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He's Just Ben! · 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 back to the Almost Famous Podcast. We have a
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  Speaker 2: lot to go over today. It's been here. Ashley's with
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  Speaker 2: me and we are breaking down all the latest headlines
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  Speaker 2: happening in Bachelor Nation, including headlines do that has to
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  Speaker 2: deal do associate itself with Ashley because she had a
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  Speaker 2: big weekend ahead of her? Ashley, Yeah, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Oh what's my headline for you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, do you have headlines or should we
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  Speaker 2: just jump in? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I got a headline that's not on our list.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I was scrolling on my Instagram and I saw
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  Speaker 4: your wonderful performance of I Am Ben, which was a
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  Speaker 4: spoof off I Am Ken?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what it is that I am Ken? I'm
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  Speaker 3: just I'm just Ken, I'm just Katon, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So the weird thing about that video, which I thought
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  Speaker 4: was brilliant and absolutely hilarious, there is no context to it. No,
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  Speaker 4: you guys put no overlay, no caption. I knowing you
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  Speaker 4: and seeing who is collaborating who collaborating with you on
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  Speaker 4: the real like, I knew what it was for, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why it was created. Tell everybody, why
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  Speaker 4: you did this incredible Broadway rendition of I'm Just Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It's hilarious. So I hosted a conference
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  Speaker 2: for four days called mom Con. Mom Con is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most cheerful conferences or events I guess I
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  Speaker 2: get to do all year. It is all moms, thirty
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  Speaker 2: five hundred moms. We were in Orlando, Florida. It's put
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  Speaker 2: on by an organization called mom Co formerly MOPS. It's
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  Speaker 2: a faith based organization. It's a Christian organization that really
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  Speaker 2: gives support community groups to moms of kids. It's great,
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  Speaker 2: it's and it's in so many churches. If you're listening
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  Speaker 2: and you are part of a church, you probably know
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  Speaker 2: of MOPS now mom Co. So I've gotten to host
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  Speaker 2: this since twenty nineteen. I'm like one of maybe eight
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  Speaker 2: dudes in the room and this year. Every year they
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  Speaker 2: kind of have me there to be a spoof, like
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  Speaker 2: there's you know, maybe back in the day I could
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  Speaker 2: pull the bachelor card and that was cool enough, but
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  Speaker 2: now you know, I'm kind of like a mascot. I
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  Speaker 2: think like it's like it's gonna come and do something
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  Speaker 2: so weird. It's so ridiculous and I'm gonna say yes
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  Speaker 2: to it because One, it's fun for me to be
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  Speaker 2: there too. It's fun to make these ladies like laugh. Three,
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  Speaker 2: I think like something's wrong with me where I get
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  Speaker 2: embarrassed over things I say in like one on one conversations,
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  Speaker 2: or I get embarrassed on ways I treat people. I
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  Speaker 2: don't really get embarrassed by like things I do publicly.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not like I don't like feel a lot
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  Speaker 2: of like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe you got
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  Speaker 2: on stage and did that. Like I just don't feel that.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm desensitive ties to it maybe. And so
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  Speaker 2: they momco wrote a song called I'm Just Ben. It
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  Speaker 2: is hilarious though. It is so fun, and we worked
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  Speaker 2: on it. We recorded in practice and did all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff for six months trying to.
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  Speaker 4: Get this nailed down that oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had the Orlando Magic dancers behind me. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's a whole performance done, and so I saw I
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  Speaker 2: sang I'm just Ben. I'm going to try to capture
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  Speaker 2: and find the whole video from like start to finish
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  Speaker 2: up the act because it did take off more than
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  Speaker 2: I thought it would.
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  Speaker 4: Really, that seems like the ultimate like viral video.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it, I mean it should. I really want to
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  Speaker 2: find the whole video because it did. Afterwards when they
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  Speaker 2: shared it and I saw the responses, it was it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: You guys had like a good overlay and caption too.
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  Speaker 4: It could have gotten further. The fact that you guys
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  Speaker 4: just plopped it down was like, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I didn't even think about it being
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  Speaker 2: something that people would be intrigued by.
