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A Q&A with Ben! · 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: Hey guys, it's the Almost Famous podcast. Uh, it's producer
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  Speaker 2: Heather And I'm pretty excited because last week I got
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  Speaker 2: to do a Q and A with Ashley, So today
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  Speaker 2: I get to do one with Ben and get to
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  Speaker 2: know Ben on a different level, because that's what I
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  Speaker 2: was saying all about it with Ashley last week.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, this has been so fun. Now
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  Speaker 3: I need to do one with Ben.
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  Speaker 2: So we put it up on our socials for you
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  Speaker 2: guys to ask some questions and we're gonna dive into this.
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  Speaker 2: So first one is from j Gomez Double seven. I
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  Speaker 2: like that handle. They said, when will we see him
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  Speaker 2: back on our TV screens?
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  Speaker 4: That's a great question. I don't know one I'd have
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  Speaker 4: to be asked. Wait, Ben, I think I can. Do
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  Speaker 4: you have something that I do? Show?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, tell them about it.
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  Speaker 4: So I am getting ready here goodness, in like two
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  Speaker 4: weeks to leave to film a show I'm hosting that
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  Speaker 4: is called I Do and it's a wedding show. I'm
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  Speaker 4: very excited for it. It's destination weddings and so either
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  Speaker 4: Valori Nules or couples getting married in a destination. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of their dream wedding where you're looking for couples
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  Speaker 4: who maybe wouldn't have this opportunity or are looking to
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  Speaker 4: get married kind of in a tight timeline. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to follow their journey. I'm planning this destination wedding on
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  Speaker 4: their families, joining them on what it takes, what it
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  Speaker 4: looks like in some of the most incredible places around
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  Speaker 4: the US, so within this hemisphere.
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  Speaker 5: So we're.
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  Speaker 4: Getting ready to pack up and travel. I will be
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  Speaker 4: hosting that. I do feel like that's a great fit
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 3: I do too. A question, is casting still open for
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  Speaker 3: this project?
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  Speaker 4: You know, yeah it is, the first few locations have
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  Speaker 4: been filled, but if it goes well, we'll kind of
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  Speaker 4: just keep this going throughout the year and do new
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  Speaker 4: locations and other locations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's put some stuff up on our socials, so
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  Speaker 2: if people are listening and this is for.
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  Speaker 4: That, awesome, Yeah, let's do it. We Actually tomorrow I
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  Speaker 4: have my first call with the couples that are getting married.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to zoom with them and just meet
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  Speaker 4: them so that the weirdness of hey, I'm hosting this
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  Speaker 4: show and showing up to your wedding and you don't
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  Speaker 4: know me is gone. I'm hoping we build a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of relationship beforehand. So yeah, let's post some stuff
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  Speaker 4: on our socials.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's cute. I think it's cute.
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  Speaker 2: You being on another like iteration of a love show
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  Speaker 2: to me does feel very apropos in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, for me to be on TV you want,
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  Speaker 4: it has to be right. I'm not leaving my family
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  Speaker 4: for any just any opportunity. You know, there's some reality
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  Speaker 4: shows out there that I would definitely consider and probably
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  Speaker 4: say yes to if I was asked, just because of
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  Speaker 4: the commitment, the benefits of the kind of the quality
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  Speaker 4: of them, I think. But for the most part, so
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  Speaker 4: much of my life is now spent promoting other things
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  Speaker 4: outside of my own television career, which is great. I'd
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  Speaker 4: be so happy about that too.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't wait to see that. Next question is
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  Speaker 2: from Alexia. They say, what book are you currently reading
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  Speaker 2: or the last book you read?
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  Speaker 4: Oh goodness, that's a great question, Alexia. Thank you for asking.
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  Speaker 4: I'm reading a lot right now. I'm listening and reading.
