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Almost Famous OG: Paradise Lost with Mercedes Northup · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hello mister Ginney, Well, hello Trista Sutter nay Wren, how
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to almost Famous though.
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  Speaker 3: Oh jees, yeah, but I think we're almost famous, just
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  Speaker 3: almost famous, because we're filling into I think, right, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are just almost famous today, and I think that that
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  Speaker 2: is pretty spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we're going like current time.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of current, Hi, Mercedes, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: How are you great?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited that we actually get to like poach
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  Speaker 3: almost famous because we never get to talk to like current,
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  Speaker 3: as we just said, And I just loved you on
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor in Paradise and you Bachelor, but I love your
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  Speaker 3: sparkly positive energy and just want to thank you for
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  Speaker 3: coming on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: So I assume, Bob, I don't think that Bob watched.
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  Speaker 3: Is this true? Bob?
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  Speaker 2: It is true. I did not watch. However, I do
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  Speaker 2: know who Mercedes is. There's some standouts right from every season,
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  Speaker 2: and so right when I saw your face, I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: wait a second, I know who she is. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: very you're a very refreshing person to see on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for joining us and thanks for being
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  Speaker 2: on the show. So yeah, I'm excited to get to
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  Speaker 2: interview you as well. So even though I didn't actually
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  Speaker 2: get to see all the antics from the season, I
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  Speaker 2: know some of the scow so I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: He's always in the know, he does his homework.
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  Speaker 1: Producers do a bang up job, they sure do.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, Okay, so how is life after Paradise? Are you in?
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  Speaker 3: Are you in Nashville or Iowa? Or where are you now?
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  Speaker 3: And how is life?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So I came back to nash Well, I've been in
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  Speaker 5: Nashville for five years now. Yes, I absolutely love it here.
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  Speaker 5: It's such a fun city. As a young adult, I
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  Speaker 5: am kind of thinking about moving to San Diego. I
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  Speaker 5: know a lot of people do that after they go
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  Speaker 5: on the show, but I have a few friends that
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  Speaker 5: are going out there. So that's kind of the plan
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  Speaker 5: right now. Just job searching and trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing, Are you become the hot San Diego?
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  Speaker 1: Become the hot spot? Is that where everyone goes after that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting because you remember Trista back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: I mean when we did the show, it was like
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  Speaker 2: everybody you know, like just immediately took off to be
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  Speaker 2: the new ben Affleck and Trista and I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We stayed.
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  Speaker 2: We kept to our we stuck to our guns. We
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  Speaker 2: stayed local. You know where you buy that. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: back in Michigan, which is where I grew up, but
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  Speaker 2: I ended up I went to Manhattan first and then
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  Speaker 2: and I ended up in LA. But it took me
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  Speaker 2: a while to get there. But Nashville is where I
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  Speaker 2: would have always wanted to go.
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  Speaker 5: I love, yeah, and you know what a lot of
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  Speaker 5: there's a lot of Bachelor Nation here and I feel
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  Speaker 5: like a lot of people from California are moving here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, there's so many California people here.
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  Speaker 2: San Diego is awesome too, though. I love It's one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite areas of California.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's. And it's I feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: close enough to La where you guys, you could be
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  Speaker 3: a part of anything that comes up, and then it's
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  Speaker 3: far away where you can actually like get away from
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  Speaker 3: it all or when. Yeah. Okay, so are you dating currently?
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  Speaker 1: Nope?
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  Speaker 5: Not dating, definitely keeping my options open. I went into
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty four being like, Okay, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: like force anything or like look really and if it
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  Speaker 5: comes to me, it comes to me. But right now,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just really doing like a lot of like self
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  Speaker 5: work and trying to be like the best person I
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  Speaker 5: can be because I want to be that for my
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  Speaker 5: partner when they decide to come around.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, for me right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I when I watched Bachelor in Paradise, the thing
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  Speaker 3: that stood out to me about your story is the
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  Speaker 3: end with Tyler and how he like, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sitting there watching the show, yelling at my phone or
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  Speaker 3: television whatever I'm watching on because he was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the spark it was just wasn't there. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: didn't he literally, like literally tell her that you guys
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  Speaker 3: had sparks on the first date. I was like literally,
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  Speaker 3: And so I went back today and I just googled Mercedes, which,
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  Speaker 3: of course lots of cars come up, but I googled,
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  Speaker 3: and then I googled your last name and I watched
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, that's exactly what he said on
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  Speaker 3: your first date. He said there was all these signs
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  Speaker 3: and there were sparks, and then he's like breaking up
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  Speaker 3: with you and saying he couldn't find a spark, Like,
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  Speaker 3: how did you feel about that? Yeah, it definitely I
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  Speaker 3: felt like I kind of knew it was coming.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like we were both we.
