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The Mountains are Calling with Caelynn Bell · 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 on our radio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are here tonight with one of my favorite people
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  Speaker 3: in the world, one of Almost Famous listeners favorite people
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  Speaker 3: in the world, Kaylan, Welcome. It's been a while since
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  Speaker 3: you've been on here. Used to be a regular guest
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  Speaker 3: with us, giving us updates on everything happening in your life.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been a bit since you've jumped on the
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  Speaker 3: Almost Famous feed.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a bit. But I just come see you
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  Speaker 4: in person, now, you know. I come seeing you and
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  Speaker 4: your wife and Winnie.
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  Speaker 5: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's better that way, so much better.
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  Speaker 3: Life is so the crazy part is, Kaylen, out of
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  Speaker 3: any of Jess's friends, have met Winnie the most, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because for the first few weeks we weren't seeing anybody,
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  Speaker 3: and then you came and you've been here and you've
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  Speaker 3: got it, and like, just wait to see her again.
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  Speaker 2: I go on and on. She's changed. It's wild.
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  Speaker 5: It's awesome, Sin sing Winnie.
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  Speaker 4: And because we're so close that my goal is to
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  Speaker 4: see her once a month, So I'm at once a
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  Speaker 4: month and then in May Jess and I are going
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  Speaker 4: to a concert, so that'd be the third month.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm hoping I can keep it up.
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  Speaker 3: It would be incredible, and I hope you do too.
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  Speaker 3: It means a lot. That's kind of what we're here
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  Speaker 3: talking about today. You and Dean, let's start with this.
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  Speaker 3: Do live close ish to Denver. Close to Denver. You
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  Speaker 3: live in Carbondale, which is just west of here. It's
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful place. It's not far from where the two
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  Speaker 3: of you got married. How is the experience being, you know,
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  Speaker 3: moving from Vegas, Slash, La to Carbondale, Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: It is the best thing ever.
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  Speaker 4: I talk about it all the time, Like moving from Vegas, La,
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  Speaker 4: I feel so at peace, Like I'm a very anxious person,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm still anxious to some degree, but I'm just
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  Speaker 4: so calm and I feel very grounded. Like I wake
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  Speaker 4: up there's thirty elk in the backyard, and then there's
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  Speaker 4: twenty deer in the front yard, and we've got turkeys
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  Speaker 4: trying to attack alistair.
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  Speaker 5: So it's it's it's fun.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. It's the best thing, and it's really
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  Speaker 4: hard to leave. I've never been in a place where
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  Speaker 4: I love it so much. And also I love every season.
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  Speaker 4: You live in Colorado, so it's like every single season
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  Speaker 4: is perfect, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: It's it is a unique thing. I think it's something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, we live outside of Denver twenty miles
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  Speaker 3: and so there are similarities with the elk and the deer.
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  Speaker 3: And today I have a buffalo. We have buffalo. And
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  Speaker 3: today I had to bring Whalen in early from a
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  Speaker 3: walk because a fox was like in our backyard and
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  Speaker 3: it was acting all funny, like there's something very sacred
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  Speaker 3: to me. And it's very peaceful. I think you said
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  Speaker 3: it best right there. It's like very peaceful to this
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  Speaker 3: kind of spot to live in. It's different than in
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  Speaker 3: a city.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you guys are luckier because you are so
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  Speaker 4: close to a city. So if you need, like well
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  Speaker 4: if just needs this suphort, I'm thinking, like girl thingks
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  Speaker 4: just needs a Sephora.
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  Speaker 5: I have to drive to you guys to get to Sephora.
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  Speaker 4: You have all the things that you need and we
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  Speaker 4: are very isolated.
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  Speaker 5: But there's like pros and cons.
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  Speaker 2: To both it.
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  Speaker 3: The I think for for anybody making the move from
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  Speaker 3: a big city like Vegas or La to a place
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  Speaker 3: like Carbondale, especially newly married, I think there, I mean
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  Speaker 3: it would be for me at least, it'd be these
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  Speaker 3: concerns of, Okay, do we really like each other enough
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  Speaker 3: to be this isolated in the world. I mean, because
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  Speaker 3: you are pretty isolated out there. So how has being
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  Speaker 3: out there impacted your marriage? Because this is where Dina's from,
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of where his roots are at least at
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  Speaker 3: some level. So how has it been for the two
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  Speaker 3: of you to get as you do move, you know.
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  Speaker 2: To his home.
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  Speaker 5: It has been.
