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Mysterious Trips · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. It's a big week for headlines. We've got
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Speaker 1: a couple headlines that I cannot wait to run through
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Speaker 1: with Ashley. Here. The mystery of the Trista Sutter disappearance,
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Speaker 1: along with Ali Fedotowski like disappearance from social media at least, continues.
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Speaker 1: We're getting less and less answers.
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Speaker 2: I think, no, not I have. I mean, I know,
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Speaker 2: I know what happened.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, Ashley's can you share it with us?
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Speaker 2: I think people know. I think it's I think it's
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Speaker 2: special Forces. Interesting, even press articles are saying that it's
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Speaker 2: most likely special Forces.
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Speaker 1: Well, here at the Almost Face podcast, we're gonna say
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Speaker 1: they allegedly were on special Forces. They are now back
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Speaker 1: and Trista Sutter breaks her silence about her absence and
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Speaker 1: reunites with husband Ryan and kids.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so first off, how about do you think Ali
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Speaker 2: feels that her husband didn't go on diatribe on social
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Speaker 2: media about.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, she's like coming home, She's like wait, what
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Speaker 1: you didn't miss me? Like what was going on here?
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Speaker 1: In fact, if I was her husband, I would have
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Speaker 1: seen Ryan's post and just been like well, I have.
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Speaker 2: To have You don't have to be so melodramatic something
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Speaker 2: you gotta do nothing Well, Trista was really funny. When
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Speaker 2: she got back. She said, geez, people, can a girl
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Speaker 2: have a nervous breakdown slash trial, separation slash midlife crisis
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Speaker 2: slash death slash divorce and peace around here? In all
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Speaker 2: seriousness For those concerned, I'm safe and sound, happy and
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Speaker 2: healthy and love and grateful. For those who'd rather focus
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Speaker 2: on being critical and searching way too hard for darkness,
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Speaker 2: good luck, good luck with that an opportunity for prospective
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Speaker 2: and personal growth presented itself, and the unconditional support of
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Speaker 2: my family and friends. I chose myself and betterment, knowing
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Speaker 2: that my stay at home mom job and my kid's
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Speaker 2: end of the year school needs were in the best,
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Speaker 2: most capable hands. If you guys are a little late
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Speaker 2: to this and don't know what Ben and I are
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Speaker 2: joking about, Ryan Sutter posted about I don't know the
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Speaker 2: exact number I want to say five very dramatic yet
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Speaker 2: loving and caring posts about him being out of touch
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Speaker 2: with his wife, her going through some sort of life journey,
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Speaker 2: and him just doing life without her. For two weeks
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Speaker 2: and Ryan posted something yesterday about his the fact that
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Speaker 2: he usually just posts about his dogs, and he's going
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Speaker 2: to go back to just posting about his dogs because
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Speaker 2: he can't believe that for the first time and basically
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Speaker 2: twenty years so many press outlets picked up on his
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Speaker 2: social media active that there was headlines with his name
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Speaker 2: in it. He says, uh blahlah blah, bah blah. But
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Speaker 2: twenty one years ago, I was pretty famous. I don't
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Speaker 2: have millions of followers, and I'm not influencing anyone, but
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Speaker 2: for some reason, every now and then people still pay attention.
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Speaker 2: Apparently that has recently been the case. I strayed from
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Speaker 2: the safety of my usual dog themed posts and I
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Speaker 2: post some messages to my wife for a time, which
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Speaker 2: she could eventually read them. She understood the context, so
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Speaker 2: did I. No one else did, however, and that's where
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Speaker 2: things went sideways. It was suggested that Trista had died
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Speaker 2: I don't know about, that we were in trouble, or
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Speaker 2: that it must have been a midlife crisis, amongst other
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Speaker 2: creative ideas. Some thought it was intentional, that I was
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Speaker 2: misleading people in order to somehow benefit from it. It
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Speaker 2: got picked up by entertainment news sites. I started getting
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Speaker 2: text from people concerned blah blah blah. But he said,
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Speaker 2: but to be honest, it felt good to know people
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Speaker 2: still cared and worried and wondered. It felt good to
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Speaker 2: be noticed and inspired me to start paying better attention
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Speaker 2: to others when they do good or when they need help. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, we were talking last week about how, like
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Speaker 2: I that is a lot of miss Like he really
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Speaker 2: missed her. And we know that if it was Special Forces,
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Speaker 2: that it only films for about ten days. Of course,
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Speaker 2: with travel and pre production and stuff, it probably comes
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Speaker 2: to about fourteen fifteen days. But like we were like, man,
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Speaker 2: I want to be missed like that, And I was thinking,
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Speaker 2: my dad does miss my mom like this. He writes
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Speaker 2: her notes every morning. And then my mom came for
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Speaker 2: the weekend. She was here for three nights. And then
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Speaker 2: my sister looked up the plane tickets just how much
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Speaker 2: it would be to switch and add like an extra day,
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Speaker 2: and it was only one hundred dollars, and she was like,
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Speaker 2: I have to get home to Dad, like Dad needs me.
