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S21, #1: Bachelorette Premiere + Secrets Revealed · 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 i R Radio. I'm Ben Higgins with my co
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Speaker 1: host Ashley I or Ashley I Connetti, but basically Ashley
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Speaker 1: I forever and always. You know, I used to be
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Speaker 1: Ben h Yeah because there's ben Z on your season. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like you kind of make it when
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Speaker 1: you can drop the first letter of your last name.
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Speaker 1: So now I'm just known as Ben and we are
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Speaker 1: on the Almost Famous podcast. Hey, there we go. That's cool, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we have an ovation. We are excited to be with
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Speaker 1: you today. Um. You know, going throughout this whole podcast,
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I are going to touch a lot of topics.
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Speaker 1: But today especially we're going to talk about the Bachelorette,
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Speaker 1: of course, because you know who better to hear opinions
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Speaker 1: on a Bachelor franchise show than the two of us.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the weirdest moments from last night,
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Speaker 1: moments that made us cringe, especially me cringe. I think
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Speaker 1: I've said this many times. Even being on the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: and watching it back, there are moments where I just
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Speaker 1: want to hide my eyeballs and throw my face into
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Speaker 1: a pillow like a little kid. I have absolutely no
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Speaker 1: idea what he's referring to about himself, because I'm the
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Speaker 1: one who watches and cringes, and there's a reason for
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Speaker 1: me to cringe. But you never did anything on the
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Speaker 1: show that was cringeworthy. Some would disagree, actually, but one
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Speaker 1: incident the to start things out, Actually want to hear
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. What was the weirdest moments here last night? Well,
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Speaker 1: I guess the boom guy. That's why I like that
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Speaker 1: you said that because down Yeah, I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, like if people are listening, really want to
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Speaker 1: hear the full exaggeration that. Um, I've actually had an
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Speaker 1: interaction with the waboom guy, and so has Jared. And
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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna call Jared later and maybe you
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Speaker 1: guys can discuss that in depth. But what what do
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Speaker 1: you want to tell right now? I don't want to
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Speaker 1: tell anything right now. Actually, I think we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about that a little later. UM, I might have to
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Speaker 1: talk to Jared about it. I'm excited to here kind
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Speaker 1: of Jared reaction because I have my own personal opinion
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Speaker 1: and feelings coming off that conversation. Wait, I'm just remembering this.
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Speaker 1: I got a d M. He slid into my d
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Speaker 1: M s Lucas while Boom guy and I didn't open
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Speaker 1: it because I didn't want him to see that I
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Speaker 1: opened it. Let's open it now, Okay, let's do it. No,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Why Ashley's opening up her d M
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Speaker 1: because it's gonna take a while to slide through all
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Speaker 1: of the d M she gets in the course of
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Speaker 1: the day. Um, I want to talk about some of
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Speaker 1: my cringe worthy moments from last night. I found it.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, I don't. Then it's quite simple. What up?
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Speaker 1: Ashley dot dot dot loved you on Batch in b
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Speaker 1: I p fun to watch. I'll be on this season
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Speaker 1: with Rachel quite the journey, hope all as well. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's sweet, that was nice the thumbs up and a
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Speaker 1: dancing girl emoji. It's not a bad kind of strategy
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Speaker 1: right now. I don't know how long Lucas makes it
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Speaker 1: after last night. I'm not gonna imagine that he's gonna
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Speaker 1: make it too long, and so he's trying to make
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Speaker 1: all the connections he can before this thing kind of
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Speaker 1: fades away. Yeah, I mean it's sort of smart, but
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think with most of the big characters
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Speaker 1: on the show, and it seems like he will be one.
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Speaker 1: You don't really need Bachelor the Bachelor family to have
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Speaker 1: your back right away. You just kind of develop the
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Speaker 1: name yourself. Good point. I want to hear your action though.
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna m him back? No? WHOA, Well, I'm confused. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you had a mutual friend who hooked you up
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Speaker 1: with that phone call? Right? Yes? Okay? And then Jared.
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Speaker 1: I think that Lucas must have just slid into Jared's
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Speaker 1: d M s and he must have messaged him back,
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Speaker 1: because Jared is that nice guy. Yeah, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: to Lucas I feel like, and we have. I think
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Speaker 1: we can talk about Lucas for most of the podcast
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Speaker 1: who Past, But until then, speaking of things that kind
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Speaker 1: of make you just want to hide your face and
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Speaker 1: bear crnsworthy moments, I'm gonna call him from last night.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with one of mine. I wrote two
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Speaker 1: down and uh to anybody listening this this is coming
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Speaker 1: from a place of complete judgment. Yes, Um, I had
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Speaker 1: one moment um where I didn't feel like the guys
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Speaker 1: last night had a lot of game. I feel like
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Speaker 1: they came out a limo, kind of nervous which I get.