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  Speaker 4: It was created for the internet, like that's what that
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  Speaker 4: video was created for. Also, did you lip sync to
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  Speaker 4: the track I sing?
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  Speaker 2: I sing it?
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  Speaker 3: You sang totally live.
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  Speaker 2: Well I had to lip sing some of it, like
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  Speaker 2: when dance Moves got picked up.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, okay, so you sang with a track, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I sing with the track. Okay, Well you sounded good.
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  Speaker 4: Well that is me singing it, I know, yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 4: Like I knew it was you singing, but I just
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  Speaker 4: wasn't sure if you like they messed with it in
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  Speaker 4: the studio and made you sound a little bit better
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  Speaker 4: because I know what your singing voice sounds like when
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  Speaker 4: we go to concerts and you like, oh it's so bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's not the greatest, and like you sounded good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hilarious too that you say that, because we
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  Speaker 2: went into a studio to kind of lay down the
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  Speaker 2: track and it was one of the most Like I
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  Speaker 2: was sweating, I was trying so hard, like I was
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  Speaker 2: nerve racking. I'm just not a good singer. I know
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  Speaker 2: that I'm not trying to be one. But and I
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  Speaker 2: really think in my mind, I was like, it's okay
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not a good singer for I'm just been
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  Speaker 2: but I want it to be decent enough where people
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  Speaker 2: could actually like listen and be like, oh all right.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's like a spoof. It's like a parody,
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  Speaker 4: but it's well done.
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  Speaker 2: One. Yes, yeah, yes, it's a well done one is
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  Speaker 2: what I wanted. I mean, I'll tell you one thing,
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  Speaker 2: there's very few things in the world that feel better
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  Speaker 2: than having thirty five hundred people just like going wild
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  Speaker 2: or something you did. It's fun. I'm exhausted. It's four
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  Speaker 2: days of hosting this thing. It was great. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: so tired. Ben.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go next year.
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  Speaker 2: You can come by.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you could top that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we can find a way.
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  Speaker 3: That was so glover.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the lyrics are good. Did I send you
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  Speaker 2: the whole song yet? No, I'm gonna send you the
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  Speaker 2: whole song so you can at least listen to the
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  Speaker 2: whole song. You're gonna love the lyrics. I think you're
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  Speaker 2: going to really find a lot of like really good
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  Speaker 2: bacheloration puns and like inn windows and things a part
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  Speaker 2: that are part of it. It was, it was a blast,
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  Speaker 2: And the best part is actually, you know, this conference
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  Speaker 2: is full of bacheloration fans, full of them. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: there's also many people that have never watched The Bachelors
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  Speaker 2: really have no idea who I am, and and only
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  Speaker 2: know me from being a host at mom Con over
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  Speaker 2: the years, and so some people are coming up being like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what just happened. I don't really get it,
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  Speaker 2: but like, yeah, it was fun, and I'm like, all right.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that you've been working on this for six
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  Speaker 4: months and never said that you were going to do
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  Speaker 4: like a boy band meets Broadway performance somewhere is like
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  Speaker 4: a little strange, but I'm really grateful it happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we Yeah, it's honestly, I think I just didn't
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  Speaker 2: think about it much, but it's been stuck in my
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  Speaker 2: head for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really really good. All right, So moving.
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  Speaker 4: On to just the absolute opposite of the tone that
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  Speaker 4: we're at right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna kind of switch gears. Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe a good segue would be Okay, let's do
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  Speaker 2: a segue. You did spend the weekend uh with the
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  Speaker 2: Almost Famous podcast in San Francisco at the Jonas Brothers concert.
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  Speaker 2: From a fans perspective outside looking in, it looked like
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  Speaker 2: the group of women and you just do this well,
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  Speaker 2: you like when when you do women events, for with
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  Speaker 2: the Almost Famous Podcast, it feels like everybody has a
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  Speaker 2: really good time. Did you feel like everybody there had
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  Speaker 2: actually like a really good time?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, it was so much fun. It was just
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  Speaker 4: like a great chemistry amongst the group. We had Kathy
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  Speaker 4: Susan and that was the first time I spent like
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  Speaker 4: quality time with them.