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  Speaker 4: So let me be clear. Because I walk my dog
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  Speaker 4: so much and I usually strap my daughter onto the
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  Speaker 4: front of me to give Jess a little break. I'm
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  Speaker 4: listening and then I also read, so not to be
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  Speaker 4: too weird here for anybody. I am committing this year
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  Speaker 4: to read the Bible, and so that is one book
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  Speaker 4: that I am reading. It's been a bit since I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna actually sit down, plug through the chapters, investigate.
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  Speaker 4: I just finished the Lonesome Dove series. That was one
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  Speaker 4: of my favorite series I've ever dove into.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, what's that about? Who's it bye?
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  Speaker 4: It's an old Western series. It talks about kind of
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  Speaker 4: follows two friends who navigate life together through the West,
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  Speaker 4: their interactions with each other, with Native Americans, with new
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  Speaker 4: communities and new towns, with there the bars. It's great,
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  Speaker 4: it's old. It was. It's kind of what inspired Taylor
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  Speaker 4: Sheridan to do all of his work. So I dove
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  Speaker 4: into those. I finished all of those Lonesome Dove, all
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  Speaker 4: the way to Streets of Laredo, Comanche Moon. I'm forgetting
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  Speaker 4: the fourth. Now I'm doing Legends of the a Fall,
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  Speaker 4: mostly a classic because I feel like, not really like old,
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  Speaker 4: old classic, but by Jim Harrison. Because everybody talks about it.
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  Speaker 4: But my favorite book as of recent that I read,
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  Speaker 4: never listened to read straight through, is called THEO of
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  Speaker 4: Golden I was going.
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  Speaker 3: To say, you told me about that when we.
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  Speaker 2: Were in Carmel, and it's on my list, and I
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  Speaker 2: saw it at a bookstore and I had to put
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  Speaker 2: it down because I was like, you have too many
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  Speaker 2: on your TBR list, but you will get to it
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  Speaker 2: because Ben suggested it.
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  Speaker 3: So I do want to read that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be clear, and I've kind of been
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  Speaker 4: upset about this, but I'm very happy for the author.
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  Speaker 4: This is the author's only book that he's ever written.
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  Speaker 4: It's now one of It's obviously a New York Times bestseller.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's second or third on the Modern Sales
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  Speaker 4: chart and has been for months now. I told people
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  Speaker 4: to read this like two years ago, like a year
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  Speaker 4: and a half ago. I was I want this is
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  Speaker 4: like one of the only things in my life, Heather,
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  Speaker 4: that I've been in front of and like trendy on.
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  Speaker 4: So I take a lot of prize telling my wife
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  Speaker 4: the last week because she just finished it. She didn't
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  Speaker 4: even listened to me when I told her to read it.
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  Speaker 4: It took it like blowing up for her to read it.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I want you to be no like I know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not like the hippist dude in the world, but
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  Speaker 4: I knew about this before anybody else, and I want
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  Speaker 4: you to remember that when this when everybody starts talking
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  Speaker 4: about it, and she yeah, you know, said.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's kind of how I felt about I read
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  Speaker 2: Hamnett two years ago, and then now it's a movie
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's talking about the movie, and I guess it, like,
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  Speaker 2: really did well. I tempted to watch the movie a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, and I had to turn it
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  Speaker 2: off halfway through. I was like, a little too much
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  Speaker 2: screaming not to experience the screaming when you read the book. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but good book, sad story. If anybody cares about that recommendation.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The next one is from Maria loves icin dream Center. Maria,
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  Speaker 2: you send us so many great questions. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: She says, what do you love about Jess being a mom?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, goodness, you could get me going, going, going.
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  Speaker 4: I think to simplify it and not to say everything,
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  Speaker 4: because it's all wonderful and beautiful. I have seen my
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  Speaker 4: wife becomes so unselfish with her body, her time, her focus,
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  Speaker 4: and do it with such joy. So it's cool for
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  Speaker 4: I think what I mean by this, it's really fun
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  Speaker 4: for me to be inspired by Jessica and see this
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  Speaker 4: joy that comes from caring for Winnie, playing with Winnie,
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  Speaker 4: loving on Winnie. Uh, and see it and see it
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  Speaker 4: in person. I think that's what. It inspires me to
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  Speaker 4: be a better dad. And it inspires me, well, it
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  Speaker 4: encourages me that that kind of love exists in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Like I know she loves me. She said, Hey, let's
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  Speaker 4: do this thing for the rest of our life together.