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Speaker 1: I was very nervous. I stuttered, you had two girls. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was a lot for me. But last night I
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Speaker 1: wasn't very impressed with first um interactions. But the one
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Speaker 1: I was least impressed with, the one that made me
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Speaker 1: very concerned UM was a young man I don't know
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Speaker 1: his name for right now, and maybe you do know it.
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Speaker 1: He gets out of the limo and he tells Rachel
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Speaker 1: something sweet. Rachel, I hear you like to laugh, which
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Speaker 1: is it's just a beautiful thing to know about somebody.
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Speaker 1: He didn't doesn't really like to laugh though. That's always
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Speaker 1: something I've never understood. People are like, I like to
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Speaker 1: have fun. It's like, oh, who doesn't like to have fun?
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Speaker 1: You're right, yeah, exactly like he He didn't didn't spent
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Speaker 1: a lot of time researching Rachel's background to find out that, hey,
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Speaker 1: she likes to laugh. But the part that concerned me
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Speaker 1: was he had her closes her eyes, reach out her
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Speaker 1: hands so she's defenseless, and he grabs her sides tickles her.
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Speaker 1: And and that's the first thing. How does somebody supposed
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Speaker 1: to react like thank you? Oh my gosh. That guy
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Speaker 1: right there, he's so sweet. He just got me laughing. Tickling.
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Speaker 1: That kind of laughing is not like I'm not I
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Speaker 1: don't think that something's funny. I'm laughing because I'm feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna die, and I would like to know.
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Speaker 1: I would like to tell you that if I were
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Speaker 1: the bachelorette and somebody tickled me, I'd probably pee my
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Speaker 1: pants flash dress, because that's what happens when somebody tickles
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Speaker 1: me and you no like legit, I will pay, you know.
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Speaker 1: And we're finding out this this guy's name because I
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Speaker 1: did I didn't do my research well enough. His name
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Speaker 1: is Jonathan. And I'm thinking, you know, Jonathan tried hard.
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Speaker 1: He thought over this for for a long time. And
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Speaker 1: you know how it is before you get out of them,
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Speaker 1: tell them about that. Okay, how did you decide what
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Speaker 1: you're gonna do? Um? You know you're you're in for
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Speaker 1: for many days. You're kind of in this bachelor world,
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Speaker 1: prepping for the first night, and and for me, you
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Speaker 1: don't really know what you're getting yourself into. You fly
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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, I arrived to l a X, I
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Speaker 1: get in a car. I'm then moved out to this
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Speaker 1: hotel getting prepped for that first night of Bachelor, And
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Speaker 1: in your mind you're thinking, how am I going to
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Speaker 1: make this best first impression? And and and in my
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Jonathan, the young man who decided to
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Speaker 1: squeeze the sides of Rachel in a loving way. Um,
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Speaker 1: at what point was he sitting in this hotel room
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Speaker 1: prepping for the first night and he goes, I got it,
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Speaker 1: Like all the things I can do right now, I
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Speaker 1: know Rachel's gonna like me the best if because she
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Speaker 1: likes laughter. But she doesn't just like laughter. She likes
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Speaker 1: forced laughter. She likes to be forced into laughing when
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Speaker 1: I do nothing particular. I mean, I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's a bad idea, but some producer was definitely
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Speaker 1: like what I do as you have? And then he
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Speaker 1: was like, well I love to tickle. And then they're
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Speaker 1: like that's it, and you know, and then he decided
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Speaker 1: to tickle and it was all downhill from there. What
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Speaker 1: was your first uh what was your initial uh exit
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Speaker 1: out of the limit would you do? I didn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: That's what I went there. The plan was to not
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Speaker 1: do anything ridiculous. I just wanted to say, Hi, I'm
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Speaker 1: actually very excited it's you, and kind of work a
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Speaker 1: little nervous Christuls. Yeah, so I don't know. I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to be smooth and collected, and it was my
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Speaker 1: coolest moment ever on the Bachelor, And it was all
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Speaker 1: downhill from there for me really around a while, I thought,
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Speaker 1: you watching it back and we don't need to go
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Speaker 1: too far in this, but you you had something with Chris,
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Speaker 1: I think so. But I just think that I was
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Speaker 1: like a crying lunatic mostly and I had like my calm, cool,
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Speaker 1: collected moment when I got out the limo, which is
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Speaker 1: really weird because it's supposed to be the most nerve
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Speaker 1: wracking moment. Well, where'd it go? What was your cringeworthy
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Speaker 1: moment from last night? From last night? You know, it
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Speaker 1: was kind of just in general. The attorney, the guy
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Speaker 1: that was the lawyer, his name was Josiah Josiah because
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Speaker 1: Josiah went in so overly confident, and it makes me
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Speaker 1: feel awkward when people are so confident and you're like, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't think she's gonna like that. It's coming across
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Speaker 1: as conceited, in cocky, not like you're just like this
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Speaker 1: very professional, nice man. No, So he thought he was
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Speaker 1: too conceiting cocky and that's what made you cringe. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what do you think about him? Well, I I agree.
