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Off-Camera Romance with Leslie Fhima · 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.
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  Speaker 2: It's Almost Famous podcast. As promised, as usual, we have
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  Speaker 2: some of Bachelor Nation's favorite contestants. We get to the
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes scoop on their life, their experience, and
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  Speaker 2: what they're up to. Now, Leslie, welcome to the Almost
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  Speaker 2: Famous Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, and I have to say thank you for
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  Speaker 3: saying my name correctly.
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  Speaker 4: Leslie not Leslie.
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  Speaker 3: It's Leslie, not Leslie.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody says Leslie.
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  Speaker 5: So when we were on Winter Games, our friend Dean
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  Speaker 5: was dating a girl name Leslie, and I was always like,
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  Speaker 5: you say her name is a funny say Leslie. He's like,
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  Speaker 5: isn't that the way it's supposed to be said. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. It's like it's always been Leslie to
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  Speaker 5: me and apparently not.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I okay, I have a really good friend name
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  Speaker 3: is Leslie like mine, except she hates being called Leslie.
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  Speaker 3: She wants Leslie, and I hate being called Leslie. I
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  Speaker 3: want Leslie. So that's how I grew up. My family
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  Speaker 3: called me Leslie every all my friends, you know, call
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  Speaker 3: me less really and so yeah, so when it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of funny. The only two people I've heard say my
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  Speaker 3: name correctly is you and Reality Steve.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna say, Gary, Yeah, yeah, you
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  Speaker 5: vacillated even after I told him, But whatever, Okay, got
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  Speaker 5: to jump into that a year removed. What are your
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  Speaker 5: feelings towards Gary? Do you look at him now and
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  Speaker 5: think like, oh, totally get it. I was so in
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  Speaker 5: love or are you like what was I thinking?
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  Speaker 4: Or somewhere in between.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now it's the latter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, how long did it take to get there?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much like when I got to the wedding, I
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  Speaker 3: was dumb. I was like, yeah, no, I actually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: thought they're actually proved the couple. That's what I was thinking. Really,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, I was like, no, he's not for me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you guys know you're in a
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  Speaker 3: bubble and you know, I mean I've said this on
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  Speaker 3: other podcasts. Gary was very focused and kind and sincere,
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  Speaker 3: and I felt safe with him and I did feel
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  Speaker 3: my feelings with him. I totally did. And but you know,
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  Speaker 3: then you get out of that and you're going, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably not my person.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you. Speaking of the wedding, you and I
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  Speaker 2: had an incredible moment at the wedding we did. I
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  Speaker 2: still get asked about it today. They said, hey, I
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  Speaker 2: saw you on TV and you were dancing with Leslie
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  Speaker 2: and I said, yes, it will go down as one
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  Speaker 2: of the most fun events actually I've had in all
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  Speaker 2: of my bachelor experience. That was a great wedding, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for for making it as little amount of
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  Speaker 2: awkward as possible. I don't think people watching it understood
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  Speaker 2: there was no music playing. They were like, hey, you
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  Speaker 2: two go dance together, and we're like, to what and
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  Speaker 2: they said, just go dance. The music's playing, we're live,
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  Speaker 2: and so you and I we did our thing and they.
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  Speaker 3: Told me I was dancing to you. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank god, because if anyone can make me look better.
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  Speaker 4: Because I'm moves, dancing moves because.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so bad, look incredible. We just got to put
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  Speaker 2: Ben next to her because he's going to look like
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  Speaker 2: one of those blow up machines at the car wash
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  Speaker 2: that kind of flops around.
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  Speaker 4: It's his move.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying. I was trying to be the crazy
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  Speaker 3: older women dancing with you. But it's hard because you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you know, I don't know you so funny, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: So were you shocked when like what were your feelings
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  Speaker 5: that don't put words in your mouth, how did you
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  Speaker 5: feel when you found out that, like ten weeks after
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  Speaker 5: that wedding they were getting divorced.
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  Speaker 3: I was a little shocked, but it was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a progression because after the wedding, then I
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  Speaker 3: there was three times I was with Teresa and Gary
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  Speaker 3: after that, so it was like, well, for sure, two
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  Speaker 3: times I don't know if they were at the Mental Hall,
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  Speaker 3: but I was at the Mental or the Women Tell All,
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  Speaker 3: the finale of Joey season, and then celebrity family feuds.