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  Speaker 5: Liked each other, but it was neither one of us
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  Speaker 5: were really like trying to take it a step further,
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  Speaker 5: Like we were just like almost comfortable, you know, Like
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  Speaker 5: I feel like our first date, it was amazing and
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  Speaker 5: we both agreed that like there was definitely something there.
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  Speaker 4: But then I felt like after we had that high,
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  Speaker 4: it just kind of like puts out, you know. So
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  Speaker 4: it definitely caught.
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  Speaker 5: Me for a surprise when he said no spark, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, what do you mean those spark Like what, like,
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  Speaker 5: that's like a relationship, you have to have a spark,
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  Speaker 5: Like what are you talking about. Yes, So definitely when
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  Speaker 5: he said that, I was like taken aback. But I
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  Speaker 5: also think that at the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 5: just weren't. We're better as friends, and I love Tyler.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's great. I'm really happy for him. He's
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  Speaker 5: in a relationship and everything. Wish absolutely nothing but the
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  Speaker 5: best for him. I think at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: we just knew that we were better off friends, and
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  Speaker 5: unfortunately you know, we were in front of cameras and
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  Speaker 5: all that, so it was kind of like four and
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  Speaker 5: so I feel like we were trying to make it work,
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  Speaker 5: when in reality we kind of both knew that it like,
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  Speaker 5: wasn't it you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great outlook and a
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  Speaker 3: great way to look at things. You know, all relationship
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  Speaker 3: ships are not going to work out, and I think
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  Speaker 3: if you have that kind of attitude, then you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like when someone's using the same words.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like when someone's using the same words like
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  Speaker 2: spark too much, that that's a producer in their air going,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because he obviously didn't realize that. He said,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I feel such a spark, right, and
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  Speaker 2: then to be like, I'm just not feeling sparks.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, no one uses that.
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  Speaker 4: I know they did, like in the show and they
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  Speaker 4: did the little flashback. I was like, oh, that's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to age. Well, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to come back and bite. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I feel such great chemistry and then at
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  Speaker 2: the end you're like, I don't feel any chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, this is not going to age.
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  Speaker 3: Should be I should be more in the know and
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  Speaker 3: realize that there probably is a producer behind all that.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, dude, you literally told her that
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  Speaker 3: there were sparks on your first date, and then you
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  Speaker 3: told her there weren't any, Like.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that it was great.
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  Speaker 3: So I know that you've got your girl gang from
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor of Paradise, So tell me about the trip, like,
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  Speaker 3: and I love that you guys are still getting together,
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  Speaker 3: especially like I know, Bob, you probably still are mad
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  Speaker 3: about not being able to go to the Cold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little I'm a little hurt. A little
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  Speaker 1: hurt Gary and I are going to talk me.
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  Speaker 4: Too, a mean on that call.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know either, I know, so I have I
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  Speaker 6: you know, between that, between that and being left off
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  Speaker 6: the shortlist for the Easties, I'm just so ass chapped
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  Speaker 6: over here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So so I've told Bennett and
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  Speaker 3: other producers and execs like we need to have a
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  Speaker 3: massive reunion with like everybody because the show is like
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  Speaker 3: what I've I used to explain it as like a
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  Speaker 3: you know, a dysfunctional kind of crazy family, but I've
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  Speaker 3: come to realize that it's more like a Greek po
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  Speaker 3: ed Greek group, like a fraternity sorority combined with girls
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  Speaker 3: and guys where we're like we're like family, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: not really and you like some people and you don't
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  Speaker 3: like some people, and you love some people like their family.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that you have found your crew.
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  Speaker 1: Who did you walk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, your tribe? Who did you walk away with the
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  Speaker 3: closest relationships, I would.
