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12 Days of The Bachelorette: A Shore Thing with Blake Horstmann · 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 IR Radio. Hello everybody, Welcome to the Almost same
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Speaker 1: As podcast. I am here solo. Um this week without Ben.
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Speaker 1: He'll be back soon and we are still counting down
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Speaker 1: the days until The Bachelor. At Premiere today, we have
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Speaker 1: Blake Courtsman, Man of the Hour. He is on a
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Speaker 1: new Paramount Plus show, It's All Star Shore and it
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Speaker 1: is where he's met his lovely girlfriend who a lot
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Speaker 1: of us know from Love is Blind, Gianna Blake. Everyone
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Speaker 1: wants to know about you and Gianna. Like you did
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Speaker 1: a hard launch last last week? Right? We did? We did? Yes,
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Speaker 1: this time last week we hard launched officially, which was nice,
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Speaker 1: but like you guys kind of joked at the fact
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Speaker 1: that everybody knew you were dating. Yeah, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: we we kept it as secret as we can, but
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Speaker 1: also we didn't want to sacrifice time together in our
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Speaker 1: relationship to try and keep it secrets, so we did
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Speaker 1: the best we could, um, you know, and then obviously
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Speaker 1: people started finding out. We can just played along, like
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Speaker 1: you know, we we were like I got I'd hide
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Speaker 1: her with my shoe and pictures and like I do
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Speaker 1: come funny things like that. But it's surprising to this
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Speaker 1: an international show. It's you know, all over the world. Um,
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Speaker 1: so like a lot of people didn't know we were together,
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Speaker 1: you know, only like fans who have already followed us
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Speaker 1: kind of new. So this is a prizing amount of
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Speaker 1: people who didn't know. So when I heard about you
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Speaker 1: guys both be on the show and that's how you met,
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Speaker 1: you know, because I've known this for months now. Because again,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't so much of a secret. I assumed that
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Speaker 1: the short show or whatever show it was that you
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Speaker 1: guys met on. I think we all assumed that it
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Speaker 1: was because you guys put on a show that you
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Speaker 1: were keeping it kind of secret. Um, I thought I
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Speaker 1: would have to do with love. I thought it had
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Speaker 1: to be a dating show, and it's not. So the
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Speaker 1: short like um, All Star Shore is a competition show.
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Speaker 1: Can you explain to everybody who hasn't been able to
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Speaker 1: watch the first too? Oh, I guess it's Wednesday. So
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Speaker 1: three episodes are out now and a new episode will
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Speaker 1: be continued to be released for the next eight Wednesdays,
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Speaker 1: including today. Yep, that's correct, yep, yep, yep. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it was not a love show like and It's
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Speaker 1: funny because both me and g we both said that
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Speaker 1: we'd never do another love show, you know, and I
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Speaker 1: told myself that. I was like, you know, you get asked,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get asked here and there to do
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Speaker 1: certain shows, and most of them like like you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: like you know, it's on some random streaming you know,
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Speaker 1: only YouTube or something like that, and like most of
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Speaker 1: the time like no no. But when this kind of
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Speaker 1: got dropped to me or you know, they reached out,
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Speaker 1: I was kind of like I still was like no,
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Speaker 1: no, no no, no no. And then I found out it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a love show, it's competence show. And then I
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Speaker 1: found out who was behind it, and I found out
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Speaker 1: the budget and you know, some other stars um here
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Speaker 1: and there, and I was like, oh, this might something
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in. So um yeah, I went on there
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Speaker 1: literally not only not expecting to funny, but but I
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Speaker 1: was in my head, I was like, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to find anybody, Like I don't want to be the
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Speaker 1: guy on television, you know who falls in love again.
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Speaker 1: Like I didn't want that necessarily. So um it was
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Speaker 1: a nice surprise though, to say the least. Um and
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Speaker 1: it was this show is very different thing that's never
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Speaker 1: been on television. Uh at the first ever party competition show,
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Speaker 1: that's what they're calling it. UM. So they put realities
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Speaker 1: stars from all over the world. UM. I mean some
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Speaker 1: of these people are giant, giant eight nine million stars,
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Speaker 1: giant our million followers, giant stars in their countries. Um,
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Speaker 1: you throw us in the house and we compete for money.
