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Almost Famous: OG · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with her radio Welcome
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Speaker 1: to Almost Famous The O G s Our first episode,
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Speaker 1: So Our O G Episode of Being O G S
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Speaker 1: with Me, Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter, the Queen of
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Speaker 1: the O G s of the entire Bachelor franchise and
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Speaker 1: the world in general. Hi, Trista, Oh, Hello, my my
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Speaker 1: Bachelor Bob, my Bachelor O G. Bob Guinea who um
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Speaker 1: likes to introduce himself as Guinea like the pig, Guinny
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Speaker 1: like the pig. Well, you know, it's funny because you know,
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Speaker 1: you come off a show like The Bachelor, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I always thought that I was, you know, world famous
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Speaker 1: long before I was on that show. Unbeknownst to me,
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Speaker 1: no one knew who I was. So, you know, they
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Speaker 1: find out your name and it's a weird last name
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Speaker 1: like mine, you know, g U I N E Y,
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Speaker 1: and they're always like, how do you pronounce your last name?
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Speaker 1: And so I would say Guinea and they'd be like,
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Speaker 1: or is it guiny? So I just took the whole
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Speaker 1: steam out. I'd be like Guinea, like the pig. So
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Speaker 1: may we move forward? Maybe we move forward, Let's get
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Speaker 1: away from Guiny? So any who I digressed, welcome to
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Speaker 1: our first show. That's right. I'm so excited. I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited to be kind of reconnecting with you after all
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Speaker 1: these years. I mean, obviously we've stayed in touch, um
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Speaker 1: kind of through social media. So thanks to social media
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Speaker 1: for coming along after we were on TV. But it's
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Speaker 1: so nice to reconnect. And so how did you I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about kind of how we got into
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Speaker 1: the show. I mean, I've talked. I know you have to.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I've been asked this a billion times and interviews,
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Speaker 1: but for anybody knew who's turned tuning in and wants
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Speaker 1: to kind of hear where we got started. How well,
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Speaker 1: actually I should probably start with my origin story because
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Speaker 1: my story leads into your story. Um, okay, So I
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Speaker 1: was in Miami at the time. I was working as
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Speaker 1: a pediatric physical therapist, and I was a Miami heat dancer,
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Speaker 1: and of course when I got on the show, that's
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Speaker 1: all that they put, you know, Miami heat dancer. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't a pediatric physical theory this my grad school UM
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Speaker 1: had no burying on who I was. Anyway, So I
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Speaker 1: was at home after a busy day at work. I
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Speaker 1: was watching Extra and I remember um Lacy Pemberton, who
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Speaker 1: was the casting director at the time. I think she
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Speaker 1: actually might still work with the show, or did until
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Speaker 1: very recently. But she was on Extra talking about how
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Speaker 1: they were doing this new reality show and I had
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Speaker 1: watched road Rules and Real World UM and loved those shows.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, huh, you know my ears perked up,
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Speaker 1: and she was like, well, you well, you'll get to travel,
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Speaker 1: you'll get to meet people, hopefully find a love connection.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't really care about the loved Nick connection
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Speaker 1: at that point. I mean, I was kind of in
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Speaker 1: a rut at that point in my life and I
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Speaker 1: wanted something new and exciting. But really the most exciting
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Speaker 1: part to me was just getting to go out to
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Speaker 1: l A and and travel and make new friends. So
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Speaker 1: I ended up applying online, which they still do now
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Speaker 1: so that hasn't changed, although I know that they go
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Speaker 1: to they create different events in different cities and try
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Speaker 1: to get people to eliminate their friends exactly. So I
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Speaker 1: applied online and then they wrote back and you know, said,
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Speaker 1: we we like what you sent in, um, just the
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Speaker 1: basic application. We you send it more. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: have to send in this like twenty page application and
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Speaker 1: then a video. And I remember my video being I had, Um,
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Speaker 1: I didn't do anything fancy. I'm pretty sure you didn't either,
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Speaker 1: but you can tell that story. So I said, okay,
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Speaker 1: there you go. Never mind. So, um, I had my laundry,
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Speaker 1: UM was ironing board, my irony boards set up, and
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Speaker 1: back in the day, you didn't have cameras on your phones.
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Speaker 1: I had a video camera that I set up on
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Speaker 1: my laundry, my ironing board and just said, hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: Trisdren and this is what I look for in a guy.
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be really fun to be on the show.
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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. It was so basic, so basic, so nothing.
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Speaker 1: And then they set me out to l A and
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Speaker 1: I met Um. I call him Mr Big because my
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Speaker 1: CLIs is a very big personality, and he said you're
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Speaker 1: my star, and um he put me on the first
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Speaker 1: season of The Bachelor, and the rest is history. I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess the history is I was the runner up
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Speaker 1: on The Bachelor, and then they asked me to be
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Speaker 1: the bachelorette. So there, So now leading into your story,
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Speaker 1: how did you get started on the show. Yeah, Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I love that story. And I think that,
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Speaker 1: you know, thank god you were the runner up, because
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Speaker 1: had you been the final choice of that show, the
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Speaker 1: world would be a different place for both of us.
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, no, you think you know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: my children wouldn't exist exactly. Isn't that weird? Just like
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Speaker 1: butterfly effect type of thing. I love those kind of movies,
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Speaker 1: like The Sliding Doors, same same, yeah. So I you know, Um,
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Speaker 1: I was a touring musician, signed a record deal right
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Speaker 1: out of college play football college and um and it
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Speaker 1: was a touring musician. And I decided at one point,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, we were touring actually with Matchbox twenty.