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  Speaker 4: That's cool and I'm so grateful for it. But there
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  Speaker 4: is a like a sacredness and a spiritualness to the
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  Speaker 4: love that a mom gives a child that words have
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  Speaker 4: a hard time encompassing, but when you witness it daily,
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  Speaker 4: moment by moment, it changes the perspective of life. And
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, that's been really fun, I think. And we
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  Speaker 4: just have a lot of fun together now with Winnie.
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  Speaker 4: There's so much laughter and laying on the floor and
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  Speaker 4: playing with the stupidest little toys and throwing balls at
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  Speaker 4: each other. That's just been a lot of fun for me.
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  Speaker 4: Is it's taken I don't know what I did before,
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  Speaker 4: but it's taken away a lot of the sit on
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  Speaker 4: my phone or sit and watch TV or kind of
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  Speaker 4: that kind of thing, because the joy comes from those
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  Speaker 4: moments where it's like, I don't want to miss this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So as a mom, it's been fun to see us
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  Speaker 4: all kind of come together too.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's great.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not a parent, but all I ever hear
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  Speaker 2: from parents is that it goes by so fast. So
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  Speaker 2: it's good to know that you're just sitting and enjoying.
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  Speaker 4: Bring it in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Kristen asks Ben, do you plan to get any more
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  Speaker 2: tattoos in the future.
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  Speaker 4: I don't plan on it, but I'm not against it.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: My first tattoo, obviously, is a wild story where I
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  Speaker 4: was in college and felt like it was something I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do, and I did it, and I've never
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  Speaker 4: regretted it. It's great. It's a Bible verse, commit to
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  Speaker 4: the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
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  Speaker 4: I also got my ring tattooed on my finger. That
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  Speaker 4: was more medical because I was so scared to wear
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  Speaker 4: a ring. I wanted people to know I was married,
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  Speaker 4: that I was like, I don't want my you know,
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  Speaker 4: to have a ring on somebody tattooed on.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a metal ring or do you have
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  Speaker 3: a rubber ring.
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  Speaker 4: I have a metal ring that was given to me
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  Speaker 4: at the wedding that I wear like on date nights, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes forget to even wait it on date nights. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Jes loves when I wear it. In fact, we have
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  Speaker 4: a date night tomorrow night and I need to remember
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  Speaker 4: to wear this. She she would love that. That'd be
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  Speaker 4: good for me. But the tatto my side's big. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you remember the story, Heather, but I
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  Speaker 4: got it done in college and had it like drawn out,
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  Speaker 4: and I brought it into the guy and I had
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  Speaker 4: it numbered on kind of how I wanted the verse
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  Speaker 4: broken up, like commit to the Lord whatever you do,
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  Speaker 4: and your plans will succeed Proverbs sixteen three. And I
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  Speaker 4: had it spaced out and I had the line number one, two, three,
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  Speaker 4: four on the side. And then when I got home
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  Speaker 4: it kind of wraps around my side.
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  Speaker 3: Here, I have one that wraps around my side too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And my buddy, my roommate, said let me see it,
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  Speaker 4: so I showed him. He goes hey, there's no proverb
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  Speaker 4: sixteen thirty four. And I was like, what do you
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  Speaker 4: mean there's a proverb sixteen thirty four? And he goes
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  Speaker 4: your tattoo says proverb sixteen thirty four, and I freaked out,
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  Speaker 4: And it did it said proverb sixteen thirty four. The
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  Speaker 4: guy had used that. I don't know why he thought.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the line four he included.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, old, So now there's like this massive orthodox cross
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  Speaker 4: covering this four on my side. It's it doesn't really fit.