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Speaker 1: Will also obviously you know, partying and drama and all
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Speaker 1: of that fun stuff that comes along with it. So
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Speaker 1: it's it's a very unique show and something that's never
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Speaker 1: been done before. So do we see you and Gianna
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Speaker 1: fall in love on the show or is that kind
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Speaker 1: of something that was under wraps and you stop developed
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Speaker 1: more after So you'll you'll see a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: dynamic in our relationship. It's not it's not just you know,
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Speaker 1: smooth sailing the entire time. UM. There are you know
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Speaker 1: moments where it's like will they won't they kind of thing,
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Speaker 1: and so you just have to tune in. Um, there
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Speaker 1: are some big moments that happen on camera, UM for
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Speaker 1: our relationship. UM. And then obviously obviously know we've we've
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Speaker 1: been dating for a minute now, so a lot of
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Speaker 1: it happens also post We've been leave for seven months now,
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Speaker 1: so um so, yeah, it's a lot happens on camera,
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Speaker 1: though there's still a lot to be to be shown
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Speaker 1: on All Star Shore with our relationship and just just
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Speaker 1: in general with the housemates and everything like that. What
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Speaker 1: was the relationship like? Was it a love at first
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Speaker 1: sight thing or get to know each other for a
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Speaker 1: while thing? There was definitely I mean I can't speak
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Speaker 1: for GM, but for me, there was definitely some obviously
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Speaker 1: attraction when I first got down there. As much as
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Speaker 1: people think that like you know, a paradise, I'm like
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Speaker 1: this dramatic, like you know, huge villain. I'm not that person,
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Speaker 1: you know. I'm kind of like just like quiet, like
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Speaker 1: you know, reserved kind of guy. And so I got
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Speaker 1: down there and I was like, what in the hell
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Speaker 1: have I gotten myself into? Like these giant personalities? It
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Speaker 1: was absolutely crazy. Um So, G was kind of like
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Speaker 1: a I don't know, like a call mean presence down
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Speaker 1: there for me, and it was like, oh, somebody normal
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Speaker 1: like that kind of the first thing I thought was
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Speaker 1: like a look at somebody normal. Um So we kind
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Speaker 1: of gravitated towards each other in that sense. And um, obviously,
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Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot in common. I mean
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Speaker 1: our first first conversation on episode two was talking about
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Speaker 1: how you I got dumped while proposing. Um, she got
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Speaker 1: dumped at the altar. Um. You know, we both fell
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Speaker 1: in love and try to make it work and loving
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Speaker 1: on TV. So we had a lot in common in
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Speaker 1: that sense too, but a lot of cultural differences, which
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Speaker 1: was pretty cool. You know, she's born in Venezuela, her
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Speaker 1: first language of Spanish, and so we're very different in
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Speaker 1: a sense when we have a lot of very similar um,
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Speaker 1: I don't know histories if you will, So we kind
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Speaker 1: of we kind of clicked right away. So tell me
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Speaker 1: about your relationship now, I mean, like you live with
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Speaker 1: the lease. How is she with the fact that you
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Speaker 1: live with a girl? Yeah, so she was you know,
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Speaker 1: obviously she was like kind of like side eye and
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Speaker 1: mat for for a while when I first I told
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Speaker 1: her on the show you know about it, and she
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Speaker 1: was like, that's that's kind of weird and everything. Um,
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Speaker 1: but her and Elise are super close now they're like
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Speaker 1: BFFs and you know, they hang out all the time
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Speaker 1: and then they're great and so it worked end up
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Speaker 1: working out, thank God. You know, Lisa's great, and she
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Speaker 1: is great because that could have been a nightmare. Um,
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Speaker 1: but it's great. And yeah, she you know, she's she
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Speaker 1: doesn't live here in Denver yet. Um, and we'll see
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Speaker 1: if that happens or not. You know, I think it will.
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Speaker 1: But right now she's basically living here. She's here. I
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Speaker 1: mean I think she's only been home for weeks since
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Speaker 1: the show, so, I mean she we've basically been together
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Speaker 1: since the show wrapped. Um, So it's going great. It's fantastic,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm really excited. It's it's also really fun.
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Speaker 1: I've never had this, you know, whether it be Bachelorette
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Speaker 1: or Bashi in Paradise. I was always you know, either
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Speaker 1: broken hearted or you know, completely destroyed coming up both
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Speaker 1: our shows, so I didn't have anybody to watch the
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Speaker 1: show with. So this has been something cool. You know.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of we're able to like comfort each other
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Speaker 1: on our insecurities and all that while watching the show,
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Speaker 1: because there's still a lot of anxiety and stress while
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Speaker 1: being on you know, putting yourself out there on TV.
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Speaker 1: So this is something I never had before, was to
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Speaker 1: be able to watch the show back with somebody. So
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Speaker 1: that's been really cool. So you you're not worried a
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Speaker 1: week to week like they're gonna show us like this,
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Speaker 1: They're gonna show us like that, or I'm afraid of
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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna look like as a character, right right? Um,
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Speaker 1: not really, you know, there's obviously still some anxiety stresses
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Speaker 1: putting yourself out. Like I know, there's some episodes out
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Speaker 1: here where I talk about certain things that I'm you know,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard. I'm gonna get stressed and get
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Speaker 1: you know, hate. But the thing is is like the
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Speaker 1: bullsh that happened to like, I can't be nearly as
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Speaker 1: bad as that. So it's like it's, you know, I
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Speaker 1: have this this like you know, like you have like
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Speaker 1: a spectrum, right My spectrum is swayed so far with
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Speaker 1: what happened in Paradise. They're like, I know, it can't
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Speaker 1: be that bad. So I'm kind of looking at like,
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Speaker 1: you know, throw your best at me. It's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be nearly as bad as Paradise. So that's kind of
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Speaker 1: how I look at it. Um. And for her too,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's she's got she's got some things you
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Speaker 1: know that I think you're gonna show and she's not
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Speaker 1: gonna enjoy a ton um, but I've got she's got
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Speaker 1: me and I've got her. So it's kind of cool
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Speaker 1: to be able to lean on somebody which I've never
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Speaker 1: had before. That's so nice. So, I mean, based on
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Speaker 1: Instagram and what you're saying, I feel like you guys
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Speaker 1: are both so so happy and feeling really secure in
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Speaker 1: this relationship. Um, what was the last time you felt
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Speaker 1: this with a girlfriend? I mean maybe you know, I
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Speaker 1: mean years, long, long, long time, And this is by
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Speaker 1: far the most confident I've ever been in a relationship
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Speaker 1: for sure, Um, So you know, and even like you
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Speaker 1: know these relationships on TV, obviously things do change. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I've never I've never dated publicly, so it
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Speaker 1: was like a huge I was more, honestly, I was
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Speaker 1: more stressed to go public with G than I was
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Speaker 1: for the show to air, just because I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what spect she's dated public I haven't, so I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what to expect. Um, you know the pressures that
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Speaker 1: come with the publicly ship. I mean, you you know
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Speaker 1: what it's like. Um, It's something I've never to do it.
