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Mercedes Spills on Date with Boston Man · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts bring you the ultimate Summer of love Tree.
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Speaker 1: This is famously available. Welcome back to Famously Available. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Ben Higgins, And recently we told you about
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Speaker 1: Mercedes and her mystery Boston man that she'd met. They
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Speaker 1: went on a date in Nashville when he was in town.
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Speaker 1: They had a great time, so he offered to fly
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Speaker 1: her out to Boston for a weekend. Mercedes, who I
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Speaker 1: would say is the most eligible bachelorette. We'll see if
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Speaker 1: she still is maybe in the US right now. I'm
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Speaker 1: a big proponent somebody dating Mercedes, somebody good. So we'll
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Speaker 1: see if this Boston man is a good man. Is
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Speaker 1: back from her trip. Now it's time for us all
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Speaker 1: to get the details on what happened, good or bad.
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Speaker 2: Mercedes, welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna call him Boston Man. Is that cool?
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Speaker 3: Boston Man? Yep?
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Speaker 4: I like that.
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Speaker 2: Does that seem respectful?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I think so, Boston Man. I feel like Alex Cooper
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Speaker 4: when she had like all her like little like do
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Speaker 4: you remember she had all the little like side names
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Speaker 4: for herman.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. This is this is
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Speaker 1: fun that worked for her. It's gonna work for us. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna start with.
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Speaker 2: How it went. Let's dive into the details and we'll
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Speaker 2: kind of close and go from there on kind of
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Speaker 2: how it went.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Obviously we talked when you're here last about your Salem trip.
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Speaker 1: That seemed like a big trip. It was something that
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Speaker 1: we were both curious about. Tell us about Salem. How
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Speaker 1: is it visiting Salem?
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Speaker 4: Honestly, it was fun because I was with him, but
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Speaker 4: I would never go back. It was so touristy. I
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Speaker 4: felt like in like a pack of sardines. It was
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Speaker 4: like shoulder to shoulder. And also, like all the museums
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Speaker 4: and stuff, they sell out really quick, so we couldn't
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Speaker 4: do anything like that.
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Speaker 3: We did go to one museum.
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Speaker 4: And it was actually like the worst thing I've ever done.
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Speaker 4: It was just so like not but the other The
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Speaker 4: mannequins were like from like store mannequins and like the people.
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Speaker 4: It was actually funny though, Like I kind of loved
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Speaker 4: that we did it because the people just like.
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Speaker 3: Genuinely did not like their job. They were just like.
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Speaker 4: So here like so monotone and everyone that was like
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Speaker 4: on the tour, we were like looking at each other
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Speaker 4: like what the heck is going on? But no, it
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Speaker 4: was still so much fun, Like obviously I was with him,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm glad we went.
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Speaker 3: And I can say that I've been to Salem, but
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Speaker 3: I don't think I would go back.
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Speaker 2: Had he been before when he was younger.
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Speaker 3: He hadn't been since he was like.
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Speaker 1: Ten, So this was like a obviously, we know what
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Speaker 1: Salem is, this seems like a fun day date.
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Speaker 2: Let's go and explore it together. Good or bad.
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Speaker 1: Those are some of the best times, is when it's bad,
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Speaker 1: because you laugh and it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Then we mentioned the other big event was dinner with
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Speaker 2: his cousin.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm uh, I'm so good. His cousin's hilarious.
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Speaker 2: Were you nervous, honestly know.
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Speaker 4: Which is so unlike me because usually I'm like, what
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Speaker 4: are we going to talk about? Are they going to
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Speaker 4: think I'm normal?
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Speaker 3: Like I'm always like in my head.
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Speaker 4: But no, I honestly wasn't nervous at all. Even like
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Speaker 4: walking in, I was just like, all right, we're gonna
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Speaker 4: do this. I don't know, we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 4: And the cousin and his girlfriend, they were so so cool.
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Speaker 4: We just talked the whole time. I Mean they're like,
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Speaker 4: they're all yappers and I'm a yapper.
