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12 Days of The Bachelorette: Stealing Jesse Palmer for a Second: Part 2 · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with her radio. We're back, Yes, we are back with
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Speaker 1: Jesse Palmer, and this episode, we're going to break down
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Speaker 1: this season to the Bachelorrette. We're gonna get some juice
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Speaker 1: on how this season operated, if Gabby and Rachel really
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Speaker 1: got along, behind the scenes, how Jesse navigated this season,
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Speaker 1: if it was difficult, if it was different from the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor or Bachelorette. For him, it's gonna be awesome. It
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Speaker 1: is awesome. So let's jump into it with Jesse Palmer.
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Speaker 1: All right, Jesse, you just got done filming Rachel and
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Speaker 1: Gabby season. Whoever, the minds that be behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: definitely said, hey, Jesse, welcome to the show. Let's give
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Speaker 1: you two bachelorettes. Uh, and let you deal with that.
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Speaker 1: I I guess my question for you is, how did
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Speaker 1: it go having two bachelorettes under your care? Yeah, it's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's a great question. Uh. Nobody knew how this was
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Speaker 1: gonna work at all, because it's it's never really happened before.
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Speaker 1: We've never had two bachelorrets go the entire course of
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Speaker 1: the season, so it's uh, it's double the work for sure.
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Speaker 1: As a host, it's Um, it's a lot more story.
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Speaker 1: It's too love stories, but two completely different journeys between
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Speaker 1: two women who are are different people, Rachel and Gabby. Um,
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Speaker 1: there could not be two more deserving people to have this,
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Speaker 1: have this opportunity. But when we started this thing, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of mentioned it to Rachel and Gabby when
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Speaker 1: we're on the couch and after the final rows, like,
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Speaker 1: how is this gonna work? How are you going to
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Speaker 1: date this group of guys who's going on different dates?
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Speaker 1: How our hometown is gonna happen? Like where we going?
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Speaker 1: How does this all working blend together? And somehow, some way,
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Speaker 1: all I'll say is it just kind of worked. It
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Speaker 1: worked itself out. Um. Rachel and Gabby had to navigate
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Speaker 1: a mind field at times and situations that no Bachelor
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Speaker 1: bachelotte I think has ever had to encounter. A big
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Speaker 1: team of this season for them is their love and
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Speaker 1: support and friendship together helping them kind of get through this.
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Speaker 1: But no doubt about it, dude, Like for myself, for you,
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Speaker 1: for everybody that's going to watch this season, Like you
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Speaker 1: need a wall in your your house with photos strings
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Speaker 1: connected to them, like like like you're solving a crime crime,
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Speaker 1: because there's just so much storyline going on at the
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Speaker 1: same time, and there's different people and maybe there's a
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Speaker 1: love triangle over here. Who knows what's happening. Um, but
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for Bachelor Nation to see this all
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Speaker 1: unfold and play out, because it really is. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be at first like this is history and people
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Speaker 1: are going to see that it's pretty pretty cool. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean in you're not not aware of it. Uh.
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Speaker 1: There was criticism because of you know, my season of
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Speaker 1: The Bachelor, I had two bachelorettes. Uh none one of
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Speaker 1: them made it past night one the other one didn't.
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Speaker 1: People were concerned. Fans were concerned about, oh, we're doing
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Speaker 1: this again, and that was so hard to watch. And
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Speaker 1: I think everything we found out post filming, uh, and
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I are committed to not getting spoilers. We
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Speaker 1: work really hard at that. But one thing we do
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Speaker 1: know is that Rachel and Gabby are very supportive of
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Speaker 1: each other now, which means I would assume that they
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Speaker 1: were very supportive of each other then. But you didn't
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Speaker 1: know that, Jesse. Going into the season, the two of them,
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Speaker 1: you know, you didn't know that they were going to
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Speaker 1: get along you didn't know that they were going to
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Speaker 1: stand up for each other. This could have gone a
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Speaker 1: lot of different directions. Can you speak a little bit
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Speaker 1: to what they did behind the scenes to keep that
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Speaker 1: relationship intact and to keep each other supporting each other?
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Speaker 1: Awesome question. I think a reason why why people thought
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Speaker 1: maybe this could work in the beginning is because we
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Speaker 1: all saw the wavering support they had for each other
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Speaker 1: in an Iceland on Clayton season during the Rows Ceremony
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Speaker 1: from Hell and the double breakup. I remember being there
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Speaker 1: obviously in person at the Opera House and Rakovic and
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Speaker 1: just the emotion, the heartbreak, how how hard of a
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Speaker 1: night that was for both of them, And so we
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Speaker 1: sort of saw them support each other through that, and
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Speaker 1: I think it gave us hope that this could happen
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Speaker 1: on the Bachelorette. But you make a great point that
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Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee anything, and you know that was one isolated incident.