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Speaker 1: So I was honestly whatever so that, Um, but she's
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Speaker 1: been great, you know, and it's all been great. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe the support, you know. I thought there'd be
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Speaker 1: a little bit of like heye or you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: and we haven't gotten any. So it's it's been. It's
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Speaker 1: been incredible. And thinking to you know, all the people
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Speaker 1: that watched the show and everything. For the support, it's
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Speaker 1: been remarkable and something I didn't expect. Um. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's been. It's been nice. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: it's the most confident I've ever been relationship, which I
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Speaker 1: did not think i'd find love in the Shore Show.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that I love on the Shore Show,
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Speaker 1: but here I am so well. Okay, So Bachelor in Paradise,
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Speaker 1: obviously you had the rep for being like a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a playboy. Um and even though like I
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Speaker 1: do feel like there was so much packed in there
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Speaker 1: that we don't want to revisit again, you definitely have,
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Speaker 1: let's just say, enjoyed being single since being on the Bachelorette.
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Speaker 1: So how does it feel going from that life where
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Speaker 1: you're like at events and girls are just spawning all
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Speaker 1: over you to now being in a serious relationship. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it is difference. Um, I would say listen, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean being single after the bachelotte is a lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean you could ask tell anybody. And he contested that,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, every every male except maybe
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Speaker 1: a band, every male, Higgins, every or every male he
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Speaker 1: does have ever heard in female. They have their fun
9:22
Speaker 1: and they go out and they enjoy the spotlight and
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Speaker 1: they enjoy the the attention, and so you know, you
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Speaker 1: get opportunities that you never thought you'd had, you mean,
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Speaker 1: people you never thought you would. Um. And so yeah,
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed that for I mean basically almost three years,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, coming up on four and
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Speaker 1: so um, it was going up on four. So it
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Speaker 1: was like I've done the whole thing. I've done all that,
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Speaker 1: and I was kind of like, okay, you know, I'm ready.
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Speaker 1: I've been ready to set them for a minute, you know.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like people think that like, oh, you're
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Speaker 1: enjoying being single, that means you can enjoy being a relationship.
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Speaker 1: But that's not the case. You can enjoy both, Like
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Speaker 1: you enjoy being single and having your freedom and independence
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Speaker 1: and then enjoy being in a a relationship too. Now there
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Speaker 1: was a bit of a change, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: I I haven't lived with anybody a girl girlfriend, I
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Speaker 1: mean at once and like right out of college, so
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Speaker 1: like I hadn't lived with a girl in a long time.
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Speaker 1: So that was that was a lot, sharing my closet,
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Speaker 1: sharing the drawers, all that kind of stuff, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Um, but all at all, it's been fantastic,
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Speaker 1: you know when she comes along with me to most
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Speaker 1: of my events now, my my DJ sets and things
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Speaker 1: like that. And the cool thing about g And it's
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Speaker 1: funny because I never watched Love is Blind, so I
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Speaker 1: don't know what she was like on the show, And
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Speaker 1: I know, I think a lot of people think she's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like oh she says it's loco, like crazy,
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Speaker 1: Like she's one of the most secure women I've ever dated.
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Speaker 1: I mean she sees you know, the funding and the
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Speaker 1: thing the women that show up at my shows and
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Speaker 1: what they do and everything, and so yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: she's just kind of like she trust me, we trust
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Speaker 1: each other, and it's just kind of like one of
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Speaker 1: those things where it's like she's completely secure and night.
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Speaker 1: I definitely think I need a date with the industry
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Speaker 1: I'm in and and my DJA and st I think
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Speaker 1: I need a dat a very secure woman and she's
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Speaker 1: been mad. Yeah, she's been that, so it's really nice
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Speaker 1: and she and the cool thing is like she she
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Speaker 1: was crazy and you'll see it, you know as we're
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Speaker 1: going on the show. Is she is like into music
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Speaker 1: a lot, just like me, and she like wanted to
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Speaker 1: be a DJ. Like she literally has a controller at home,
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Speaker 1: like she wanted DJ. So it was kind of that
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Speaker 1: clicked with us. And she was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: that's so cool. You like go travel around, you know,
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Speaker 1: these huge festivals and everything. So she enjoys the travel
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Speaker 1: and and the festivals just as much as me. So
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Speaker 1: that's really cool. That's great. That's also totally necessary for
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Speaker 1: the lifestyle that you leave with that with that job. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: How you touched on this earlier. How like the fandom
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Speaker 1: has been so happy for you. Is it cool that
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Speaker 1: you get like double dose the fans from Love is
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Speaker 1: Blind and the fans and the Bachelor. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't so obviously, I know that Love is Blind
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Speaker 1: was wildly popular, especially if season one because it was
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Speaker 1: during quarantine, it was wildly popular, But I remember I
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Speaker 1: didn't watch it, so I didn't know g when I
11:43
Speaker 1: got down to the beach. Uh. You know, I actually
11:46
Speaker 1: didn't know her at all, and our first conversation they
11:48
Speaker 1: didn't really show too much of it, but we talked
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Speaker 1: about I was like, oh, you're on Love is Blind.