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Speaker 1: We were the opener, and I came to the realization
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Speaker 1: that we were not going to be journey like I
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Speaker 1: thought we were. I thought we were a journey at
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Speaker 1: the time. And I'm like, this isn't working out. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm like almost twenty, I'm twenty nine. What's going on
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Speaker 1: in my life? You know? So I wrote some songs
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Speaker 1: for a movie called The Truth About Cats and Dogs,
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Speaker 1: which had Janine Garoffalo and Uma Thurman in it. And
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Speaker 1: I got this publishing advance, and I bought a mortgage company,
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Speaker 1: or bought into mortgage company partnership with another guy. But
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Speaker 1: to be fair, it's not like what you think of
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Speaker 1: the mortgage companies today. This was like a franchise type
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Speaker 1: of mortgage companies. So essentially I was the mortgage burger
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Speaker 1: king guy, right, so you know that. It was like
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Speaker 1: there was like several throughout the country. I only owned
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Speaker 1: one anything. Um, it was not what I liked, that
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Speaker 1: was not passionate about it. I wasn't having fun. But
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Speaker 1: I hired a great team around me, and that team, um,
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Speaker 1: they basically uh submitted my information to the Bachelor without
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Speaker 1: me knowing it. And um, I was actually oddly enough,
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Speaker 1: I had just had reconstructive knee surgery and then I
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Speaker 1: had I blew my achilles out right before uh they
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Speaker 1: called me. And so I'm crutching around the office. I
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Speaker 1: get a call from Lacey Pemberton and I think, you
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Speaker 1: know this part of the story, but I have no
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Speaker 1: idea how my phone rings, but it's you know, Lacey Pemberton,
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Speaker 1: and she's like, Hi, yes, this Bob Bob Guinea And
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Speaker 1: that's how her voice sounded in my head. Anyway, By
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Speaker 1: the way, I use that same voice when I impersonate
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Speaker 1: my wife um, but it's like, you know, yes, I
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Speaker 1: really do. She's like, why did your voice go down
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Speaker 1: when you impersonate me. I'm like I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, hi, this is lazy and I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it is Lacy if that's your real name,
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Speaker 1: and that's exactly my response, and um, I just think
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Speaker 1: it's someone messing with me, you know. So I crutch
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Speaker 1: around the office to see who's giggling, and nobody's getting on.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, these guys are good, you know. So
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Speaker 1: I had up having this long conversation with her and
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Speaker 1: I just basically said, you know, um. She goes, well,
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Speaker 1: we know we'd like you to make do you know
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Speaker 1: have you watched the show? And I said, I haven't
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Speaker 1: really watched it. I do I know of it, And
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Speaker 1: she's like, have you do you know who Trista is
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Speaker 1: because you were the first time up until that point,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you were the first bachelor at obviously, but
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Speaker 1: they let us know who it was that was gonna
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Speaker 1: be the Beschel and then yeah, and then I was
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Speaker 1: the first bachelor that everyone knew who I was before,
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Speaker 1: Like they knew it was going to be me before
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Speaker 1: they even cast the show, right, And so I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you know know what you know? I I do know her,
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Speaker 1: you know. She's like, what do you think. I'm Michael,
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Speaker 1: She's very beautiful. And she goes, well, we need you
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Speaker 1: to do a video submission as to why you think
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Speaker 1: Trista should pick you. And I said, yeah, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not doing that, and she goes, what I know and
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Speaker 1: I know I'm not gonna be the fact guy in
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Speaker 1: your blooper. Real thanks, I'm like, uh, I put on
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Speaker 1: like twenty five pounds in the last six months with
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Speaker 1: a couple of legs surgeries. I'm like, I'm good, you know,
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Speaker 1: thank you. Though I have a lovely day. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a wonderful show. I can't wait to watch.
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Speaker 1: So about a week goes by, she called me back.
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Speaker 1: She's like, I can't get you off my mind. I
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Speaker 1: need to meet you. I'm gonna fax you over a
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Speaker 1: thing to fill out that will yeah, and it's like
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Speaker 1: a thermal paper like the you know. So I fill
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Speaker 1: out this form, they fly me onto l a um,
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Speaker 1: it's much like you. I was kind of like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, this is crazy and ended up. I ended
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Speaker 1: up actually so the interview process. You know, they want
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Speaker 1: you to have a suit and tie, and I have one.
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Speaker 1: It's in it's in my hotel room. But I'm in
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Speaker 1: the hot tub, hanging out, meeting girls, singing Journey songs
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Speaker 1: at the top of my lungs, and uh, that's when
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Speaker 1: they they pulled me out of the pool and they're basically, hey, idiot,
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Speaker 1: come here, we're gonna interview you right now. So I'm
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Speaker 1: in a shorts and a T shirt. Yeah for a
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Speaker 1: shirt and the T shirt. I get interviewed by Sally
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Speaker 1: and Selsano, who of course went on to such great
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Speaker 1: things as Tina Tequila and Jersey Shore and many many more. Um.
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Speaker 1: But she interviews me and we just cracked up for
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Speaker 1: about an hour and a half and there, and at
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Speaker 1: the end of it, they're like, well, you know, have
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Speaker 1: you have you put any thought into what you're gonna
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Speaker 1: say to Trista And I'm like, no, I you know,
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Speaker 1: I guess you guys let me know if I should
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Speaker 1: have to think about that, and they think about it,
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Speaker 1: You're gonna meet her. And it was like, that's how
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Speaker 1: I got cast on the show. Yeah, pretty crazy, that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: I love that story. Such a good story. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's crazy that it's been so long. It feels like
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Speaker 1: to me another lifetime, you know, it really does, especially
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Speaker 1: when we do interviews for anybody and they're kind of
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Speaker 1: few and far between, you know now, But if we
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Speaker 1: do any interviews, it's like, oh, yeah, that was our life,
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Speaker 1: that's how we met. I know, it was crazy. I
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Speaker 1: remember the first night when I was so I so
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Speaker 1: I get cast on the show and they put us
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Speaker 1: up in uh, I think it's a shared in Universal.
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Speaker 1: I think that's where we were. There were different hotels
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Speaker 1: because Ryan was at the Lodge something. What was it
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Speaker 1: called Sportsman's Lodge? That was it? Yeah, that was that
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Speaker 1: was where they put me for the interview process. But
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Speaker 1: when when we came up for the show, and that's
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Speaker 1: why I thought, I was like, and that's what we
9:57
Speaker 1: used to film the show Blind Date. Do you remember
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Speaker 1: that show where like a little oh my gosh, of
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Speaker 1: course and that place was sketch at best. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: I remember I remember checking into that place on the interview,
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Speaker 1: going does this show even have a budget? Like one
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Speaker 1: is going on here? Not back then, not at all.
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Speaker 1: Not I think I called you a budget. But yes,
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Speaker 1: at the Shart Universal. When the car picked me up,
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, I guess I'll probably be back
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Speaker 1: tonight because I remember thinking to myself, there's no way,
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Speaker 1: you know, all these dudes are and you know, I remember,
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Speaker 1: I remember the pictures of the guys and everybody's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, buff and flexing, and I had never been
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Speaker 1: fatter in my life, and I'm like, well, I'll definitely
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Speaker 1: be coming home tonight. So I did it shows how
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Speaker 1: wonderful your taste is, my friend? Oh yes, of course.
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Speaker 1: And I remember you doing the Irish jig at the pars. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know that that usually happens when I have a
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Speaker 1: few cocktails, and I was, who have any cocktails that night? God? Well,
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Speaker 1: that was the old school version of the show, right
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Speaker 1: where it was basically like everyone shows up, we have
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Speaker 1: little finger appetizers that no one's really supposed to eat,
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Speaker 1: and then we just keep filling you with booze. And
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Speaker 1: that was, by the way, they still do that. That
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Speaker 1: is not old. That is still happening to Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was so fun. And I remember I remember following,
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Speaker 1: so you know, I was one of the I was
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Speaker 1: the first limo and I remember, you know, so I
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Speaker 1: was there hanging out for quite some time, and that
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Speaker 1: takes as you know, more than anyone what the processes there.
