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SPECIAL EPISODE: 90 Day Fiancé Big Ed sits downs with Naughty But Nice's Marc Lupo! · Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter

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  Speaker 1: So making his debut on the Naughty but Nice Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of reality television is the biggest and most
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  Speaker 1: recognizable stars. I'm so excited to welcome ninety day the
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  Speaker 1: single life, Big ed Big, I welcome to the show
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  Speaker 1: man Mark. What's up, buddy, It's so nice to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, you look amazing. You've cut your hair.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been hitting the gym. You're all about
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  Speaker 1: self care, You're glowing. What's going on? So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. One I'm um like I was on the
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  Speaker 1: before the ninety day season. You saw me do that,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't like how I looked on camera. And
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  Speaker 1: in fact, my friends would joke with me like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: and I know a camera adds ten pounds, but how
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  Speaker 1: many cameras were on you? So I'm like, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be healthy, I want to feel better,
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  Speaker 1: I want to sleep better. So I'm in the gym
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  Speaker 1: two hours a day. Um, I have a new hairstyle.
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  Speaker 1: I finally got rid of the mop and I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: um working on the inside of myself. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: get the no Big ad on better level. So I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing some therapy, which is um really awesome, really awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: therapy is great. So for those who might not know you,
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  Speaker 1: who might not be familiar with you from the show.
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  Speaker 1: We first got to know you from Fiance, where you
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  Speaker 1: were pursuing a relationship with your now ex girlfriend Rose,
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  Speaker 1: and then you went on to document your journey back
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  Speaker 1: into the world of dating on this new show, which
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  Speaker 1: is a spinoff on Discovery Plus. It's called Single Life.
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  Speaker 1: And on this series, we see you start a romantic
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Liz. That's a woman who was working at
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  Speaker 1: your favorite restaurant in San Diego, and you guys went
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  Speaker 1: from being friends to dating pretty quickly. And on the
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  Speaker 1: series we see your ups and downs. We see a
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  Speaker 1: few awkward moments, a few awkward kisses, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch. And um, you seem to
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  Speaker 1: really have fallen for Liz. Uh. Any episodes that I've watched,
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  Speaker 1: you seem like you really care about her, like she's
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  Speaker 1: the one for you. Um. And then this week it
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  Speaker 1: was announced on Lizza's social media page that you split up,
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to see what is really going on?
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  Speaker 1: Are you single? Are you in a relationship? Wow? Um?
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  Speaker 1: So what I love about Discovery Plus is they have
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  Speaker 1: all of the content that I filmed with UM with
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  Speaker 1: the TLC franchise. It's all in one envelope. So you
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  Speaker 1: can go watch all the Roses, Journey, strike Backs, um
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  Speaker 1: bears all and you also get to UM watch all
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  Speaker 1: of the episodes that Liz and I are in. So
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I can say to that is is
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to watch the show. There's still a
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  Speaker 1: lot more drama, there's a lot more laughter, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more tears. You just gotta stay douned right. So,
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  Speaker 1: but for those who are wondering, who are watching social
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  Speaker 1: media closely, we don't see Liz on your social media anymore.
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  Speaker 1: She posted a picture with a broken heart emoji, saying
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  Speaker 1: that she cares about you and that she cherishes the
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  Speaker 1: time with you. But it sounds like you guys are
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  Speaker 1: not together. Like I said, you have to watch the show.
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  Speaker 1: You never know. Are you in a relationship? Can you
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  Speaker 1: at least tell me that are you? Are you dating
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  Speaker 1: someone right now? I'm in a relationship right now. He's
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  Speaker 1: he weighs about seven pounds and his name is Teddy.
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  Speaker 1: He's my dog. I'm getting no um. Look, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to watch the show. There is the there's the
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  Speaker 1: final episode that air's this Sunday, which will be incredible.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I can tell you. UM. And also then
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  Speaker 1: we have two episodes of the tell All which a
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  Speaker 1: lot more goes down there. So you just have to
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  Speaker 1: watch man, it is UM, it is gonna be explosive.
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  Speaker 1: I when I did the tell All last year, um,
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  Speaker 1: which was their highest rated tell all on TLC history. UM,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was explosive. Oh my god, just wait.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, you guys go back and watch our
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  Speaker 1: story so you really understand all of the ups and
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  Speaker 1: downs that listen, I have been through and um, and
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  Speaker 1: why the show on Sunday. There's a lot more to come.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Take me back to the
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  Speaker 1: first night that you and Liz were romantic together. You
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  Speaker 1: said it was like fireworks. It was a really special moment.
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  Speaker 1: She said that she had to teach you some things
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  Speaker 1: how to how to kiss. What what's the deal with that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? Did you? Was she exaggerating? Well? First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I haven't been with a woman romantically in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine years. I've had you know, my occasional you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: the cups, whatever you want to call him. But it's
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  Speaker 1: a completely different experience when you have feelings for that
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  Speaker 1: other person. And the only thing I can say to
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  Speaker 1: that Mark is it was one of the best nights
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  Speaker 1: of my life. Did Liz teach me things? Absolutely? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: And hey, I didn't do such a bad job. But
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  Speaker 1: it was a great, wonderful, unforgettable evening in a in
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful hotel up in Lake Carolhead. We're at a
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  Speaker 1: wedding and you know, all those romantic feelings everybody around.