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  Speaker 3: They're so hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: And then we had Daisy and Susie and Mari and
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  Speaker 4: I made sure that Mari was there because I know
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  Speaker 4: she's like on my level of Jonas fandom, Like she
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  Speaker 4: and I like truly like we do the same things,
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  Speaker 4: like she travels for Jonas Okay, And I was like Okay,
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  Speaker 4: her Chicago show, she said, I'm just already figuring out
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  Speaker 4: how to see them next. And this was like her
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  Speaker 4: story the day afterward, and I texted her immediately. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, Okay, so you come to San Francisco to
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  Speaker 4: be with us.
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  Speaker 3: So it was so great.
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  Speaker 4: And then my friend Courtney, who's really good friends and
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  Speaker 4: as the agent for Susie, was there too, and we
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  Speaker 4: just had like the greatest girls like two days and it.
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  Speaker 5: Was, Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm really really glad, and I'm really thankful for
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  Speaker 4: our producer Amy for putting it together because it was
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  Speaker 4: it was a good memory.
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  Speaker 2: It looked so much fun, and I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 4: I have content that I'm debating, a debating whether I
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  Speaker 4: put out to the public. Okay, so basically what I
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  Speaker 4: did was show Kathy and Susan thirst traps of Joe Jonas,
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  Speaker 4: Like if you guys know what like Jonas TikTok looks
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  Speaker 4: like these days. I showed them this and I had
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  Speaker 4: them comment live on how they felt about him.
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  Speaker 3: In their bodies.
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  Speaker 4: And these women were so honest, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I this is a rated R Instagram reel. If I
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  Speaker 4: put it together and like Jonas will either think it's
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  Speaker 4: absolutely hilarious or they will be flipped out.
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  Speaker 2: Well they don't, they're not like into seventy year.
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  Speaker 4: Old No, not that they'll be like Ashley, did you
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  Speaker 4: really have to over sexualize a video and put it
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  Speaker 4: out there? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's exactly why they're posting it though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would post it, I just have to go
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  Speaker 3: and edit it.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just like, uh, you know you're saying that, like,
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  Speaker 4: that's why Jonas is being That's why Joe's being so sexy. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: because he's like I, I love being viral and TikTok
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  Speaker 4: every day of my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels so good. Gives them something wake up for.
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  Speaker 2: There's a weird turn going on right now, Ashley. That
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  Speaker 2: is dangerous, and I think this is something for any
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  Speaker 2: listener to stay alerted to, because I think we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: the start of something that will probably be a thing
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  Speaker 2: for a while with AI and the ability to create
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  Speaker 2: imagery and videos, and for us to have a hard
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  Speaker 2: time telling what's real and what's not, it is unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: I hate every second of and I know you do
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  Speaker 2: as well, Ashley. But this weekend I saw the article
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  Speaker 2: first and flipped, oh you did, yes, And then it
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  Speaker 2: started to immediately within seconds kind of start to investigate
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  Speaker 2: and find out that it was not real, and so
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  Speaker 2: it was, you know, kind of fine, But then I
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  Speaker 2: just got frustrated and I am fretted still, and I know,
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  Speaker 2: but this isn't about me. What am I talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Katie Thurston cries over fake death rumors amid breast cancer battle.
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  Speaker 2: She said it's triggering. So there's articles and things getting
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  Speaker 2: posted out there right now about a couple different things,
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  Speaker 2: like the mesniks are pregnant, they're not. Katie Thurston has
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  Speaker 2: passed away. She hasn't. We've had Katie on to talk
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  Speaker 2: about her breast cancer battle. But she saw this and
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  Speaker 2: also was receiving texts and phone calls from people about
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  Speaker 2: this headline. Ashley, what do we know? But I think
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  Speaker 2: at the start here this is terrible and I hope
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  Speaker 2: we figure out a way to stop this stuff from happening.