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  Speaker 4: It's been really great for me selfishly, Like all of
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  Speaker 4: his high school friends are there. I've met all of
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  Speaker 4: their wives and get along with them, so I already
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  Speaker 4: have like a built in great group of girlfriends, and
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  Speaker 4: it's been great for our marriage, Like it's been great
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  Speaker 4: being isolated, but also living in the valley that we do,
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  Speaker 4: there are so many community based events, like more there's
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  Speaker 4: like a bigger sense of community than I've ever felt
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  Speaker 4: in La and Vegas because it's just so big, but
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  Speaker 4: there's constantly something going on. So every Wednesday we go
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  Speaker 4: to trivia, Like the bartenders know us, like the whole
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  Speaker 4: restaurant owners know us, and like every single place we
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  Speaker 4: go it's so intimate that we kind of know everyone,
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  Speaker 4: which is fun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious because I don't know many people that are
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  Speaker 3: better at it and more known for it than you
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  Speaker 3: and Dean and and I don't want to see the
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  Speaker 3: influencing space because that feels like a.
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  Speaker 2: Diminishes exactly what you do.
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  Speaker 3: But you, too, have done a really great job at
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  Speaker 3: kind of showing off your life through social media and
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  Speaker 3: through other platforms to the public in my opinion, and
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  Speaker 3: you tell me if I'm wrong. This is where my
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  Speaker 3: curiosity comes from. It would be a lot easier to
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  Speaker 3: do that when you're in Los Angeles or Vegas, because
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  Speaker 3: there's these big, fancy events that you're getting invited to,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you're running into people who are like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there's Kaylin, let's hire her on to do this brand
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  Speaker 3: deal because she's so great. Now you're in Carbondale. Has
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  Speaker 3: it changed that at all? Does it feel harder? Does
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  Speaker 3: it feel easier? Kind of talk through what it's like
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  Speaker 3: to influence her, to show off your life from a
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  Speaker 3: completely different city that this isn't super common.
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  Speaker 5: In it kind of it feels easier and harder.
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  Speaker 4: It does feel harder, like you're not like going face
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  Speaker 4: to face with brands, But it feels easier in the
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  Speaker 4: sense of, like, I feel way more comfortable sharing my life.
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  Speaker 4: It's the happiest I've ever been. It's true, Like I
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  Speaker 4: tell everyone, it's the best place in the world. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm just like so much happier and feel like I'm
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  Speaker 4: way more open. In LA there's a lot of showboating
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  Speaker 4: in the influencer space, particularly, so it's tricky and I'm
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  Speaker 4: just like, I feel whatever, if I don't get a
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  Speaker 4: brand deal because I'm not at an event, that's fine
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  Speaker 4: because I'm happy just like being here with my wild
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  Speaker 4: animals in my front yard, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's why I stayed, because the race to
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  Speaker 3: stay relevant in Los Angeles was eating me alive, and
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  Speaker 3: so I had to stay in Denver because, if anything,
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  Speaker 3: it gave me the mental excuse to be like, I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't invited to that because I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Live there, right, and so your ego, it's better for
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  Speaker 5: my ego.
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  Speaker 3: It's what I needed. I have a big ego and
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  Speaker 3: it gets hurt too, so when I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Away, so I get that.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I'm like, no, I wasn't invited because I don't
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  Speaker 4: live close.
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  Speaker 3: They got to buy a plane ticket or it has
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  Speaker 3: me to travel in. It's I protected my ego by
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  Speaker 3: staying here. I think that's like, if it comes down
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  Speaker 3: to it, I was protecting myself, like I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't want to go to Coachell or Stagecoach. But the
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  Speaker 5: fact that I wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Invited, I've never been invited to either. So if that
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  Speaker 3: makes you feel better, I've never been to either. It
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  Speaker 3: never been invited to either. But the reason is because
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  Speaker 3: I live in Denver. Yeah, it's just not convenient for
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  Speaker 3: anybody to invite me to hang out with them. You
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  Speaker 3: get it, Kaitlin, you have made the reason I asked
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  Speaker 3: about this is E News has had an interview recently
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  Speaker 3: talking about your fertility experience. Now they described it as
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  Speaker 3: fertility struggles. But I am not going to put that
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  Speaker 3: word on you unless you use that word yourself. So
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  Speaker 3: for anybody listening who doesn't read E News but listens
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  Speaker 3: to the almost famous podcast, I guess the assumption here
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  Speaker 3: that I'm making is that you and Dean are at
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  Speaker 3: least considering starting a family and expanding your family, and
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  Speaker 3: then you take it from there to wherever you want
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  Speaker 3: to take it to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we've been trying for not quite a year,
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  Speaker 4: but we're like coming up on that cusp, and it's
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  Speaker 4: it's harder than I anticipated because I have many, many siblings.
