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Soundtrack to the Make Out · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with i R Radio. It is another almost famous podcast.
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Speaker 1: We're here to break down this week's episode, bring on
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Speaker 1: some guests that were on the episode, but also we're
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Speaker 1: here to hear from the wonderful Ashley Kennettie so sweet
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Speaker 1: of you have been so sweet. How's your week been?
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Speaker 1: Your book launch week? Are you so tired? Are you
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Speaker 1: feeling proud? I would love to say I'm feeling proud.
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Speaker 1: I am proud of the book. Um, there's a really
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Speaker 1: weird emotion that I did not imagine. I was talking
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Speaker 1: to one of our producers right before this that's happening. So, like,
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Speaker 1: this book is very personal me. I'm very proud of
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Speaker 1: this book. I believe in this book. It took a
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Speaker 1: lot of time to write, but a lot of the
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Speaker 1: stuff in the book is meant for those out there
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Speaker 1: who feel disconnected, isolated alone. So I was pulling stories
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Speaker 1: of others and pulling stories of myself. These are some
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Speaker 1: things that I've never really shared before with anybody until
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Speaker 1: I wrote the book. Well now I talk about it
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Speaker 1: all day every day, and you almost have like anotional
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Speaker 1: hangover because these are things that like, you know, after
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Speaker 1: you talk about it eight times in a day, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to like still pull out the emotion and passion
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Speaker 1: of it. And so I'm tired, but I'm excited. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I'll leave this thought here. It's really weird actually,
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people out here, I think,
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Speaker 1: can really you have these like high moments in life, right,
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Speaker 1: Give it a vacation, give it like a family gathering,
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Speaker 1: a holiday, maybe it's a promotion at work, whatever, and
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Speaker 1: you're like you have such big expectation for how it's
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Speaker 1: gonna feel, and you're so excited for it, and then
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Speaker 1: once it happens, it like in a sense lets you down.
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Speaker 1: And that's how the books felt, because like I've been
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Speaker 1: so excited for it for years, it launches, but then
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Speaker 1: like I don't, like there's like it's just it's just
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Speaker 1: out there, like I don't have I don't know what
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Speaker 1: to do with it anymore. Um, I just talk about
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Speaker 1: it a lot, but like you don't know the sales
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Speaker 1: and like not even that this book for me will
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Speaker 1: be judged based on sales. I mean, I think it well,
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Speaker 1: I'll take a personal hit like with my ego if
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Speaker 1: it doesn't sell well. But it's like no now which
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Speaker 1: is gone, Like this thing that I held on to
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Speaker 1: for two years is now no longer in my hands,
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Speaker 1: and so it like it just feels it feels less
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Speaker 1: of a high then I thought it would. I understand.
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Speaker 1: I understand completely. We'll talk about it more on Thursday night,
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Speaker 1: because you are going to talk about the book more.
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Speaker 1: At least this time it'll be with friends, because we're
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Speaker 1: doing a virtual event. Tell people how they can join it.
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Speaker 1: This is a super big deal. So um, obviously, the
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Speaker 1: almost Famous family and I Heart Radio have just been
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Speaker 1: incredible to Ashley and I over the years. And um,
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Speaker 1: we months ago planned this because we wanted to celebrate
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Speaker 1: the launch of this book and the launch of this podcast. Um,
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Speaker 1: not the launch, I mean, I guess the sustainability this podcast,
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Speaker 1: and share some stuff that I haven't been able to
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Speaker 1: talk about with the people that listen to this podcast.
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Speaker 1: And so we're gonna have a live event. We released
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Speaker 1: a limited number of tickets to our live show that
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Speaker 1: include a signed copy of my book. To buy, go
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Speaker 1: to events dot looped live, dot com, slash almost you miss.
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Speaker 1: Those will be in the show notes, so just look
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Speaker 1: it up and you'll see that if you if you
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Speaker 1: didn't get it, A portion of the proceeds from this
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Speaker 1: live event we'll go to Save our Stages, which is
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Speaker 1: through federal aid, is on the way until it comes.
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Speaker 1: Many neighborhood independent venues are still at risk of closing.
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Speaker 1: That's just gonna happen. It will close forever. So you
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Speaker 1: can find info on how to help your local music
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Speaker 1: scene at save our Stages dot com or just get
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Speaker 1: a ticket to this event that's helping out a lot.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the book. We're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: great guests on. We're gonna dive into some questions that
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Speaker 1: I think all of us could probably relate with right now,
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Speaker 1: like how are you feeling? Where are you at? Who
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Speaker 1: are you in the midst of this last year, in
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Speaker 1: the midst of the chaos that it's kind of came
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Speaker 1: around us to confusion. Um, I'm really pumped for it,
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Speaker 1: so please join us. It's gonna be um intimate, vulnerable, raw,
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Speaker 1: but also a lot of fun. We have something else
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Speaker 1: very exciting. On Thursday, I was asked on questions on
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Speaker 1: Instagram this week, what who's a guest that came on
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Speaker 1: our show that I never thought would agree to? It?
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Speaker 1: And it is this person, Wan Pablo. Wan Pablo did
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Speaker 1: an in depth with us we recorded last week. It
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Speaker 1: is chock full of well blunt wand pabloisms. Um, he
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Speaker 1: was as honest as he says that he was on
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Speaker 1: the show. You guys are really good. It's it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a really good listen. You're gonna have a lot
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Speaker 1: of opinions, I'm sure, but it will be dropping this Thursday,
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Speaker 1: so make sure to look out for that. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's get to this week six of the Bachelor recap
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Speaker 1: right after this break. All Right, we're back, Ashley. We
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Speaker 1: gotta break it down this week. It's gonna be crazy. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's so much going on in Bachelor Nation right now,
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Speaker 1: so many headlines, so many stories. As you know, as
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Speaker 1: you just mentioned before the break, Wan Paul is going
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Speaker 1: to be on our podcast, and uh, that's something we
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Speaker 1: never thought would happen. Um. And then we get to
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Speaker 1: this week's episode, and again, I want to preface it
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Speaker 1: was saying this last week, I was really happy with
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Speaker 1: the episode. I think Matt James is just a good dude.
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Speaker 1: Like I just like him, I like watching him. I
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Speaker 1: think I'm rooting for him, like I'm on his team. Um,
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm just getting like to be critical as I
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Speaker 1: get farther and farther, like out of the show, I
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Speaker 1: feel like these episodes are falling short, Like I feel
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Speaker 1: like they're falling short. Well, let's dive into it, because
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Speaker 1: we're gonna pull out some of the things that like
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Speaker 1: and some of the reasons why we believe they're falling short.