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Speaker 3: So it was great.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of yapping. Yeah they did they see
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Speaker 2: you on TV at all? Did they know who you were?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always interesting.
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Speaker 4: M hmm.
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Speaker 1: My wife's family, her mom had watched me, and so
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Speaker 1: that was like our first like first time we went
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Speaker 1: over there. Very nice about it. It was really not
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Speaker 1: brought up, just kind of in passing and then over time,
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Speaker 1: obviously questions were asked just out of curiosity. There was
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Speaker 1: really no judgment ever that I felt from them. What
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Speaker 1: were their questions?
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Speaker 3: Like, they were just like how, like how was it?
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Speaker 3: What was your experience? Like?
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Speaker 4: So his cousin was actually on a Bravo show called
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Speaker 4: Below Deck Ah, so he like kind of understands the whatever,
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Speaker 4: but he was just asking me, like how it was,
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Speaker 4: how filming was just like the normal questions that people ask,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it wasn't like because you know how sometimes people.
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Speaker 4: Talk about it and then they don't stop talking about
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Speaker 4: it and it's like all right, let's go to the
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Speaker 4: next thing, like you know, but it was very brief
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Speaker 4: and very like chill. There's maybe like a five minute conversation,
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Speaker 4: and then we moved on and talked and then never
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Speaker 4: talked about it again.
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Speaker 1: It is interesting. I think there's it's hard to not
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Speaker 1: know someone who's been on reality television. I think there's
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Speaker 1: been so many and so many shows and so many
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Speaker 1: seasons of shows that it. But I do think it's
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Speaker 1: helpful when somebody can relate Blow Deck. Definitely, you could
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Speaker 1: relate with the cameras in your face. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: blow Deck is a lot crazier. I actually like that show.
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Speaker 1: I think it's very intriguing.
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Speaker 3: I've never watched it, but I want to watch it.
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Speaker 1: Oh you have to. It's great, it's super fun. I
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Speaker 1: mostly watch it and dream of being on a yacht
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Speaker 1: one day. That's kind of what I think. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think that's why everybody watches it.
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Speaker 2: Literally, did you meet any other family members that weekend?
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Speaker 4: We did go to so after dinner on Friday, we
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Speaker 4: went to a little bar and his cousin was bartending.
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Speaker 3: So I met him too, different cousin.
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Speaker 4: He has like so much family, Like he was like,
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Speaker 4: I hope you know, like in this city, I can't
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Speaker 4: escape my family, like no matter where we go. Because
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Speaker 4: both of his parents have a ton of siblings and
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Speaker 4: they like all the cousins and everything still live in
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Speaker 4: Boston and around Boston. So he's like, yeah, we can't
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Speaker 4: really escape them. I'm like, I don't care. I'm like,
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Speaker 4: let's come in him.
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Speaker 3: I don't care.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna start getting in the meat of the weekend. Here.
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Speaker 1: One of the best things about first date or dating
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Speaker 1: in general. So my wife and I have a question
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Speaker 1: that we ask each other every night at dinner, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you the same question. The question
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Speaker 1: is what it was your highlight and what was your
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Speaker 1: low light? We asked it for the day, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to ask you for the weekend. What was the
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Speaker 1: highlight and what was the low light from the weekend?
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Speaker 4: Okay, highlight is we randomly went to like this improv
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Speaker 4: show and it was in the basement of a CVS
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Speaker 4: and it was just like the funniest thing ever and
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Speaker 4: we were just laughing the whole time and it was
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Speaker 4: just a really cool show and it was super random.
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Speaker 4: It was like the show was at like nine thirteen,
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Speaker 4: I think at nine fifteen. We bought the tickets and
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Speaker 4: got an ubern and went there. So it's very like
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Speaker 4: spontaneous and like, I don't know, it's just fun seeing
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Speaker 4: like what he laughed at while I laughed at, like
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Speaker 4: are different like humor, and then like what we laughed
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Speaker 4: at together, So that was really really fun. I would
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Speaker 4: say that was definitely a highlight or a yeah, and
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Speaker 4: then helloe. I felt well, I don't know if there's
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Speaker 4: like one specific thing, but like I feel like something
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Speaker 4: that I like wish was different about the trip was
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Speaker 4: I wish I was there like one more day.