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  Speaker 4: So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Oh, so wait did he do He had
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  Speaker 2: to have done the temporary purple ink like stamp on
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  Speaker 2: you that you checked in the mirror, because they don't
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  Speaker 2: ever freehand anything.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 3: May I've never been to somebody that free handed. That's
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  Speaker 3: kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't remember necessarily kind of how it played out.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I did not know that it was thirty
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  Speaker 4: four until I got home and showed my roommate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, crazy, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to get another one, do you have
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  Speaker 2: an idea of what it would be or what it
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  Speaker 2: would reference.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it would definitely be. Jessica and I've talked about
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  Speaker 4: getting like a honeypot for Whinnie.
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  Speaker 3: Does Jess have any tattoos?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she loves this. She has this lady in town
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  Speaker 4: here that does like the thin tattoos you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about, like very dainty, very beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I knew about those when I was getting them,
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  Speaker 2: because that probably would have been a better choice for me,
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  Speaker 2: and some of them that I've gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So she has a couple. She has like
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  Speaker 4: an ode to her grandfather. She had his hat like
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  Speaker 4: tattooed on her wrist. She has her brothers and her
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  Speaker 4: got a matching like tattoo together. She has some fun
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  Speaker 4: ones that she just gets, but they're all very dainty
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  Speaker 4: and you really wouldn't tell. They're kind of all around
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  Speaker 4: her wrisk areas. There's really nowhere else.
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  Speaker 3: Cool, well interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie asks after your season and the engagement was called off,
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  Speaker 2: did any of the women from your season try to
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  Speaker 2: shoot their shot with you again?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: I think they. I think they said, hey, we we
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  Speaker 4: got lucky when we weren't chosen.
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  Speaker 2: It's been I actually am flabbergacid that you said no,
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like that is so common with the dating.
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  Speaker 3: Shows, especially too in the Bachelor Universe.
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  Speaker 2: We see people not just in Paradise, but we see
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  Speaker 2: people get together with other people, you know, after their
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  Speaker 2: time on the show.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they could pilot Pete.
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  Speaker 4: That's good point. Yeah, he's at he dated his whole
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  Speaker 4: season exactly. Yeah, that is actually impressive. I haven't thought
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  Speaker 4: about that, but he has like dated a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the girls that were on his season at some point
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  Speaker 4: because me with Maddie right, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then Hannah something was happening there, and then back
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  Speaker 2: back and forth with Kelly a handful of times.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good for him. See, that's that's a guy that
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  Speaker 4: the girl said, hey, I still want a shot with.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: I never I honestly didn't really. I can't remember even
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  Speaker 4: hearing from any of those girls until honestly, I got
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  Speaker 4: married and Jojo and my wife kind of connected about
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  Speaker 4: like mom stuff, which was very sweet. But I don't
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  Speaker 4: other than beca like Tilly, I haven't even really had
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  Speaker 4: any contact. I don't think I willing.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, not what I would have guessed, but you know
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  Speaker 2: what it might have to do with I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You weren't you went.
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  Speaker 2: Back to like real life, right, you weren't, Like, you
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  Speaker 2: didn't move to LA you didn't go on Paradise, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like they saw the house that I was living in
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  Speaker 4: on and happily ever after, and they're like, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, you had a house.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's probably a step up than most contestants,
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  Speaker 2: for sure, But anyways, you're being humble.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, No, I really didn't, though I can't remember. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's been a while, right, I don't think I think
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  Speaker 4: I could confidently say I didn't even go on a
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  Speaker 4: date outside of Caitlin during her season and then my season.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've even gone on a date with
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  Speaker 4: anybody from the Bachelor franchise outside of my time on
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  Speaker 4: the shows.
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  Speaker 3: And now it's a follow up question for me, and
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  Speaker 3: I did this with Ashley.
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  Speaker 4: I should be wrong there, don't like I'm not like
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  Speaker 4: saying that. No, for sure. I can't remember, though, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I did.