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Speaker 1: I think I would say a lot of people are
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Speaker 1: a lot of the men last night we're conceding cocky,
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Speaker 1: which is interesting because I don't think Rachel is that way.
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Speaker 1: I think she's confident, but I don't think Rachel portrays
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Speaker 1: this cockiness or arrogance that isn't realistic. And so for
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Speaker 1: these guys to get out there and kind of be
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Speaker 1: I guess pea cocking themselves in front of each other. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's what the first night's all about with the Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: and the time goes on to see Ben came from
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Speaker 1: the greatest season of The Bachelorette of all time. His
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Speaker 1: top ten had like I pretty much almost marry everybody
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Speaker 1: in your top ten. I mean, I know, I know
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Speaker 1: there's a couple that I don't know if I could
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Speaker 1: like handle for life like I love Nick. Couldn't handle
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Speaker 1: him as my like living partner for life. Neither could
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Speaker 1: Joe Bailey. But like the rest of you, fantastic men
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. But I do feel like last last last
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Speaker 1: season with Jojo, it was complete peacocking. Yeah, it's getting
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Speaker 1: into that, and and that's going to be an interesting
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Speaker 1: dynamic because we move forward in this season with Rachel,
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Speaker 1: is when does the peacocking stop and one of these
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Speaker 1: men humbled to the point where they realize that there's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of hopefully for Rachel's sake, great guys there
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Speaker 1: that are competing for one woman, which adds its own dynamic.
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Speaker 1: And and Rachel's not there to have you know, who's
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Speaker 1: a who's better than who? Uh contest? It's who am
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Speaker 1: I going to fall in love with? Well, I have
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Speaker 1: to like get deep here first. I feel like you
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Speaker 1: and I may have had like the last great seasons
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Speaker 1: because it was before being on The Bachelor became a
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Speaker 1: real business. Now it's a business, and now people know
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Speaker 1: they get on the show that they have easy money
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Speaker 1: coming their way because Instagram, social media and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and like all these appearances, it's totally different than it
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Speaker 1: used to be before our seasons. And I feel like
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Speaker 1: we were all really there to find love because we deserve.
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Speaker 1: I think we were all pretty old fashioned. But now
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Speaker 1: I think you're getting a lot of people that are
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Speaker 1: just there for the business in the mix. It's interesting. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited today One of the interesting parts about this
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Speaker 1: podcast and and everybody will get used to it as
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Speaker 1: we go is we're gonna take callers, we're gonna take
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Speaker 1: call ins, and we're gonna respond to questions like that
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Speaker 1: is is the Bachelor Bachelor? It changed because of the
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Speaker 1: dynamic of income. Um, we're gonna hear from some former
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Speaker 1: Bachelor peeps, one of your good friends and uh off
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Speaker 1: and on Lover Jared Hayn and my buddy uh and
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Speaker 1: and we're also I'm excited to kind of hear his
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Speaker 1: thoughts on last night's Best Guy, Best First Impression and
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Speaker 1: here if he has any thoughts uh different than mine
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Speaker 1: on Lucas, we can get into that a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that'd be great. So let's take some call us. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: let's go to Ali and Washington d C. Hey, Hey, hey, Ali,
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Speaker 1: you're on. Hey, this is getting awkward for us all. Hello, Yeah, Hey,
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Speaker 1: it's actually hi. Oh my, hey Ali, real quick, this
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Speaker 1: has been and we're so excited to talk to your
11:42
Speaker 1: first caller ever on the almost famous podcast. Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 1: But we want to hear your question. So what's your
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Speaker 1: comment question concerned? Um, let's talk a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: do you look at spoilers. Um, I do. Actually it's
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Speaker 1: really bad, but I always look at them. Well, don't
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Speaker 1: tell me who wins. I'm going to watch this season
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Speaker 1: like a fan and not know who wins. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they real So who Who's Who's
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Speaker 1: the guy that you you want to date from this season?
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Speaker 1: From this upcoming season? Yeah? Like, what's hottie got your eye? Oh? Um?
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Speaker 1: I think the Mario is really cute. Oh he's the
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Speaker 1: lawyer right wait? Yeah? And then there was him and
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Speaker 1: then um, Dean. I think we're thinking Dean could be
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Speaker 1: a possible Bachelor contestant, I mean possible candidate for the Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: I definitely think you could be potential Bachelor of material.