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Speaker 3: I feel like it was really quick. I know, I know.
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Speaker 1: You're kind of hinting at where we're going with this.
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Speaker 1: Will you be seeing this guy again?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Which is so crazy. I'm like, what's happening?
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Speaker 2: This is so good. Did he listen to the show
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Speaker 2: before you went on the date with him?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Okay, we got to get him to do that. This
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Speaker 1: is going to be good. I still want to bring
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Speaker 1: him on. Did you talk ever about past relationships? Like
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Speaker 1: I guess instead of that question kind of what topics
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Speaker 1: stood out to you on this date you've obviously dated.
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Speaker 1: You had mentioned that a lot of dates don't click
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Speaker 1: for you. I think one of the consensus there was
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Speaker 1: that it felt like the men you were dating, maybe
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Speaker 1: weren't as intentional about getting to know you. They were
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Speaker 1: maybe flaky whatever this I mean, if you want to
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Speaker 1: see this guy again, it seems like things are going
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Speaker 1: on the right path.
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Speaker 2: So what did he do differently?
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Speaker 1: What conversations did you guys have together that felt that
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Speaker 1: made you feel like, Hey, I want to see you again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. We just taught like the way
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Speaker 3: that we Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: There's just like chemistry and I feel like I can
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Speaker 4: talk to him about anything, and I'm not like.
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Speaker 3: This is another thing that I said.
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Speaker 4: I feel like when I've dated people in the past,
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Speaker 4: I'm very like not try to be the woman that
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Speaker 4: I think that they would want, But I always am like,
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Speaker 4: oh are they gonna like I don't know, But with him,
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Speaker 4: I'm like actually like truly myself and like it's been
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Speaker 4: the most like comforting thing ever so far.
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Speaker 3: And I feel like.
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Speaker 4: Our conversations, I mean, we've talked about faith, we've talked
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Speaker 4: about our families, we've talked about our past relationships. So
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Speaker 4: we're both just like very open and I feel like
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Speaker 4: we're both being open books with each other and I've
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Speaker 4: never like really had that before.
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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm always like egg like walking on
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Speaker 3: eggshells a.
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Speaker 4: Little bit, just because I'm nervous and don't want to
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Speaker 4: like come off like I'm like being too much or whatever.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: The conversations have been really really great, and we've really
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Speaker 4: talked about a lot.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, obviously, if you talked about a lot,
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Speaker 1: there were things uncovered that he learned about you and
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Speaker 1: that you learned about him. Is there anything you learned
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Speaker 1: about him that you're willing to share with us that
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Speaker 1: maybe it was just new information, maybe excited you or
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Speaker 1: maybe made you take a step back.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if they're I don't know if I
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Speaker 4: want to like share. Let's see. I feel like his faith.
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Speaker 4: I didn't realize that he grew up Catholic and I
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Speaker 4: knew that, but I feel like this past weekend, I
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Speaker 4: really like saw that he genuinely like loves faith and
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Speaker 4: wants to pursue that, and I like obviously love that.
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Speaker 3: So that was something that I was like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 3: green check.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, after year's marriage, it is so important,
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Speaker 1: I think to see the world in a similar lane,
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Speaker 1: not the necessarily always the same lane. But to have
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Speaker 1: that that rock that you fall back on, that you
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Speaker 1: can make decisions together on that you can even have
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Speaker 1: discussions and arguments and say, no, this is why I'm
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Speaker 1: feeling the way I am. If you are like on
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Speaker 1: two opposite ends there, I think it could be really
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Speaker 1: difficult in a relationship. And I think Jessicin and I,
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Speaker 1: coming from a place of faith, has like really guided
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Speaker 1: us in so many great places, even through arguments. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it's always it's always a fun conversation to discuss.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not for everybody, but I like it.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we we had had this conversation last time. It
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Speaker 1: was a big deal for him to fly you out there.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously interested in you. I want to talk about
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Speaker 1: I shared like one nugget of information about how jessic
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Speaker 1: and I did long distance, and then we never left
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Speaker 1: each other without another trip planned.