11:53
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, I've heard of that show.
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Speaker 1: And I was like that was that was pretty big, right?
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Speaker 1: She's like yeah, I mean it was. The fandom is
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Speaker 1: pretty crazy. And I was like really and I just
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Speaker 1: casual was like like and we all talked about this
12:02
Speaker 1: now it is. But I was like, like, what is
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Speaker 1: your Instagram looked like? And she's like two million. I
12:06
Speaker 1: was like, oh, so, like the fans are crazy like
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Speaker 1: one season and so when yeah, so when they when anticipating,
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Speaker 1: you know, going public and everything, Like I said, I
12:14
Speaker 1: was very nervous, um because I know how loyal I mean,
12:17
Speaker 1: I know how crazy bashination fans can be. So I
12:19
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, what is Love is Blind?
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Speaker 1: Fan's like, um, but it's been It's been phenomenal and
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Speaker 1: the support has been great, like I said, and it's
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Speaker 1: really cool to see she has like like her second
12:29
Speaker 1: biggest following is su Paul, Brazil. That's her second city,
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Speaker 1: so like seeing yeah, that's worldwide too, because people are
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Speaker 1: watching it everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So she's huge in
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Speaker 1: Brazil and when we went we went together to Italy
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Speaker 1: and Barcelona, she was like, we walked down the street
12:44
Speaker 1: people in Barcelona would go not so it was a
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Speaker 1: very interesting like thing to see. Now my following has
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Speaker 1: started to reflect that as well, and some of the
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Speaker 1: my comments are in Spanish, you know, and I asked,
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Speaker 1: I have to ask her what it means. And some
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Speaker 1: of my d M s are in Spanish. So it's
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Speaker 1: been really cool and it's opened up um kind of
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I guess, you know, a new lens
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Speaker 1: for me to see through, and like it's really cool
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Speaker 1: to see all these things like we're we're donating clothes venezuela,
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Speaker 1: you know, and things like that. We're like doing things
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Speaker 1: that I normally wouldn't do, you know. So it's been
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Speaker 1: a it's been really cool and all the love his
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Speaker 1: blind fans have been amazing and Netflix fans have been incredible,
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Speaker 1: So shout out to them too. That's so great. I'd
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Speaker 1: love to hear that. So we are going to take
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Speaker 1: a quick break, but when we come back, we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk to Blake about the upcoming Bachelorette season and
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Speaker 1: how he feels this show that he just filmed was
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Speaker 1: different than his time on the Bachelor franchise. You're right
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Speaker 1: back alright, Blake. So burning question of mine is, now,
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Speaker 1: you've been on two reality shows. You've been like a
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Speaker 1: character on two reality shows. This is not like you
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Speaker 1: just made an appearance. How did you feel production was
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Speaker 1: different between the two? Yeah, so great question. I do
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Speaker 1: get asked this quite a bit, and this is I've
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Speaker 1: talked to about it a little bit here and there.
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Speaker 1: But one of the coolest things I actually didn't know
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Speaker 1: this when I first signed up for All Star short
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Speaker 1: but competition shows there, it's literally against the law to
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Speaker 1: manipulate contestants. There was a it's like Survivor and Amazing
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Speaker 1: Race and all that. What do you mean anytime, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: anytime it's a cash prize. Um. There's actually a case
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Speaker 1: in the seventies that went all the way to Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court of producers favoring a contestant and manipulating so that
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Speaker 1: contestant would win. Um. And so they won. And so
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Speaker 1: now they literally it's in the contract and we you
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Speaker 1: know how it isn't maaster. You sit down that first night,
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Speaker 1: after every reason juice and you got the rules blah
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Speaker 1: blah aah that there was a contract and it was
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Speaker 1: like we literally cannot like I only have put it
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Speaker 1: this way. I only had like three I t M
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Speaker 1: s where a producer was interviewing me. Otherwise it was
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Speaker 1: all confessional. Yeah, like you sit in the confessional by
14:55
Speaker 1: yourself and you just say what's happening. Yeah, I say
14:58
Speaker 1: what's happening, to say what's in my mind. There's no
15:00
Speaker 1: prompted questions, there's no them steering you into a certain direction.
15:03
Speaker 1: So I literally sat down. I was shocked, you know,
15:06
Speaker 1: for me coming from baschlore, you have an i CM
15:08
Speaker 1: three times a day. This was shocking to me. So
15:11
Speaker 1: it was very hard for me at first to get
15:12
Speaker 1: into that because I didn't I've never done a confessional before.