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  Speaker 4: My mom got pregnant super easily, and I thought that
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  Speaker 4: would happen for me shet like first try every single time,
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  Speaker 4: every single kid, so I like anticipated that. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: still not pregnant and I'm not putting too much pressure
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  Speaker 4: on myself.
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  Speaker 5: And Dean and I were just talking about this.
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  Speaker 4: Two of our best friends are getting married next year
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  Speaker 4: in Ireland, and so it's like, if I get pregnant
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  Speaker 4: right now, we won't be able to go. But Dean's like,
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  Speaker 4: if there's always an excuse to put it off, you know,
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  Speaker 4: So we're gonna keep trying. If we get pregnant, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: If we don't, then we can go to Ireland. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, we're not putting pressure on it yet
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  Speaker 4: and we're just gonna keep like taking it easy and it'll.
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  Speaker 5: Happen when it happens.
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  Speaker 4: And you guys are proof of that because you have
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  Speaker 4: a perfect little Winny, and you guys have made me
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  Speaker 4: so excited for kids because anytime I see what she's
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  Speaker 4: just so great and talking to Jess, Jess is like
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  Speaker 4: the happiest mom ever, which you don't see that often.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, Jess, and like that's a genuine,
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  Speaker 3: authentic experience for her. She was just telling me this
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  Speaker 3: on the walk yesterday. She said, if I can do
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  Speaker 3: one thing, not everybody's baby is the same as whinny,
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  Speaker 3: easier or harder. Not everybody's mothering experience is the same,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not everybody's postpartum is the same. But she's
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  Speaker 3: she said, if I can do one thing, it's just
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  Speaker 3: encourage moms that it's not bad. It's good, no matter what,
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  Speaker 3: it's good. It could be hard, but it's good, and
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  Speaker 3: to encourage that. But I'll tell you what, Jess, You're right,
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  Speaker 3: she's thrived in this role. Like it's been incredible, and
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  Speaker 3: I would tell anybody, like it's awesome. It's the coolest,
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  Speaker 3: most fun thing. But the other side of that is
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  Speaker 3: it took us time. It took us a lot of work.
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  Speaker 3: It took us a lot of doctor's appointments and checkups
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  Speaker 3: and tests and figuring stuff out to make it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make us both healthy enough to make this happen.
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  Speaker 2: But it took time.
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  Speaker 3: And not putting pressure on it, I think is the
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  Speaker 3: best advice I could give and the best insight that
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  Speaker 3: you're sharing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I also think it's cool that you said, like
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  Speaker 4: Jess is being intentional about wanting to encourage, you know,
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  Speaker 4: women to become moms, because that literally anytime I talk
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  Speaker 4: to her, text her, see her. That's what I feel.
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  Speaker 4: And it's really cool to see you be a dad.
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  Speaker 4: I've only seen you twice now in that role, but
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  Speaker 4: I remember the first time I came over. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if when he was I can't remember if she
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  Speaker 4: was fourteen days old or twenty days old, but she
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  Speaker 4: was very, very small, and you took her out of
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  Speaker 4: Jess's arms and you were changing her and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: is that my daughter?
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  Speaker 5: It was so sweet. It's really cool to see you
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  Speaker 5: both be parents.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a weird change in life, but it's an
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  Speaker 3: exciting change. But it is hard, and it's a really
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  Speaker 3: weird season where you are prepping and planning and trying
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  Speaker 3: to do all these things to make, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: bring something new into this world. And I would just
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  Speaker 3: say this, I don't you're not asking for advice, but
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  Speaker 3: it's just like, yeah, don't put pressure on it, because here's.
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  Speaker 2: The truth to it.
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  Speaker 3: Too, the dirty truth or the good truth. The more pressure,
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  Speaker 3: the hearter, the whole thing becomes. That's when things get
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  Speaker 3: really weird, is when it's all pressure packed and you're
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  Speaker 3: like perform.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's like friends with Chandler and Monica.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's what I want to avoid.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as we close up here, I'm gonna make
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  Speaker 3: a complete pivot away from the family and from the move.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna finish talking about this show that
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  Speaker 3: we were both a part of. There's been some big
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  Speaker 3: changes with the show as of recent and almost Famous
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  Speaker 3: podcast if you listen to the feed, there's a section
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  Speaker 3: called Infamous. Now an there's these episodes called Infamous that
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  Speaker 3: are highlighting these stories that are very iconic within the
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor franchise, and we're getting more of the behind the
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  Speaker 3: scenes of what exactly happened in these moments. Now, let's
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  Speaker 3: do a little infamous here for just a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: The productions team that we knew, the editors that we knew,
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  Speaker 3: the camera crew that we knew, the audio that we
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  Speaker 3: knew are pretty much gone at this point. There's a
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  Speaker 3: few remaining. And so if you were hired on as
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  Speaker 3: the EP of the Bachelor franchise tomorrow. What would be
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  Speaker 3: your insight to the team on what needs to happen
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  Speaker 3: to make this show maybe what it was, or to
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  Speaker 3: bring it back to relevancy in the future.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's a really good question.