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Speaker 1: And I had a I had a lot of fun
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Speaker 1: in there by myself, you know. Then was like my
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Speaker 1: little limo of guys and was Ryan and the limo
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Speaker 1: with you. I think Ryan was, Yeah, Ryan was Jamie
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Speaker 1: blythe was um, myself, I mean, you know. And so
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Speaker 1: we're all in there hanging out and got our limo,
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Speaker 1: got along great, like we were all like buddies. And
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Speaker 1: that was the thing about that show too, which I
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Speaker 1: thought was so great, was you know, um it was
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Speaker 1: obviously long before social media and long before people knew
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Speaker 1: that they were going to be kind of uh you know,
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Speaker 1: uh portrayed in a certain way, I guess the best
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Speaker 1: way to put it. We were buddies. I mean that
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Speaker 1: show was like we were like I mean, I remember thinking, God,
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Speaker 1: I love these guys. And it wasn't like a bromance.
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Speaker 1: It was like we are genuinely going to be friends.
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Speaker 1: And so many of us still are to this day,
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Speaker 1: you know. And it was never like a caddy thing
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Speaker 1: with the majority of us, there was you know, there
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Speaker 1: was a coarse The exception in that house, I believe,
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Speaker 1: you know, poor Russ, poor Russ got the got the
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Speaker 1: shoe the short of the stick on that one. But
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody else got along great and was very
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Speaker 1: and even to that end, I think even Russ was
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Speaker 1: was a nice guy and was very social. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was just he was just there with a purpose,
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Speaker 1: you know, and well he came with the Tiffany bracelet
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Speaker 1: and all of you were like, oh yeah, yeah exactly,
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Speaker 1: like how dare you bring a Tiffany bracelet? And and
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Speaker 1: like what do you call it? One? Up me? You know?
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Speaker 1: Now you know who knows? Now he would have rode
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Speaker 1: in on a horse or done something else that, you know,
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Speaker 1: spectacular as they do these days. The rest of us
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Speaker 1: just got out of the car and we're like, Hi,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, you're beautiful hard exactly. It was like
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Speaker 1: dear in headlines. He didn't even remember his name. I know.
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Speaker 1: It was so fun, But I remember that whole experience
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Speaker 1: so well, it was like it was yesterday. Is that
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Speaker 1: how you remember it with Alex Michelle too. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's really hard for me to remember back that far,
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Speaker 1: but but but I do remember it being like, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of a crazy. It was. It was
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Speaker 1: not kind of it was a crazy situation that I
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Speaker 1: had never been in before. I hadn't you know, I
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Speaker 1: had done some things with local TV for the Miami Heat,
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Speaker 1: but nothing on this scale. And so yeah, you get
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Speaker 1: out of the limo and walk up and and there's
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Speaker 1: and at that point in time, they weren't very quiet
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Speaker 1: about the cameras being in your face. Like now, I
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Speaker 1: feel like they do a really good job probably And
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Speaker 1: I haven't been there to see filming, um really in
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Speaker 1: recent years, but I would assume that they're really good
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Speaker 1: about kind of keeping it hidden so that you don't
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Speaker 1: know they're there. You know, that plays too more of
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Speaker 1: you being able to be yourself and and act naturally.
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Speaker 1: So I don't remember them being very quiet about it.
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Speaker 1: You know, they were just all gawky. You know, all
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Speaker 1: the cameramen call gawky around you and um, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was crazy. I did say, like a couple of
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Speaker 1: minutes ago that they didn't tell me who it was,
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Speaker 1: but that's not true. They showed us pictures of Alex
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Speaker 1: and they they showed us like kind of like told
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Speaker 1: us about who he was. That he went to Harvard.
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Speaker 1: I think Harvard or Stanford one of those, and you
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Speaker 1: know he had traveled and YadA, YadA, YadA, um and
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Speaker 1: so on paper he looked great. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: I ended up developing u a connection with him that
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Speaker 1: was kind of shocking to me because I really honestly
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Speaker 1: didn't I was very skeptical that it could happen. I mean, please,
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Speaker 1: at this point in time in in the world of
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Speaker 1: reality television, it was, um, Mike had done a show
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Speaker 1: called Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? Right, so he
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Speaker 1: exactly Darva Conger and this guy was supposedly a millionaire,
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Speaker 1: but they found out afterwards that he really wasn't like,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't very successful. Um. So, all these ladies are
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Speaker 1: there on on a stage I think with maybe an audience,
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Speaker 1: um maybe not an audience, I don't remember, but anywhere
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Speaker 1: there there were all these ladies and this guy and
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Speaker 1: and they basically got married after meeting him that day.
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Speaker 1: Um Darva married this guy. I can't even remember what
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Speaker 1: his name was. So it was that show and it
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Speaker 1: develop up into the Bachelor, and he thought, let's let's
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Speaker 1: do this like not on a stage, but over a
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Speaker 1: specific period of time and take away their phones and
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Speaker 1: their computers and all their connections to the outside world
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Speaker 1: and see if we can make something happen. And so
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Speaker 1: at that point in time, I was super skeptical and
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Speaker 1: I just thought, I just I'm there for fun, Like
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Speaker 1: I just I just want to meet these girls and
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Speaker 1: hang out with this guy, and maybe, you know, I'll
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Speaker 1: show them who I am and be true to myself
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Speaker 1: and then if we developed something, then great. And it
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Speaker 1: ended up happening to where we actually forged a strong connection.
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Speaker 1: And then in the end, I actually um asked him.
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Speaker 1: I think two days before the final Rods ceremony, we
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Speaker 1: were on our final date, and I said, so, who
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Speaker 1: are you going to pick? Like totally put him on
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Speaker 1: the spot, and of course he said you Like He's like,
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Speaker 1: oh you of course, of course duh um. But I
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Speaker 1: went into the Final Rods ceremony completely thinking that I
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Speaker 1: was going to be getting engaged that day, and then,
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Speaker 1: thank the Lord above, I was not his chosen one.
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Speaker 1: And as I was watching the finale of the show, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, a few months later, Flice calls me and
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Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, would you ever consider being the bachelorette?
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Speaker 1: And yes, for sure, because at that point in time,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get to know the producers so well.
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Speaker 1: You spoke about Sally and Salsano, she was on my season.
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Speaker 1: We had a great connection, Jason Carbone, Lisa Levinson, Mike Flice,
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Speaker 1: all of them and your handlers and all of that.