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  Speaker 5: Say out of Bachelor, I was definitely closest with Katie
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  Speaker 5: and Kylie. Those were like my two girls that I
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  Speaker 5: went to for everything, Me and Kylie when we started traveling,
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  Speaker 5: we were roommates, so awesome. Yeah, And so when you travel,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you know you are always Mike. Do you
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  Speaker 5: have some like downtime where you can, like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just just chill out and like be able to talk
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  Speaker 5: to them And so it was like me and her
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  Speaker 5: got really really close because we were having that time together.
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  Speaker 5: So definitely, out of Bachelor, I was definitely closest to
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  Speaker 5: probably Kylie and Katie, and then obviously once everything ended,
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  Speaker 5: we all hung out and then relationships like continued building.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm really close with like Jess, kat Kylie, obviously Katie, Gabby,
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  Speaker 5: Ariel the whole group, Davia, we have a whole clan.
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  Speaker 5: I love it so much. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. I know you're super close with Kylie.
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  Speaker 3: As you just said, how is she doing with the breakup.
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  Speaker 5: I think she's doing the best that she can, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: like that news is horrible to receive on both ends,
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  Speaker 5: Like it's just it was horrible, and so I think
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  Speaker 5: that she's doing her best. And I know that she's
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  Speaker 5: working on healing herself. And I know she just went
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  Speaker 5: on like Nick Biel too. So I know you guys
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  Speaker 5: will hear her from her soon about her side, which
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  Speaker 5: I'm really excited for her to put out and just
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  Speaker 5: let the world know what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and for Bob, I he cheated on her, right,
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  Speaker 3: she found out that he cheated on her. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: never never good.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's a bummer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like in circumstances, it's like break up first,
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  Speaker 2: if that's what you feel like doing, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: honest to god, I used to always say it. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, give me a favor, like don't in a relationship,
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  Speaker 2: like don't just.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the joke be on me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna do it, you can call it
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  Speaker 2: and be like, hey, we're done, and then do whatever
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  Speaker 2: we'll do. At least then I'll be like, oh, you
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  Speaker 2: know what they did me the service, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I might not have saw the text. I might
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  Speaker 2: not have seen it, but you know, yeah, that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Especially in the public eye. You know, that's what I was.
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  Speaker 5: That's like the worst part is like obviously he fed up,
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  Speaker 5: because cheating is never okay, But it also suck that
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  Speaker 5: she had won. She had to find out from random
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  Speaker 5: people like telling me she did.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but.
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  Speaker 5: And then she It's also like sad for him too,
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  Speaker 5: like obviously he's the one that screwed up, but he
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  Speaker 5: was getting so much hate too, so like I.
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  Speaker 4: Feel remorse for him almost kind of because he's just
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  Speaker 4: going through you.
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  Speaker 5: It's just a crappy situation all around, and I feel
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  Speaker 5: for both of them. Obviously, do not think what he
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  Speaker 5: did was okay at all. And like Tom leaves my girl,
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  Speaker 5: like I write at Dawn for her, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: he I would do anything for that girl, and I
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  Speaker 5: just yeah, she's working on herself and doing better every day,
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  Speaker 5: so she's grown a lot from it.
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  Speaker 2: As as a super old married dude, I will I
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  Speaker 2: will send along some advice for her, let.
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  Speaker 1: Her know that it's about her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Like him doing that is is a complete
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  Speaker 2: reflection of him. So you know, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, whatever he did in that moment, it had
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  Speaker 2: a thing to do with her. It had to do
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  Speaker 2: with him, with hints, insecurities, with something that he has
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  Speaker 2: going on in here and up here that made him
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  Speaker 2: feel like he had to be a comple jackass. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, speaking as a guy who's made
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  Speaker 2: a billion mistakes in my life, I can say that
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  Speaker 2: it was never about the person or anyone else. It
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  Speaker 2: was always about me. And so I can say that
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  Speaker 2: from that perspective that I guarantee you that guy is
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  Speaker 2: kicking himself right now. I mean, the five minutes of
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  Speaker 2: pleasure was not worth the relationship and the hate that
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  Speaker 2: he's received ever since then, because you know, it's one
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  Speaker 2: of those things you do not forget, you know. They
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  Speaker 2: Tristan and I have both been so fortunate that people
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  Speaker 2: have loved us so for you know, and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: for that they you know, but the people that were
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  Speaker 2: considered villains at that time.