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Speaker 1: That sounds great. Hey, Ali, we're gonna have to go. Um,
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Speaker 1: but Ali, thank you for calling into the Almost Famous Podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for talking to me. I have no problem. Have
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Speaker 1: a good one, yo. But I'm Ben Higgins with my
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Speaker 1: co host Ashley I. This is the Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: on I Heart Radio. Hey, everybody, by the way, this
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Speaker 1: is Amy our loss. Um. I don't know if she
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Speaker 1: actually is or not, but she's gonna absolutely a percent.
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Speaker 1: Don't you ever forget it. Let's talk about Brian. His
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Speaker 1: kissing makes me want to throw up. Yeah, that wasn't
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Speaker 1: so cute. It just wasn't he really went in for
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Speaker 1: I don't think she wanted to kiss anyone that night.
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Speaker 1: You know, she said she didn't want to kiss anyone
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Speaker 1: that night, But then she also said that she really
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Speaker 1: liked his kiss. But it just looked far too aggressive
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Speaker 1: for a first kiss for me, way too much tongue,
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Speaker 1: his mouth was wide open. Yeah, no, I agree. There's
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Speaker 1: something about that first night, and coming from the perspective
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Speaker 1: of the bachelor at or Bachelor, I would say that
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Speaker 1: first night is a whirlwind, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people you're meeting, and there's a lot of conversations you're
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Speaker 1: having and and kissing somebody isn't appropriate for that for
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Speaker 1: that night you've known them for ten minutes, because you
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Speaker 1: imagine if you are on a regular date, let alone,
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Speaker 1: like in this environment, there's twenty five people and you've
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Speaker 1: done them for ten minutes. But if somebody, if some
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Speaker 1: guy kissed me ten minutes into a regular date, I
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Speaker 1: would freak out. Yes, Rachel seemed to like it. She did.
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Speaker 1: You would freak out too. I wouldn't like it. You know,
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Speaker 1: and what people don't see from from the viewing perspective
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Speaker 1: is a lot of times you're talking to one of
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Speaker 1: these um people that you just met in front of
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Speaker 1: other people. They're they're contestants for cast or contestants sitting
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Speaker 1: around watching you talk to this person. So for you
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Speaker 1: to start sucking face in front of them is not
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Speaker 1: only distruct it's just awkward. Well, in Brian's defense, he
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Speaker 1: did take her to a very private area by the
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Speaker 1: front door. Good point. He's a sweetheart. The producers like,
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Speaker 1: this is too early for anyone else to see. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna take her right over here. Yeah, you know, but
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Speaker 1: she did like it, and I think, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: good for him, he made the leap. But let's talk
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Speaker 1: about something after he made the leap, when he's in
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Speaker 1: the moment with Rachel. I can't help. But you know,
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Speaker 1: my mom was always a great critic of my kissing
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Speaker 1: of aties during the Bachelor. Yeah, well, you know I
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Speaker 1: feel bad for my my mother and grandmother for that. Um,
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Speaker 1: this is a great topic because I have a lot
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Speaker 1: to say about it too. Yeah. So just real short here,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you my my background. So, as the Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: you're obviously dating multiple people at once, it's not a
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Speaker 1: secret you're also kissing multiple people in during an episode.
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Speaker 1: You're My grandmother and mother both watch the show, so
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Speaker 1: they saw close up how I how I kiss somebody? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're really good, I think from TV. Let's clarify that actually,
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Speaker 1: thank you. UM. So you know, as you watch it
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Speaker 1: on TV, there's not only sound effects, there's also close ups.
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Speaker 1: And the judgment comes in hot, which in turn translated
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Speaker 1: to me watching Brian last night kissing Rachel and and
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Speaker 1: there was this like a lot of like very intense
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Speaker 1: um what I want to say, like sucking or like
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Speaker 1: he would pull her face very close to his and
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Speaker 1: then like kind of push it away with his lip.
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Speaker 1: So much a movement movement. And I want to hear
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Speaker 1: your thoughts, But my only comment is Brian has um
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Speaker 1: very interestingly strong lips. It looks like, yeah, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of force there. It was like a suction cup
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Speaker 1: and there was definitely tongue in there too, And that's
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Speaker 1: just so much for ten minutes of knowing someone. But
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Speaker 1: I kept to talk about like kissing on TV two
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Speaker 1: because I looked like the worst kisser ever when I
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Speaker 1: was kissing chriss souls just completely not. I guess we
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Speaker 1: weren't very compatible. I think like my mouth may be
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Speaker 1: too big for his. This is always my this is
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Speaker 1: my theory. This is how I excuse this loby kissing
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Speaker 1: on that season. But then I really turned it around
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Speaker 1: with Jared. And while I look pretty good speaking of Jared,
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Speaker 1: can we get Jared on the line, Jared right now?