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  Speaker 3: So it was kind of a progression. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: Teresa and I were really good friends in the house,
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  Speaker 3: so we after the initial getting home and whatever we did,
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  Speaker 3: actually she invited me to the wedding. She called me
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  Speaker 3: up and invited me to the wedding and yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: she really wanted me there, and so after that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of fell back into how we were in
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  Speaker 3: the house, and you know, we were really close and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't like a shock like everyone else got
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  Speaker 3: shocked because I kind of, you know, heard things. But
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked initially, like really, I mean, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: kept saying, why did you get married?
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  Speaker 5: I know, were you hearing things or were you witnessing
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  Speaker 5: things when you saw them together?
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  Speaker 3: No, I wasn't really witnessing it, per se. I was
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  Speaker 3: hearing things, and I guess, you know what, I guess
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  Speaker 3: they weren't. I didn't feel like they were as close
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  Speaker 3: as I would think they should be when we got
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  Speaker 3: together in person, I could see a little space between
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  Speaker 3: them and stuff, you know, so I felt, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like it was maybe not working.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting in the Golden and I want
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  Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts on it. I'm saying, and it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear your opinion. It'll be interesting now
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  Speaker 2: as the Golden franchise continues if the show also tries
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  Speaker 2: to do these expedited weddings like they did. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they did it with Trista and Ryan when I was
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  Speaker 2: a bachelor. They attempted to do it with me. The
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  Speaker 2: problem was we weren't together, so it didn't really work
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  Speaker 2: out that well for them.
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  Speaker 3: It's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder just in general, if the show would
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  Speaker 2: be better off doing this, like a year later, giving
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  Speaker 2: it the time to kind of settle out, shake up,
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  Speaker 2: but they tried to make it so fast that it
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  Speaker 2: feels like it puts too much pressure on these couples.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, it's saying it was ended differently, and
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  Speaker 3: Gary had picked me, I would have absolutely no way
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  Speaker 3: agreed to that. I just know I would have not
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  Speaker 3: done it.
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  Speaker 2: If they say here's a million dollars to get married,
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  Speaker 2: she's like, well, darn.
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  Speaker 4: You would have been a million.
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  Speaker 2: I know if it was because that has been a
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  Speaker 2: number number that used to be used with these weddings.
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  Speaker 2: They said, here's a million dollars, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: cover your wedding and cover the expenses of your family
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  Speaker 2: and friends getting there. You just have to get married,
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  Speaker 2: like two months after this thing stops airing. You would
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  Speaker 2: have said, no, it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hard question. I mean, yeah, who doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars? But who wants a third divorce? That's
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  Speaker 3: not my goal in life.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, it's only five hundred thousand after taxes, so
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I would do it for.
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  Speaker 3: That, I don't know. I mean I would try to, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully make money another way. I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 3: or negotiate for further, like can we do it in
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  Speaker 3: eight months? You know? I just I feel it's just
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  Speaker 3: too soon. And you know, it's too soon something you know,
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  Speaker 3: most really to get engaged, and then it's too soon
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  Speaker 3: to get married, you know. I mean unless you are
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  Speaker 3: at love at first sight and you fall in love
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  Speaker 3: and and no, I mean you know that this is
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  Speaker 3: my this is my person. But if you are a
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  Speaker 3: little hesitant, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I think you got to say no. Well, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you're coming off of the Golden Franchise as one of,
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  Speaker 2: if not the most recognizable cast member from this season.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of really great cast members, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and people who participate in the season, they're great friends.
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  Speaker 2: They've been out there doing their thing. Two questions, but
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  Speaker 2: I'll start with this one. What is it like to
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  Speaker 2: see this group of women kind of go off on
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  Speaker 2: this whole new journey after the show, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: see themselves kind of in this whole new light, doing entertainment,
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  Speaker 2: doing posting, all these things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. I mean I had no idea, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, signing up. And I mean I knew because
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  Speaker 3: of course I'm a you know, Bachelor Nation fan, but
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was going to happen like that
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  Speaker 3: with us, And I really you know, it warms my
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  Speaker 3: heart and makes my heart happy to see everybody have
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  Speaker 3: their kind of little segment, you know, Susan and Kathy
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  Speaker 3: and Sondra and you know Ellen and what Faith doing
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  Speaker 3: your hair color. I love that. I just love it
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  Speaker 3: all and it makes me really happy. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we're really good spokes people for our generation.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think that as long as we
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  Speaker 3: can write it up, I think, you know, why not.