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  Speaker 4: They know.
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  Speaker 1: People don't forget that part either.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I still have people approach me and be
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  Speaker 2: like what about this guy, And I gotta be like, no,
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  Speaker 2: he's not a bad guy, you know, but it's it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things. So you know, I feel bad,
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  Speaker 2: I feel remorse for that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad for that guy. But yeah, that's all
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  Speaker 1: about him. So make sure she knows that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely will.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of villains that Bob like brought up, Braden
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  Speaker 3: was kind of a villain before Bachelor in Paradise and
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  Speaker 3: he kind of redeemed himself. What what are your feelings
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  Speaker 3: about his proposal and his relationship with Christina.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Honestly, when I heard that they were together, I
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  Speaker 5: was like what It's crazy what I was like, there's
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  Speaker 5: like I'm so confused all this what about you know,
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  Speaker 5: Christina has a little girl. And at first I was like,
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  Speaker 5: oh my gosh, Braden is like so young and like
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  Speaker 5: that's like a lot to take on, you know, And
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  Speaker 5: I was like ready and then I like step back,
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  Speaker 5: And that's exactly how my parents were. Like I met
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  Speaker 5: my dad with when I was I think I was
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  Speaker 5: like seven and he ended up adopting me, and so
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  Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, if Brayden is like that person
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  Speaker 5: for her, like, I support it one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: They seemed so happy and like, yeah, I just want
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  Speaker 4: the best for them. I was so shocked when he
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  Speaker 4: proposed to her, though. I was like, oh my gosh, what.
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  Speaker 3: Were you watching live?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I was.
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  Speaker 5: Actually I was in the other room. I forget what
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  Speaker 5: I was doing, and my friend was watching it. She
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  Speaker 5: started screaming, Oh no way.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what happened?
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  Speaker 4: Something was wrong. I didn't even think it was the show,
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  Speaker 4: and she's like, they just got a game.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny. So one of the producers, Katie Summers,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys both know her, but
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  Speaker 3: she was like she came around to the table that
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  Speaker 3: I was sitting at, and she's to all of us
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  Speaker 3: standing there, she said, hey, do you want to be
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  Speaker 3: part of something that's going to be really exciting? And
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  Speaker 3: we were all like, well, well, yeah, of course, if
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  Speaker 3: it's really exciting, why wouldn't we want to be part
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  Speaker 3: of it? So we all kind of go over and
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  Speaker 3: we had no idea what was about to happen, and
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  Speaker 3: and then she gave us the scoop and told us
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  Speaker 3: what was going to go down, and I actually got chills,
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  Speaker 3: like I I I love love and I got chills.
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  Speaker 3: And then afterwards people were all like up in arms.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I can't believe that somebody got engaged
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  Speaker 3: in a wedding. You're not supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: That, blah blah blah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Like, but but.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a standard wedding, right, It's not normal.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a normal wedding. It was like a live
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  Speaker 3: television event. It wasn't just a wedding. Oh anyway, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was really exciting in the moment, and I am
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  Speaker 3: so happy for them both. Christina was amazing with my
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  Speaker 3: daughter at the wedding and just love her, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: just just love her.
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  Speaker 5: She's like literally when people are like, what's like Christina,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, I'm like, she's just like she's all personality.
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  Speaker 5: Like it's just like she says so much going on
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  Speaker 5: and she can literally talk to a brick wall and
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  Speaker 5: like literally, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a great way to describe her. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was that was a really fun moment for me
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, you know what, you can't compare it
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  Speaker 3: to a normal wedding. It was the television event and
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  Speaker 3: they spoke with Harry and Teresa beforehand, or he did, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what else? Stop making drama when there's no drama.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: People, Hey, one thing that I've learned, one thing that
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: I have learned from being on this show is like,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: people are going to talk no matter what, like, no.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Matter what happens.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, someone's gonna have something to say about something. And
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: like you just got to roll with the punches and
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: be like, Okay, you don't know.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Me so well.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And if there's no drama, you're two vanilla. So it's like.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: A little They're like, oh, Mercedes has no personality, she's boring.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I'm like, why because I don't want to give into
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the drama.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Don't don't bite.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Don't bite, Yeah, don't take the bait.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Doing great, you're doing great. It's much better to hat.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I'm sure, yes.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: So what's next for you besides maybe moving to San Diego?