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  Speaker 2: So in between meeting the love of your life, Jess,
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  Speaker 2: you're dating you weren't on dating apps? Like, how were
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  Speaker 2: you meeting women?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I was on dating apps? Oh
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  Speaker 4: you were?
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  Speaker 3: Which one?
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  Speaker 4: Or well? I actually don't think I was post show,
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  Speaker 4: be fleeting up to the show.
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  Speaker 3: It was on post show?
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  Speaker 4: What show? I met somebody. I dated a girl in
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  Speaker 4: between for a few months who was fantastic. The problem
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  Speaker 4: was she was so sweet. I have nothing but amazing
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  Speaker 4: things to say about it. The problem was she and I,
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  Speaker 4: like we met very soon after the breakup, so at
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  Speaker 4: first it was this like I'm, you know, a sad puppy,
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  Speaker 4: like she saw me, she saw me cry was like,
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  Speaker 4: which was not is never healthy for the sustaining of
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  Speaker 4: a relationship. It was very unfair to her. But we
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  Speaker 4: we kind of got through that chapter, which was great,
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  Speaker 4: but there was still for many months there was that
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  Speaker 4: like poll of I'm still hurt, I missed this what
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  Speaker 4: happened kind of stuff, and so we ended it, like
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  Speaker 4: I believe because of that the really the true of hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's not you, it's me, Like I'm not good and
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  Speaker 4: this is not healthy and this is not going and
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  Speaker 4: we're great. And then very soon after that ended, I
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  Speaker 4: took about three months off, didn't date at all, and
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  Speaker 4: I remember being in Vegas for the Iheartfest with I
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  Speaker 4: think it was like Nan and Wells and Nick and
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  Speaker 4: they were all telling me, you've got a message with
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  Speaker 4: girls on Instagram. You've got a date again. Ben, It's
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  Speaker 4: been three months, you even gone on a date, like
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  Speaker 4: go out there and date have fun. You're single and
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  Speaker 4: you're not getting younger. And that's when I messaged Jess
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  Speaker 4: and she was it. She was and so it was
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  Speaker 4: I was hurting at that point. Then after those three
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  Speaker 4: months had taken time away, I think Lauren and Chris
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  Speaker 4: had like kind of announced their deal. It was real
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  Speaker 4: love right like you're like, okay, this is done, done,
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  Speaker 4: We're good. And then I was trying to figure stuff out.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I went on Winter Games that obviously didn't go great
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: for me, and then when I had my first date
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: with Jess, I am not kidding, it was like a oh,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I don't miss any like this is it? This is
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: all I want? Yeah, And so there wasn't like a
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: lot of dating in between I and I'm glad. I
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: think I could have had a lot of fun, like
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: going out on dates and doing that. But I'm I
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: don't think. I don't think I did miss a thing. Yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I don't think.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: So, Okay, good to know.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Victoria asks, if you were to build the perfect sandwich,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: that's in it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: That's that's a great well, thank you, Victoria for the
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: wild question. It's got to be for me. I'm I'm
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: really a big like French dip fan. So that's kind
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: of my perfect sandwich with horse radish, a little provolon
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: or Swiss, a good prime rib, you dip it, love it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: But out said of that, if I was like going
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: to a deli, uh, the base of this would be
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: a some type of like bad get like French bread.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Would be great with ham like good ham. Not a
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: big deli meat person in this house read too many
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: weird things on it. So big like good deli meat
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: person like fresh cut pepper jack, cheese, dejon, mustard and
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: hot sauce. Great combination with a little mayo, lettuce, pickle, onion, tomato.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: That's that's probably my perfect sandwich. Toasted like I want it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I want the bagget at least warm.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask if you're toasted or untoasted.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Sandwich panini too nice.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I think one of the best sandwiches I ever had
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: was when I went to Paris a couple of years
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: ago and I just landed and it was super early
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in the morning. I just went to a place around
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the corner from my hotel and I got it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: like turkey on a bag yette with pickles and butter.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: They put butter on the sandwiches there. It's not like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a big mayonnaise mustard place. And I was thinking butter, turkey, pickles, this,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I don't cheese. I think maybe cheese was on there.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know about this. It's fantastic.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's all fantastic.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: The food I.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Had, obviously simple food, but also some of the best
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: food I ever had was in Paris, Okay. Nicole Millway
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: asks if you could change anything about your season, what