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Speaker 2: So do you have another trip planned?
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Speaker 4: There's not like a flight bot or anything, but yes,
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Speaker 4: there is another trip planned.
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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna come to Nashville next.
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Speaker 2: Because he like Nashville.
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Speaker 1: Seems like Boston is is like where his roots are,
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Speaker 1: like deep roots.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he definitely loves Boston, but he likes Nashville too,
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Speaker 4: and he has like friends here, so I feel like,
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Speaker 4: and he comes here for work a lot, so he's
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Speaker 4: he's gonna come here to see me in November and
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Speaker 4: then he has to come back in December two.
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Speaker 1: So Mercedes, we're gonna get to a weird place here,
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Speaker 1: and I'm already sensing it. So you're gonna start getting
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Speaker 1: protective of this guy, and you're gonna stop start sharing
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Speaker 1: less and less about him because you're gonna care about
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Speaker 1: it more and more.
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Speaker 2: What are we gonna do about that?
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Speaker 4: No, honest, I feel like because he knows, Like I
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Speaker 4: told him on the first date that I'm doing this podcast,
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Speaker 4: and I told him but it's a dating podcast, and
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Speaker 4: I told him all the things, but like, he doesn't
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Speaker 4: know I'm talking about him on this podcast right now.
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Speaker 4: So I feel like that's why I feel what I
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Speaker 4: just need to tell him and he'll be I'm sure
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Speaker 4: he'll be fine with it, unless he's like, that's so weird,
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Speaker 4: but he'll be.
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Speaker 2: Fine at some point.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fun for us, good for the audience
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Speaker 1: to hear about what it's like to go on a
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Speaker 1: first date, a second date, the first travel date. You know,
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Speaker 1: the third date, and then all of a sudden it
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Speaker 1: becomes like, hey, you're dating this guy, what else are
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Speaker 1: we going to ask? You know, We're gonna start having
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Speaker 1: to jump to huge questions. I do think it's important
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Speaker 1: for us to get him on at some point. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I promise I won't scare him away.
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Speaker 3: No, I don't think you will.
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Speaker 1: I'll be your hype person. I'll tell him how great
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Speaker 1: you are. But I do think we need to hear
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Speaker 1: kind of from his perspective, what it's been like dating you,
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Speaker 1: what he's excited about, and ask him a lot of
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Speaker 1: the same questions because for the listeners out there who
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Speaker 1: have tuned in, I mean goodness. Like I said, I
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Speaker 1: got so many messages saying, how are you still single?
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Speaker 1: And I was a great question to ask. But as
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Speaker 1: you enter into this new season, I think the listeners
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Speaker 1: would love to know. I would love to know who
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Speaker 1: this guy is that you're so intrigued by.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, I definitely will have a conversation with him, and
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Speaker 4: I think he would come on.
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Speaker 3: I feel like he would for sure.
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Speaker 4: So that's definitely a possibility. I seed to break the
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Speaker 4: ice and ask him.
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Speaker 2: You do it whenever it feels good for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't want.
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Speaker 4: To like scare him away, which it would never scare
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Speaker 4: him away, I don't think, But I don't know. I
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Speaker 4: definitely I'll definitely ask him, maybe just not today.
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Speaker 2: No, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: You take your time, you do it when you feel
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Speaker 1: as right, but it will be something that we're very
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Speaker 1: excited for. A few final questions for you. You sit
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Speaker 1: in a place right now that's so exciting, is so fun.
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Speaker 1: How are you feeling, like elaborate a little bit for
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Speaker 1: the listeners on two dates in or two times together
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Speaker 1: in you're wanting to see him again, Like what are
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Speaker 1: you processing in your head? How are you feeling?
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Speaker 3: I'm feeling like so good again.
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Speaker 4: Like I even think back to like my exes and stuff.