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  Speaker 3: I think more power to us.
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  Speaker 2: I like how you say Susan and Kathy in one breath,
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  Speaker 2: because that's how I say it too. They literally are
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  Speaker 2: together doing their things all the time.
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  Speaker 5: They just had something done together as well.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna tell us about that.
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  Speaker 3: These they have some alls, man, I like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And energy, energy that does not exist by any other
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  Speaker 2: human at any age.
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  Speaker 3: The two putting that out there for the world to see.
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  Speaker 3: I give them so much credit, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that we all have our lane. Like
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  Speaker 3: I would feel really weird doing that, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: weird for them to do it. You know what I'm saying, like,
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  Speaker 3: I think we all have our lane, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we all have our following, and we are trying to
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  Speaker 3: cater to those people. And you know, so I think
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  Speaker 3: it's cool. I mean, we each have we all have
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  Speaker 3: different steg of you know, people that are fans, and
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I know that when Joan was announced as the Bachelorrette,
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  Speaker 5: it was like lots of positive responses. She's done a
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  Speaker 5: great job. But I think there was a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people surprised that it wasn't you. How did those talks
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  Speaker 5: go with them? Assuming there was them, I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't have any talks.
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  Speaker 2: With them, shocking to me. That's surprising to me that
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't a conversation with you on would you even
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  Speaker 2: be interested in this? And if so, how you know,
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  Speaker 2: how do you want this to work? And there was
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  Speaker 2: never the initial phone call because when you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the bachelor world, when you're a bachelor, you're talking to
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  Speaker 2: the person they probably are going to choose, but also
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  Speaker 2: two or three others just to kind of have some
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  Speaker 2: people on the bench in cases.
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  Speaker 3: I heard that. I heard that I kept waiting, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think they had something else in mind
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  Speaker 3: for me, and it didn't pan out at the final hour,
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  Speaker 3: so it was a little disappointing because I was waiting
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  Speaker 3: and waiting.
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  Speaker 5: Can you give us any insight as to what that
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  Speaker 5: could have been? Yeah, maybe like a dancing show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, maybe Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's what they had from me. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I had an interview with Dancing with the
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  Speaker 3: Stars and I was kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting, Yeah, fun to see you on that. I think
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  Speaker 2: it would have been really good for you, but also
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  Speaker 2: for kind of the fans of the Golden franchise to
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  Speaker 2: see you again representing them.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean I love again. I'm a huge
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  Speaker 3: fan of Dancing with the Stars and I watch it
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  Speaker 3: every single year. And when I had my interview, I
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  Speaker 3: just said, I want to be your oldest winner. I
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  Speaker 3: want to be our oldest winner, and not to say
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  Speaker 3: that I was going to be. I mean, it's really
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  Speaker 3: hard to complete compete with twenty nineteen year olds, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But I had the scamina, I have the drive. I've
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  Speaker 3: been training my whole life.
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  Speaker 7: For this, and there's it never gets past the older people,
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  Speaker 7: like the older people never advance, and it would it
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  Speaker 7: would have been nice to have somebody represent the older relation,
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  Speaker 7: you know, because there baby bloomers are.
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  Speaker 3: We're it right now? You know? So yeah, but maybe someday.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: If given the chance, would you have preferred Danjumin the
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  Speaker 5: Stars over the Golden Bachelorette role.
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  Speaker 2: Just fits you more? I mean was it? Would it
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  Speaker 2: got you more excited or fit you more?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's it was a perfect It would have been
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  Speaker 3: a perfect for me. I think that. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: I would have turned the Golden Bats aer down. I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I would have. I just think that
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  Speaker 3: Dancing of the Stars would have shown who I really am,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean, they really have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: show who they really are and not the one dimensional
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  Speaker 3: person you see forty five minutes a week. Because our
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  Speaker 3: show was so short, you know, you know, I really
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  Speaker 3: wanted for the country to kind of like get to
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  Speaker 3: know me, you know, and who I am.