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Speaker 1: You you become really bonded with these people. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you show so much time with them and really your
17:43
Speaker 1: deepest darkest thoughts, you know, um deepest lightest thoughts, however
17:47
Speaker 1: you want to say that, and you know, you get
17:50
Speaker 1: really close with them. So I I became really close
17:53
Speaker 1: with them, and I thought, you've got ABC, a major
17:57
Speaker 1: television network, scouring the country for guys that I would
18:01
Speaker 1: never be able to meet on my phone. And that
18:05
Speaker 1: was just my thought. And thank god it was you,
18:09
Speaker 1: you guys, because I don't know if I could have
18:12
Speaker 1: dealt like there's so much drama these days. I don't
18:14
Speaker 1: know if I could have dealt with that, like you
18:16
Speaker 1: guys had to the point where I remember showing up
18:19
Speaker 1: for a date and I feel like whoever was coming
18:23
Speaker 1: on the date, I don't know if it was a
18:24
Speaker 1: group date or what the guy and you guys were
18:26
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were joking, and I say you I
18:28
Speaker 1: don't know if you were particularly on this date or
18:30
Speaker 1: on this particular date, but they wanted to stay home
18:34
Speaker 1: and like hang out with each other instead of come
18:36
Speaker 1: on the date. I think I know what you're talking about.
18:40
Speaker 1: So I remember you showing up to pick someone up
18:43
Speaker 1: for a date. And Jamie Blythe and I were playing
18:46
Speaker 1: basketball down on the on the basketball court, and I
18:48
Speaker 1: remember this vividly, and all of a sudden, I see
18:51
Speaker 1: cameras like shuffling, like you said, they were not stelf
18:54
Speaker 1: like they are now. That was just like, you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: and here they come out of the basketball cart and
18:59
Speaker 1: I'm like, something's up, you know, and like I think
19:01
Speaker 1: we might be in trouble. But we were shootings and
19:03
Speaker 1: Jamie was an amazing basketball player, and I love to
19:05
Speaker 1: play basketball, and all of a sudden, there you are,
19:07
Speaker 1: and you look beautiful. I remember, you know, you're like
19:09
Speaker 1: standing up on the balcony and you look down you
19:11
Speaker 1: go hey fellas, and we're like, oh hey, try still,
19:14
Speaker 1: what's up? And you're like, aren't you gonna, you know,
19:18
Speaker 1: come on up here and and say hello. And we're like, well,
19:21
Speaker 1: you're you're going on some other dass. I mean, we're
19:24
Speaker 1: playing up and I remember that, and I remember you
19:27
Speaker 1: leave for the date, and I remember they come down
19:29
Speaker 1: and the producers come down there, like hey, idiot, like
19:31
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And I'm like what, Like, you know,
19:34
Speaker 1: she's here, you should be up there, you know, getting
19:36
Speaker 1: some face time with And I'm like, dude, I'm sweating
19:38
Speaker 1: my ass off. She's she's going on a date with
19:41
Speaker 1: you know, five dudes. I wasn't one of the ones
19:43
Speaker 1: she picked for this day, and I don't know what
19:44
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be. And it was so funny because
19:47
Speaker 1: I would have never thought that that was what I
19:48
Speaker 1: was supposed to do. But now when you watch the show,
19:50
Speaker 1: you do notice they're all gathered around, you know, the
19:54
Speaker 1: bachelord of the bachelor coming and they're like, hey, have
19:55
Speaker 1: a great night, you guys. You know, we'll see you
19:57
Speaker 1: later or whatever. They tell you you're gonna sit here
20:01
Speaker 1: on the couch, and you're gonna sit here on the couch, sonny.
20:04
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's very I I feel like that part
20:07
Speaker 1: of it can be very produced, like you know, who's
20:10
Speaker 1: where and what are they talking about, or at least
20:13
Speaker 1: what's the start starting conversation? That is so funny. I mean,
20:17
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to call you out, but I love it.
20:20
Speaker 1: I love that stuff. I remember. I remember so many
20:23
Speaker 1: fun like little moments like that and then and it
20:25
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting and I'm sure, I'm sure we
20:26
Speaker 1: can get into it too. But how much the experience
20:28
Speaker 1: probably changed from your time on The Bachelor too, when
20:31
Speaker 1: you were the bachelorette, other than being the lead. It's like,
20:34
Speaker 1: you know, I remember saying to the producers at one point,
20:36
Speaker 1: I was like, look, I understand you guys are shooting
20:39
Speaker 1: a TV show, just don't let the joke beyond me,
20:41
Speaker 1: Like tell me what you want me to do. And
20:43
Speaker 1: I get it. And so they would literally be like, okay, Bob,
20:46
Speaker 1: Debbie and Brenda hate Randa, so we're gonna sit them
20:49
Speaker 1: on a couch together, and we want you to come
20:51
Speaker 1: and grab Randa and take her out on the verandah
20:54
Speaker 1: and you know, kiss her. I'm like, okay, yeah, all right.
20:59
Speaker 1: So you know, here they are, you know, very uncomfortably
21:03
Speaker 1: and awkwardly like ready to kill each other and like,
21:05
Speaker 1: pardon me, Rondnick and I steal you for a second.
21:07
Speaker 1: And then you know, you sit in the thing and
21:09
Speaker 1: you look up when the girls are looking at you,
21:11
Speaker 1: and you can see their filming them, and you know,
21:13
Speaker 1: I'm it's like, so, how's your day and we're gonna kiss,
21:16
Speaker 1: you know, just oh they do that nowadays, that's for sure,
21:25
Speaker 1: but I feel like when it was my season, it
21:28
Speaker 1: was really kind of hard. So going from the Bachelor
21:31
Speaker 1: to where there's a guy and twenty five girls, right,
21:34
Speaker 1: and the guy looks all manly and studley. He's got
21:37
Speaker 1: all these women fighting for him, and then cut to
21:40
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette and the media starts rolling out about how
21:45
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the bachelorette, and I remember I
21:47
Speaker 1: got cut to shreds before the seat he hasn't even
21:50
Speaker 1: started because by particular people, I mean not by everybody.
21:53
Speaker 1: And there were a lot of supportive people in the media,
21:55
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of people that were like,
21:58
Speaker 1: a girl and twenty five guy is like, how is
22:01
Speaker 1: that going to look? She is going to look like
22:02
Speaker 1: a complete slut, And and they pinned that to me
22:07
Speaker 1: before I even even showed up. It was horrible, Like
22:11
Speaker 1: the double standard was very much alive back in the day,
22:15
Speaker 1: and I feel like now and that's why going into it,
22:20
Speaker 1: because the media had come out before I obviously started
22:23
Speaker 1: taping the show. We've we've laughed about this moment a
22:27
Speaker 1: lot in that there were moments where I mean, I
22:30
Speaker 1: kissed four guys, four guys on my season, and I
22:34
Speaker 1: was very thoughtful about it because I was like, people
22:39
Speaker 1: already think I'm going to look like a slut, so
22:41
Speaker 1: I better make sure that I don't look like a slut,
22:43
Speaker 1: so you know. And and so the funny thing that
22:48
Speaker 1: we've laughed about is the part with Jamie Blythe and
22:50
Speaker 1: the we went on we went on a what do
22:53
Speaker 1: you call the crab? Well, you tell the story, actually,
22:56
Speaker 1: because you're way better at it. It is one of
22:58
Speaker 1: my favorite stories. And I tell this story kind of
23:00
Speaker 1: a lot. But so, yeah, we're on a group date. Uh,
23:02
Speaker 1: and Trista of course is there, and we go to
23:05
Speaker 1: the beach. Of course you're there at your show. We
23:07
Speaker 1: go to the beach. And I remember two specific things
23:11
Speaker 1: about that season. One, I remember, um, and this is
23:15
Speaker 1: a sad thing to remember, but I remember you you
23:18
Speaker 1: had a friend who got injured or or lost your
23:20
Speaker 1: lives in my cousin in a go karting accident or
23:23
Speaker 1: something like that. And one of our dates was on
23:24
Speaker 1: go carts and you were just like what he died.