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Speaker 1: Right now. Well, the episode starts with the cliffhanger. Jin
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Speaker 1: and m J are together meeting, talking, arguing. We get
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Speaker 1: more arguments during the season than any other season I
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Speaker 1: can remember. It. It's uh, it's just not enjoyable, I
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Speaker 1: guess for me to watch because I don't know exactly
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Speaker 1: what's going on. And also when Matt sits down and
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Speaker 1: I'll pass to you here in just a second, but
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Speaker 1: when Matt sits down in the room with these two girls,
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Speaker 1: there's just this look of exhaustion on his face, Like
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Speaker 1: I just felt like he was sitting in a room
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Speaker 1: being like this isn't at all what I want to
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Speaker 1: spend my evening doing. Nor do I understand what's going
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Speaker 1: on here, but I just want this stuff to be
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Speaker 1: done so that we can move on into like something
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Speaker 1: healthy and like good for this season. Yeah. I was thinking,
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Speaker 1: like something that I've thought many times throughout this season,
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Speaker 1: kind of like, what's this fight actually over? Yes? Is
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Speaker 1: it the fact that you guys don't jive? Is it
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Speaker 1: the fact that m J said, oh I don't feel
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Speaker 1: any tangient or drama in the house to Matt? Um? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Is it over just something so? Or is it over
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Speaker 1: MJ being a bully? Um? Is it a come a
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Speaker 1: nation of all of this? Probably, But it's just like
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Speaker 1: one of those confrontations that I just feel like the
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Speaker 1: purpose of it, or like the root of it is
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Speaker 1: really vague, which makes me less interesting in the argument. Yea, yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. It's just vague. And I mean
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Speaker 1: that's and and then I mean, okay, so we could
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Speaker 1: go through like the bickering. It's I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: helpful for the podcast. I don't think it's helpful for
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Speaker 1: the show. They went back and forth for matt sits
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Speaker 1: down with each of them. Uh, m J explains how
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Speaker 1: she has a big heart and she's trying to show
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Speaker 1: it to him. Uh, She's saying that she hasn't at all.
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Speaker 1: She's trying to bring harmony to the house, so she's
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Speaker 1: trying to do the exact opposite of what she's getting
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Speaker 1: blamed for. Uh, just Sinya saying no, you've been a
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Speaker 1: part of the problem. And then it pretty much, I
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Speaker 1: mean ends there. And this is the part that's even
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Speaker 1: more confusing, Like MJ gets sent home and then just
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Speaker 1: Sena walks back with a rose, but we don't really
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Speaker 1: know why she got her. I thought they were both
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Speaker 1: going home, quite honestly, I don't I thought they were
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Speaker 1: both going home too. I thought was gonna be like
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Speaker 1: Titia's season where she was, where he was gonna be
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Speaker 1: like Jennia, I'm not really one sure about you yet,
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Speaker 1: please go join the other girls, and like, I'll make
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Speaker 1: up my decision later. I guess in fact, he didn't.
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Speaker 1: He didn't do that, because he just decided to cancel
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Speaker 1: the cocktail party altogether, which is probably out of exhaustion
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Speaker 1: and just being like I know what I'm doing. I
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Speaker 1: don't really feel a connection between him, him and Justenia,
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Speaker 1: which is why I was surprised that she got through
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Speaker 1: so easily with that rose. But also because um, we've
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Speaker 1: seen the scene to the next episode that she's around
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Speaker 1: and looks like going on a one on one next week.
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Speaker 1: So not only did she get through that rose cere money,
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Speaker 1: but she gets through the rose ceremony that we have
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Speaker 1: a teaser, you know that we left on a cliff note,
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Speaker 1: clifhanger on, and then she gets a one on one.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know, I like, I'm obviously like team
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Speaker 1: just Sena in this argument between her and m J.
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Speaker 1: M J just seems like really rough around the edges,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if I can really trust her.
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Speaker 1: But I also feel like just sending in a way
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Speaker 1: was being like a little bit over dramatic about it.
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Speaker 1: Well right, and yeah, I think you're right. I also
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Speaker 1: it goes back to the just the thing that we've
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Speaker 1: seen for re season here though, like do you think
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Speaker 1: and you can answer me this maybe when the girls
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Speaker 1: are bringing up this kind of stuff and they're arguing, okay,
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Speaker 1: when Justina is sitting in this room with him J going,
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Speaker 1: m J, I think you've been a bully, and Justina
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Speaker 1: is sitting there in that room at that point, does
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Speaker 1: she think that is helpful for her relationship with Matt?
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Speaker 1: Like in her head, is she believing that by pursuing
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Speaker 1: this it is helping her relationship with Matt or is
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Speaker 1: that is that an afterthought because in my opinion, from
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Speaker 1: my experience in the show, it would just hurt my
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Speaker 1: relationships if if it was down to like in a sense,
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Speaker 1: like bickering back and forth on I just don't like
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Speaker 1: you or I don't like it doesn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: helpful for any love story to be formed. I think
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Speaker 1: it's an afterthought because I think that I'm just using
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Speaker 1: my experience during The Bachelor with Kelsey being our villain.
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Speaker 1: It was just like this, I just can't stand this
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Speaker 1: person so much that like it's very important for me
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Speaker 1: for them to be exposed. But okay, but in in
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Speaker 1: a moment of honesty, for you, like the number one
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Speaker 1: reason you're there, let's say, okay, let's assume the number
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Speaker 1: one reason you're there is to have a good experience,
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Speaker 1: to have fun, to try something new. The second one
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Speaker 1: is could I possibly fall in love? Could I possibly
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Speaker 1: make this workout? Like is this something that could be
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Speaker 1: my love story in life? And we'll assume those are
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Speaker 1: two reasons. Does any if those are your two reasons?
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Speaker 1: Does having this kind of fight and actually you've been
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Speaker 1: in this was it helpful for either of those. No,
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Speaker 1: it's never gonna be helpful. But that doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: like there's something in your soul that like must do it.
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Speaker 1: I know that's not like the right answer, but it's
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Speaker 1: the right answer. It's the honest answer. I mean, Okay,
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Speaker 1: do you regret doing Okay, if you're in the same position,
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Speaker 1: do you regret would you do it over the same
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Speaker 1: way you did it? Yes? And I would. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: just would like articulate myself and not drink a whole
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Speaker 1: bottle of champagne before. Okay, Well that's all. But you
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Speaker 1: know that's because like I wasn't meant to be with Christ,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like if it may have been different,
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Speaker 1: if it was somebody that I know that like I
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Speaker 1: really thought like this made sense, like there was something
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Speaker 1: that must have been there. Um, I don't know, I understand.
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Speaker 1: I just understand where like that need to kind of
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say fight, but to argue is
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Speaker 1: to bring it out, to bring it to the service.
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Speaker 1: Well again, just Sina stays, MJ goes home and I think, uh,
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be talked I think MJ
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Speaker 1: is gonna get talked about a lot this week. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think it was a really big exit for Matt.
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Speaker 1: I think he was really into into m J. I
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Speaker 1: think he still was, and I think he saw there
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Speaker 1: must have been more to the story, Like I think
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Speaker 1: he was seeing the thread of kind of what just
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Speaker 1: Sina was saying coming through. I think it hurt him
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Speaker 1: quite a bit to send him Jay home. I agree,
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Speaker 1: but we didn't get to see that, which was unfortunate.
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Speaker 1: But I felt like going into that day or whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to call it, he he had more of
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Speaker 1: a connection with that Jay. I'll give you a little
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. When I was there on set, Uh,
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Speaker 1: some of the people were like they thought MJ was
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Speaker 1: a front runner, Like they told me, like this girl, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this like MJ has like Matt. Matt likes her. So
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Speaker 1: I was shocked to see her going home. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how this season plays out, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: how each episode plays out, So I was watching it like,
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Speaker 1: there's no way she goes home here because I knew.
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Speaker 1: I mean what, I was there two weeks before this.