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  Speaker 5: Do you possibly think that Jen took your spot last minute?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I don't because I know that I don't know,
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  Speaker 8: but I don't think so because I think they I
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  Speaker 8: know that they took from fourteen people to twelve, and
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  Speaker 8: Jen was an add on she made thirteen, so I
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  Speaker 8: think she was last minute.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, she definitely deserved it. And I
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  Speaker 3: was just there last week and watched her dance. She
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  Speaker 3: was phenomenal, and Teresa and I went there together rooting
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  Speaker 3: Joe and jen On and it was phenomenal. But it
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  Speaker 3: was really hard for me to sit there going, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, yeah, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who took my spot, but you know, maybe it
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  Speaker 3: was Anna what the ankle bracelet, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, that's what I was thinking, is there's some
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  Speaker 2: people this season where it'd been really fun to see
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  Speaker 2: you step into that. I do think three Bachelor contestants
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  Speaker 2: probably was an issue for them, and at some level
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  Speaker 2: that was the conversation that they had was three people,
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  Speaker 2: as much as it would be fun to see that.
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  Speaker 2: So who knows, the future still could be there where
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  Speaker 2: maybe they don't have a Bachelor bachelorette, maybe fits the
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  Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars world and they say come on
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  Speaker 2: back and yeah, and we'd be excited here.
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  Speaker 3: I would. It would be my dream come sure, But
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  Speaker 3: you know, I kind of stopped, kind of have to
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  Speaker 3: stay relevant, and I don't know how that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, you just don't. I just don't know
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  Speaker 3: what's going to happen in the future. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was I got in shape and I worked out
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  Speaker 3: really hard this summer, you know, and it was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was exciting to think that it was
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. So maybe, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 5: How you could stay relevant, how you could date one
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  Speaker 5: of the guys on Jones season, like maybe Jordan.
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  Speaker 4: He's really cute.
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  Speaker 3: That was that was really good. That was good. Sneaky
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  Speaker 3: little girl. But yeah, I guess there's something you want
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  Speaker 3: to ask me, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: I do are you dating Jordan?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: I met dating Jordan. I met Jordan.
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  Speaker 4: Have you gone on a date with Jordan?
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  Speaker 3: No? I went on a meet and greet with Jordan's.
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  Speaker 4: A meet and greet pre date.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was a meet and greet.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what you call it. Jordan had a
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  Speaker 3: suite at the soccer game in La last week. His
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  Speaker 3: childhood's friend is like the president of the club, and
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  Speaker 3: he had a suite and he invited me and I
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  Speaker 3: brought my girlfriend Wendy, who I was saying. I stayed
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  Speaker 3: with her for one night in La, and there were
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  Speaker 3: some other guys in there from the show and a
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  Speaker 3: producer that I love, and it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: So you flew for it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I flew to La to go to Dancing with
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  Speaker 3: the Stars. Okay, I just happened to be I just
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  Speaker 3: happened to be in La a day early.
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  Speaker 2: This was weird timing, So I need clarity on this though.
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  Speaker 3: I knew that I knew that what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, out of all the women who are a part
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  Speaker 2: of this franchise, why did Jordan ask you? Had you
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  Speaker 2: guys ever talked before this invite? Was their communications consistent
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  Speaker 2: enough for him to say, Hey, by the way, you
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  Speaker 2: told me last night as we were texting that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be in La and I have been to
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  Speaker 2: have a suite and you should come with me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we have been texting a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Your voice just crack. I didn't know that was a thing.
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  Speaker 2: As we got to I didn't know your voice could
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  Speaker 2: still crack when you get married.
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  Speaker 4: How did you get the number?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you guys going to on. Just because we're older
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean we're stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fun same just because we're older doesn't mean we're stupid.
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  Speaker 2: We're reading through the lines here and saying it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not just a random invite to some suite. We just
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  Speaker 2: want to hear that, like there's a possibility in your
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: future admitting that you have talked to at least one
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: person from this season, or that you watch this season
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: with a intriguing eye, going hmmm, he's interesting.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that. I think I did. I like
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Jordan when I was watching the show. I liked him
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the best for me, Like, say, for me, you know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I think all the guys are great. I don't you know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying if it was me, if I was
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: the Golden Bachelorette and I was and he was on
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that show, you know, you know how you think, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: but you know, what's good for me isn't gonna be
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: right for Joon or whoever else. You know. I think
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: that's the beauty of those men there. I think they
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: appeal to certain you know, women, and I like that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Hopefully they'll be some connections. Jordan. I feel like we
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: have a lot in common. I know that he's funny.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I love funny. He lives in Chicago. I live in Minneapolis.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: He has a dog. I have a dog. I mean
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: stuff like that's important and we're all Jewish, and you know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, that's important to me
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: as well. I mean it's not you know, hard stop
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I have to have someone Jewish. But I mean if
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: he meet someone and they are, you know, your faith,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: that's just icing on the cake.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: So have you guys called and texted each other since
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: this weekend read up?