23:27
Speaker 1: He died in a go karting accident. And so I
23:29
Speaker 1: got there and I was like boo hooing, like yeah,
23:32
Speaker 1: this is not okay, I can't do this. And I
23:35
Speaker 1: ended up doing it, but yeah, it was not a
23:39
Speaker 1: great play. They can't seem to plan some of these
23:42
Speaker 1: dates as well as they could have. And the other
23:43
Speaker 1: one U was and I had one of these on
23:46
Speaker 1: my season two, but was that you don't like shellfish.
23:49
Speaker 1: And this particular date that we were on, this group
23:51
Speaker 1: date that we were on, five guys in the limo
23:53
Speaker 1: with Trista and we're out on the beach and it's like,
23:56
Speaker 1: you know, as as as they always do trias, like
24:00
Speaker 1: look what I prepared for us, and it's like a
24:02
Speaker 1: clam bank buried in the sand. You know, it's like
24:04
Speaker 1: steaming me. And and the look on your face was like,
24:07
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be having some chicken nuggets, you know.
24:10
Speaker 1: And anyway, the producers come at that point in time,
24:13
Speaker 1: they didn't They didn't feed you before you ate on
24:17
Speaker 1: the show, while you until you did. Yeah, you really did,
24:19
Speaker 1: like that was your time to eat because you sure us,
24:21
Speaker 1: I'll work gonna get anything before after and it was
24:23
Speaker 1: gonna be balanced with a heavy, you know, a heavy
24:26
Speaker 1: balanced diet of booze. So I remember that. When of
24:29
Speaker 1: the producers comes over me, he's like, hey, Bob, um,
24:32
Speaker 1: listen man. So you know, Trista is wondering why you
24:35
Speaker 1: haven't tried to kiss her and uh, and I'm like really,
24:39
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, I go. So she walked up to
24:41
Speaker 1: you and just randomly said, God, I just don't know
24:43
Speaker 1: why Bob hasn't tried to kiss me. He's like, yeah,
24:47
Speaker 1: you realize it's the first date I've been on with her, right,
24:49
Speaker 1: like this is my first day. And he's like, yeah, yeah,
24:52
Speaker 1: I realized that, and she's she realizes it too, buddy,
24:54
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, so you're telling me that Trista
24:57
Speaker 1: walked up to you and was like, gosh, I'm on
24:58
Speaker 1: a group date with five of random dudes on a
25:01
Speaker 1: beach and I really want Bob to try to make
25:04
Speaker 1: out with me. That's what That's what she told you.
25:05
Speaker 1: And he's like absolutely, and he hands me like two
25:08
Speaker 1: coronas and I go, awesome, I'll drink these because I'm
25:11
Speaker 1: not going out there. I'm not trying to make out
25:12
Speaker 1: with her. And he's like, I'm like, yeah, dude, I'm
25:14
Speaker 1: not doing that. I'm like, are you kidding me? I'm like,
25:16
Speaker 1: first of all, she never said that to you. Secondly,
25:18
Speaker 1: what I'm like, I'm gonna go out there and like
25:19
Speaker 1: just randomly lean in. I'm like, and we haven't even talked,
25:22
Speaker 1: like no, you know, other than the first night at
25:24
Speaker 1: the mansion. So anyway, I go, I walk away, and
25:27
Speaker 1: I come back and I'm like, you know, and I
25:29
Speaker 1: thought of something else. I'm like, hey, you know what
25:31
Speaker 1: I will do. I'll go out and hang with her,
25:33
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't don't expect me to try
25:35
Speaker 1: and make out with her. So I go to tell
25:36
Speaker 1: him this, and he's like, no, look, look and I look,
25:40
Speaker 1: and there's Jamie, poor Jamie on the beach. Literally. As
25:43
Speaker 1: I look, he's like leaning in and you give him
25:45
Speaker 1: the tombs still, you give them hivesman, You're like, nope, no,
25:48
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And I remember just laughing hysterically
25:52
Speaker 1: from where I was my little vantage point, you know,
25:55
Speaker 1: thinking of course Jamie would do it, you know. Yeah,
25:59
Speaker 1: I even little gulble. Oh my god, it was so
26:04
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, I remember that. I remember James. I mean,
26:08
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I don't know the backstory, of course,
26:10
Speaker 1: but um, but I remember Jamie coming up to me
26:14
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, you know, would you mind if I
26:16
Speaker 1: gave you a kiss? And it was really sweet of him.
26:19
Speaker 1: He was being a total gentleman to even ask. But
26:23
Speaker 1: but I was like, yeah, maybe just down the cheek.
26:26
Speaker 1: I mean, that actually is super embarrassing to me that
26:29
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe on the cheek. I just hate
26:31
Speaker 1: being put in that kind of situation. It's so weird.
26:37
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't know him at all, and I
26:40
Speaker 1: really was like, and now they're like, oh, yeah, we
26:43
Speaker 1: just met, let's kiss, or some of the girls or
26:46
Speaker 1: guys get out of the limo and plant one right
26:49
Speaker 1: on the Bachelor of the Bachelorette, like right out the gate.
26:52
Speaker 1: And I just I guess I was even though I got, um,
26:56
Speaker 1: I met my husband and got engaged on a reality show,
26:59
Speaker 1: I am more traditional in that sense. And there, you know,
27:02
Speaker 1: give me a little bit more time before I'm making
27:05
Speaker 1: out with you. I know, Well, let's okay, so let's
27:07
Speaker 1: talk about the differences between our time and the time. Now.
27:11
Speaker 1: I think that was a big one that you just said. Right,
27:12
Speaker 1: they they're going for it right out of the gates,
27:14
Speaker 1: whereas we were I think a little. I mean I
27:17
Speaker 1: was the kissing bandit, bachelor, I bandit. Yeah, he's got
27:21
Speaker 1: he's got a title, you guys. Actually, I think he's
27:23
Speaker 1: probably got a plaque in his house somewhere. I do somewhere. Yeah,
27:26
Speaker 1: it's in the kids, whom I keep it right in
27:28
Speaker 1: the nursery, you know. But yeah, so I remember, you know,
27:32
Speaker 1: I was the guy that was like the kissing bandit.