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Speaker 2: Like my dad legitimately like doesn't have any sort of
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Speaker 2: like real mental or physical need for my mom's you know, presence,
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Speaker 2: but like he will text her like I'm sad, I'm lonely,
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Speaker 2: I want you home, I miss you, like within hours
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Speaker 2: of her leaving for a three day trip.
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Speaker 1: It's very sweet. Yeah, I wonder if it's always been
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Speaker 1: that way. Well, I will always be team Ryan and Trista.
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Speaker 1: Love those two, like two of the coolest, best people,
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Speaker 1: love them to death. I do feel like here though,
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Speaker 1: they should both look at this and be like, no,
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Speaker 1: we definitely set ourselves up for this, Like one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: I can see why people were like, what is happening?
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Speaker 1: Where is Trista? Where is she gone?
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Speaker 2: Especially like did the show get annoyed by this? Like
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Speaker 2: she basically revealed herself as a cast member?
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Speaker 1: Sure, but like I know that they're both probably like, hey,
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Speaker 1: everybody overreacted this, and I'm sure we did. Like I'm
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure we overreacted to these posts, but
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Speaker 1: I can see why people overreacted to these posts, Like
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Speaker 1: I get one hundred percent say yes, I when I
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Speaker 1: read these, even knowing the two of them and believe
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Speaker 1: wanting to believe the best, I was like, is everything okay?
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know what's happening, but is my biggest
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Speaker 1: question in general was is everything okay?
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Speaker 2: But you don't think that knowing Ryan and Trista, but
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Speaker 2: particularly Ryan in this case, he was never asking for
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Speaker 2: attention goodness, No, like absolutely not like this guy like
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Speaker 2: doesn't search for attention whatsoever. He's the quietest and most
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Speaker 2: private amongst everyone. Every time we have like a group trip.
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Speaker 1: Ryan, there's zero thought in my mind that Ryan at
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Speaker 1: any point when it's in fact, I think he probably
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Speaker 1: did this for a lack of attention, not knowing what
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Speaker 1: social media exactly right.
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Speaker 2: He just thought he was sending messages to Trista and
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Speaker 2: she would probably be able to get them via social
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Speaker 2: media better than text message.
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Speaker 1: I bet that. Honestly, I don't think it's probably far
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Speaker 1: from the truth. Ryan was not looking for attention here.
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Speaker 1: He is not like most of us. He's a very
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Speaker 1: quiet He is, you know, head to the ground, hard worker.
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Speaker 1: And I do probably think he was writing these as
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Speaker 1: a love letter to his wife that he did miss
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he was like, holy cow.
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Speaker 1: I doubt Ryan even knew that these things caught fire
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Speaker 1: and got attention from publicity until like days after we
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Speaker 1: did like I bet at some point he woke up
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Speaker 1: one morning he was like, hey, why is my name
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Speaker 1: on like CNN? Or my Google alerts are popping up?
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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he's like, oh crap,
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Speaker 1: Like now I gotta type another one. That made it
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Speaker 1: a little bit worse, and everybody freaked out a little
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Speaker 1: bit more well, kind of in concert here, Ali Fitatowski
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Speaker 1: discusses crazy emotions after her mysterious trip, and she says
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Speaker 1: she doesn't quite feel like herself. Just give a timeline
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Speaker 1: her kind of as I said, disappearance, I don't know
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Speaker 1: it's to call it from social media also happened about
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Speaker 1: the same time Tristas did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah okay, so she said, hey everyone, I'm back. I've
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Speaker 2: been off social for a bit and I'm happy to
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Speaker 2: be back. You know, wait to share what I did.