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: We have texted? Yeah, I mean not a ton, but
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a little bit. And you know, it's really not it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: for me. I don't know where it would it go.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: If it's going to go. I just think he's a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: great guy and to be friends with him first if
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: fine with me, and you know that kind of thing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: It's like, I don't need to jump into anything. I mean,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: he's got a whole year of this ride and I
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: want him to enjoy it and I want him to
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: experience it and I don't want to get in the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: way of that. So but I'm here as a friend
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: and he you know, after he goes through all his
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: dms from all the women and the daughters and the sons,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: he knows where I am. But I mean, you do
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: have a common bond when it comes to that I
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: think he's probably like me, where he's not suber religious,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: but you know, you are into your faith and more
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: of the heritage thing and all that stuff.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: And yeah, so I don't know, and I know we'll see.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Kind of switching gears kind of not the chapter after
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the show gets done. I think we all assume that,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you know, it was similar to our experiences where you
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: do get off the show and your dms do blow up,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and you know you're going to these events and people
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: are like, I wish you could meet my dad, or
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I wish you could meet you know whoever? Is that?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Was that your world? Is it still your world? Kind
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: of give the listeners a perspective and what life looks
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: like from the time you know you left the show
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to now.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: Well I did have a few of those, not the
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: ton and then when I had when they did do that,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: they showed me a picture of their dad and I.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, no, sorry, you know, but there was
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: one person and this is kind of a funny story,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I think I should share it, but there was one
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: girl that and she's for a doll. I mean, oh
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: my gosh, it was gorgeous, and she goes, you need
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to meet my dad and all this stuff. So just
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I'm cutting to the chase. But this man was in Miami,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: and my son and my grandkids were in Miami, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I had Zach go do a meet and greet for me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I love this expression meet and greet.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: Yeah, no, the second time I've used it. I don't know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: maybe a recon, I should say. Anyways, with my grand
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: kids in the uber, they're getting they're.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Going there and I'm cutting, and I'm I'm cutting a
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: lot out and so they meet this person, and I'm
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: sure he's a lovely man. I did talk to him
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: once on the phone or twice on the phone. He
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: seemed like a lovely man, but I was like, you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I kept saying, I don't know my life is going
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to be. And he kept saying, well, if you're the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Golden Bachelorette, you should take it because I'm waiting for you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm like red flag, you know, stuff like that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: So anyways, Zach met him, a lot of things kind
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: of happened.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: But he gets back in the umber and he facetimes
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: me and he's in the middle of my two grand
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: kids and I said, so would you think, And they've
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: boss lean in Glama, not for you, not for you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious, so good.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So anyways, that did happen, and I'm sure he's
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: a really nice person. It just wasn't for me.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I you know, I live in Minneapolis. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: say this a lot. I've lived here my whole life,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and I call it a small big town or a
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: big small town whatever. And I know a lot of
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: people even before this show, because I, you know, I
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: was I'm an instructor and I teach a lot of people, thousands,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I've taught thousands, you know, and I just know people,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and there's just not a lot of you know, I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: don't want to date someone's ex husband because I know
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: them probably, And you know, the Jewish community is small here.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I mean it's big, but it's small, you know. And
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I you know, so that part is hard to find.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: And I just don't find anybody here that I want
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to date. So I really, I can honestly say in
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: a year, I've been on two dates just once, like
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: one date and another date.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: That's shocking to me. That really is because you want
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to like, right, I do for it?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm I am so ready for love.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just like ready, but I'm not desperate.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: So you know, there's a fine line. You know. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I have my family at my life is full. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: have my grandkids, you know, I do. I go to
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: concerts every week. I you know, I work out, I
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: teach my classes. I do a lot. But I do
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: want somebody. And I had been ready, and I was
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: really ready when I applied for the show. I mean,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I've been literally divorced for twenty three years. I've had,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you know, a few long term relationships, but I have
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: been single for a long time.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I know that the show sort of, you know, pushes
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: engagement on you. Would you want to get married again
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: or would you just companions for life?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: That's a hard question. I think I would want to
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: marry the right person. I know that, I mean, but
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I want that companion as well. I mean, if I
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: found the right person and they said, I don't know
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: if I want to get married, but it was the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: right person for me, I'd be completely fine with it
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: if they If I find that person they said, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: really want to get married, I probably would if it's