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  Speaker 2: It's here's my problems. People are doing it to get
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  Speaker 2: the clicks and they're getting Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's like.
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  Speaker 4: I know that you and I appreciate the tabloids, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like us Weekly and I don't know that's weekly. It's
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  Speaker 4: like tabloid, but like people magazine, e News, Like we
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  Speaker 4: appreciate them for posting our stories when we talk about
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  Speaker 4: them here on the podcast, you know, So I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to like shut on them. But a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the times on Instagram story especially, they like make so
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  Speaker 4: many death stories.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, about clickbait.
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  Speaker 4: And it's unreal, and you know that the way they
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  Speaker 4: were them is so that you have to go and
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  Speaker 4: click the article to find out more, and it's just like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's so yucky. And this was one of them, one
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  Speaker 4: of the top. But no, no, no, But I let
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  Speaker 4: me make clear, this was not something that any of
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  Speaker 4: the magazines, no press ran with this. This was something
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  Speaker 4: that was on Facebook. So Katie saw that there was
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  Speaker 4: a Facebook post circulating that she had passed away, and
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  Speaker 4: she got on Instagram and she was like, if anyone
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  Speaker 4: works at Facebook or has any suggestion on what I
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  Speaker 4: can do, there's just people circulating a fake obituary out there,
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  Speaker 4: and she just, you know, she said, please report these people.
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  Speaker 3: Day suck.
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  Speaker 4: This is so triggering. And Katie ended up making like
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  Speaker 4: a She did have a sense of humor about it.
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  Speaker 4: The next day, she posted herself as an angel on
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  Speaker 4: her Instagram saying.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Hi, it's Katie me from the other side.
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  Speaker 4: But that was after she got on Instagram, just really
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  Speaker 4: crying on screen, just being like this is so so upsetting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting dms from people and they're well.
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  Speaker 4: She took a few days off social media because she
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  Speaker 4: just said she needed it and because she took the break.
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  Speaker 4: That's why people started dming her and stuff like are
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  Speaker 4: you okay? I'm worried about your silence? And then I
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  Speaker 4: guess that turned into this post on Facebook and it
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  Speaker 4: was just like a just a crazy, hectic moment for
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  Speaker 4: her and obviously like just the most upsetting thing you
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  Speaker 4: could ever see about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just and you know, I think there is
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  Speaker 2: a level where personally it's added to it because of
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  Speaker 2: what she's battling, and probably it is triggering fears that
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  Speaker 2: she's probably had to process and think about it exactly
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  Speaker 2: as she's battling. It's disgusting, but we're playing into it
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  Speaker 2: here at Almost Famous podcast, we're talking about these articles.
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  Speaker 2: I think this will be probably and hopefully the first
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  Speaker 2: and only time we bring any attention to this. But
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to bring attention to it because Katie was
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  Speaker 2: so affected by it that I think it's good for
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  Speaker 2: us to share. But don't click on this stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: then again, how are you supposed to know when it's real?
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  Speaker 2: And well? Switching gears to other news, Peter Krause is
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  Speaker 2: expecting first child with fiance Hannah.
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  Speaker 4: I know this is so exciting We're so happy for them.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations guys, they wrote on a post new Chapter Best Chapter.
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  Speaker 4: One week after our engagement, you got the surprise of
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  Speaker 4: our lives. And I said, God's plans are perfect and
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  Speaker 4: our heart is full of gratitude. Angel Baby coming this March.
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  Speaker 4: God is so so so good hashtag fourteen weeks. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's so amazing that they found out they're pregnant right
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  Speaker 4: after the engagement. It's like meant to be timing wise,
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  Speaker 4: it says Angel Baby. I'm I'm not going to read
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  Speaker 4: into that. That's their own business, but we're really happy
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  Speaker 4: for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're so I mean, you know, when we had
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  Speaker 2: him on the show, there was zero doubt that he
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  Speaker 2: was madly in love.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and he was going to propose, he said, like
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  Speaker 4: by the end of the year, and now they're having
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  Speaker 4: a kid by basically the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to the two of them. Now, interesting headline. I
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  Speaker 2: was noticing this. I just happened to also be able
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  Speaker 2: to get answers to some of these questions, maybe in
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  Speaker 2: a different way than listeners can, but I was wondering
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  Speaker 2: why we haven't seen the Golden Bachelorettes Chalk and Jones
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  Speaker 2: seen together in any social media or public appearances. And
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  Speaker 2: Joan has been out there or Chalk has been out
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  Speaker 2: there at a few events, and we just don't see
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  Speaker 2: Joan by his side. The quote is they haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: each other for nearly a month.