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Speaker 1: But what happens now when you put a bunch of
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Speaker 1: men in a room and what if Gabby and Rachel
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Speaker 1: are falling in love with the same guy, or what
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Speaker 1: if the same guy is falling in love with Rachel
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Speaker 1: and Gab You know, it's there's so many scenarios on
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Speaker 1: the season of The Bachelorette that that we didn't anticipate.
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Speaker 1: We couldn't we didn't know how it could play out
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Speaker 1: and what would happen. But I will say this, I
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Speaker 1: think Rachel and Gabby deserved an insane amount of credit
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Speaker 1: for how they work together and lean down each other
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Speaker 1: and supporting each other. I mean, their their friendship is
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Speaker 1: a real thing. Um. They had to have some really
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Speaker 1: raw and honest discussions with one another. Um, and they
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Speaker 1: had to break rules or set rules because again, this
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Speaker 1: is kind of a first time we're doing this, and
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Speaker 1: they really took control of this thing. They really did,
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Speaker 1: And I think that, I mean, I would hope, you know,
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Speaker 1: for them coming into this because there were so many
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Speaker 1: question marks. You know, I don't know if it was
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Speaker 1: something they talked about together but before they came on,
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Speaker 1: but they were ready. They were ready to take charge.
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Speaker 1: And we don't want to do this row ceremony this way,
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Speaker 1: or we don't want to do this date this way,
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Speaker 1: or this group date this ware. This is the amount
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Speaker 1: of guys we want to go have a date with,
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Speaker 1: or this is where we want to go. We're canceling
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Speaker 1: the state. We're doing this like they were. They were
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Speaker 1: on it, and we really gave them the space to
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Speaker 1: to do that because we just we just we were
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Speaker 1: hopeful it was gonna work, but we just didn't know
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Speaker 1: how it would. And I think at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, again, the big theme of them supporting each
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Speaker 1: other and being there for each other through good times
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Speaker 1: and through through bad times and really tough times, I
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Speaker 1: think is what's going to be um I think very
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Speaker 1: evident to people at home when they watch with Rachel
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Speaker 1: and gabbing. It's so it's it's great to hear because
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Speaker 1: when you have leads, you never know what you're gonna get,
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Speaker 1: especially you know, you might think you know them from
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Speaker 1: the previous season, or maybe you don't know them at all.
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Speaker 1: I think one of the marks of the best leads
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Speaker 1: are the ones that take charge and you might not
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Speaker 1: even see them taking charge. But it's putting your foot
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Speaker 1: down on things you feel uncomfortable with. It's putting your
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Speaker 1: foot down and saying I'm not going to do this
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Speaker 1: or that. Uh And I've always said that, hey, that
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Speaker 1: is an option. It is available to you. Nobody can
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Speaker 1: force you to do anything. Uh. So it's really great
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Speaker 1: to hear that they did that then had each other
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Speaker 1: to lean on. But you as a host, then, did
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Speaker 1: you find it difficult as they kind of took charge
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Speaker 1: and you were kind like trying to catch up with them,
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Speaker 1: to relate with them, to to to meet them where
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Speaker 1: they're at, or did you feel like, hey, you could
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Speaker 1: get a get the hang of it pretty quickly. No,
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Speaker 1: it's it was a unique challenge for sure. And we
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Speaker 1: we talked about how formula the show is. So you
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Speaker 1: go through a season, you know, so you and I
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Speaker 1: are the Bachelor, and then you host a show and
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Speaker 1: you go through the season with Clayton, and there's you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like there's the steps you see, and there's the
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Speaker 1: dates and the group dates and the one on ones
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Speaker 1: and then a rose ceremony and then uh, there's a
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Speaker 1: house arrival. All that stuff sort of goes down. I
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Speaker 1: think one of the big challenges with Rachel and Gabby
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Speaker 1: was if they did want to change the rules, they
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Speaker 1: did want to take control, it was understanding for them
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Speaker 1: what they want to do, why did they want to
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Speaker 1: do it, and then how can I as a host
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Speaker 1: help facilitate that and help them enact that plan. Um
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Speaker 1: hard to know sometimes when things like that have never
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Speaker 1: happened before. What I will say, and I don't want
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Speaker 1: to give anything away, but there were times that there's
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Speaker 1: there were some times on the show where things happened
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Speaker 1: that nobody anticipated. Things happen in settings that we've seen
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Speaker 1: a thousand times on the show, um, and massive curveballs
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Speaker 1: got thrown, and we were all sort of Rachel and Gabby, myself, producers, everybody,
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Speaker 1: We're just sort of like, hmm, what just happened. How
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Speaker 1: do we move forward from this now? And and we
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Speaker 1: all kind of had to work together and to do that,
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Speaker 1: and everybody was able to do that, thankfully, and Rachel
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Speaker 1: and Gabby again deserved the most credit because they could
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Speaker 1: stand up and they could say, this is how we
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Speaker 1: want to do it. I know this might not fit
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Speaker 1: into what the creative would have been seven months ago
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Speaker 1: when we were thinking about this, but this is who
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Speaker 1: we are, this is what we want. You know, We're
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Speaker 1: here to find love, We're here to find our person,
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Speaker 1: and we have to be truthful to ourselves and we
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Speaker 1: have to handle these situations the way that the way
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna do it, We're gonna be real about this.