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: the right person. But I also like having my freedom
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: and I love, you know, and the longer you're single.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: The harder it is to compromise a little bit. You know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: used to doing my own thing, going where I want,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and so I have to like scale it down a
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: little bit and become one with somebody. But I'm totally
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: ready for that. You know, I'm kind of open to anything.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So open anything. Question. And as we kind of wrap
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: up here, the rumor is that the Golden Bachelor franchise
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: might be trying to start a spinoff, maybe like a
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Paradise type show. If they called you and said, hey,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: we would love to have you part of this spin
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: off show. Would that be a world you'd enjoy entering
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: back into or would you stay away from it?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: That's a hard one. I would like to do it
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: because I think it would be fun and I know
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: more now I know to keep my mouth shut, you know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: but you know, you know, you know, you're just kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: of like and I tried not to be the loudest
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: voice in the room in the house, but you know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden it just comes out. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I think that and I would love to be with
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the girls again in you know, be with all the girls.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: That would be so much fun. The scrutiny part is hard.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: The bullying online is hard, and that I would not miss,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: you know, And even though I don't even read half
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the things. I mean, I don't ever go and read it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I don't ever you know, go on happy sites. But
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: that would be hard, but you know, so it would be,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and it kind of would depend on where my life
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: was at that time. If I'm say I might want.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: To, Yeah, don't let the negative opinions of others ever
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: ever stop you from doing something. It over time and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: it becomes you know nothing in your life no matter what.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Natalie's had to tuck me off the cliffs sometimes,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: and she really put it to me, like where I
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: could understand. She goes, there are millions of people that
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: watch a show, and the fraction that are commenting are
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: like a pin head. And that really helped me because
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I've watched the show my whole life and I've.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Never taken written in under the body's picture.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even think about it or my friends wouldn't,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: so so that really helped me, and that really put
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: me put the whole thing in perspective.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, if this show does happen, we kind of
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: can assume that Jordan would have been be on your
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: list as the guy that you'd want to see there. Okay,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: you kind of admitted that you were, like, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I picked it for me. Now can we play matchmaker
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: for a second? Who do you see together from your
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: season and jokes season?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: You know, I've been thinking about that and I actually
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I think Faith and Jonathan would be really cute together. Yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I just yeah, I think, uh, she's a free spirit
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: and that's I don't know what they just came into
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: my mind. I don't uh, I don't know about the others.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I actually think I don't know what happens at the end.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: But if guy doesn't get picked, I actually see him
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: with Nancy.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't know it was going to Nancy.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I love her.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we grew up in the same lake
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: where neighbors growing up.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Really, I did not know that she's sweet. She's a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: sweet girl. Yeah, amazing, amazing, But you know, than Cathy again,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: same breath. Yeah, you know, Jack, you know, there's Kim.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: I mean, I you know, I met I met doctor
• 30:13
  Speaker 12: Bob and Gil the other night in the game, so
• 30:17
  Speaker 12: I mean, they all they also been very very kind man,
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: very kind there's.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: A lot of potential for this show, and I think
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: we would all be super interested in what it would
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: look like to see this mixed match of contestants going
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: down to the beach and seeing who would partner up
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: with each other. I think it could have wild success
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: in terms of love. I do because I think there's
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of freedom of choice and freedom of exploration
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and excitement on these spinoff shows that I think everybody
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: would enjoy it. I'm pushing for it, and if they
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: ask you and you are single, I would highly highly
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: ask you to go because I love to see you
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: on this spinoff finding or at least exploring the idea
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of love again.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the guys would love this.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: You there too.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I'd be open for you. Know, I'll hit the pola
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: is a little bit stronger and I'll go.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: You're r Leslie. It is a absolute pleasure to have
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: you here and we're so excited to catch up with you.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: We wish you the best and whatever life takes you,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: whatever direction life takes you in next, just know we're
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: supporting you and we're happy to see it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, man, I can't wait to dance with
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you again. Yes, and both of you guys. I love
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: you both so much.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: From the Bachelor, I'll be asked to go back on
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars and we can.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Maybe they should have just a you know how I
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: feel we should have a spin off. That's that's amazing
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: race Yeah, amazing race off.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: That would be my other strow. I'd like to do
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I just because I'm a bowler, I'm a door like
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: it's off.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Well, this has been the Almost Famous Podcast until next time.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I've been Bet, I've been Ashley to see you soon.
• 32:02
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