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm just honestly flying by this student. How
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: was that saying?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Pants?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Seen in my pants. I'm just like rolling up doing
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: whatever comes my way. I told God, like, whatever doors
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: you want to open in twenty twenty four, Like I'm down,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I'm going to say yes to everything. I'm going to
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: do everything whatever comes my way. I'm ready for it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I'm job searching right now, trying to finally start my career.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: No clue what I want to do.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Before right, Yeah, you have to know what they want
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: I feel like I originally before I went on the show,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I was working as a case manager at a nonprofit
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: and I loved that, but I also like kind of
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: want to dip my toes and other things too, Yeah.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Like a for profit, Like I really want to be
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: in a for profit this time.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's funny.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Just trying to figure out
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: life right now.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you have great opportunities. I'm sure your lovely
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: personality are I am. I'm sure you're gonna have a
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: lot of opportunities.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: So we're excited for you. Keep us posting how it goes.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, I definitely will for sure.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: And last question, are you moving to San Diego with
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: anybody or are you going to be living with someone
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: one of those besties?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Yes? So, Kylie and Jess are actually moving I think
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: like next month, so they're moving very soon. So my
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: plan is to whenever I get a job, I'll move
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: out there and then probably do like a month a
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: month for a while until I can, you know, find
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: someone and move in with them once their lease is up.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: So just figuring it out. Yeah, we'll see.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I love it is carlsbad that, you know, I'm not
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: sure Tenley lives out there, and and she's about to
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: have another baby, so hey, maybe you could be a nanny.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's what I'm doing right now.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: I literally had to change his mind because my I
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: named for them a couple of years ago, and they
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: it snowed here and they're.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Like, we're going to go to Punta Kata. Can you
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: watch our kids? And I was like sure. So I'm
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: just like a full full mom for a few days.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Wait, you didn't get to.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Are you? Yeah? She is not close to Carl's Bad.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I can promise you that, yeah, no.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: And I I grew up in Iowa, so I know
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: all about the Midwest.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Oh you definitely do you Definitely we're getting crushed with
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: snow right now.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: It's brutal, but so it is Denver right, so it's donever.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You guys got a lot to Yeah, it was.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: We're better like we were in the forties.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, but.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Gosh, it was like negative ten. I think, like literally
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: on my car dashboard, I'm like, what is happening? It
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: was freezing for you all.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Iowa, Iowa has like my hometown has like twenty inches
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: right now, and it's been in the negatives for like
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: a week.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I hate it so brutal. Yeah, you wonder then I'm like,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: why did I leave La again? I'm trying to remember.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I know it all right? Awesome, Thank you Mercedes for
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: coming and chatting and good luck with everything in the future.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Just love watching you. I'll be following along.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me today. It was
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: nice meeting you guys.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Nice meeting you too. Thanks for joining almost famous.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: How a great day you too, See you Bye bye.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: She is so lovely she is, And you know what,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering if she had any idea who we.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Were guarantee she did not.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: She's like, why is this old married dude giving me
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: advice about something? He wasn't even invited to the Golden
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Bachelor wedding and he didn't eat to present.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: An Eastie, who is this loser?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I don't get that hurt anymore. I'm fifty one years
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: old and I just can't care anymore.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: When I was fifty one, I didn't care either.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: It's the turning point in life, it really is. You
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: know what, though, she's so cute, she's so nice. I mean, honestly,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think she's got a great attitude of about things.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And man, how great would it be? Oh, you know,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what I'm gonna doing. On job hunting,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I loved it. You're like, so job hunting for what?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I you know, I'm not really sure hunting for jobs
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: with you know, some type of.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Job do you just put in like job search like
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: San Diego.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Job job go. Yeah, okay, I know what do you want?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? I'm not entirely sure.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Just too, I think it's awesome.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, why not when you're young just have the
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: doors wide open and cast a wide debt.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I love it too. I'd do it if I could. Man,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for I wishould have best. Well, that was awesome.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sading. He's for joining us.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: We loved it. Thanks for coming on Almost Famous.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I hope that your interview with US today finds you
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: your new career in a for profit.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mercedes, and thanks everybody for listening.
• 22:44
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• 22:47
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• 22:51
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