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  Speaker 4: My heart is racing because Dean and I have both
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  Speaker 4: been in many infamous headlines.
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  Speaker 5: Where is it going with this?
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  Speaker 3: Doing any of them? I just refuse to read them
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  Speaker 3: if I see it, or saying that not for are.
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  Speaker 5: We really doing this?
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  Speaker 4: Last a couple of minutes of wow, uh gosh, It
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  Speaker 4: just it does need to be more relevant because there's
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  Speaker 4: way too much competition out there, and I think the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing, like I would love to get back to
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  Speaker 4: like old school your season, JoJo's season, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: those were prime days, but the contestants are so guarded
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  Speaker 4: and they're so cautious of like looking bad or not
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  Speaker 4: getting enough followers. I personally think that's a huge, huge hump,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know how.
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  Speaker 5: To overcome that. So I don't really think I have
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  Speaker 5: an answer.
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  Speaker 4: I think we just need to get rid of it
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  Speaker 4: for a few seasons and come back and revamp.
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  Speaker 2: That's insight right there.
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  Speaker 3: If you're hired on the as the EP, you'd say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm firing myself and everybody else. We're gonna take a
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  Speaker 3: break in three years. We'll hope this thing comes back
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  Speaker 3: in three years.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see it then, and we hope people watch. That's
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  Speaker 2: the insight. I like it. I think it's a great move.
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  Speaker 3: I think people would be so ecstatic if you like
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  Speaker 3: American idol over again, take a few years off, come
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  Speaker 3: back with the old host and your rock and roll Kaylin.
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  Speaker 3: As we close here, is there anything about your life,
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  Speaker 3: your life with Dean? I don't know these infamous headlines,
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  Speaker 3: that's not what I would put you in a position
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  Speaker 3: to have to answer to.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm glad that you thought I would.
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  Speaker 3: But is there anything that you would love to share
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  Speaker 3: with anybody?
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  Speaker 2: As we close up that I didn't ask?
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  Speaker 4: No, I think you did a great job. I love
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  Speaker 4: you and Jess, and I know Dean loves you and Jess.
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  Speaker 4: And it's great too. You know, it's a rare thing
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  Speaker 4: to like love a couple equally, you know, like the
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  Speaker 4: wife loves the wife, the husband loves the husband.
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  Speaker 5: So it's really great.
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  Speaker 4: We love you guys, and I know Dean's really looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to his golf trip with you next month.
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  Speaker 2: I know he needs to get down here and meet
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  Speaker 2: when he is well.
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  Speaker 5: Though, that is, you won't come to Denver. It's so hard.
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  Speaker 3: The guy has literally gone from traveling in a van
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  Speaker 3: across the US too.
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  Speaker 4: Oh v this, I'll text you this video. He's cuddling
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  Speaker 4: with Carl right now. Carl is like wrapped around him
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  Speaker 4: and he won't leave the couch.
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  Speaker 5: So he's a good dad.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that's good for him, it's good for us.
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  Speaker 2: We love you so much.
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  Speaker 3: It means so much that you've came and visited Winnie.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna see her grow up. I could talk about
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  Speaker 3: her forever, but I refuse to because nobody wants to
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  Speaker 3: hear an hour long of me just talking about how
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  Speaker 3: cute that little girl is. But here's the cool part,
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  Speaker 3: kaylen uh. Four days ago, here's the update for anybody
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  Speaker 3: listening and you. Four days ago, she started to mirror me.
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  Speaker 3: So when I smile, she smiles. When I stick my
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  Speaker 3: tongue out, she sticks her tongue out, and it breaks
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  Speaker 3: me in two in a way that she never did before,
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  Speaker 3: and that I've never had happened to me in.
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  Speaker 5: My life so special, it.
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  Speaker 2: Is something to behold.
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  Speaker 5: So she do it to Jess, you or just you.
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  Speaker 3: Jess as well, she'll do it to anybody you can.
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  Speaker 3: Just wait, you come here, you stick out your tongue
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  Speaker 3: and she starts giggling and she'll do it.
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  Speaker 5: Beat so excited.
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  Speaker 3: It's something. Caylen, thanks for jumping on with us tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and we appreciate you. Best of luck and everything, and
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see you soon.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so soon.
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  Speaker 3: With that, this is the Almost Famous podcast we had
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  Speaker 3: Kaylin here tonight. Until next time I've been Ben, We'll
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