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Speaker 1: I was like, two weeks before this, he was head
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Speaker 1: over heels for this girl, like he liked her a
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Speaker 1: ton um So it makes sense on why then he
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Speaker 1: cancels the cocktail party. He's tired, he's exhausted, he's over it.
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Speaker 1: I mean now at this point in time, we watch
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Speaker 1: it like weeks, you know, once a week. This has
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Speaker 1: been his life in argument, dealing with arguments in confrontation.
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Speaker 1: Now for two weeks. He's exhausted, he's tired, he's really
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Speaker 1: over it. Um, So he cancels the cocktail party, and
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Speaker 1: people are really upset. People are like in tears upset. Yeah, Ryan,
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Speaker 1: Ryan was a latecomer and she was so upset. We
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Speaker 1: see her not get a rose. She obviously was sensing
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Speaker 1: that she needed that time to prove a connection. Um,
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Speaker 1: we see Serena get up in Katie's not really get
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Speaker 1: up in cases. But you know, start something with Katie
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Speaker 1: saying that, you know, if she stopped bringing up all
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Speaker 1: the toxicity in the house, then like all these time
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Speaker 1: warpoles um of drama, times sucking time sucking warpoles of
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Speaker 1: drama like the one between Jasena and MJ would have
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Speaker 1: been eliminated, and then therefore cocktail parties wouldn't get canceled
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Speaker 1: and all that. But I don't know, I don't really
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Speaker 1: agree with Serena there. I mean, I think Katie, she
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Speaker 1: you know, we think that Katie is a good one,
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Speaker 1: you know, have bringing it up. Well, it's not bringing
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Speaker 1: it up for the for like her own sake. No,
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. The confrontation with Katie and
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Speaker 1: her bring it up was back, you know, when she
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Speaker 1: kind of brought up Victoria. The house was toxic, there's
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Speaker 1: bullying going on, and Katie was like, Matt, like this
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Speaker 1: isn't healthy anymore, Like I just want you to know
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Speaker 1: that this in the house like needs to change and
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Speaker 1: you need to know about it. I didn't have the
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Speaker 1: like stomach churning reaction to when Katie brought it up
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Speaker 1: as when like other people have brought up confrontation. Now
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Speaker 1: I did have it though, when Serena brought up to Katie,
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Speaker 1: I was like, don't do this again. We I literally
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Speaker 1: thought last week we were done with a drama. Then
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Speaker 1: this happens this week right off the bat with the episode,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, Matt's already tired. And then as soon
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Speaker 1: as Harrison walks out of the room, here we are
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Speaker 1: back into another confrontation. And it was just like, don't start.
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Speaker 1: I don't want this to be another storyline. I was
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Speaker 1: checking I was getting so checked out. Was just one
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Speaker 1: of those episodes where I found myself like pressing pause
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Speaker 1: the ton looking at my phone, just wasn't fully invested
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Speaker 1: because it's just like, ah again, are you kidding me? Now?
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Speaker 1: I would say I think I mentioned last week that
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Speaker 1: I would think that maybe Serena had a point if
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Speaker 1: Katie did like a little title tale situation again. But
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Speaker 1: she didn't. She was pulling up like a past tattle.
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Speaker 1: I don't like it calling it a title I don't
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Speaker 1: think she was a title tale, but like her sake
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Speaker 1: of simplicity. The last time Katie brought that up was
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Speaker 1: a while back. So now Serena's just drudging up something again,
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Speaker 1: and and you have the awkward moment where uh, then,
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Speaker 1: well it happens a little bitter what we're talking about
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Speaker 1: it saying. But I do have to mention this, um
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Speaker 1: this episode really fired me up. And you'll know why
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Speaker 1: for one reason, not only the confrontation. Not only do
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Speaker 1: I not get to see Matt shine, which I know
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Speaker 1: he will and still can and he's great, but my
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Speaker 1: favorite went home, Maggie went home. We never got to
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Speaker 1: see Maggie. We never got to see Maggie. She was like,
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Speaker 1: I promise you, she has so much to offer. She
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Speaker 1: was in that pumpkin when I was there, spin around circles,
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Speaker 1: laughing for an hour. I think she's the best. We
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Speaker 1: never got to know her, and it's so I really
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Speaker 1: was excited to get to know her. It was really sad.
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Speaker 1: But she went home as well as Uh as Ryan
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Speaker 1: uh went home as well, and Brittany went home. Can
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Speaker 1: we talk about how weird it is that Britney went home?
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Speaker 1: This is like the third week in a row that
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Speaker 1: we have somebody who we've who's had a lot of airtime,
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Speaker 1: who seemingly had a connection with with Matt, and we
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Speaker 1: see them go home without any further explanation. Matt doesn't
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Speaker 1: pull him aside. First there was Kayla, then there was Lauren,
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Speaker 1: and now there was Brittany. Bertney had a huge storyline
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Speaker 1: over the past two weeks, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: she's gone, Yeah, there's still girls there that we know
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Speaker 1: nothing about. But yet the girls that we've actually start
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Speaker 1: to like invest into and that I can actually say
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Speaker 1: their names are going home. Like this is making it
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Speaker 1: really hard on me, Like, who's next? Chelsea, Like, are
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Speaker 1: we gonna send Chelsea home next week? And I'll be like,
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Speaker 1: this is I don't get anymore, Like I'm invested in
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Speaker 1: Chelsea story I like Chelsea, She's a sweetheart. But it
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Speaker 1: feels like now Chelsea story line is going to be
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Speaker 1: the one now that goes home next week. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But who I really feel like you might go home
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Speaker 1: next week is is Abigail? Because I'm looking at process
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Speaker 1: of elimination here and the fact that Abigail is going
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Speaker 1: to go home after getting the first impression rows and
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Speaker 1: never having a one on one and never really developing
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Speaker 1: a storyline is super super sad. Let's talk about that
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Speaker 1: a little bit later in the episode when we get
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Speaker 1: closer to that Rose ceremony. Let's jump into the first
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Speaker 1: one on one with Piper. Cute dates. Uh, they have
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Speaker 1: they go to care, they go to a fair. That's
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Speaker 1: always fun. I always find like the fair day is
17:56
Speaker 1: a nice little ice bregger. You can't like be awkward
17:59
Speaker 1: with each other. I had we did want to worse.
18:01
Speaker 1: Sunday it was incredible. It was like so much yeah
18:05
Speaker 1: with Amanda, the whole town came out. I mean it
18:06
Speaker 1: was packed. It was it was fun, but this was
18:09
Speaker 1: super special because you know, we've seen fireworks in the
18:12
Speaker 1: show and all that stuff, but like the fact that
18:14
Speaker 1: all of a sudden she walks into like a dark
18:16
Speaker 1: where like it was a forest or something, and he
18:18
Speaker 1: turns on the lights and it lights up was so cool. Yeah,
18:24
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. Um. And then there's nothing really like
18:28
Speaker 1: monumental that happens there. But she does talk over dinner
18:32
Speaker 1: something so so sad. She says it like she has
18:35
Speaker 1: a really hard time being emotional and vulnerable, and that's
18:39
Speaker 1: because in her house it's not really condoned to be emotional,
18:43
Speaker 1: and that her mom isn't the kind of mom who
18:46
Speaker 1: will like call and say like, hey, I'm proud of you.