27:34
Speaker 1: But that but now knowing how the show works and
27:36
Speaker 1: knowing how they approached me to kiss you, you know,
27:39
Speaker 1: I I at the time, I remember thinking, oh my god,
27:41
Speaker 1: all these girls are just like trying to kiss me.
27:43
Speaker 1: I mean, this is so crazy, and you know, realizing
27:46
Speaker 1: it now that it was kind of like the producer's going, you,
27:48
Speaker 1: Bob really would like to kiss you should go out
27:50
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I'm positive that was the case. But you know,
27:54
Speaker 1: other than that, and it's part of it's part of
27:56
Speaker 1: the way the show is. Like I feel like the
27:59
Speaker 1: people on the show feel like they are falling behind
28:03
Speaker 1: if they don't kiss them exactly the gate, you know. Yeah,
28:07
Speaker 1: I mean you watch the pretty religiously right, you see.
28:10
Speaker 1: You you've seen pretty much every season because you get
28:13
Speaker 1: asked about it all the time. And I used to
28:15
Speaker 1: too when I was doing the Today Show stuff. I
28:16
Speaker 1: would get asked about it all the time, and so
28:18
Speaker 1: I was a little more militant about watching it. But
28:20
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself that everybody was more aggressive,
28:23
Speaker 1: everybody was more you know, not just from the kissing perspective,
28:27
Speaker 1: but you know, I see myself, you know, marrying you,
28:30
Speaker 1: and it's like you just you know, so I always
28:33
Speaker 1: think of that, you know, So it seems a little
28:35
Speaker 1: bit more. The steaks are a lot higher. It seems.
28:47
Speaker 1: I have watched every season of every show, every spin off, whatever,
28:52
Speaker 1: just because it kind of it's kind of like my family.
28:55
Speaker 1: I feel like I've said this, um, I've said this
28:59
Speaker 1: for but I feel very maternal towards everyone in a
29:02
Speaker 1: way because they call me the fairy godmother, you know,
29:07
Speaker 1: so they're like my little god babies. Anyone who's really
29:11
Speaker 1: been on the show, even though I don't know even
29:13
Speaker 1: half of the cast, m but I mean, there's been
29:16
Speaker 1: a lot of people over the years. In fact, I
29:18
Speaker 1: would love to know that number. How many people have
29:21
Speaker 1: been on the show, you know what I mean? How
29:24
Speaker 1: many people's lives have been changed by the show because
29:30
Speaker 1: half of Instagram's lives have been changed. Half of instagram
29:35
Speaker 1: most people's kids have been changed. I know that right,
29:39
Speaker 1: well that I think that brings up a good point.
29:41
Speaker 1: Social media, like it was not around when we were filming.
29:45
Speaker 1: It was not a thing. The only thing that that
29:48
Speaker 1: did exist were what do they call them, um chat rooms?
29:54
Speaker 1: Yet no, there they were four like um message boards
29:58
Speaker 1: that's what they were. They message boards and UM they
30:03
Speaker 1: were on like the ABC site. So ABC dot com
30:07
Speaker 1: had message boards on their site and then everyone would
30:11
Speaker 1: go there and basically just spill their guts and say
30:15
Speaker 1: what they thought and not hold anything back. So it
30:17
Speaker 1: was basically like social media now, but it was not
30:21
Speaker 1: in It was the precursor to social media. And was
30:25
Speaker 1: there Facebook, my Space? Oh my gosh, that's hysterical. Um. Yes,
30:30
Speaker 1: So you know those things existed, but we didn't have
30:34
Speaker 1: camera phones. Like I said before, we couldn't take pictures
30:37
Speaker 1: like everything and everything that was happening, So we weren't
30:42
Speaker 1: documenting like the behind the scenes stuff you know. We
30:46
Speaker 1: had it was on vhs like when they So my
30:49
Speaker 1: mom was traveling a lot to um to China, and overseas,
30:53
Speaker 1: and they would actually send her VHS tapes of of
30:58
Speaker 1: the show so that she could watch it. Um, but
31:01
Speaker 1: we had VHS tapes, like you couldn't stream, you couldn't
31:04
Speaker 1: like if you didn't watch the show that night, then
31:08
Speaker 1: I don't know that you could watch it, you know
31:10
Speaker 1: what I mean, because they didn't have to wait, right,
31:13
Speaker 1: you had to have the VHS tape. My brother in
31:15
Speaker 1: law had t VOW at the time. Remember he vowed
31:19
Speaker 1: the season and my wife actually asked if if she
31:22
Speaker 1: could watch an episode of it one time and he
31:24
Speaker 1: hooked up his t VOW and all this kind of
31:26
Speaker 1: snuff was like and he was just like, I'm sorry,
31:28
Speaker 1: I can't figure this out anymore. I mean it's on
31:30
Speaker 1: there somewhere, you know. Well he did actually, um, maybe
31:35
Speaker 1: like five years ago something like that. Ten years ago,
31:39
Speaker 1: they put it on ABC under like a reboot like
31:44
Speaker 1: tab or something like that, to where you could watch
31:47
Speaker 1: the old seasons. And I'm like horrified, like no, please, no,
31:53
Speaker 1: I know my hair was so bad back then. I
31:55
Speaker 1: have no idea. It was like my head so I
31:59
Speaker 1: was like, my hair was so curly and this natural
32:02
Speaker 1: it wasn't you know. Over the home perm um, and
32:06
Speaker 1: I got to the point where I was like, people
32:09
Speaker 1: would see my hair before they even saw me, and
32:12
Speaker 1: they would confuse me with your millionaire, you know, I
32:14
Speaker 1: was like that Ovin guy. They'd be like, is actual
32:16
Speaker 1: millionaire or bachelor pop? You know? And so I just
32:19
Speaker 1: got I just like brush cut my hair and then
32:20
Speaker 1: it grew back kind of straighter, which is interesting. You know,
32:23
Speaker 1: I don't know how, well, Hey, the show helped you
32:26
Speaker 1: help your hair? Yeah, I didn't. I didn't mean as
32:28
Speaker 1: much relaxer anymore. Maybe it was all the chlorine from
32:33
Speaker 1: the hot tubs, because that's definitely something that's one thing
32:37
Speaker 1: the show was. Yeah, exactly, it was and still is
32:41
Speaker 1: hot tubs. I mean, I I wonder how many hot
32:44
Speaker 1: tubs have been. What's the weirdest place they set up
32:47
Speaker 1: a hot tub for you, whether between the Bachelor or
32:49
Speaker 1: the bachelorte, what's the weirdest place that there was a
32:51
Speaker 1: random hot tub on a houseboat in Seattle? Oh that
32:57
Speaker 1: is kind of It was good. That was the steamy
32:59
Speaker 1: scene with me and Ryan. Um, it was our like
33:02
Speaker 1: fantasy so it was our yeah, our fantasy sweet date
33:06
Speaker 1: we went to Seattle. So the budget has changed one
33:11
Speaker 1: of my fantasy sweet dates was Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I'm like,
33:16
Speaker 1: not only go to Bangkok for the entire you know,