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Speaker 1: I need I needed that about this? Did we talk
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Speaker 1: about that? Embarrassing? Actually, for a second, I just I'm
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Speaker 1: going to talk to Jared. I need you to sit
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Speaker 1: back like you're now even here so I can kind
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Speaker 1: of hear his thoughts on exactly what this kiss was. Like.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jared, you're there, buddy. Oh my gosh, Hi,
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Speaker 1: that was so seamless. I know it's pretty easy. It's
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Speaker 1: going to hear your voice, Jared. I could not be
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Speaker 1: happy to hear your voice. UM. It's been a while
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Speaker 1: to be talked, to try to call you earlier, UM
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Speaker 1: to to prep you for this. UM. But everybody we have, Jared,
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Speaker 1: have Ben here, who was on Caitlin's season of The Bachelorte,
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Speaker 1: which I participated in and then has moved on from there.
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Speaker 1: UM to do great things in his life, including go
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Speaker 1: on Bachelor in Paradise and, for lack of a better term,
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Speaker 1: possibly fall in love with Ashley. I possibly what season
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Speaker 1: we were you watching? Um, Jared, we were just talking
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Speaker 1: about making out on camera, and I want to hear
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Speaker 1: your thoughts about right ways to do it, wrong ways
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Speaker 1: to do it? And then what was it like to
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Speaker 1: kiss Ashley on camera? Thank god putting me out of
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Speaker 1: the answer that phone call earlier. No, man, I mean
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Speaker 1: we've all kissed on camera, right. I don't think there
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Speaker 1: is a right or wrong way to do it. Just
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Speaker 1: try not to stuck. Because millions of people are watching you.
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Speaker 1: We've got to judge every move you make. It's weird
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Speaker 1: when you start kissing one because then you can you
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Speaker 1: can like almost feel the camera man start zooming in,
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Speaker 1: walking towards you, breathing down your neck, breathing down your neck,
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Speaker 1: pretty intense. And then, Yeah, Ashley is a really good kisser,
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Speaker 1: who was great kissing her on camera? I was very
18:31
Speaker 1: I was a very lucky man you are now. I
18:33
Speaker 1: just want to clarify here for anybody listening, Uh, Jared
18:36
Speaker 1: and Ashley are not together. I know that's that's always
18:39
Speaker 1: a rumor that pops up. They're very good friends, Um,
18:42
Speaker 1: and it's it's great to get this perspective from two
18:44
Speaker 1: people now that consider themselves friends so they can talk
18:47
Speaker 1: about this issue that we saw last night with Brian
18:49
Speaker 1: and Jared. Just to fill you in, we've been talking
18:51
Speaker 1: about Brian, who UM last night in the Bachelor at
18:55
Speaker 1: aggressively kissed Rachel within the first ten minutes of meeting her,
18:59
Speaker 1: and she enjoyed it. Also, some people sitting in the
19:02
Speaker 1: room with us right now, I felt like they enjoyed
19:04
Speaker 1: watching it and wish they could have been Rachel. What's
19:07
Speaker 1: your thoughts on somebody getting out of a limo boy
19:11
Speaker 1: or girl walking up to the Bachelor Bachelorette and after
19:15
Speaker 1: ten minutes, you know, lay one on them. Uh. I mean,
19:19
Speaker 1: as we don't know this world that we go into,
19:22
Speaker 1: it moves really quickly and rapidly. Any opportunity you get
19:25
Speaker 1: to kis someone or kind of do you think that
19:27
Speaker 1: moment is there and you really need to take advantage
19:29
Speaker 1: of it because if you don't take advantage of that moment,
19:31
Speaker 1: somebody else will. It's so politically correct because there's no
19:35
Speaker 1: way that he'd ever do this. That's completely false. I
19:39
Speaker 1: would totally do it if I felt the moment was right.
19:41
Speaker 1: I mean, been looking back, I think we all were
19:44
Speaker 1: kind of stunned when we first walked into the Bachelor world,
19:47
Speaker 1: where just it's like a culture shock. So I think
19:49
Speaker 1: we kind of kind of just try to take things
19:51
Speaker 1: in slowly and relaxed. And I think my mindset when
19:55
Speaker 1: I was first on the Bachelorette, I wouldn't have done it.