18:50
Speaker 1: And that just made me so sad for her. And
18:52
Speaker 1: she was talking about how of course she doesn't want
18:55
Speaker 1: she wants to be in a relationship where she can
18:58
Speaker 1: feel comfortable finally expressing her emotions and like raising a
19:01
Speaker 1: family that does the same. It was said, I think
19:05
Speaker 1: it was relatable um to a lot of people. Uh.
19:09
Speaker 1: I think I found out over the last two years
19:12
Speaker 1: just how many people have either gotten too much reassurance
19:16
Speaker 1: from people like you know or not at all and
19:20
Speaker 1: it's sad because it does it. There's a disconnect there,
19:23
Speaker 1: I think though. And I hope that after Piper brings
19:26
Speaker 1: this up on national television, like that conversation can happen
19:29
Speaker 1: at home where she's like, I want you to tell
19:31
Speaker 1: me you're proud of me, like I have. I have
19:33
Speaker 1: people in my life that I know who have never
19:36
Speaker 1: been told, um, by their father or mother that they
19:41
Speaker 1: love them, like they just don't do in their household,
19:43
Speaker 1: you know, and like that was my well, my mom
19:45
Speaker 1: grew up in. Yeah, it's like mind boggling to me
19:48
Speaker 1: because she did the exact opposite. It's weird, um, but
19:52
Speaker 1: so it's relatable. I think it was a really great conversation.
19:54
Speaker 1: It was really special. But once again, as this beautiful
20:00
Speaker 1: date is happening, as we're relating and investing into this relationship,
20:04
Speaker 1: at break off points, Serena and Katie are back home
20:07
Speaker 1: fighting it out, yelling at each other in like a
20:10
Speaker 1: very aggressive way. Uh, the other girls are listening. Serena
20:14
Speaker 1: comes in with like this kind of confiding in these friends,
20:17
Speaker 1: sits down and she starts talking about her Katie walks
20:21
Speaker 1: in on it, which is always one of the most
20:22
Speaker 1: awkward moments on the show. It happens often. It's one
20:25
Speaker 1: of the most awkward moments in life, right, like we've
20:27
Speaker 1: probably done in middle school, or like you know, you're
20:30
Speaker 1: talking about one of your friends and then they walk in,
20:32
Speaker 1: things get weird. But this is again Ashley, and I'm
20:35
Speaker 1: gonna keep harping on it until it stops. I guess,
20:38
Speaker 1: I don't know. People probably sick of hearing it. But
20:40
Speaker 1: it's like, once again, these are adults acting like children.
20:46
Speaker 1: And there here's my take on it. Serena is just
20:51
Speaker 1: starting another fire, like she's mad at Katie for the
20:54
Speaker 1: toxicity in the house. Yeah, Serena walks in to add
20:58
Speaker 1: more toxicity situation by starting is fire amongst the girls.
21:00
Speaker 1: Now I'm sure Katie like has but like all we've
21:05
Speaker 1: seen is now Serena sitting down and starting the bad
21:07
Speaker 1: mouth this situation. And it's luckily the girls though, stand
21:11
Speaker 1: up and say like, I don't see it this way, yeah,
21:15
Speaker 1: and can I just say that there's like no again,
21:18
Speaker 1: no point to this because we see it at the
21:21
Speaker 1: Rose ceremony and then we see it again here. But
21:25
Speaker 1: then before we note that Katie's eliminated and this conflict
21:30
Speaker 1: is gone, and it's just like, okay, it's been existed,
21:34
Speaker 1: then fine. But I don't think it needed to be
21:36
Speaker 1: part of the show because it has no consequence and
21:42
Speaker 1: it just it wasn't. It was to me just a
21:44
Speaker 1: non interesting watch where I wish that those ten minutes
21:48
Speaker 1: that it occupied was used to see the one on
21:53
Speaker 1: one time that Abigail and Matt or so and so
21:56
Speaker 1: and Matt would have had on this group date, which
21:59
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about in a second. Um. Because
22:03
Speaker 1: the group date was okay, let's get into it now.
22:05
Speaker 1: The group date was bowling. It was one of those
22:07
Speaker 1: things where it's like whatever team wins is going to
22:11
Speaker 1: go have extra time with Matt tonight. And it was
22:13
Speaker 1: actually two small groups, so they were gonna get like
22:16
Speaker 1: some good quality time. The group of four girls, the
22:19
Speaker 1: Pink Team one which sent the Blue Girls home. Then
22:23
Speaker 1: Harrison comes in and says, you know, Matt actually wants
22:26
Speaker 1: to invite you Blue girls to the date, right, And
22:30
Speaker 1: then he said, hey, girls, sorry, I had to invite
22:33
Speaker 1: the Blue team because like, I just felt like we
22:35
Speaker 1: all deserved, like I want time with all of you,
22:38
Speaker 1: which I loved. But it was so weird is that
22:41
Speaker 1: in the episode. We don't get him. We don't see
22:45
Speaker 1: any one on one time with any of the Blue
22:48
Speaker 1: team that I rewounded. I rewounded to make sure that
22:54
Speaker 1: I was right about this, and he he invited them,
22:57
Speaker 1: but nothing we know, like you and I know that
23:00
Speaker 1: those girls probably most likely had time with him, But
23:04
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they choose to air that time? Because it's
23:08
Speaker 1: just odd? It is. Well, okay, so right now we
23:11
Speaker 1: are harping on this episode. I get that, But here's
23:14
Speaker 1: the point. No, no, but here, here's the point to
23:17
Speaker 1: this whole thing. I think here's where the frustration, um
23:21
Speaker 1: lies is. We just don't know these women well enough yet.
23:25
Speaker 1: It's frustrating because we're two weeks away now after this
23:29
Speaker 1: week from Hometowns. The there's been a lot of arguments,
23:34
Speaker 1: very little like in depth stories, being like kind of
23:37
Speaker 1: pushed to where we understand where their relationship lies. Um,
23:41
Speaker 1: I don't know at this point other than maybe two
23:43
Speaker 1: or three, that I have any connection as a viewer
23:46
Speaker 1: with any of them, Like if like there's some seasons
23:48
Speaker 1: where somebody goes home and I'm like a little torn
23:51
Speaker 1: up about it this season, if any of them went home,
23:54
Speaker 1: maybe other than Abigail, Rachel of Britt like I would
23:57
Speaker 1: be or Bree, I would be like pretty distant from it.
24:02
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's fair. But once, okay, so
24:04
Speaker 1: here's here's the point in the show. So we'll pause
24:07
Speaker 1: it here and we'll talk about this through all this.
24:10
Speaker 1: There's a storyline going on. We're gonna add one more
24:12
Speaker 1: person to the season. Heather Martin shows up, uh to
24:15
Speaker 1: Nim mccollan, asking to be on the season to give
24:17
Speaker 1: it a shot. I'm a big Heather Martin fan. She's
24:19
Speaker 1: been on the podcast many times. Uh, but nothing in's Heather.