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Speaker 1: But that's That's one of the things I respect most
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Speaker 1: about Rachel and Gabby I think is they're both very real.
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Speaker 1: They're different people, right Like with Gabby, she's she's as
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Speaker 1: real as they come. What you see is what you get.
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Speaker 1: You know that she's so emotionally mature. She's so good.
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Speaker 1: I wish I could be as good as Gabby at
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Speaker 1: like explaining how I feel and why I feel that way.
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Speaker 1: She's incredible. And then Rachel's the type of person who
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Speaker 1: loves She loves hard, and I think we saw in
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Speaker 1: Clayton season like she can put her guard down, her
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Speaker 1: walls down faster than most of us ever do. Um.
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Speaker 1: She knows what she wants from a family standpoint, career standpoint,
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Speaker 1: as a pilot like she has, she has needs that
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Speaker 1: need to be met and in order for it to
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Speaker 1: be compatible. Um. But for you know, so you've got
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Speaker 1: two different people, but for them to have the conversations
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Speaker 1: they were able to have, UM, to try to kind
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Speaker 1: of work through all this. It was so impressive to
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Speaker 1: me as a host. Kind of sitting back and watching it,
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Speaker 1: I was pretty minute. Well, yeah, because being decisive is
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Speaker 1: so important. But then oftentimes as you're a single lead,
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Speaker 1: there are situations where there's no right answer. It's like
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Speaker 1: the the less of two evils. Then you add in
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Speaker 1: a second lead sitting beside you, those things expound the
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Speaker 1: problem is probably like grow a little bit, and so
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Speaker 1: navigating those waters have to be tough, and that's oftentimes
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Speaker 1: where you come in Jesse. It is where you can go, Okay,
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Speaker 1: can we bring some wisdom into the situation. How many
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Speaker 1: times did you find yourself having to sit down in
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Speaker 1: those moments where like, oh crap, I don't really know
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Speaker 1: what to do here? Uh? How many times it happened?
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Speaker 1: It definitely happened. And you know, the the other tricky
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Speaker 1: part was like there's times that Gabby and Rachel's journey
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Speaker 1: is sort of intertwined and it's going together, but then
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Speaker 1: there's also times where at some point it has to
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Speaker 1: separate and they need to kind of you know, Gabby
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Speaker 1: and Rachel kind of go their own direction. Um. And
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Speaker 1: so it was me trying to give them space, uh
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Speaker 1: to talk together at times. I didn't always again it's
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Speaker 1: not me, it's not about me. I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: be the one interjecting all the time and being like
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Speaker 1: guys come on, huddle up, let's talk about this. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna figure it out right now. What do you want
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Speaker 1: to do? What do you want to do? You know,
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Speaker 1: there were times where you had to sort of give
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Speaker 1: them space to have those moments and have those conversations.
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Speaker 1: But then there was other times where one person is
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Speaker 1: really high after a situation the other person's way down
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Speaker 1: here though, because because that's the inevitability of how this
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Speaker 1: is gonna work. One's going to make a decision and
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Speaker 1: it might affect the other person, whether they're conscious of
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Speaker 1: it or not. And so then you're having as a host.
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Speaker 1: You're going over here and you're saying, hey, how are
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Speaker 1: you feeling, why do you feel that way? Let's talk
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Speaker 1: it out. Here's here's some advice I can give you.