15:15
Speaker 1: So there are times I'd come out and maybe like
15:17
Speaker 1: we need more to go back in, Like you can't
15:18
Speaker 1: just say it's sunny out, and those guys blue like
15:21
Speaker 1: we need more from you. So that took me a
15:23
Speaker 1: little while. Um and I would narrate a lot, like
15:25
Speaker 1: I'd be like I woke up this morning blah blah,
15:27
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, we need like sound bites, you
15:29
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So we're talking to yourself, very yes,
15:33
Speaker 1: very weird and just looking at a camera, you know,
15:35
Speaker 1: you just look at a camera, talk to yourself. But
15:38
Speaker 1: in that sense, they cannot steer situations, conversations, so they're
15:43
Speaker 1: not you know what, and I hate the word manipulate
15:45
Speaker 1: because but like they're not able to kind of steer
15:48
Speaker 1: the outcome of yes, exactly, yeah, they're not able to
15:52
Speaker 1: steer outcomes that they want to see. Like the Bachelor
15:54
Speaker 1: Bachelotte will steer a fight, you know, steer you into fight, well,
15:57
Speaker 1: steer you into you know, into proposing, to steer you
16:00
Speaker 1: into whatever. So in that sense, it was such a
16:03
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air, such a breath of fresh air
16:05
Speaker 1: compared to Bashroom Paradise and Bashette. So, now did you
16:09
Speaker 1: know this going into it with the contract? You know,
16:11
Speaker 1: I had no idea what I was going to say.
16:13
Speaker 1: You having your experience on Bachelor in Paradise and how
16:15
Speaker 1: honestly traumatic it was for you, and that would have
16:18
Speaker 1: been something that encouraged to do this show. The fact
16:21
Speaker 1: that there was absolutely no puppet tears m hm, yeah,
16:26
Speaker 1: pupp teers. Good. No, I didn't know it to that extent. Now,
16:29
Speaker 1: I knew this was a competition show. So if one thing,
16:32
Speaker 1: you know, if I if I lose the money because
16:33
Speaker 1: of intbiation, you know whatever, but you know, it's not
16:35
Speaker 1: my heart on the line, you know what I mean,
16:37
Speaker 1: it's not my life on the line. So roumantic he
16:39
Speaker 1: puts his heart above money. Yeah. So that so I
16:43
Speaker 1: was like signed up anyway. But in that day one,
16:45
Speaker 1: when I read that in the in the like the
16:47
Speaker 1: second contract we signed everything, I was like, oh, this
16:49
Speaker 1: is going to be fantastic. And my walls came down instantly.
16:52
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, this is so great. So
16:54
Speaker 1: that was very refreshing and very something new. And I said,
16:56
Speaker 1: like I said, it would all the way to the
16:58
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, like it literally is against them, Like you
17:00
Speaker 1: can get suited if you manipulate a competition show. So
17:03
Speaker 1: that's so so interesting, and I think that's something that
17:06
Speaker 1: pretty much people listening to this are not gonna know. Yeah.
17:12
Speaker 1: I've always found like, okay, so I've been part of
17:15
Speaker 1: reality shows like as a guest, right, like a little
17:18
Speaker 1: like a friend. I come in as a friend. I
17:20
Speaker 1: was on a million dollar Matchmaker, and my experience on
17:25
Speaker 1: those shows where that it's like soft scripted, it is
17:31
Speaker 1: so so fake. Might be going overboard, but like pretty
17:37
Speaker 1: freaking fake feeling. And then so when people say, like
17:42
Speaker 1: on The Bachelor, are you basically just like reading a script?
17:47
Speaker 1: Is this all planned out? I'm like, are you kidding me?
17:50
Speaker 1: Like this is like the most authentic reality show when
17:54
Speaker 1: it comes to reality shows I had, like in comparison
17:57
Speaker 1: to my other experiences like the Batchelor, there is You're
18:01
Speaker 1: just living your life and that's interesting. That's why I
18:05
Speaker 1: want to know, Like for for you, like you felt
18:07
Speaker 1: like this was just totally even beyond Bachelor level, like
18:11
Speaker 1: you just weren't really really living life without I guess
18:17
Speaker 1: you kind of already answered the question. But that's yeah,
18:19
Speaker 1: but another yeah, another to kind of talk about this, dude.
18:22
Speaker 1: So the weird crazy part is obviously between Bachelor and
18:25
Speaker 1: Bacherette and Paradise and like that that world is these
18:28
Speaker 1: are people you know you had never been on a
18:30
Speaker 1: reality TV show and tell you on The Bachelor, I
18:32
Speaker 1: had never been on a reality TV show. I went
18:33
Speaker 1: on Bachette. So we needed a little bit of steering
18:36
Speaker 1: and a little bit of coaxing. All Star short, We're
18:39
Speaker 1: all professional. I was the least professional all like reality talk.