19:58
Speaker 1: But my mindset now of seeing the process from an outside,
20:01
Speaker 1: do we do it now? Yeah? And that's a good
20:04
Speaker 1: point to bring up. I've been friends with Jared, you know,
20:06
Speaker 1: since the bachelortt and I've seen his growth as a person,
20:08
Speaker 1: He's seen my growth growth as a person. I have
20:11
Speaker 1: a ton of respect for Jared. Um. Maybe well we
20:15
Speaker 1: can keep going back and forth. You that'd be your love.
20:17
Speaker 1: Even here, Jared's like, I would never do that, completely incorrect,
20:21
Speaker 1: and like, well, actually you just admitted you wouldn't have
20:24
Speaker 1: done it on your season, but you can do it now.
20:29
Speaker 1: He's way more confident now. He's a confident man. And
20:31
Speaker 1: and Jared we speaking of confidence. Um, you and I
20:36
Speaker 1: both have had an interaction with a man named Lucas.
20:41
Speaker 1: Maybe the most compelling character from last night's Bachelorette is
20:47
Speaker 1: the boom or a bam? What is it? It's yeah,
20:54
Speaker 1: it's that guy. Um, his name is Lucas. He reached
20:57
Speaker 1: out to me about a month ago to talk about
21:01
Speaker 1: what exactly he was getting himself into. And at that
21:03
Speaker 1: point it's a little late and the show had already
21:04
Speaker 1: been his lot in life had already been chosen. But
21:09
Speaker 1: I know he did the same to you. So can
21:11
Speaker 1: you just tell us a little bit about that conversation. Yeah,
21:16
Speaker 1: I mean, Lucas Fluke talks to me and uh told
21:19
Speaker 1: me that he talked to my good friend Ben and
21:21
Speaker 1: then Ben told him to get know em me. So
21:24
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Ben. Is that really went down? It
21:27
Speaker 1: might be off, yeah, Jared Jared, But the only reason
21:33
Speaker 1: I did, I want to clarify for everybody out there.
21:37
Speaker 1: The only reason I pushed him off to you was
21:39
Speaker 1: because I had things to do. And secondly, the second
21:45
Speaker 1: person that I that I respect the mostess world is
21:47
Speaker 1: is is Jared. So Jared, but he's uh no, he
21:52
Speaker 1: was cool, I mean looks and he just reached out.
21:54
Speaker 1: I had a lot of questions up the so and
21:56
Speaker 1: he said he was like a little nervous about it
21:58
Speaker 1: and was wondering somethings about what its watched back and
22:02
Speaker 1: post back for life and things of that nature. So, Jared,
22:04
Speaker 1: did you feel like talking to him there was a
22:07
Speaker 1: sense to Lucas that you were going to get something
22:10
Speaker 1: very interesting him from him watching the show back, like
22:13
Speaker 1: he was going to be a character. Yeah, I definitely. Well, honestly,
22:17
Speaker 1: I saw one of two things. I saw either he's
22:19
Speaker 1: going to be a character and he's gonna be this
22:21
Speaker 1: kind of crazy person on the show or like very outgoing,
22:25
Speaker 1: well how you know, or honestly I thought he was
22:27
Speaker 1: gonna be nobody. We can all say that he's definitely
22:32
Speaker 1: not a nobody. Uh. The world now knows Lucas, We
22:36
Speaker 1: know him for who he is. Lucas will be in
22:38
Speaker 1: our minds and hearts for a long time. Um, Jared,
22:42
Speaker 1: I had a similar reaction with Lucas. It was it
22:44
Speaker 1: was a very it was a conversation I walked out
22:46
Speaker 1: of going this guy is gonna be something. I just
22:48
Speaker 1: don't know what yet, And now I know after watching
22:51
Speaker 1: last night's episode. But the Lucas I was talking to
22:53
Speaker 1: on the phone is the wa boom guy that I
22:56
Speaker 1: will never forget Jared, buddy. We both love you. Thank
22:59
Speaker 1: you for calling into the show. Um, I cannot wait
23:02
Speaker 1: to talk to you many times throughout this podcast. Yes, yeah, absolutely, guys,
23:07
Speaker 1: And I'm really happy for you both. And it couldn't
23:08
Speaker 1: be hearth And I think Jared, you know, Jared adds
23:14
Speaker 1: a different an interesting perspective for the both of us. Right, So,
23:17
Speaker 1: Jared's a friend of mine. Uh, you have dated him
23:22
Speaker 1: more or less, you you're you're still friends. I trust
23:25
Speaker 1: Jared's opinion, and I think throughout this podcast is going
23:28
Speaker 1: to be interesting here from him because he can also,
23:30
Speaker 1: you know, be very honest with you. And then as
23:34
Speaker 1: I wish you guys could see my face right now,
23:36
Speaker 1: because my face has way more than my words could say,
23:39
Speaker 1: she might still have a thing for Jared, but no,
23:42
Speaker 1: I'm saying that, like Jared is so politically correct, but
23:46
Speaker 1: he wishes he weren't, like he wants it to brutally honest.