24:23
Speaker 1: But it's like one more person now to come into
24:25
Speaker 1: this we already have added. We had a huge group
24:27
Speaker 1: at the beginning, We've added more women back then We're
24:30
Speaker 1: gonna add one more here, Like how we ever gonna
24:33
Speaker 1: keep these relationships moving forward when we always are taking
24:36
Speaker 1: a step back And it's it's just it's just odds,
24:41
Speaker 1: Like it's weird to me that we continue to add
24:45
Speaker 1: people to this season when like the whole problem I
24:48
Speaker 1: guess with this season is not Matt James is not
24:50
Speaker 1: really the contestants. Other than the bullying, the toxicity, I
24:52
Speaker 1: think we've now eliminated it's the fact that there's just
24:55
Speaker 1: so many freaking people in and out of this house.
24:58
Speaker 1: This was so silly in one of those rare moments,
25:01
Speaker 1: but it felt staged to me. Um when she pulls
25:04
Speaker 1: up in the white van, like the white and Vinnie
25:06
Speaker 1: Matt the minivan, and then Harrison's like, go back to
25:10
Speaker 1: your hotel and we'll think about it. When like, you
25:13
Speaker 1: know she's staying there on campus. You know that she
25:15
Speaker 1: was quarantining before that minivan scene. And then she's like
25:20
Speaker 1: doing all these corny videos in her room and you're
25:24
Speaker 1: and she even admits she's like, girl, She's like, I
25:26
Speaker 1: know I'm late, but like I still must meet Matt.
25:30
Speaker 1: I'm like, girl, you are so late that you are
25:33
Speaker 1: entering the week that I exited Crystals this season. Like
25:38
Speaker 1: you if if the producers told me, yeah, you can
25:41
Speaker 1: come and join, but you have to join in week six,
25:45
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, okay, never mind that all embarrass myself.
25:50
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. Yeah you're not, that's
25:53
Speaker 1: wild to think about. It's true, all right, Actually, let's
25:56
Speaker 1: take a break and we come back when a breakdown.
25:57
Speaker 1: Tyler Cameron's cameo on the episode as well, as Katie's
26:01
Speaker 1: date and then exit from the show, leading into then
26:06
Speaker 1: the bloopers for next week. Ashley fans have been waiting
26:20
Speaker 1: to find out when, uh, Matt James gonna have Tyler
26:23
Speaker 1: Cameron on. Obviously they're friends and that's kind of how
26:25
Speaker 1: Matt got on the show was because of Tyler's mom.
26:28
Speaker 1: So Tyler shows up this week, uh for little man chat.
26:33
Speaker 1: But then it's also a part of Katie's one on
26:36
Speaker 1: one date. And this did not disappoint. This was the
26:39
Speaker 1: part that had me laughing, that had me totally glued
26:41
Speaker 1: to the screen. Katie is going to go behind the scenes, right,
26:48
Speaker 1: have a mike to an earpiece for a masseuse that
26:52
Speaker 1: is massaging Tyler Unknowingly, Katie and and Matt are watching
26:59
Speaker 1: Tyler get a massa and they're leading the massuits in
27:02
Speaker 1: this awful massage. And this is hilarious. And this is
27:06
Speaker 1: the kind of date that was is one creative and
27:08
Speaker 1: I love that we haven't seen something like this before
27:11
Speaker 1: and to actually kind of gets you to bond like
27:13
Speaker 1: it really gets you to bond um. And then just
27:16
Speaker 1: the fact that, um, you know, it's with a friend
27:20
Speaker 1: that's fun. You have a little bit more like you
27:23
Speaker 1: feel more free and doing embarrassing things. I really love
27:27
Speaker 1: this date. And uh yeah, Tyler was a good sport
27:32
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, it was it is I always I
27:36
Speaker 1: like these. That was the date was right good, you're right.
27:39
Speaker 1: It bonded Katie and Matt allowed us in the room
27:42
Speaker 1: and kind of laugh and joke and pick on a
27:43
Speaker 1: friend and play a joke on him. I really loved,
27:46
Speaker 1: like I can't. I love massages. It's my favorite thing.
27:49
Speaker 1: I can't imagine having somebody like a massus in this
27:53
Speaker 1: like really nice spot all of a sudden take like
27:56
Speaker 1: like one of those like roll roll out things and
27:58
Speaker 1: like go against the back of my head, Like that hurts,
28:00
Speaker 1: Like that's not fun. I can't imagine what was going
28:02
Speaker 1: through Tyler's head. I wish there was a follow up
28:03
Speaker 1: interview to that be like what were you thinking when
28:06
Speaker 1: she was like one like playing with her nipples, which
28:09
Speaker 1: is a little weird. I don't know how like it's
28:12
Speaker 1: like that was fine. I would feel pretty uncomfortable, Like
28:14
Speaker 1: I would have I would have gone further than that.
28:17
Speaker 1: I would have been like go really low on his pelvis,
28:20
Speaker 1: go really low, go really high on his thigh. Yeah,
28:23
Speaker 1: I know they're keeping a PG, but like then the
28:26
Speaker 1: rolling board in the back of the head, I think
28:28
Speaker 1: that's when I've been like laying there been like this
28:30
Speaker 1: is the worst thing I've ever had experienced me and
28:32
Speaker 1: the fact that she was talking to him the whole time.
28:34
Speaker 1: That's my number one pet peeve with the massage. Anyways, Okay,
28:37
Speaker 1: so Katie and Matt have a great one on one day.
28:40
Speaker 1: I'm like, this thing is working, this is a good deal.
28:43
Speaker 1: But then they feel that I did. I felt. I
28:45
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I was like, this would have been
28:49
Speaker 1: a perfect date for somebody had more chemistry with less
28:52
Speaker 1: of a friend zone. Fail. Well, but we kind of
28:55
Speaker 1: find that out as the date continues. Uh, it's definitely
28:58
Speaker 1: more of a friend zone. Matt a lot of great
29:00
Speaker 1: things to say about Katie, but she is sent home
29:04
Speaker 1: from the one on one. It's our first one on
29:05
Speaker 1: one exit, if I know, is it our first this season? Yes,
29:09
Speaker 1: it's our first one on one exit this season? Um,
29:12
Speaker 1: you know not. My opinion is not shocking because I
29:16
Speaker 1: I do think like it wasn't like this was a
29:19
Speaker 1: love story that we're like, yeah, they're gonna be together forever,
29:22
Speaker 1: but um, anytime somebody goes home from a one on one.
29:25
Speaker 1: It's um, it's a little bit of a of a storyline,
29:28
Speaker 1: and Katie is sent home. Okay, So the end of
29:32
Speaker 1: the episode goes like this. Heather Martin does show up
29:36
Speaker 1: to the cocktail party, the girls all of a sudden
29:39
Speaker 1: are fired up, and it really just starts to be
29:42
Speaker 1: highlighted in the previews, and the previews are the previews.
29:45
Speaker 1: We never know what those are referring to. But it
29:47
Speaker 1: doesn't look like this goes well for Heather. No, so
29:52
Speaker 1: Heather does interrupt Pipers one on one time, which of
29:56
Speaker 1: course isn't gonna go well. But what else is she
29:59
Speaker 1: gonna do? Right? And you can tell that Matt knew
30:03
Speaker 1: how the right off the bat because he starts laughing.