18:43
Speaker 1: Some of these people, one guy had been on thirty
18:44
Speaker 1: six different shows as a character. They are professional reality
18:49
Speaker 1: TV people, so to be honest, don't need a lot
18:51
Speaker 1: of coaching, don't need a lot of steering. They know
18:53
Speaker 1: what they're there for. They're there to make good TV
18:55
Speaker 1: and they're gonna do it. So in that sense, we don't,
18:58
Speaker 1: you know, they don't need a screw and it's like
19:00
Speaker 1: they know what to do. So yeah, like with me
19:03
Speaker 1: and G this is only technically third show, right, and
19:06
Speaker 1: this was GS technically third show. Everybody else had multi
19:10
Speaker 1: double digits pretty much st for maybe one. I think, yeah,
19:13
Speaker 1: so these are like people have been around, like they
19:15
Speaker 1: know what to do in reality TV. Did you find
19:17
Speaker 1: yourself honored to be amongst these all star reality stars? Yes,
19:24
Speaker 1: like very much so. And I remember when I first
19:26
Speaker 1: got the call, I was like, oh, this sounds fun,
19:29
Speaker 1: you know, it sounds really cool, but like, why do
19:31
Speaker 1: they want me? I kind of went through that. I
19:33
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a um whatever the syndrome,
19:35
Speaker 1: whatever syndrome that is the imposter syndrome, you know, multiple
19:38
Speaker 1: times went through impostic system, like I wonder why they
19:40
Speaker 1: wanted me for this, you know, and it was like,
19:42
Speaker 1: but you know, I think I figured it out, and
19:44
Speaker 1: you'll watch as you watch the show, And it wasn't
19:46
Speaker 1: for me to fall in love. I don't think that. Um,
19:48
Speaker 1: And as you watch the show, I think you'll figure out,
19:49
Speaker 1: you'll figure out kind of where what they had in
19:51
Speaker 1: mind for me and what they why they wanted a
19:52
Speaker 1: character like me. But yeah, being down there with some
19:55
Speaker 1: legit like legends in the reality TV world, I mean,
19:58
Speaker 1: Angelina is one I've been watching on TV for teen years.
20:00
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was really it was really cool, and
20:03
Speaker 1: there were times where I was like, man, life is crazy,
20:05
Speaker 1: Like I'm here with these people who are like, yeah,
20:08
Speaker 1: stars in their own sins all stars, and I you know,
20:11
Speaker 1: I just happened, you know. I think the reason I
20:13
Speaker 1: even got like screen time in Paradise because the stage coach.
20:16
Speaker 1: Otherwise I don't think I would have had screen time,
20:18
Speaker 1: So I don't know. So, yeah, it was. It was
20:22
Speaker 1: a really cool and you know, I'm still thankful the opportunity.
20:25
Speaker 1: Shout out to Paramount Plus and you know, everybody involved
20:28
Speaker 1: in that, because it was it was a really cool experience.
20:30
Speaker 1: You mentioned ANGELI enough from Jersey Shore, and I thought
20:35
Speaker 1: when I heard the title All Star Shore that it
20:39
Speaker 1: was a spinoff of Jersey Shore, especially since it's on
20:42
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus and the Paramount MTV family. No relation, So
20:48
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's definitely a relation. There are So
20:51
Speaker 1: the thing is is I didn't know this either. There
20:53
Speaker 1: are shore shows all over the world. There's Jersey Shore,
20:55
Speaker 1: there's Acapulco Shore, and there's Jordy Shore, so England, Mexico
20:59
Speaker 1: and then obviously the US. So I didn't know this.
21:03
Speaker 1: Um and so half the half of everybody thinks it's
21:06
Speaker 1: like it's a bunch of short people, and then Blake
21:08
Speaker 1: and g that's not the case. It's half Shore, half
21:10
Speaker 1: other shows. Um, so seven we're sure people from different
21:14
Speaker 1: shows all over the world. And then seven we're from Netflix, Abc, CBS,
21:20
Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of different networks and shows. So, um,
21:23
Speaker 1: it definitely is a short show. Like I'm not gonna
21:25
Speaker 1: here and act like it's not a short show like
21:26
Speaker 1: at night it's a it's a short show. It's crazy
21:29
Speaker 1: like G t O. Yeah, but like yes, obviously this
21:39
Speaker 1: was kind of during COVID, so like we were still
21:41
Speaker 1: a little if you're going to clubs and things like that.
21:44
Speaker 1: But we had a club in the house, Like they
21:45
Speaker 1: let me DJ a couple of times, you know what
21:47
Speaker 1: I mean, Like really, yeah, we had a club in
21:49
Speaker 1: the house. We're talking like smoke machines and lights and like, yeah, craziness.
21:53
Speaker 1: So yes, it's it's a shore house at the end
21:55
Speaker 1: of the day. It is a short house. And the
21:56
Speaker 1: cool thing is like I remember growing up watching The Shore,
21:58
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like Thursday nine seeing my
22:00
Speaker 1: college roommates would sit down and watch The Shore. And
22:02
Speaker 1: now I'm part of that fans the Shore family. So
22:04
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool moment. It's really cool, very very cool.
22:07
Speaker 1: Did anybody else fall in love along the way? Uh,
22:12
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to tune in. I will say we
22:14
Speaker 1: are not the only relationship. Um, there are some really,
22:19
Speaker 1: there's some really cool people on me. I want to say.