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Speaker 4: I've just never been I've never dated a man before,
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Speaker 4: you know, like this this guy is literally like planning dates,
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Speaker 4: making it so known that he's interested in me, and
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Speaker 4: he tells me that I'm beautiful every.
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Speaker 2: Day, Like I don't.
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Speaker 4: I'm just really really excited to see where things go.
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Speaker 4: I feel like it's like a long time coming to
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Speaker 4: like start dating again, and I got really I don't know,
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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm just really lucky to have him
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Speaker 4: like as my first guy that i'd like to dive
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Speaker 4: back into things, and so far it's been really really
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Speaker 4: good and all.
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Speaker 3: I'm just really excited to see where it goes.
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Speaker 1: I told you that my first date with my wife
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Speaker 1: in person, I left that date saying, this is either
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Speaker 1: going to be the greatest thing to ever happen to
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Speaker 1: me or the hardest heartbreak. Mm hmm, Mercedes, can you
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Speaker 1: relate with that at all right now?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 4: I actually told my friends I was like, he wakes
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Speaker 4: up and doesn't like me one day, I will crash out.
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Speaker 3: It's like it'll be a full on.
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Speaker 4: Crash out like so I definitely can relate.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good feeling. It's an exciting feeling. I
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Speaker 1: can't promise where things will go, nobody can, but it's
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Speaker 1: a good place to be in, especially as you're jumping
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Speaker 1: back in here. Are you at a place do you
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Speaker 1: feel where you? I mean, are you done dating other people?
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Speaker 4: I mean, we haven't had that conversation, because again I've
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Speaker 4: only known this man for a month. But sure, I'm
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Speaker 4: definitely not like out looking really, but again we haven't
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Speaker 4: had that conversation, so it's not like I'm like, just him.
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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, not to put terrible thoughts in your head.
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Speaker 1: But if he called and was like, hey, I'm going
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Speaker 1: on a date tonight. I want to tell you because
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Speaker 1: we haven't had the conversation yet, how would that make
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Speaker 1: you feel?
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Speaker 3: I mean I would definitely be like, damn, okay, fun Like,
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be mad because we haven't had that conversation.
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Speaker 3: But I'd be like, okay, like call me after. I guess,
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Speaker 3: don't forget about me. But no, I mean I would
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Speaker 3: definitely feel the type of way, but I wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: like mad or anything.
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Speaker 1: That's a very cool girl answer that. I don't think
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Speaker 1: you have to give him. I think you'd be like,
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Speaker 1: I don't like this idea.
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Speaker 2: I don't want you doing this. We let's have the
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Speaker 2: conversation now.
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Speaker 3: Then, yeah, don't don't have my days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's very fair. You don't have to
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Speaker 2: hold that back at this point.
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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe I don't know your relationship, but it
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Speaker 1: feels like it would make you feel a certain way
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Speaker 1: to probably make him feel a certain way. So you're
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Speaker 1: getting to the stage where that conversation might happen soon,
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Speaker 1: which is so crazy.
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Speaker 3: I literally never expected this.
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Speaker 4: This was literally, you guys. I'm not kidding when I
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Speaker 4: said it was my practice day. I actually met that
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Speaker 4: because I was like, this is just this man lives
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Speaker 4: in Boston, like never gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: And now I'm like, can't stop thinking about him. It's
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Speaker 3: crazy crazy like that. I know, I know, it's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, final question for you. Obviously he is in Boston.
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Speaker 1: You were just in Boston. Could you ever see yourself
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Speaker 1: leaving Nashville for Boston.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. It's really far from home. Like my
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Speaker 4: brother texted me and he's like, what are you doing
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Speaker 4: in Boston. I was like, Oh, I'm just here to
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Speaker 4: see a friend. And he's like, well, you're really far
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Speaker 4: away from home. I'm like, I know, but I think,
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Speaker 4: like honestly, I would maybe not like forever obviously, but
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Speaker 4: I'm would try it out. Boston's really cool. I actually
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Speaker 4: like fell in love with it.