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Speaker 2: I have so many feelings around it, crazy emotions around it,
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Speaker 2: and I honestly mentally don't feel quite like myself right
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Speaker 2: now because of it. I promise as soon as I
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Speaker 2: can share with you, I will. I just can't now, said.
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Speaker 2: It feels good to interact with her followers again and again.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait to share everything she can when she can.
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Speaker 1: I think both of them. It's interesting to me, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: if it was Special Forces and we are allegedly saying
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Speaker 1: that is the best, you know, point to where we
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Speaker 1: think they went. It's interesting they're both kind of going
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Speaker 1: about this talking about their kind of mental health and
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Speaker 1: bettering themselves. I wonder if Special Forces is kind of
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Speaker 1: marketed to contestants as this place to believe in yourself
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Speaker 1: again and to do something powerful and to show your strength.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised because I do think the show
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Speaker 1: does that. You know, it's an incredible endurance of mental strength,
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Speaker 1: and it does kind of catapult you back out into
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Speaker 1: the spotlight for a period of time and people watch
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Speaker 1: you go through these grueling tasks. But both Ali and
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Speaker 1: Trista kind of have similar language on what they were
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Speaker 1: doing and why they were doing it.
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Speaker 2: Totally, You're right, And the show did have Nick and
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Speaker 2: Tyler on last season from Bachelor, so then it would
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Speaker 2: just make sense for them to have two females from Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting choices, I would say, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want no offense to Ali, but
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Speaker 2: I think that Alli is a little bit more of
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Speaker 2: a random choice. Tristia makes a lot of sense. She's
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Speaker 2: the mother of the franchise. She will always be a name. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and to me Ali, while of course, like we know
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Speaker 2: her from The Bachelor, I think of her more as
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Speaker 2: like a mommy blogger these days because she's done a
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Speaker 2: lot since the show. She did E she did some
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Speaker 2: lifestyle shows. She's very concentrated on social media now. So
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Speaker 2: just a little bit, just more of a left field
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Speaker 2: choice for me.
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Speaker 1: You don't think of her as the Bachelor anymore. You
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Speaker 1: think of her as, yes, something different. If they both
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Speaker 1: won this thing. We have problems, like I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: like big like issues internally, like how strong am I?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 1: Am I weird?
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Speaker 2: Am I? Like? We don't even know how powerful we are.
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Speaker 2: But when we're sitting there.
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Speaker 1: Bridge, yeah, so strong and all I do is talk
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Speaker 1: for a living. Susan Lucci claims she was called about
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Speaker 1: leading the Golden Bachelor. Said it wasn't for me, was
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Speaker 1: her quote. This according to people. Actually, as we know,
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Speaker 1: multiple people are called about leading the franchise each season.
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Speaker 1: This isn't something new or abnormal. It doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: Joan wasn't their first choice. It doesn't mean that she
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Speaker 1: was their first choice. It just means that they kind
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Speaker 1: of call a bunch of people. They did it when
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Speaker 1: I was The Bachelor. They bring them in a room,
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Speaker 1: you have dinner with, you know, the creators of the show.
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Speaker 1: You sit down, you talk about what you're all about,
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Speaker 1: and then you know you really don't know you're going
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Speaker 1: to be the lead until they announce it. So not shocking,
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Speaker 1: but Susan Lucci, big name getting the call. They're obviously
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing out of this is they
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Speaker 1: are considering when it comes at least to Golden to
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Speaker 1: go outside the franchise.