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: would you change?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Seasons?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: They say, so not just yeah, not just your Bachelor season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: The Bachelorette season. There wouldn't be a lot I would change.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: There was great guys on it. I made some really
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: good friendships, some I'm still in contact with today. But
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed the people that, like I felt like
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I had time to invest into, like the Shamboose and
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: the Tanners, and the Jared's and the Benzorns and Joe Bailey,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Josh Alberts, those are just good, good dudes. I'm missing people,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: but there was a lot of good moments. And then
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: obviously getting to know Caitlin was so great. My Bachelor season,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a lot I would change.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: It's not the no regrets stuff. I did the best
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I could. I would have probably tried to take like
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: a parasite clins before the season started, so I wasn't
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: sick the whole time. I felt awful.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: If only you knew, though you didn't.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Know, you had to find it. I know I would
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: definitely not share. You know, there's a level of me
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I've I've said it publicly. I don't even know how
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: to make sense of it. The double I love you
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: is I would have been wiser in my communication and
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: what I said and didn't say, But I wo it
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: is how I like, I think I felt, and so
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: I said what I was feeling, which is the only
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: way you can make it through that process and figure
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: out what it is. At the end. It was leading me,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: obviously to neither of them who moved on to amazing
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: dudes and have families. And that's great, and so maybe
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: it was all It all worked out exactly how it should,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: but I do think it added a little bit of
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: confusion and it felt I think when I talk about
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: it today, it felt a little bit manipulative because I
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: think I was doing it more for myself, wanting both
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: of them to know, Hey, I really care about you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: This isn't going to work out like for both of us,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: all of us, but I want you to know how
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: meaningful you are to me. I think I was doing
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: that more for myself than I was for them, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think at the time I was wise enough
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: to decipher who I was actually doing it for.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I think you're being hard on yourself. I don't think
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: that that was manipulative. That wouldn't be the.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Word I would use. I feel like bleeding on No.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like, if I remember correctly watching it, your
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: face being so shocked yourself when you said it that
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I think you're just you can't negate that you're wrapped
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: up in this bubble and you're living in a real.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Life rom com where you're the star.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: It's like that's gotta be so jarring and crazy for anybody,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and you're just like in the moment being like, Yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: this is amazing. I just want to share it and
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: like if and I don't know if we've talked about
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: your love language and if it's words of affirmation, but
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: if it is, I mean I can't blame you for
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: just like affirming how you're feeling to the people that
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: you're spending time.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: With, you know.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I think that was my thought was I'm a arming
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: how I'm feeling, and I know one of you aren't
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: going to be here after tomorrow, and one of you,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: since you aren't, I want you to know that I
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: cared that this wasn't fake, that this wasn't drawn out,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: that this wasn't anything less than amazing for me. I
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: just wish back then I would have had the wisdom
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: to take a second and be like, Okay, but who
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: how is this going to impact them? However, for the
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: sake of the experience, I do think it was good
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: for Jojo because she became the bachelorette and she had
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: that yeah, met her husband. Yeah. So like at the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: end of the day. So I'm saying, there isn't a
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: lot I would change because I did the best I could.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: It wasn't going to be perfect. It was just as
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: good as it could get. And the one thing I
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: would say that I'm very proud of is that I
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: stayed very like it was very real to me. There
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: is an intention behind getting to know the women, being
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: thankful that they were there, giving up their time to
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: try to make this work, knowing what they left behind,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: probably and I'm glad that because I can look back
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: today and be like, that wasn't just a wasted year
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: of my life. That was like a very transformative year
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: of my life. That was that felt serious, even though
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: it's in this goofy environment.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Our last question is from Sarah and she says, since
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: becoming a dad, what has been the hardest or most
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: unexpected thing you've had to face?
