the
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: edge of this hotel and I look on the beach
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: and there's this huge country well I didn't.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Know this country at the time. There's a huge concert
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: going on. I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: So I text Graham and I'm like, you know, hey, man,
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: what you up too. He's like, oh, you know, I'm
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: working or whatever. So I get down and he doesn't
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: tell me where he's working. So I get down to
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: this concert. We decided to go inside the concert and
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I see I see with you know, Mornings with Graham,
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: his radio show at the time, all over this place.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what is going on?
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: And so I'm texting him like hey, look at this,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: and he's like, where are you. I'm like, I'm outside, man,
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: I'm at this show. He's like, I'm backstage. So he
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: comes out, he gets me go backstage. It was it
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: was one of those moments. It was like so serendipitous, right,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: like you don't even plan it. I didn't even know
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I was going to California. I end up running with
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: best buddies there hosting the whole thing, and I'm just like,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: oh my god.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: You know, it's like just and you were so kind
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: to us, buddy, and it was such a great trip.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: And Canyon loves you so much.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: And like I said, we give we give Graham all
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: the credit for for us being where we are today
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: and and and it was one of those things that
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: was like to get to spend time with them unexpectedly
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: and and to see you there.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: But that's that's the kind of the warmth and and
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: the kind.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Of love that you radiate everywhere you go, and I'm
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: sure the folks in North Carolina, you know who, who
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: maybe didn't know you when you were there before and
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: know you now are going to just fall in love
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: with you, brother. And I'm excited for the show and
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: excited to see all the successes come in your way.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. And if things don't work out with Canyon,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: holler at me. Yeah, welcome down my hands.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: I haven't had someone say such nice things in a
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: long time, man, at least sweet nothings.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Brother, I'm not even whispered. I'm yelling them my microphone.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I'm just thank you for, you know, just putting up
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: with us. I appreciate it. I love you, brother, we love.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Having you on, We love having you, and we're so
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: excited for your new show and all the good things
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: that are going to be coming up in your future.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, HARVESD season, you guys, throw some prayers out there.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Nice young lady, you know what I mean.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: There you go, lady, I'm manifesting. I'm manifesting. Yeah, put
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: it on your vision boards.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Let's get this. He handled vision board.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: No, it's all up here. I forget everything up here.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll put it right now. Awesome. Well, thank
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: you for having me, guys. I appreciate it. Hopefully it
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't too boring.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: It was great, man, stop it a thanks for coming.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: We'll lockhorns on that game and we'll get the lines
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: and Commanders tipping off.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: We'll get it done. I'll give us last time in
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: real world. Look, get you next time. I did not
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: text you. I did not text you after that. No,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: you do not thank you.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I literally sat there like I think I told you
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: the story when I texted you the next day.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: But my son, so Graham, obviously, he has always.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Been a big you know, he was a big Redskins
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: Commanders fan, and he knows of my love for the Lions.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: And this year in the playoffs, the Lions beat I'm sorry,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: the Commanders beat the Lions, and uh and the next
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: and I was I may have shed a couple of
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: tears that night. And I didn't get any text. I
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: didn't get anybody, you know. The next day, I have
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: to go to my six year old son's flag football game.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: He plays for the Washington Commanders, that was his team name,
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: and he ends up running a touchdown all the way
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: to length of field, and I text Graham I'm like,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: this is the second time I've cried over the commanders
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: in two days.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: I was finally ready to talk about it. It's great,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: it's great. Cut I love you, buddy, take care of me.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining GM. Graham bun Man, Salt of the Earth.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: That's my guy, right there is any something?
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: He is one of the good ones. Yeah, yeah, he is.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And it's always so shocking to me that he is
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: still single.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: You know, like obviously he's had some serious relationships but
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: that didn't work out. But ladies, if you are in
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: North Carolina, you better go DM this guy because he.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Is one of the good ones.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: He really is. Man, he absolutely is, and I will
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: tell you.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: I mean I live with him. We lived together for
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: a couple of years. And very courteous, very kind, very respectful,
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: you know. I mean, his parents raise him right. They
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: are wonderful people. And it's just you know, you see
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: somebody like that and you're like, man, okay, sooner or
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: later they're going to find that right person, you know,
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: and I know he will. He'll be a great dad
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: if he ever decides to do that. I mean, he's
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, you just see him with people's kids. He's
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: like such a sweet and kind person. He's a man
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: of faith. I mean, he's just a lot of good
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: stuff with that guy. So I wish him the very
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: best in the Mornings with Sarah or with Graham B
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: and Sarah Lee. I can't wait to have people. I
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: have a feeling that show is going to be a
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: lot bigger than and just North Carolina soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my hope anyway, that's my hope for him.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so much fun.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I love it all right, Who are we going to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: have on next? People? You guys have many ideas.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Just dm us and let us know if you want
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: to have anyone in particular on the show, and we'd
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: be happy to accommodate and get to chat with you again.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: I would love it as always, great talking to you, Trista,
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  Speaker 4: great talking with everybody out there in the OG community.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: We love you guys, Thanks for listening, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back soon.
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  Speaker 1: He's out.