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Speaker 1: Here's something that happened on my season that made me
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Speaker 1: feel this way. But you know, it's and then and
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Speaker 1: then conversely, this person is here and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: literally the next day, it's a one eighty completely. So
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Speaker 1: that was you know, it was sort of like a
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Speaker 1: scale and you're just sort of kind of it was.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of challenges to this as a host,
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Speaker 1: for sure, and but like again because you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: such a big fan of Rachel and Gabby and this
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Speaker 1: was this was new for me too because it was
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Speaker 1: the first time hosting. I actually knew the leads when
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Speaker 1: I met when I met when I met Clayton, I
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Speaker 1: literally met him when he came out of a limo
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Speaker 1: at night one. Obviously I knew who he was, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't really have a relationship with him yet at
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Speaker 1: that point. Having kind of lived through Rachel and Gabby's
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Speaker 1: journeys on Clayton's season, you know, I was aware of
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Speaker 1: what happened, and because of that, I was I felt
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Speaker 1: very invested in them, wanting them to both be happy
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Speaker 1: and um as as it is on any season, but
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Speaker 1: particularly this one. There were some some days and there
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Speaker 1: were some times where I wasn't I wasn't sure what
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Speaker 1: was going to happen, you know, how this was going
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Speaker 1: to end, and we didn't know. If we didn't know
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Speaker 1: what what could happen. Would they both make it to
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Speaker 1: the end, would they both find love? Would they both
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Speaker 1: not with one bail early just because they couldn't handle it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all on the table, it really is. Now.
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Speaker 1: Was it different for you, uh to host the bachelor.
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Speaker 1: I mean, given you had two batchelorettes, but if you
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Speaker 1: could like somehow think about this as a bachelor's season,
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Speaker 1: a bachelor's season. Were was it different in terms of
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Speaker 1: of navigating it or do it feel very similar? Now?
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Speaker 1: It was similar in a lot of ways, but it
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Speaker 1: was very different than a lot of the ways that
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Speaker 1: we spoke about. I also, you know, I I feel
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Speaker 1: like I had more interaction with cast on this season
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Speaker 1: as well that there were there were some times where
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Speaker 1: some of the dudes would would want to pull me
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Speaker 1: aside and be like, hey, I got a problem. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do. You know, can we can
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Speaker 1: we go? Can we sit down and talk about this?
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Speaker 1: And so that was sort of new for me as well.
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Speaker 1: There was it wasn't just on Clayton's season. I was
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Speaker 1: mostly interacting just quit um on this season though it
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Speaker 1: was Rachel and Gabby most of the time, but then
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Speaker 1: there were times where I was also interacting with the cast.
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Speaker 1: It's funny, man, like, you wear so many different hats
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Speaker 1: doing this um and you're you're an advisor, You're you're
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Speaker 1: shoulder to cry on your you know, you're offering advice
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Speaker 1: where you can. But but you're you're also a cheerleader,
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Speaker 1: so there's there's just so many different different hats you
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Speaker 1: have to wear, and I think every single day or
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Speaker 1: every you know, different points of different days, you felt
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Speaker 1: like you were just kind of always changing them, and
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Speaker 1: so it was it was labor intensive, but but it
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Speaker 1: was totally worth it. Yeah. Well, we're gonna close up
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Speaker 1: here with you, Jesse, but I do have one final
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Speaker 1: question for you. For you to be out there listening
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Speaker 1: for the fans in Bachelor Nation, if you, as the
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Speaker 1: host of the show, could write your own teaser and
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Speaker 1: write the language to that teaser, giving people a preview
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Speaker 1: of what they can enjoy going into this Bachelor at season.
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Speaker 1: How would you bring that teaser to life? What's your
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Speaker 1: best sales pitch to get people to tune in, watch
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Speaker 1: and enjoy this season. Well, the most dramatic season and
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Speaker 1: Bachelor history is the first thing I would say verbatim too.
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Speaker 1: I would just say, hey, it's history. Two bachelorette's double,
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Speaker 1: the love double, the drama double, the funds double, the
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Speaker 1: work for the host. That's perfect. Well, Hey, Jesse Palmer,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today on the
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Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast Best of Luck as you continue filming.
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Speaker 1: Uh and best of luck in this upcoming season of
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Speaker 1: The Bachelorette as you probably hit the media circuit here
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Speaker 1: pretty soon. The work never stops. For the host of Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, Jesse Palmer. Thanks, thanks for
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Speaker 1: having me on Ben, Thanks brother, appreciate it all right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: the party still continues. It will still continue leading up
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Speaker 1: to the airing of The Bachelor at we'ren be back
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Speaker 1: here on the Almost Famous podcast. Thank you for joining
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Speaker 1: us today. Jesse was awesome. We're so pumped here to
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Speaker 1: watch this season and see how it progresses week by week.
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15:41
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