22:22
Speaker 1: First say, it's like I think America especially is gonna
22:26
Speaker 1: fall in love because we don't really watch too much overseas,
22:29
Speaker 1: you know reality where they do watch a lot of
22:31
Speaker 1: American reality TV. So I think Americans are gonna fall
22:33
Speaker 1: in love with some of these characters, with some of
22:35
Speaker 1: these contestants. They are phenomenal. People are hilarious, Like we
22:38
Speaker 1: think like people on The Bachelor whatever you know, are funny. No,
22:42
Speaker 1: no, no no, these are another level of funny and just
22:46
Speaker 1: like don't give up, like just have a good time
22:48
Speaker 1: and have fun and don't care what the world thinks.
22:50
Speaker 1: And they're gonna be themselves and don't care about Twitter
22:53
Speaker 1: and Instagram and you know, there's gonna be themselves and
22:54
Speaker 1: people love that. So I think there's gonna be a
22:56
Speaker 1: lot of that. And I think there's gonna be some
22:57
Speaker 1: couples that people fall in love with and are rooting
22:59
Speaker 1: for throughout the series. Um, so tune in. Um there's
23:03
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot to be shown and a lot
23:06
Speaker 1: to happen. So so yeah, very cool. I will be
23:10
Speaker 1: making sure that my Paramount plus app is activated. Okay,
23:16
Speaker 1: So this episode of Almost Famous is part of our
23:20
Speaker 1: countdown to The Bachelor at premiere just days away. So
23:23
Speaker 1: after this break, I want to talk to you all
23:26
Speaker 1: about these two bachelorettes. Be right back, Blake. Even though
23:40
Speaker 1: you've had under a complicated relationship with the Bachelor franchise,
23:46
Speaker 1: you still are quite supportive. You talk about them a
23:50
Speaker 1: lot on your podcast. How do you feel that this
23:53
Speaker 1: Bachelorette season is going to unfold, so I'm actually, for
23:58
Speaker 1: the first time ever in my pen i am wildly unspoiled,
24:01
Speaker 1: Like I do not know anything about this, this now paradise.
24:06
Speaker 1: I've heard some things, but Bachelorette I really haven't heard much.
24:09
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to watch it just because I'm unspoiled,
24:11
Speaker 1: complete like I have no idea who the final four is.
24:13
Speaker 1: I don't even know who gets first. Pressure is nothing,
24:15
Speaker 1: So I'm excited in that sense. And the double bachelotte
24:18
Speaker 1: thing is obviously intriguing. I think, you know, it's unique,
24:22
Speaker 1: never been done before. I'm really interested to see how
24:25
Speaker 1: they're gonna just film it in general, you know what
24:28
Speaker 1: I mean, Because one of the things people always complain about,
24:31
Speaker 1: right is like we don't get enough love story. We
24:33
Speaker 1: don't get enough like too much drama, we won't love Well,
24:36
Speaker 1: now we have two bachelorettes, how are we ever gonna
24:39
Speaker 1: see their love stories unfold? So that in that sense,
24:43
Speaker 1: it's gonna exterest you see how they just edit it
24:44
Speaker 1: in general? You know what I mean? Are they gonna
24:46
Speaker 1: edit there's probably so much drama, But then how do
24:48
Speaker 1: they edit the drama in and two love stories, you
24:51
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that's gonna be really interesting
24:52
Speaker 1: to see how they handle that. But I'm excited for it.
24:54
Speaker 1: I think this might be you know, obviously, like it's
24:58
Speaker 1: no secret Bachelor and Baschett have been struggling in Paradi
25:00
Speaker 1: has been struggling for years. Um, so this might be
25:03
Speaker 1: the spark it Only I honestly truly think that it
25:05
Speaker 1: only takes one season because if you watch one season,
25:08
Speaker 1: then you get invested into the next lead, you get
25:10
Speaker 1: invested in the next so that and that's the brilliant
25:12
Speaker 1: brilliance of the show and this genius of it. So
25:15
Speaker 1: this could be the spark that that the Bachelorette and
25:17
Speaker 1: Bachelor need to kind of start turn around you know,
25:20
Speaker 1: ratings and turn around um engagement with the show. So
25:24
Speaker 1: there's a lot of potential, I think in the next season.
25:26
Speaker 1: And I I really like both Rachel and Gabby as leads,
25:30
Speaker 1: and I think they're different enough. I think they're just
25:32
Speaker 1: different enough for this to actually work, because if they
25:34
Speaker 1: were too similar, I think it'd be a nightmare. So
25:37
Speaker 1: I'm excited and I think it's gonna be a great season.
25:40
Speaker 1: You and Gabby both from Colorado. Both lived in Denver.
25:45
Speaker 1: Have you ever crossed paths? Yeah, yeah, we know each other.
25:49
Speaker 1: She was actually a so a really good friend of
25:51
Speaker 1: mine from college. She was I think roommates. Yeah, she
25:53
Speaker 1: was roommates at the time when we first hang out.
25:56
Speaker 1: We hung out for a couple of weeks and everything.
25:57
Speaker 1: Nothing serious. Um, she's always oh and I said this
26:01
Speaker 1: multiple time. She is life of the party, branks their
26:04
Speaker 1: jokes here. She's always been that way since I've known her,
26:06
Speaker 1: which was gosh, I don't even know seven eight years ago,
26:08
Speaker 1: so it's been a minute since. You know, maybe she's change.