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Whennie's a dream. Honestly, I think it's the lack of
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: one on one time jess Can I have uh with energy?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: So I take care of Whinnie right up until bedtime
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: while Jessica gets ready for bed and I get ready
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: for bed, like before I take care of Whinnie, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: so we're kind of like two ships, you know, in
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the night at times. And so that's why we're implementing
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: date nights. I think that's been hard because there's days
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: that go by where I'm like, hey, I haven't got
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to catch up with my wife, and I think she
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: feels the same way. I would also say more and
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: more now it's my time away, it's hard. And that
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: even means I used to go to the gym every
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: morning from six forty five and get home about eight fifteen.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Well that's hard today because when he wakes up at
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: six thirty and then Jessica, what am I going to do?
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Be like, heyhn, have fun, you know, doing all this
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: stuff in the morning by yourself, and then we get
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: our days started, and that would mean I wouldn't get
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to hang out with Jess or Winnie.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: And so I think our listeners also don't understand how much.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: You travel, Like, yeah, Ben, I work with a lot
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: of talent like actors and actresses, and I think Ben
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: probably outflies them in an average year. Like Ben is
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: always on a flight and doing stuff, and it's they're quick.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: You usually are very quick. You're in and out when
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: it comes to your work.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Starty to be.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But I don't think that people understand probably the length
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: of how much you travel throughout a year, and that
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: gets harder.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Not because my wife makes heart good and gracy,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: she's so forgiving of it. The problem is I get
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: really sad now, especially in a hotel room alone at night,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I get really sad. So I have tried to make
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: trips quicker. I do fly a lot. I think last
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: year I clocked one hundred and fifteen flights, Like, that's
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: a lot of flights.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. I actually I am telling you I work with
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, and Ben is flying a lot
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: more than most people that I work with. Okay, wait,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I lied. We have one more question. Okay from Tricia.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: They said, would you rather eat every meal with your
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: feet and not use your hands?
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: This sounds like the person asking me for feet picks
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: on cameo.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Maybe this is them.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Come on, Tricia, eat every meal with your feet and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: not use your hands? Or would you rather announce every
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: time you walked into a room or a facility? Hi,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Bachelor Ben Higgins is here?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Oh feet for sure? Feet for sure.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: That's the public places too, Ben's feet.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a good question though, that sounds like good question
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: I would have asked, like when I was dating, to
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: keep things interesting, a question like that. But I'm not
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: ashamed by any means of the Bachelor. I'd love to
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: talk about it. I would talk about all aspects of
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: it at any moment, at any time. But when people
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: don't know me from the show, it is the last
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: thing I want to tell them. It is not like
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: a the biggest compliment I've gotten and I get a
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: lot is when I have a business meeting or whatever
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: and I get home and I get an email being like, hey,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: you didn't tell me you were on the Bachelor and
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: we were just met for two days. I'm like, well,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: that wasn't You didn't ask, so no, I would much
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: rather use my feet.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious, Okay, Ben, Well, similar to Ashley last week.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like I've gotten to know you a lot
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: better this week through these questions, So thanks so much.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I just add I've got long toes and so there's
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a part of me that says I could actually do this.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: I don't want to see it personally.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see it happen, yeah, because I
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: feel like that would be jarring. You have very long legs.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I just feel like your leg being up like this
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: and your foot grabbing a fork would just be very
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: difficult for anybody, but also for you because you're super tall.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: This has been great, though. Everybody.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Please keep sending in your questions and stuff for Ben
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: and Ashley. We will continue to do these episodes because
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I find them fascinating and I think you guys do too.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Ben, appreciate it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Hey, happy to be here. I'll talk to you soon.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 30:05
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