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Speaker 2: It feels like every year we get a headline of
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Speaker 2: a celebrity saying, like I was asked by production to
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Speaker 2: be the lead. They obviously are really and they never
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Speaker 2: say yes. They're really trying for this and one day
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Speaker 2: I really want it to happen for us. It would
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Speaker 2: be really fun. And with Susan Lucci, Holy moly, does
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Speaker 2: that really make a lot of sense for them to
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Speaker 2: get an audience that they don't currently have, Because yes,
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Speaker 2: did The Golden Bachelor bring in a lot of older audience,
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Speaker 2: a lot more vast of range when it comes to
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Speaker 2: age range, Yes, But with Susan Lucci, you're gonna get
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Speaker 2: so many fans of all my which my mom was
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Speaker 2: for years, just lots of soap fans. The whole show
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Speaker 2: itself kind of is like a soap, so I think
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Speaker 2: she'd fit right in perfectly. And then I think you're
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Speaker 2: gonna get a lot of people who are older who
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Speaker 2: are like, what is this show that Susan Lupchi is
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Speaker 2: doing that's so interesting? She's seventy seven. I mean, she
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Speaker 2: looks amazing. Her husband died two years ago. She has
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Speaker 2: been a really fun candidate for it. But she did
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Speaker 2: say I believe that they contacted my publicist and it
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Speaker 2: wasn't for me. I don't think it went the conversation
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Speaker 2: went too far. I did watch The Golden Bachelor. I
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Speaker 2: really enjoyed watching The Golden Bachelor. This is a new
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Speaker 2: addiction for me, she said. She she spent years watching
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Speaker 2: her mother love the franchise, but she didn't get into
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Speaker 2: it until a couple seasons ago, after her assistant inspired
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Speaker 2: her to give The Bachelor a try. So my assistant said,
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Speaker 2: I'm going home to watch The Bachelor with my daughters,
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Speaker 2: and she says it's really good, and you know, now
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Speaker 2: it's her new guilty pleasure. She says, well, in that case, Susan,
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Speaker 2: maybe like see how you feel after jone season, because
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Speaker 2: this would be really fun.
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Speaker 1: Give it a shot. Tin Lee Mulsanne welcomes baby number
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Speaker 1: two with husband Taylor Leopold. This according to US Weekly.
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Speaker 2: Tenley had been posting about how she wanted to have
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Speaker 2: this baby so bad because she like went to the
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Speaker 2: forty week point it was the baby was do do,
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Speaker 2: so she was. She happily welcomed her May twenty third,
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Speaker 2: ninety eight PM. The baby's name is banks Alia Eliah
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Speaker 2: Leopold and she was eight pounds six ounces, so she
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Speaker 2: said in the Captain wonder why I was hurting? She
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Speaker 2: looks a lot like real did, but a little extra squashy.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations to Tenley and her husband Taylor, and of
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Speaker 2: course their daughter ral who's very excited to be a
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Speaker 2: big sister.
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Speaker 1: It's super fun to see. It's absolutely awesome. Good for Tenley,
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Speaker 1: good for Taylor. More babies in Bachelor Nation continue. Abigail
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Speaker 1: Herringer's memoir The Deaf Girl comes out in September, and
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Speaker 1: her quote is your girl has published her first book.
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Speaker 1: This according to the Bachelor Nation.
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Speaker 2: She definitely kept this under wraps. She keeps us updated
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Speaker 2: on a lot of things, the wedding planning, the reconstruction
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Speaker 2: of their house. But she I don't think said anything
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Speaker 2: about her writing a book, But here she is. She
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Speaker 2: posted on social media saying your girl has published her
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Speaker 2: first book. It's called The Deaf Girl, a memoir of
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Speaker 2: hearing loss, hope, and fighting against the odds. She showed
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Speaker 2: us the cover. The cover looks cute, she said. In
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Speaker 2: tw twenty one, many of you met me for the
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Speaker 2: first time when I stepped out of a limo and
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Speaker 2: quest for love. In my introduction included a playful mention
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Speaker 2: of my deafness, and I meant it as a lighthearted
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Speaker 2: pickup line, but it sparked a much needed conversation about
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Speaker 2: hearing loss in the mainstream media, and since then, I've
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Speaker 2: received numerous messages from people sharing their own experiences with
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Speaker 2: hearing loss. Some people some people reminded me of high
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Speaker 2: school Abigail, unsure of where she fit in. Born deaf,
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Speaker 2: but received a cochlear implant at a young age, placing
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Speaker 2: her between two communities. So she's describing that kind of
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Speaker 2: person herself, and others echoed my mom's journey, which is
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Speaker 2: navigating the world as a parent of two deaf daughters,
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Speaker 2: filled with the fear of the unknown. There were those
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Speaker 2: who are like my now fiance, who wanted to learn
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Speaker 2: how to be a supportive partner to somebody with a disability,
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Speaker 2: and many others who expressed the struggle with how to
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Speaker 2: balance their disability with their personal identity. So she teamed
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Speaker 2: up with her mom to look back on their lives
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Speaker 2: and to put together this book. She said, over the
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Speaker 2: past three years, my mom and I have combined our
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Speaker 2: experiences into this book in mind, you know, particularly focusing
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Speaker 2: on growing up with a disability and navigating life's challenges
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Speaker 2: and hers her perspective of raising two daughters with a
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Speaker 2: shared disability and facing uncharded waters. So it comes out
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Speaker 2: in September and she hopes that it provides answers and
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Speaker 2: comfort and hope to those who need it.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the combo, right, what a good idea.