26:11
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but um, she uh, she's gonna
26:14
Speaker 1: make a great bacherett. And I think she's gonna make
26:16
Speaker 1: great TV. Um and I said, even from day one,
26:18
Speaker 1: I was like, I think I would not be surprised
26:20
Speaker 1: if she's a bacherette. So I'm excited to watch her
26:22
Speaker 1: and represents Ceo Baby, represents Colorado. There's a lot of
26:26
Speaker 1: us in bastination. It's kind of crazy, actually so much
26:28
Speaker 1: it's a Bachelor Hub. Yeah it is. It is, and
26:32
Speaker 1: and like leads and like big characters. It's kind of
26:35
Speaker 1: crazy to say, do you worry about Gabby perhaps overshadowing Rachel.
26:41
Speaker 1: She just seems to be the favorite, not just with
26:43
Speaker 1: the numbers reflected on social media, but just the fact
26:45
Speaker 1: that she's funny. It seems like everybody was rooting for
26:48
Speaker 1: her to be the lead. I just feel like it
26:50
Speaker 1: might be detrimental to Rachel's I don't want to call
26:54
Speaker 1: it her ego, but like it's got to be kind
26:56
Speaker 1: of hard to be in the shadow of Gabby. Uh see,
27:01
Speaker 1: So I see, I actually think the opposite. I'm gonna go, yes,
27:06
Speaker 1: I do. I think I think Rachel. So everybody loves Listen.
27:10
Speaker 1: We all watch these shows, you know, and like, of course,
27:12
Speaker 1: we do enjoy the drama, and we do enjoy all that,
27:15
Speaker 1: but we I, personally, anyway, really do watch this show
27:18
Speaker 1: for the love story. I love the finale and the
27:20
Speaker 1: proposal and the love I just love it. And I
27:23
Speaker 1: think that's what propels quote unquote stardom, you know, even
27:27
Speaker 1: if it's like z List like startom for these people.
27:29
Speaker 1: So I think the love story is gonna be Rachel,
27:32
Speaker 1: and I think I don't. I don't know if the
27:35
Speaker 1: drama is the right word, but I think a lot
27:36
Speaker 1: more of the the other stuff is gonna be Gabby.
27:39
Speaker 1: And so I think Rachel's actually gonna get more of
27:41
Speaker 1: a love story. Um, she seems to be a little
27:44
Speaker 1: bit more you know, hard on the sleeve kind of woman. Um,
27:47
Speaker 1: where I think Gabby is gonna a little more light hard,
27:49
Speaker 1: Like I didn't even know Gabby was into Clayton n
27:51
Speaker 1: til the very end. I felt like she they were
27:52
Speaker 1: just friends, you know what I mean. So, um, that's
27:55
Speaker 1: just the way I felt. And so I actually think
27:56
Speaker 1: Rachel's gonna have a gonna be a bigger star than
28:00
Speaker 1: people think. And I think I don't think there's any shadow,
28:02
Speaker 1: um that Rachel's going to find herself in Well I
28:05
Speaker 1: love that prediction. Yeah. Well, on that note, my final
28:08
Speaker 1: question to you is more about Bachelor macro one was
28:12
Speaker 1: the last time an engagement really got you in the heart,
28:15
Speaker 1: got you a little emotional? So, God, that's a good question.
28:20
Speaker 1: So I didn't get to watch Michelle season because I
28:24
Speaker 1: was filming, so I didn't get see any of that. Honestly,
28:26
Speaker 1: I would say it was probably um, it was probably
28:30
Speaker 1: Tatian Zach yep. I think Zach was last one that
28:34
Speaker 1: really got really Yeah, and I watched that because I
28:37
Speaker 1: watched that season because it was quarantine, right, So I
28:39
Speaker 1: watched that season like every moment of that season leading up,
28:42
Speaker 1: and I was so excited and yeah, yeah so and
28:46
Speaker 1: I personally obviously and exactly, you know, it seems like
28:49
Speaker 1: such a good guy. So I think that was the
28:50
Speaker 1: last one that really I remember tearing up like I
28:53
Speaker 1: really got me. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was kind
28:56
Speaker 1: of waiting for you to say. I'm just hoping to
28:58
Speaker 1: get another proposal like that and then hopefully a relationship
29:00
Speaker 1: that'll last. I was just gonna say. Now, unfortunately we
29:04
Speaker 1: haven't had one last in a long time. So we
29:07
Speaker 1: shall see. You shall see well, Blake, thank you so
29:10
Speaker 1: so much for joining me. You guys can catch him
29:14
Speaker 1: deejayings throughout the country. Do you have tour dates out Oh?
29:17
Speaker 1: I do. Check out my website at Blake Corseman dot com.
29:19
Speaker 1: I got tour dates out there. I got some huge
29:21
Speaker 1: vessels coming up in Canada, Nashville, Austin, San Diego, Tampa Bay.
29:27
Speaker 1: I got some big things coming. So. He's also the
29:29
Speaker 1: host of the Behind the Rose podcast was It which
29:32
Speaker 1: just isn't just about Bachelor, and he is now a
29:36
Speaker 1: star with All the Reality Star Star Stars on the
29:40
Speaker 1: All Star Store on Paramount Plus. Thank you so much
29:44
Speaker 1: for joining us by thanks for having appreciate it. Follow
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