23:49
Speaker 1: But then like he's too good. He's just like, yeah,
23:52
Speaker 1: he's a good soul and that's not a bad thing. No,
23:54
Speaker 1: he's he's the best in everyone. Let's see if Megan
23:57
Speaker 1: from Florida has a good soul. Megan. Hi, Hi Megan.
24:02
Speaker 1: This has been an Ashley on the Almost Famous podcast. Megan,
24:05
Speaker 1: how you doing today? I'm so good. You guys are
24:07
Speaker 1: my two favorites on dostuation that I'm literally dying right now.
24:10
Speaker 1: I can't even handle it. No, we are not. You're
24:12
Speaker 1: so sleepy. Thank you. We don't. We can't have you
24:15
Speaker 1: dying on est Megan. We need to talk to you
24:16
Speaker 1: about The Bachelor at last night. Um, there's a few
24:20
Speaker 1: from Florida, from Miami. I think I can't remember their name,
24:23
Speaker 1: but and then there was a lawyer. I think that
24:25
Speaker 1: would be really match great with her. So would you
24:28
Speaker 1: that's your pick for Rachel? Right? Yeah? What guys? Did
24:32
Speaker 1: you think we're the hottest? Who are you looking out for?
24:36
Speaker 1: The name that you're looking at? Megan? Yeah, I'm so
24:39
Speaker 1: bad with names. I just know, like faces and stuff.
24:41
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm still bad with names. It's terrible. I
24:42
Speaker 1: don't know how you guys like memorize everybody's names, because
24:46
Speaker 1: I just can't do it. I don't know. Actually that
24:48
Speaker 1: brings us to a great question, Ben, how many girls
24:50
Speaker 1: named did you actually know that first night? And how
24:53
Speaker 1: many did you have to ask the producers, what's her
24:55
Speaker 1: name before giving her the rose? Yeah, definitely Megan. Actually,
24:59
Speaker 1: this is topic I get asked about all the time,
25:02
Speaker 1: and I do want to be honest with you about this.
25:05
Speaker 1: The show would love for you to forget the names,
25:07
Speaker 1: right because it's great TV. If you know, as the bachelor,
25:11
Speaker 1: I'm standing up there and I said, I don't know
25:12
Speaker 1: your name. I'm sorry, but I like what you represent
25:15
Speaker 1: and please So the what I did, in my mind,
25:22
Speaker 1: I would make uh relational like relational like memories between
25:28
Speaker 1: the name and what they were wearing or what they
25:31
Speaker 1: had told me. So, uh, you know, if somebody said, hey,
25:34
Speaker 1: you know, I like I think one of the young
25:36
Speaker 1: ladies had bread and her name was Brianna or something,
25:40
Speaker 1: so it's easy like that was my thing. So as
25:42
Speaker 1: I'm standing up there offering her a rose, I'm thinking
25:44
Speaker 1: of bread. Well, I like both of them. I like that.
25:47
Speaker 1: So that was how I memorized names. But no, there
25:50
Speaker 1: is no assistance, right, so that you can't there's no assistance.
25:53
Speaker 1: You've got to be lying. Then why do you leave
25:56
Speaker 1: every three roses and go back to the secret room?
25:58
Speaker 1: Or at least that's what Chris Soul's dead. Well, I
26:00
Speaker 1: don't know there after every three, I can't imagine. Well,
26:05
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's the most nerve wracking thing ever.
26:07
Speaker 1: But the first night I had my rose and the
26:09
Speaker 1: that was the first three. Uh, Megan, You're right. It's
26:14
Speaker 1: not only nerve wracking for the contestants, but it's also
26:17
Speaker 1: nerve wracking for the bachelor bachelor, especially on night one. Right.
26:20
Speaker 1: So that's the thing that gets gets forgotten is like
26:24
Speaker 1: Rachel has has never been the bachelorette before. This is
26:26
Speaker 1: new to her. She's nervous. I was nervous, and so
26:29
Speaker 1: you do you you get a little bit overwhelmed. Everything
26:32
Speaker 1: is kind of swarming around you. I think Rachel said
26:36
Speaker 1: at best last night when she's like, there's a guy here,
26:37
Speaker 1: there's a guy here, there's a guy here. Where it turned,
26:39
Speaker 1: there's a guy guy. Um. I felt the same way
26:42
Speaker 1: just with girls, and there was a girl every place
26:45
Speaker 1: I turned, And over time, the whole night starts to
26:49
Speaker 1: kind of just fly fly away, and and you're standing
26:53
Speaker 1: in front of all of them and the only thing
26:55
Speaker 1: you can possibly do is try to remember their names.