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  Speaker 4: Why It's pretty easy to explain, he said to E
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  Speaker 4: News Right now, I can't go into any details. Hint, hint,
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  Speaker 4: but she's doing a special project and we haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: each other for almost a month. Something's probably going to
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  Speaker 4: change pretty soon, so we'll see each other. But we
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  Speaker 4: do miss each other right now.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a Bachelor Nation type show being
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  Speaker 2: filmed that she could be a part of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be like maybe on HDTV or something.
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  Speaker 2: It would be interesting if maybe she was a part
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really.
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  Speaker 4: Want to spoil who we know is filming that HGTV show.
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  Speaker 3: But they got a really good cast.
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  Speaker 2: They did get a really good cast. Yeah, I think
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: they have. They have a cast of incredible people. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: think they want the show to be a success, and
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm happy for him. HGTV needs to pick me up.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I like HGTV. I want it to exist. I just
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: don't also understand how somebody can be gone for a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: month doing this show, but that's you know what. I'm
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: happy for him.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Then, if they could have a second season, I don't
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: know what they would recreate, but hopefully you'd be part
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: M hmm, if you'd want to be, if i'd want
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: to be, right, I want to be. We had of
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: an interview a few weeks ago with Alex and Andrew
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: from Paradise. They're a cute couple. Bachelor Nation fell in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: love with them. They get along great, and they get
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: each other's sense as of humor, and I really like
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to follow them together. Well, this week we saw an
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Instagram post where Alex gets a tattoo. She says of
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: boyfriend and Andrew Spencer's birthday, which.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Would be a big yeah, they're not They're not there yet,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: or she might mentally be or in her heart, but
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: she's not like gonna do that to him yet.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: They have only known each other since May.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: So she said, we're gonna go get a tattoo together,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: but we can't just make it a normal session. I'm
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: going to prank him, and the tattoo artist is in
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: on it. I'm gonna pretend that I'm going to get
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: his birthday tattooed on me, and we're gonna see his reaction, Alex. Then,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: you know, she shows him and then she reveals to
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Andrew that like it's just a practice joking, and then
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: apparently he had like a huge sigh of relief and
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: he was like, oh my god, this is insane, but okay,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: that's that. What was his like original reaction to her
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: doing that? And then he found out it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Was fake and he was like, oh, okay, all.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Right, move the what she did tattoo on her said
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: zero one twenty twenty whose birthday was this?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Okay? Why oh they want to just go get it?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Wasn't for their birth okay.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I thought that maybe they were getting the tattoo on
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: his actual birthday, but now they're just getting their first
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: set of tattoos together. So Alex, she put zero one
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: twenty ninety five forever and people loved having.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You know, this this joke out on Instagram.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It was good. You know, it's interesting. I will be
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: with Jessica for the rest of my life. I think
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: if she said, hey, Ben, would you get my birthday
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: tattooed on you? I'd be like, well, yeah, but why, sure,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: but like I don't necessarily know why I would. That's cool.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I guess, would you get Jared's birthday tattooed on you?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I would rather have something that was like more meaningful
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: to him than his birthday, because like he doesn't give
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: a crap about his birthday, Like I understand that, like
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: it's the day that he came into the world, and obviously.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: That's huge for both of us.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Sure, but I would, like, honestly in his name, rather
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: do like his favorite Rob.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Thomas lyrics, Okay, because.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Like something that really spoke to him on like a
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: deeper level.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I mean that that would be sweet. I know Jessica
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and I are going to get like shared tattoos here soon.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to share what yet, but I know
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to. We haven't planned once she's done breastfeeding
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm excited for that. I watched
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: his video. I was actually surprised with how calm maybe
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it would be the word Andrew seemed when she shared this,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Like he was like, okay, like maye, yeah that's fine.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, how else is he supposed to react like
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: freaked out? That was?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: But yeah, maybe maybe he's just like the sweetest, like
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: go with the flow guy though he like smiles and
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: laughs at everything.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I wonder if do we Greg and Victoria's still have