30:05
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like at this point, it really
30:07
Speaker 1: is like a hilarious joke that somebody else is entering
30:10
Speaker 1: this late in the game, and that it's somebody that
30:13
Speaker 1: he knows, and he's he's dealing with it with the
30:17
Speaker 1: sense of humor, but like, you know, he's not gonna
30:19
Speaker 1: he's not gonna keep I well, I feel like he's
30:21
Speaker 1: not gonna keep it around, That's what I say. No,
30:24
Speaker 1: But like I don't actually know. UM. And then Heather,
30:28
Speaker 1: we we got word. It's in our hot topics this week,
30:31
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about it right now. Is that Matt
30:34
Speaker 1: did meet Head there prior to the season, UM, but
30:38
Speaker 1: he had no relationship with her, so he knew her
30:40
Speaker 1: through Hannah. And you know, as as Heather says, she
30:44
Speaker 1: was really strongly recommended to go on the show because
30:48
Speaker 1: of Hannah. The I encourage everybody, UM to go back
30:52
Speaker 1: watch UM. When Heather walks into the room to interrupt
30:55
Speaker 1: Matt and Matt looks up, that's gonna be a meme forever.
30:58
Speaker 1: His eyes are wide, his face is shocked, and he's
31:01
Speaker 1: like son of a gun. Well, hey, Ashley, let's take
31:03
Speaker 1: a break here. That's been this week's episode. Uh. Let's
31:06
Speaker 1: rate it UM A to F rating for this episode,
31:12
Speaker 1: it's a say I'm gonna see minus. After last week's episode,
31:16
Speaker 1: I had big expectations for this week. I thought we
31:18
Speaker 1: were really going to see some stories start to build.
31:21
Speaker 1: We didn't, uh, And as a result, it pretty disappointed me,
31:25
Speaker 1: and I think it might for a lot of Bachelor Nation.
31:27
Speaker 1: Matt James, once again, UH, just continues to be consistent. Great,
31:31
Speaker 1: He's he's good at this, but I'm not I like
31:35
Speaker 1: him as a human and I think we could be friends.
31:38
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly invested into his love story right now,
31:40
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be. Uh. And I think a
31:43
Speaker 1: lot of that has to do with just how the
31:45
Speaker 1: controversies and the and the bullying and the like, just
31:48
Speaker 1: arguing the seasons existed so far. Hey, uh, we'll take
31:51
Speaker 1: a break, we come back. We have Bachelor headline. Actually
32:03
Speaker 1: just mentioned this first headline and so we're gonna kind
32:05
Speaker 1: of skip over it. But Matt James did confirm that
32:08
Speaker 1: there was no relationship with Heather Martin before she crashed
32:11
Speaker 1: the Crash the Bachelor. I know a lot of people
32:12
Speaker 1: are gonna be speculating that this week. But the next
32:14
Speaker 1: headline is referencing Matt James as well. His season is
32:17
Speaker 1: getting talked about, uh and a lot of press. Uh.
32:21
Speaker 1: The headline reads this Bachelor Matt James talks Rachel controversy.
32:26
Speaker 1: Uh and that Spotify like did he spoil his season?
32:30
Speaker 1: This according to entertainment? Okay, well, first off, we'll address
32:34
Speaker 1: the Spotify like. So apparently he um liked one of
32:38
Speaker 1: Rachel's playlists on Spotify, which makes people feel like perhaps
32:43
Speaker 1: he chooses her. UM, but he said he said in
32:46
Speaker 1: this interview that I listened to that he apparently did
32:50
Speaker 1: some research on a lot of the girls Spotify lists
32:53
Speaker 1: and liked and listened to multiple ones. UM. And then
32:56
Speaker 1: as far as the controversy, Rachel we know has been
32:59
Speaker 1: an early front runner in an early favorite. UM. But but
33:01
Speaker 1: but there are some there are some allegations of her
33:06
Speaker 1: on social media for bullying in the past, about dating
33:09
Speaker 1: black men, and for liking some photos that don't look
33:15
Speaker 1: so good on social media. And I just want to
33:17
Speaker 1: read to you what Matt has said about one question
33:21
Speaker 1: about all this. He said, I have not really spoke
33:23
Speaker 1: to anybody since the show ended, but I would like
33:26
Speaker 1: to say that you have to be really careful about
33:28
Speaker 1: what you're doing on social media. He says. Rumors are
33:30
Speaker 1: dark and nasty and they can rumor people's lives. So UM,
33:34
Speaker 1: I would give people the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully
33:37
Speaker 1: she will have some time to speak on that. There's
33:40
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going around about the women who
33:42
Speaker 1: are involved in the show, and I would just give
33:45
Speaker 1: them a chance to kind of have their peace, whether
33:48
Speaker 1: that is someone who was gone night one or someone
33:52
Speaker 1: who went home this week. Everyone has a story and
33:55
Speaker 1: I would just be receptive to that. So I think
33:59
Speaker 1: he just wants um Rachel to address this on her
34:02
Speaker 1: own whenever she sees fit. Well, we uh we will
34:06
Speaker 1: follow that and when she does address it, we'll be
34:08
Speaker 1: talking about it right here on Bachelor headlines. Uh. Now,
34:13
Speaker 1: Rachel Lindsay, who has been outspoken uh about a lot
34:18
Speaker 1: of things. She hosts a show and so she talks
34:20
Speaker 1: about stuff kind of quite often, reacts to Dylan Barber
34:25
Speaker 1: Jed Wyatt's Bachelor producers accusations. That's on you, she says,
34:29
Speaker 1: if you felt manipulated, this goes into our next headline,
34:34
Speaker 1: because we'll compare the two here. Our next headline comes
34:37
Speaker 1: from Tasha Adams, who came out and said that she
34:41
Speaker 1: felt very unedited on her season and it's very proud
34:45
Speaker 1: of who she was. So Ashley, taking both these headlines
34:49
Speaker 1: into consideration, how do we go through this? Okay? Well,
34:54
Speaker 1: first off, you guys may remember that last week Dylan
34:57
Speaker 1: was talking about some like really cryptic thing ings. You know,
35:00
Speaker 1: he was tweeting saying that like they don't that the
35:02
Speaker 1: producers don't care about people's mental health, um, that they're
35:05
Speaker 1: not looking out for the contestants. Then Jed, which is
35:08
Speaker 1: a close friend with him, said that he was going
35:11
Speaker 1: to drop a podcast talking about all the things that
35:16
Speaker 1: went down during his season that he felt manipulated by. Well,
35:20
Speaker 1: that never came out, and Dylan backtracked a little bit,
35:23
Speaker 1: thanking the franchise for the platform it's given him. And
35:27
Speaker 1: I feel like there must have been some intervening in there. Um. Then,
35:32
Speaker 1: So basically Rachel said, that's on you if you felt
35:36
Speaker 1: like you fell for that type of scenario. I don't
35:39
Speaker 1: know if you're trying to get attention. I'm not sure
35:41
Speaker 1: if you're trying to make trying to excuse some of
35:45
Speaker 1: the decisions that you make. But we're all grown people.
35:48
Speaker 1: You made those decisions for whatever reason it is. Now,
35:50
Speaker 1: don't go try and blame somebody else. And Tasia like
35:54
Speaker 1: in an indirect way, kind of backs up what Rachel
35:57
Speaker 1: sang by saying that she was really proud of what
36:00
Speaker 1: she saw of herself. And UM, I can say with
36:03
Speaker 1: one I do not feel edited like everyone says. I
36:07
Speaker 1: do not feel edited, or I feel I didn't feel
36:11
Speaker 1: like they didn't show me. Um. I definitely feel like
36:15
Speaker 1: that was me. Um. She said when I got upset.