26:58
Speaker 1: So you did. I did. I did remember their names. Um,
27:01
Speaker 1: And that is something I'm proud of and that is
27:03
Speaker 1: one of the very many reasons that Ben is our
27:06
Speaker 1: best bachelor. Yeah, I best one we've ever had. Like,
27:12
Speaker 1: you guys are really sweet. Megan, thank you for calling
27:15
Speaker 1: into our podcast. We really appreciate I hope you call
27:17
Speaker 1: back again. Yeah, Megan, you're a great guest. Bye bye.
27:23
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Higgins with my co host Ashley I and
27:26
Speaker 1: this is the almost famous podcast. We have Rhonda from
27:29
Speaker 1: San Diego on the line. Hey Rhonda, Hi, how are you?
27:32
Speaker 1: Hey good? How are you well? Thanks for being our
27:36
Speaker 1: third caller ever on the bed An Ashley podcast. Um,
27:41
Speaker 1: so we're talking about the Bachelorette episode. Do you have
27:45
Speaker 1: any questions for us as far as the Bachelor goes,
27:47
Speaker 1: you know about like anything that you want inside scoop on? Um. Yeah, Like,
27:53
Speaker 1: what is the most nerve racking part of the first episode? Everyone? Um?
28:01
Speaker 1: For me personally, it was probably waiting in the hotel room,
28:06
Speaker 1: waiting to get into the limo and then meet Crystals.
28:10
Speaker 1: It was just that waiting, waiting, waiting, and I was
28:13
Speaker 1: all by myself. I had no one to you know,
28:16
Speaker 1: talk to, let me get about all my nerves about. Uh,
28:21
Speaker 1: there's a lot of nerve wracking experiences, especially on the
28:24
Speaker 1: Bachelor when you have never been there before. Right. So
28:27
Speaker 1: so for me, I was getting out of the limo
28:28
Speaker 1: meeting two women who had seen on TV. That's just
28:31
Speaker 1: an odd experience in itself, but being a bachelor, obviously
28:34
Speaker 1: the whole thing is ne're wracking. Um. I felt a
28:37
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of pressure and wait through the whole experience,
28:40
Speaker 1: and so I remember waking up most mornings and just
28:42
Speaker 1: praying that I get through the day without really really
28:46
Speaker 1: messing up. Um, which happened. I'd say, of the days,
28:54
Speaker 1: thank you, Rhonda. Rhonda, UM, I have a question for you.
28:58
Speaker 1: Are you a Brian Adams fan? Okay, great question, That
29:07
Speaker 1: is great. Ben and I went to a Brian Adams
29:09
Speaker 1: concert the other night at the Greek Theater. Everybody thought
29:11
Speaker 1: we were dating, but we're not. We're just friends and
29:16
Speaker 1: we were there with a group of friends and it
29:17
Speaker 1: was a great experience because I never even thought to
29:22
Speaker 1: see Brian Adams in concert, but he was killer. He
29:25
Speaker 1: rocked out. Yeah, Ronda, we wanted to clarify with you
29:28
Speaker 1: because we knew you were concerned about if we were
29:30
Speaker 1: dating or not. So we just want to make sure
29:32
Speaker 1: that you knew that we're not. Um Ronda, thank you
29:35
Speaker 1: for calling into our show. Yeah, I appreciate. Have a
29:39
Speaker 1: great day in San Diego. Thank you. All right, So
29:42
Speaker 1: I found Ben Higgins one flaw this weekend while we
29:45
Speaker 1: were at Brian Adams concert. You know, talk to anyone
29:48
Speaker 1: in this bachelor family. We all talked about Ben is
29:51
Speaker 1: just the most perfect guy. And then I heard him
29:54
Speaker 1: sing and I thought, there it is. That's the one problem.
30:00
Speaker 1: Not that that's a real problem, but Ben, show off
30:02
Speaker 1: your voice. You know, maybe people will disagree with me.
30:06
Speaker 1: Everything I do do it for you. Actually, you haven't
30:17
Speaker 1: you you've been influenced by boy bands. I hear a
30:19
Speaker 1: little Nicholas say in there, do you Yeah? Wow? Well
30:25
Speaker 1: let me send you a little bit more than baby.
30:30
Speaker 1: You're all that Oh it's actually not that bad. You
30:33
Speaker 1: live here in my arms. I find it's hard to
30:37
Speaker 1: believe this is heaven. All right. Well, I apologize to
30:45
Speaker 1: Nicola sa Nick. My dad always said to find a
30:48
Speaker 1: man like you. Hey, everybody will be singing to you
30:51
Speaker 1: for many, many more weeks to come. This was Ben
30:55
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