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Speaker 1: It's a great city. Yeah, And here's the cool part
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Speaker 1: of relationships. It does feel like the woman in the
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Speaker 1: relationship long term kind of gets to decide where roots
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Speaker 1: are planted. It feels like it like Leans more than
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Speaker 1: like seventy thirty. There's some unique scenarios. But it does
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Speaker 1: seem like you could at some point say, hey, I
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Speaker 1: really want to get back to family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just how life works.
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Speaker 1: It's great, Mercedes, we're entering into an exciting stage for you,
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Speaker 1: one that all of us here are pumped for. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I would love to take credit for all of this,
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Speaker 1: any of this, the second of this.
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Speaker 3: We can't.
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Speaker 1: You did this on your own. You took the practice date,
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Speaker 1: and goodness gracious, I would feel weird setting you up
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Speaker 1: with anybody else. And so we're gonna follow along with
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Speaker 1: this as long as you let us, and as long
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Speaker 1: as you agree. I think we have a couple a
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Speaker 1: couple more good segments here with you. I really, like
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Speaker 1: I said, I really want to get to know him.
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Speaker 1: I want to get to know where your relationship blossoms too.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point, you know, we have to
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Speaker 1: say goodbye.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's what I mean.
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Speaker 1: That's great, Like, yeah, and you know what I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do, I'm want to take credit for I'm gonna
19:38
Speaker 1: say that our first success story. We pushed her at
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Speaker 1: least back into dating.
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Speaker 2: We pushed her, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, no, truly you did, though, because I was like okay,
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Speaker 4: almost famous about to send me on dates like, I
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Speaker 4: haven't been on a date in two years. I gotta
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Speaker 4: I gotta do a practice one and then yeah, so
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Speaker 4: you can take credit for sure.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Did you end this weekend in a kiss?
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Speaker 3: Yes? The best.
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Speaker 2: That's a good thing too.
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Speaker 1: Be bad if you're like, we did not a great kisser,
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Speaker 1: but we'll look past that.
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Speaker 2: But you're saying it's the best.
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Speaker 3: It's good you are.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today, thank you for giving
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Speaker 1: us the recap. Is there anything we missed about your
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Speaker 1: weekend in Boston with Boston Man that we didn't talk
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Speaker 1: about that you want him to hear when he listens
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Speaker 1: to this tonight.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, No, no, I think we hit everything.
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Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just excited, happy to be in the
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Speaker 4: spot that I'm in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you deserve it. I'm glad you're excited. Well, hey,
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Speaker 1: get home, rest up, have all the giggles.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what you do too.
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Speaker 1: I remember I remember dating and Jess and I would
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Speaker 1: be like facetiming for hours a night, and I can't
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Speaker 1: I can't even.
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Speaker 2: Imagine that season anymore. I'm like, goodness, gracious, I love
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Speaker 2: my wife. So much.
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Speaker 1: I could never FaceTime her for hours any longer. So
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Speaker 1: enjoy that like little season where it's like not even
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Speaker 1: hard to do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun.
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Speaker 1: But I think one day you look back and be
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Speaker 1: like that was wild we talked about yeah again, Mercedes,
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. This has been famously available
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Speaker 1: and Mercedes and Boston Man are still staying strong. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna keep up to date with their dates when they're
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Speaker 1: gonna see each other next Austin. Also the conversations they
21:38
Speaker 1: start to have when they start to have these conversations,
21:41
Speaker 1: exclusivity being one of those that I think probably will
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Speaker 1: happen soon. And then also stay tuned. We can potentially
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Speaker 1: get him on at some point when Mercedes feels like
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Speaker 1: it's the right conversation to have. We won't scare him away.
21:54
Speaker 1: We're gonna hype her up. He's gonna leave that conversation probably.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm guessing he's already young Cloud nine, but
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Speaker 1: he's going to be skipping out of that room being like,
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Speaker 1: I've got the best girl in the world. That's my goal,
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Speaker 1: That's what I want to do.
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Speaker 3: Amazing.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Mercedes. Thanks for joining us, of course,
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Speaker 2: thank you