36:18
Speaker 1: I got upset. I was having as much fun as
36:22
Speaker 1: it looked. She says that she's watching back some of
36:26
Speaker 1: the episodes with a full on smile because it represented
36:29
Speaker 1: her so well and she was so proud of herself.
36:33
Speaker 1: So a bunch of different opinions here. I do think
36:36
Speaker 1: everybody's experience on the show is different. I do think though,
36:39
Speaker 1: in every situation life, you have to take some ownership
36:42
Speaker 1: uh for the outcomes of things. So a lot of
36:45
Speaker 1: opinion has been a thrown around. It's kind of It's
36:47
Speaker 1: interesting now for two weeks we've been talking about, um,
36:51
Speaker 1: you know, the editing in the producing of the show.
36:54
Speaker 1: It's always a topic we talked about, but right now
36:56
Speaker 1: it feels like it is in the headlines more than ever. Well,
36:58
Speaker 1: the final UH line from this week is one that
37:01
Speaker 1: does come again from Rachel Lindsay. Rachel Lindsay is very
37:04
Speaker 1: upset with Dale Moss uh and her quote is Dale
37:09
Speaker 1: is making this about him, Um, he wants to be
37:14
Speaker 1: in the spotlight, Rachel says. She says, I'm so disappointed
37:20
Speaker 1: by this breakup because I was down for Claire and Dale.
37:22
Speaker 1: I'm close with Claire, I love Claire and I was
37:25
Speaker 1: so happy with Dale, she goes, and even when my
37:30
Speaker 1: husband Brian and I were with them, it seems like
37:33
Speaker 1: they were very happy with one another. And I know
37:35
Speaker 1: that there were all these rumors about Dale, and I
37:38
Speaker 1: think what's so disappointing is that meeting them, I wouldn't
37:41
Speaker 1: have assumed that those rumors could possibly be true. And
37:45
Speaker 1: the more that time goes by since the breakup, it
37:48
Speaker 1: seems like those rumors were true. She says. It seems
37:52
Speaker 1: like Dale is all about himself. It seems like he
37:55
Speaker 1: wants to be in the spotlights. I find it a
37:58
Speaker 1: big coincidence maybe not so much of a coincidence that
38:01
Speaker 1: Um or maybe I find it to be a big
38:04
Speaker 1: coincidence or maybe not so much of a coincidence that
38:06
Speaker 1: he keeps finding a way to a camera or to
38:10
Speaker 1: his Instagram lives. Here's the thing, Rachel's friends with Claire
38:13
Speaker 1: Uh strong statements out of Rachel. Uh. You know, I
38:17
Speaker 1: think here, over time this will fade off. But obviously,
38:20
Speaker 1: you know, we saw this week, um that Claire dieder
38:23
Speaker 1: hair pink. Uh. We do see to Dale. You know
38:26
Speaker 1: on camera a lot people are coming out in support
38:30
Speaker 1: and speaking out UM upon this thing. So hey, uh,
38:36
Speaker 1: I guess good for Rachel for sticking up for a friend. Um,
38:38
Speaker 1: that's important, especially right now. All right, Ashley, let's take
38:43
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we're not some exciting
38:45
Speaker 1: new guests on Almost Faus podcast. All right, you guys,
38:57
Speaker 1: you saw them last night during Hyper's date. They've been
39:01
Speaker 1: called by Huffington's Post CMT sounds like Nashville in the
39:05
Speaker 1: Taste of Country as one of the new top country artists,
39:09
Speaker 1: and they've earned praise from Carrie Underwood, Dan and Shay
39:13
Speaker 1: and Brett Eldridge. That's a pretty big deal. Please welcome
39:16
Speaker 1: to the podcast. To Michuela Road. Hey guys, Hello, I'm good.
39:22
Speaker 1: How are you guys? You're fantastic, been really really good. Awesome.
39:26
Speaker 1: So you sang your song everything I Love during Piper's
39:29
Speaker 1: one on one. I couldn't have drawn of a better
39:32
Speaker 1: ending to ae night. We have a private performance by
39:36
Speaker 1: to Macular Roads. Have Piper in my arms. I'm just
39:40
Speaker 1: looking at Piper, Piper is looking at me. Everything just
39:44
Speaker 1: feels right, everything everything. Why did you choose that song?
39:57
Speaker 1: I think it just was the perfect fit. I mean,
40:00
Speaker 1: we had this song for a couple of years and
40:02
Speaker 1: We've always really loved it and had our vocals on it,
40:04
Speaker 1: and um, it's been mastered for a long time, and
40:06
Speaker 1: when this opportunity came up, it just kind of, you know,
40:09
Speaker 1: it was it was like a a label decision with us,
40:13
Speaker 1: also with the people at the Baschelard and just kind
40:15
Speaker 1: of all came together with this song. Nice. Okay, So
40:19
Speaker 1: we have two sisters, Um, we got Emma and Maddie,
40:24
Speaker 1: and then the group is also compromise of you, Dawson
40:27
Speaker 1: and who who's a lifelong friend of the girls. That's
40:30
Speaker 1: really fun. Did you Did you enjoy your quarantine together?
40:34
Speaker 1: Were you allowed to quarantine together at the hotel? Are
40:37
Speaker 1: you in three separate rooms for six days? We were
40:40
Speaker 1: in three separate rooms actually right across the hall from
40:44
Speaker 1: each other, so we could like open our door and
40:47
Speaker 1: say what's up. But it's really forced, so we didn't
40:50
Speaker 1: see him for five days, did you? It was it
40:54
Speaker 1: was like we were able to We were able to
40:56
Speaker 1: see each other a little bit. Um, but in the
40:59
Speaker 1: beginning that was in the tory that we don't be
41:01
Speaker 1: with each other and we make sure that each of
41:03
Speaker 1: us tested negative on our own, so we weren't able
41:07
Speaker 1: to like do anything really except just say. Well, we
41:09
Speaker 1: did a lot of face times. We faced on each other.
41:11
Speaker 1: It's like you're right over there and like, um, I'm
41:14
Speaker 1: sure you two could probably lean over your balconies because
41:16
Speaker 1: you guys lean over your balconies and talk or no, well,
41:18
Speaker 1: our doors were right across from each other, so like
41:21
Speaker 1: once a day we were opened the door and say like, hey,
41:23
Speaker 1: what's up, how's your day going, And then we would
41:24
Speaker 1: just shut the door, or like we can hear each
41:27
Speaker 1: other's meals coming because they would not come. So yeah, totally.