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Speaker 1: Really cool. We'll be bringing her on to get more
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Speaker 1: insights as September gets closer about this book. But really
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Speaker 1: great when somebody uses you know, whatever it is that
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Speaker 1: catches the attention of the audience, something that probably at
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Speaker 1: some point was an insecurity for her as she mentioned
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Speaker 1: in high school, and now it's her super Now it's her.
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Speaker 1: It's the thing that she is talking about connecting with
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Speaker 1: and helping others with. Absolutely cool, absolutely awesome. Wishing her
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Speaker 1: the best and the most success with that book. Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Final headline is this not really needing to be discussed,
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Speaker 1: but we are getting kind of some glimpses into Gin's
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Speaker 1: night one as the Bachelorette. We get more and more
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Speaker 1: excited here at the almost famous podcast about Night one
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Speaker 1: of the Bachelorette. We believe that filming has now concluded,
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Speaker 1: it's wrapped. The story is in a box, it's on
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Speaker 1: the floor of some editing room at ABC, and it
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Speaker 1: will be fairly soon in front of our eyes. To
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Speaker 1: enjoy Ashley, any insights, details, hidden secrets that aren't spoilers
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Speaker 1: that you have leading up tonight one m.
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Speaker 2: No, except for the fact that she posted on social
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Speaker 2: media four days ago saying proof of life. Past couple
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Speaker 2: months have been crazy, but I'm back, I'm grateful and
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Speaker 2: it's only the beginning.
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Speaker 1: Shocking that she did that. Honestly, most of the time
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Speaker 1: you cannot share when you're back because they don't they
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Speaker 1: don't love to know that it's over, Yeah, because then
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Speaker 1: people start digging people. You know, some fans still don't
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Speaker 1: think that the show is actually taped months before. I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest, Ashley. Every once in a while, I'll get
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Speaker 1: a spoiler, like, just come across my page. I've got nothing.
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Speaker 2: Oh really, I got the top four? I didn't. I
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Speaker 2: think I look at them, but I don't remember. I
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Speaker 2: don't recall them. Guys, when I'm recapping this, I will
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Speaker 2: not know. But I was on X and sometimes it
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Speaker 2: just there it is, and I'm like, oh, which are
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Speaker 2: these guys cute?
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Speaker 1: You know, I've got nothing. I'm coming into this thing
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Speaker 1: completely oblivious, so very excited. I like doing that.
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Speaker 2: It's more, you were pretty attached to Joey's season, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like you guys became friends, so
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Speaker 2: that was like not that season was kind of it
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Speaker 2: was a little you were in the know, right, but
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Speaker 2: for the most part, you and I have not been
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Speaker 2: in the know first seasons.
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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, we kind of meant to do that. We've
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Speaker 1: meant to come into this thing without the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: what happens. Well, it's more fun for all of us
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Speaker 1: speaking of knowledge of what happens. We'll have an almost
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Speaker 1: Good Advice coming out this week. We'll have some more
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Speaker 1: interviews coming out obviously, the Headlines episode is here. As
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Speaker 1: we get closer and closer to gen season as the Bachelorette,
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Speaker 1: we're here at the Almost Famous Podcast very excited for
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Speaker 1: this season. A lot of unanswered questions because we don't
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Speaker 1: know Jen well, but we're going to start to investigate
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Speaker 1: to understand her a little better, so everybody here at
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Speaker 1: the Almost Famous Podcast can go into this season as
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Speaker 1: excited as we are. But until next time, I've been Ben,
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Speaker 1: I've been Ashley.
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