33:18
Speaker 1: they're all over the countryside of Thailand. The whole crew goes,
33:21
Speaker 1: you know, I know. Yeah, we were in Seattle on
33:25
Speaker 1: a houseboat and there was a hot tub on the houseboat,
33:28
Speaker 1: so we were basically floating in you know, whatever that
33:32
Speaker 1: body of water is. I don't remember what is that
33:35
Speaker 1: body of water in Seattle. Um on a houseboat and
33:38
Speaker 1: making out in a hot tub, because that's what you
33:40
Speaker 1: do on The Bachelor, the you know, I like it. Yeah,
33:46
Speaker 1: it was actually a great night, great night. My weirdest
33:49
Speaker 1: hot tub pop up hop tub location was Kelly Joe
33:54
Speaker 1: and I were in Alaska. We went to Alaska, which
33:56
Speaker 1: was actually a pretty cool exotic date, like from one
33:58
Speaker 1: of those we end up on a asia and doing
34:00
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. But it was the day
34:02
Speaker 1: after and I know, you know this story, but the
34:04
Speaker 1: day after my allergic reaction to Alaskan king crab legs,
34:07
Speaker 1: and so I was a little puffy, little swollen, and uh,
34:13
Speaker 1: We're out doing you know, whatever we do on the date,
34:16
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden we randomly happened across
34:18
Speaker 1: the hot tub at the base of this mountain, and
34:20
Speaker 1: reason yes, And it's not what you think, because you know,
34:23
Speaker 1: they do have hot tubs in those locations that are
34:26
Speaker 1: amazing because they're actually hot. This one was like an
34:30
Speaker 1: above ground, you know, hot tub that they fancied into
34:34
Speaker 1: this little thing, and because the fact that they wanted
34:37
Speaker 1: to make sure that audio wouldn't get ruined. It was
34:41
Speaker 1: lukewarm water at Best in Alaska in the winter, and
34:45
Speaker 1: we have to climb into this tub and it's not
34:47
Speaker 1: like you climb in and you're like, oh the steam.
34:49
Speaker 1: You climb in and you're like, does anyone have like
34:51
Speaker 1: a scuba suit? And the bubbles can't run. You know,
34:55
Speaker 1: that's one of the things you don't realize. I can
34:57
Speaker 1: watch it from but there's no bubbles because the audio
34:59
Speaker 1: will get wracked. And we were in this hot tub
35:01
Speaker 1: for probably like fifteen minutes, and the whole time we're
35:03
Speaker 1: both just like, please, guys, can we can we can
35:06
Speaker 1: we go in the gondola, you know, can we do anything?
35:09
Speaker 1: It's freezing, it's really cold. It's actually funny that you
35:13
Speaker 1: say that because on this season with Clayton and Gabby
35:16
Speaker 1: who's from Denver. They had a hot tub in the
35:20
Speaker 1: middle of their hike, and because I live in Colorado,
35:23
Speaker 1: all I was thinking was where the hell did this
35:27
Speaker 1: hot tub come from? Like, you know, I'm thinking behind
35:30
Speaker 1: the scenes, like how did they get this hot tub here?
35:32
Speaker 1: And maybe it was like there's a you know where
35:36
Speaker 1: you park your cars to go on the hikes. Maybe
35:39
Speaker 1: it's like right by that. Um, but I was like,
35:42
Speaker 1: I want to know if there's really a hot tub
35:44
Speaker 1: somewhere out there, like on a hike somewhere I want
35:46
Speaker 1: to go. I need to know this. Yeah, it was
35:49
Speaker 1: so funny. I always thought that was so it was
35:51
Speaker 1: always like, guys, I mean, maybe we do something different
35:54
Speaker 1: this time besides a hot tub and champagne. And I'm
35:56
Speaker 1: not a champagne guy either, so that was always tough
35:59
Speaker 1: for me, you know, to have that going to so totally, no,
36:03
Speaker 1: you have to do champagne. You have to do a
36:05
Speaker 1: toast at everything. Hey, I want to bring up something
36:09
Speaker 1: that actually is toastworthy in Bachelor Nation. That just happened.
36:13
Speaker 1: Um Andy Dorphin, who I know you you love her
36:17
Speaker 1: just as much as I do. She just got engaged
36:20
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy for her, Um, it seems like
36:25
Speaker 1: this guy. His name is Blaine Heart, I mean Andy Hart.
36:29
Speaker 1: Is that not like a soap opera name or like
36:31
Speaker 1: a right? Um. She surprised her at the beach, and
36:39
Speaker 1: actually surprised her in an even bigger way in that
36:42
Speaker 1: he he um planned it. Sorry, I couldn't figure out
36:46
Speaker 1: the word plan um planned it. Yeah, that's what happens
36:49
Speaker 1: when you become a mother poof words to Spanish um
36:53
Speaker 1: mom brain um. But he planned it with all of
36:57
Speaker 1: her family and friends. So he had them all waiting
36:59
Speaker 1: back at their house after he proposed, and they came
37:02
Speaker 1: in and I just I'm so so so happy. She's
37:05
Speaker 1: such a sweetheart, and I love hearing that because, you know,
37:08
Speaker 1: it was one of those things. I mean, she's she's
37:10
Speaker 1: had a couple you know, New York Times bestsellers and
37:13
Speaker 1: everything else, basically about the single life, right Like she
37:15
Speaker 1: was kind of like, this is it right? And she
37:18
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was kind of like she
37:19
Speaker 1: was sort of committed to that single life. So it's
37:21
Speaker 1: really cool that she felled somebody, and you know, she's
37:24
Speaker 1: a she's a really cool I'm really really happy for her.
37:26
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I am too I love her. I I
37:29
Speaker 1: and I also I wonder if there will be a
37:31
Speaker 1: new book coming out when she gets married. It was
37:34
Speaker 1: about the single life and single life. Now it's about
37:37
Speaker 1: married life, So maybe she come out with the married
37:39
Speaker 1: life book. Interesting would be interesting for sure. Now you
37:43
Speaker 1: mentioned Clayton season, which I did not watch, but I
37:45
Speaker 1: know at the end of Clayton's season, Um, they talked
37:49
Speaker 1: about that. You mentioned Gabby and what was There's two brachels,
37:53
Speaker 1: the other girl, Rachel. Two bachelorettes this season, which I
37:58
Speaker 1: know Ashley and Ben have talked aked about a lot
38:00
Speaker 1: on here. But I'm really excited because I feel like
38:06
Speaker 1: there's been some chatter about whether or not the Bachelor
38:09
Speaker 1: will survive for that much longer. And I feel like
38:14
Speaker 1: they need to change things up, you know, they need
38:17
Speaker 1: to make things more interesting for people. The ratings haven't
38:20
Speaker 1: been fantastic. Um. I mean, I will always be one
38:24
Speaker 1: of the readings because I'm always going to watch, but UM,
38:26
Speaker 1: I know that's not for everybody. And and I think
38:29
Speaker 1: it's really cool that they're going to actually have two bachelorettes.
38:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I do worry that it will set things
38:37
Speaker 1: up to be disastrous because I believe what they are
38:40
Speaker 1: doing is, um, the girls are going to be dating
38:43
Speaker 1: the same pool of guys. Oh wow, So it's gonna
38:46
Speaker 1: be like guys or thirty guys and these two girls
38:50
Speaker 1: and these two girls. And I don't know how it
38:52
Speaker 1: will work. If like the girls will put in their
38:56
Speaker 1: priority of who they want to go on a date with,
38:58
Speaker 1: and then maybe the two girls have the same guy
39:01
Speaker 1: as a priority. Will there be an awkward two on
39:03
Speaker 1: one with the girls, Like, I don't know. I I
39:06
Speaker 1: wonder how it's gonna work, But I do think it
39:08
Speaker 1: will get people talking, and maybe that will bring up
39:11
Speaker 1: some ratings and keep keep them on the air for longer.
39:14
Speaker 1: Who knows. I just I just have to say that
39:17
Speaker 1: I love Gabby and Rachel. I think that they are
39:20
Speaker 1: both so articulate. I mean, you didn't see the season, um,
39:24
Speaker 1: but Gabby, so I won't. I won't get into the
39:28
Speaker 1: whole story. The people here know what happened basically, Um,
39:31
Speaker 1: but she stood up for herself in such an articulate way,
39:38
Speaker 1: uh that I just I'm so excited for her, Like
39:43
Speaker 1: she just she put him in his place and didn't
39:47
Speaker 1: let him step all over her. And and I was
39:50
Speaker 1: so proud of her. I've I feel like I met her.
39:53
Speaker 1: So she was a Denver Bronco cheerleader and Blakeslee was
39:56
Speaker 1: a junior Denver Bronco cheerleader. They had this little program
39:59
Speaker 1: with the little girls. Yeah, they get to dance with
40:01
Speaker 1: the Bronco cheerleaders. And so I don't know if I
40:05
Speaker 1: met her or met her from Afar, but um, I'm
40:08
Speaker 1: really excited for her. And Rachel just seems like she's
40:11
Speaker 1: got it all put together. They like, they are both
40:14
Speaker 1: beautiful girls, but I think even more so, they are
40:18
Speaker 1: willing to talk about their feelings, which I think is
40:20
Speaker 1: so important when you are the lead. I think they
40:23
Speaker 1: are ready for a relationship. I think that they're Gabby
40:27
Speaker 1: is hysterical, um and and I I love that. So
40:32
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited about this season. Maybe you'll watch? Yeah, well,
40:38
Speaker 1: well because I will, well only because I shouldn't say
40:41
Speaker 1: only because yes, I will, and also because I heard
40:44
Speaker 1: all those great things about them, um, you know, and
40:46
Speaker 1: it made me actually bummed that I didn't watch the season,
40:50
Speaker 1: because I you know, I it was kind of funny
40:52
Speaker 1: when the promo came out for Clayton's season, I was like, oh,
40:54
Speaker 1: my god, it's like Jesse Palmer times too, like Jesse
40:57
Speaker 1: and there and they like almost the same height, the
41:00
Speaker 1: same I mean, it was kind of twins. Yeah, totally.
41:04
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, wow, that is really crazy. But
41:06
Speaker 1: it was one of those things where it was like,
41:07
Speaker 1: you know, um, I heard about the girls standing up
41:09
Speaker 1: to Clayton and about them both kind of standing their
41:11
Speaker 1: ground and you know, really sort of establishing who they were,
41:15
Speaker 1: and I think that that's going to be awesome because
41:18
Speaker 1: you know, let's let kid ourselves, right, It's totally a
41:20
Speaker 1: different ballow wax. When you're on the other side of
41:21
Speaker 1: that flower, you're the one handed it out, it's a
41:24
Speaker 1: it's a different thing. And I mean you and I
41:26
Speaker 1: both we've talked about this a bunch, but we were
41:28
Speaker 1: so worried about hurting anyone's feelings and trying to be
41:31
Speaker 1: cautious and you know everything else. So I mean, I
41:34
Speaker 1: really it's pretty amazing. Yeah. I think they both have
41:37
Speaker 1: a really good heart. I mean I remember the first
41:40
Speaker 1: night I was crying because I was like, oh my god,
41:43
Speaker 1: how can I let these guys go when I don't
41:44
Speaker 1: even know them, Like, I feel really bad, And it
41:47
Speaker 1: just got worse from there, so you really have to
41:49
Speaker 1: have be a strong UM person to be able to
41:52
Speaker 1: really kind of get through it. UM. Okay, so I
41:55
Speaker 1: think this was amazing. How much fun was this? Right?
41:58
Speaker 1: And I love it? I absolutely love it so much fun.
42:00
Speaker 1: Not a bad first episode. I think it was fun.
42:03
Speaker 1: I mean I want we want you guys to chime
42:06
Speaker 1: in though, So we would love for you to chime
42:08
Speaker 1: in on the Instagram account for almost Famous. UM it's
42:12
Speaker 1: at almost underscore Famous podcast. And we'd also, if possible,
42:18
Speaker 1: if anyone was listening to us today or we were
42:24
Speaker 1: just gaving away just having a fun time by ourselves, UM,
42:28
Speaker 1: if anyone was listening and you'd like to send in questions,
42:31
Speaker 1: we would love to hear your questions or any topics
42:34
Speaker 1: that you'd want us to cover. If there's any people
42:37
Speaker 1: that you would like for us to have on the
42:39
Speaker 1: show that maybe we're from older seasons, I'm going to
42:43
Speaker 1: say older seasons, not old seasons, seasons more macure b
42:50
Speaker 1: o G seasons. If you'd like for us to invite
42:53
Speaker 1: anybody on UM, if you have a great story that
42:57
Speaker 1: you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you.
42:59
Speaker 1: So if you could email Ben and Ashley. That's an
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43:06
Speaker 1: radio dot com. We'd love to hear from Thanks for
43:09
Speaker 1: tuning in, everybody, and thank you Tris. Thanks for taking
43:12
Speaker 1: a trip down memory lane with me. I mean, honestly,
43:14
Speaker 1: we have so much more to talk about. We haven't
43:16
Speaker 1: even gotten behlf of it. Saw. I mean, there's a
43:18
Speaker 1: couple other funny things that just jumped into my head
43:20
Speaker 1: that I would love to tell you about. Yeah, definitely,
43:26
Speaker 1: But thank you guys so much for tuning in and tested.
43:28
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me on our first podcast. Yay,
43:32
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43:36
Speaker 1: Ashley for letting us kind of steal your show for
43:39
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43:45
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