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: their shared tattoos?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, why would they do that? Remember, I
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: do vaguely remember that that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Or something on their arms. I wonder.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: It's so ridiculous.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Big news, really sweet news. Ari and Lauren Leandyke they
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: obviously just had their next baby. They have forty two
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: kids at this point.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: They share the sweet video of their forty one other
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: kids meeting the baby sister, Livy for the first time.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's so adorable, and I will say, I'm not
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: gonna do it, but like their videos of Livy maybe
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: be like for the first time contemplat three.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, maybe not for the first maybe not for the
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: first time.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: But I was like, oh, yeah, okay, I remember now
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: be the baby baby, Like, oh, that is sad that
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I'll never have a baby baby again.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: But I can't do it. I literally can't. You guys
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: can come live in my house.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: You can't do it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: But she's adorable, She's so cute and the amount of
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: hair this baby has is unreal.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: They have the cutest the kids.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, did Winny have that much hair? No, no, no.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: She had like a little patch in the back. It
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: was hios that's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Right, Okay, there was something up with her hair.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a rat tail in the back.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: She's a beautiful, beautiful route beautiful.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Claire Crawley documents her visit to Mexico for medical treatments.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard about this. This is new to me,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: so actually what's going on.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: So what happened with Claire is back when she had
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: the breast implants and she had the breast implant poisoning
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: is that what they call it. She got those things
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: out like three years ago, and she's been so such
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: an advocate for getting breast implants out because of just
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: all the effects that they have on her body. And
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: one of the effects were these rashes that she would get,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: and so she'd get these steroid creams, and now she
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: has topical steroid withdrawal, which means that like she's just
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: you know, imagine a rash is nothing compared to what
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: she is dealing with.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: And it doesn't just affect your skin.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: It's actually a mitochondrial dysfunction, she says. So it ends
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: up affecting your cells on the deepest level, and this
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: facility in Mexico they treat you with stem cells, which
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: is amazing for it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: She said.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: The brutal truth about this withdrawal is that right now
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: there's no pill, no cream, no lotion that can heal
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the condition, and for many it can take years of
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: pain and uncertainty without finding relief goodness. She's like, I
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: cannot just wait and let this pass me by. I
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: want to give my body every chance that it can
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: to heal.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So she's been just been doing she's been proactive.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: She was down in Mexico at this place, it's like
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: fifteen minutes from the border. She flew into San Diego
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: and was there like a half an hour later, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: she said that what they're doing down there is so
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: fantastic for this and it's just something that she wanted
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: to do, and it was a week away from her family.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: But I think she's feeling much better after this trip.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And we wanted to have.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Her come to the Jonas concert and do those interviews
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: with us while we were there, but she wasn't able
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: to get a sitter. So hopefully we'll be able to
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: get her on soon to talk about all of this.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons that she said that she
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: was like putting filters on her face obsessively on Instagram
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: a couple months ago. She was like, Yeah, I'm not
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: showing my face because like it doesn't look the way
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: that you guys know what to look. And I'm really
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: actually insecure about this.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get her on talk more about this. That's
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: what the headlines we have for you today, Ashley. This
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: is fun. I'm glad you had a great weekend. I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: will find the video, the whole entirety of the video
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: of I'm just been to make you giggle and make
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: you laugh. We'll be back more this week. As we said,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: we have some great content coming your way, not only
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: from the concerts, but also some updates with the Golden Bachelor.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: More headlines when it comes to news coming out of
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation. So stay tuned, tune in until next time.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I've Been Ben, I've been Ashley.
• 26:28
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• 26:30
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