41:32
Speaker 1: That was the same with with me when I was there,
41:35
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, they're getting food now, maybe I
41:38
Speaker 1: stored our food now? Um okay, so you you, um
41:44
Speaker 1: Maddie are a huge Bachelor fan. How did it feel
41:47
Speaker 1: to be performing on the show. Was that surreal? It
41:51
Speaker 1: was definitely kind of a fan girl moment. I am
41:54
Speaker 1: the biggest Bachelor fans, So I was so excited that
41:57
Speaker 1: we got the opportunity to play. And I actually had
42:01
Speaker 1: a lot more respect for the show after being there
42:03
Speaker 1: and seeing like how sweet the producers were and like no,
42:07
Speaker 1: like curious and like amazing, like well put together it
42:11
Speaker 1: all was. It was. It was really awesome. That's so
42:15
Speaker 1: good to hear. Did you feel the chemistry between Piper
42:18
Speaker 1: and Matt And was there anything that happened during that
42:21
Speaker 1: day that we didn't get to see. Um, I think
42:24
Speaker 1: you'll definitely see it. But they were just like making out,
42:27
Speaker 1: like right in front of us, and it's like two
42:30
Speaker 1: so it's like you like don't want to look because
42:33
Speaker 1: you don't want to laugh. But there's a lot of
42:36
Speaker 1: chemistry and we got to talk to them afterwards, and
42:39
Speaker 1: they're both so sweet. Also, Matt is gigantic. He's so
42:43
Speaker 1: tall and the sweetest person ever. Like you can just
42:48
Speaker 1: tell she has a good heart. Yeah, you can. You
42:51
Speaker 1: can see the chemistry between them. And in fun fact too,
42:54
Speaker 1: he's from he's from North Carolina. He's from Raleigh, which
42:57
Speaker 1: is where I was born too, So him and I
42:58
Speaker 1: are both from the same home state, a home city,
43:01
Speaker 1: and he went to Wake Forest, which is where my
43:03
Speaker 1: uncle actually works. So it's kind of kind of a
43:06
Speaker 1: small world. Yeah, kind of a small role with them,
43:08
Speaker 1: but there it was cool at the end of it,
43:10
Speaker 1: like once we were done plane, they just kind of
43:12
Speaker 1: let the cameras they were just let the cameras roll
43:14
Speaker 1: and then they just kept kissing so they could get
43:16
Speaker 1: a lot of good footage of them kissing. So that
43:18
Speaker 1: was the weirdest part was when we were done singing,
43:21
Speaker 1: they were still like just going at it, and it
43:24
Speaker 1: was like one of those that we're just kind of like, yeah,
43:29
Speaker 1: they weren't even on us at all, but just just
43:30
Speaker 1: being in that moment was funny. You won't see our
43:32
Speaker 1: reactions to that, because like, obviously that's for them to
43:35
Speaker 1: get good footage of them, but just like if you
43:37
Speaker 1: would have been a fly on the wall in the room,
43:39
Speaker 1: it would have been, Oh my gosh, it's so funny.
43:41
Speaker 1: That is so odd. I never experienced them to ever
43:44
Speaker 1: be like, keep kissing more, that's what they told them,
43:48
Speaker 1: or it was just like, oh, we're going to catch
43:50
Speaker 1: them kissing, just just kissing for a long time, keep going.
43:55
Speaker 1: They just okay, let them do their thing. Yeah, oh
43:59
Speaker 1: that's fine. N it was it was it was sure.
44:02
Speaker 1: Did you get to speak with them at all afterwards? Yes,
44:07
Speaker 1: pictures and talked about football, talked about how everybody's quarantine
44:12
Speaker 1: has been, how long they've been there. We got the
44:14
Speaker 1: schot for a little bit. Did you gather anything from
44:18
Speaker 1: that conversation about like how Matt was feeling about all
44:23
Speaker 1: the chaos going down during his season. I know no
44:27
Speaker 1: idea that there would be so much drama by how
44:30
Speaker 1: he acted okay, so well put together honestly, after we've
44:35
Speaker 1: been obviously watching every episode, and I would have ever
44:37
Speaker 1: expected all of the chaos has gone down by the
44:40
Speaker 1: way that he was acting with us. That's a good point.
44:43
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't even think about that. He carried
44:45
Speaker 1: himself so well that night in the room, and then
44:47
Speaker 1: watching the episodes, it's like, really, has I had to
44:50
Speaker 1: put up with a lot, you know, and like every
44:52
Speaker 1: bachelor does, it's it's a hard job. I can't imagine
44:54
Speaker 1: being able to do it. But um, yeah, he was
44:57
Speaker 1: really cool and he was really sweet to her, and
44:59
Speaker 1: he's he said, like, you know, she's a really sweet girl,
45:02
Speaker 1: like we have a great connection, and he goes, I
45:04
Speaker 1: was so excited to pick her for this one on one,
45:06
Speaker 1: Like I knew this is what I like, you know,
45:08
Speaker 1: I knew I wanted it to be her to come
45:09
Speaker 1: on this date, which was really cool for us too,
45:11
Speaker 1: because it was like, hey, like who knows at the
45:13
Speaker 1: end of to gather, you know, this is we we
45:15
Speaker 1: were their first concert ever, so I'd be crazy. Yeah,
45:18
Speaker 1: that's that's really cool. That's really nice to hear you.
45:21
Speaker 1: Guys made your epic debut at the Rhyman Auditorium, UM,
45:28
Speaker 1: and you returned to the Grand Old Opera stage on
45:31
Speaker 1: February one. Where can people check out your music? What
45:36
Speaker 1: do you recommend they listen to first? Yeah, I get
45:40
Speaker 1: them hot. You can find our music on every music platform,
45:45
Speaker 1: Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, UM, and obviously our newest single,
45:49
Speaker 1: everything I Love, just came out and that's the song
45:52
Speaker 1: that we performed on The Bachelor. Yeah, and it's it's
45:55
Speaker 1: the best, it's the best representation of us. You know,
45:57
Speaker 1: we grow so much, and we've been releasing music for
45:59
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and it's cool to see
46:01
Speaker 1: the journey where it's where we've come, where we've been,
46:03
Speaker 1: you know, kind of where we are now. Um. But
46:06
Speaker 1: we love this song. We're really really proud of it.
46:08
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, we know we've had it for
46:09
Speaker 1: a couple of years and just waiting for the right
46:11
Speaker 1: moment to release it, and it's just felt like the
46:13
Speaker 1: right moment. Once we sang it, it was like, all right,
46:15
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta do this perfect? All right, Well,
46:18
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for joining us and for
46:20
Speaker 1: bringing some live music to the Bachelor. Oh of course,
46:25
Speaker 1: we're so thanks for having us. Thank you for having us.
46:28
Speaker 1: See you guys, I Ashley, For as much as this
46:32
Speaker 1: season is feeling like it's fallen short, I still have
46:34
Speaker 1: hope that the last few weeks of Matt James's seasons
46:37
Speaker 1: are going to be something we talked about forever. They're
46:39
Speaker 1: gonna be incredible, And since it kind of reminds me
46:41
Speaker 1: of Colton Underwood season, right, most of the Colton season
46:44
Speaker 1: we're like, ah, this is just okay, and then it
46:46
Speaker 1: was the last few weeks that we really started to
46:49
Speaker 1: like invest into the contestants and invest into the show.
46:53
Speaker 1: It happens. So I'm not going to be shocked if,
46:55
Speaker 1: like from Hometown dates on, do you really start to
46:59
Speaker 1: feel this thing? But until then we're gonna keep talking
47:02
Speaker 1: about it and sharing our honest opinion. It's been uh,
47:05
Speaker 1: still a blast, Ashley as always. Uh, it's good to
47:08
Speaker 1: be with you on Almost Famous podcast. Ditto boy um
47:12
Speaker 1: and we'll see you guys on Thursday to get the
47:15
Speaker 1: one Pablo episode drops and we'll be doing Alive which
47:18
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47:21
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47:24
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47:28
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47:31
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