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  Speaker 1: He was in love and it was great. It was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely great. Okay, So I watched the clip where your
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  Speaker 1: daughter Tiffany, who's in her late twenties, uh, meets Liz
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  Speaker 1: for the first time and Liz is also in her
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  Speaker 1: late twenties and you're fifty. Um, take me through that moment,
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  Speaker 1: because it felt a little uncomfortable to watch because your
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  Speaker 1: daughter seemed visibly upset, she felt a little embarrassed. Maybe, Um,
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  Speaker 1: what did you take away from that that conversation? Well,
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  Speaker 1: so to back up a little bit, Um, when I
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  Speaker 1: bought a ticket where I never heard of the FCE show, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I fell in love with Rose. I bought a ticket,
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  Speaker 1: I went down to the Philippines. Um, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell my daughter anything. I didn't tell her anything about Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Literally the day before I was leaving for the Philippines,
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  Speaker 1: I let Tiffany know that I had a girlfriend and
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  Speaker 1: and I bought a ray and I'm going down to
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  Speaker 1: the Philippines. I mean, she was freaking out. Um, So
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  Speaker 1: here we go again. Um. Seemed to you know, Ed
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  Speaker 1: is now in love with another girl that is younger
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  Speaker 1: than his own daughter. So I purposely wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: my daughter involved as soon as possible. Liz thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a bad idea to meet Tiffany so soon, and
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  Speaker 1: and so did Tiffany. So you know, it felt awkward.
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  Speaker 1: The interview felt awkward because it was Tiffany was uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Liz was uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable. And there's
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  Speaker 1: one thing I do want to clear up. I said
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  Speaker 1: that that that Liz kind of reminds me of you.
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  Speaker 1: What I meant by that was is that my daughter
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  Speaker 1: is also a lot like me. She's very stubborn, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she's a she's a smart ass, which I love. And
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  Speaker 1: Liz is too. She's stubborn and she's a smart ass,
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  Speaker 1: and she's wonderful and my daughter's wonderful. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to kind of clear that air that
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, what what I said on the show
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  Speaker 1: is really what I meant was that they are similar
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  Speaker 1: in personalities. But um, but yeah, look I'm um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at a great place in my life. I'm focusing
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  Speaker 1: on um my future, and I'm learning a lot about myself,
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  Speaker 1: how to be in a relationship, how not to be
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship. And look, you know, in relationships, you
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  Speaker 1: we all put walls up, and it's very common. And
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  Speaker 1: and I've had walls up, and Lizzes had walls up,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been able to take her walls down, She's
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  Speaker 1: been able to take my walls down, and so on
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  Speaker 1: it towards so it's kind of a it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a up and down roller coaster relationship, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay attention, I mean, or stay doomed
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  Speaker 1: right And and watching this season, it feels as though
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you are more of the aggressor and you want
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  Speaker 1: to move things along work quickly than Liz does. When
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  Speaker 1: you're watching it back, can you see that do you
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  Speaker 1: see that maybe it was you were pushing things along
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  Speaker 1: too soon or do you feel like that felt organic
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  Speaker 1: for you at the time? You know, absolutely not, And
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  Speaker 1: with all due respect Mark, there is so much So
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine for a minute being in a relationship
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  Speaker 1: that's on TV, that's going on at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So was it rushed? Well, sure it was, I mean absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but there's so much that happened off camera
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  Speaker 1: that people didn't get to see. And um, Liz is
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful, beautiful, smart, intelligent, data dedicated mother who's doing
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  Speaker 1: her best to survive. And and that's really um why
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  Speaker 1: I fell in love with her because she UM. I
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  Speaker 1: was enamored by her. I was impressed and how independent
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  Speaker 1: she is. Oh my god, she is so independent. I
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  Speaker 1: would try to buy her things and she would freak out,
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  Speaker 1: but she didn't want me spending money on her. But I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, here's my first girlfriend. I want to shower
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  Speaker 1: her with love and and and nice things. And she
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  Speaker 1: was always somewhat uncomfortable with that. UM, But I get
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  Speaker 1: the best I could in the amount of time that
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  Speaker 1: we were together to spoil her and her daughter, to
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  Speaker 1: UM have us the three of us spend as much
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  Speaker 1: time as we could together. And so you know the
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: show looks like it moves pretty fast. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's only what twelve episodes right then? And this happened
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  Speaker 1: over a span of Um, we filmed for six months.
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  Speaker 1: I knew. I've known Liz for eight months and I
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  Speaker 1: do want to stay for the record though. Mark that
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  Speaker 1: in Contro, which is an awesome restaurant in North part Um,
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  Speaker 1: and Contro was my girlfriend first I was there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I was mainly there because of my fan base, and
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  Speaker 1: the owner would call me up and say, hey, um,
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  Speaker 1: we have some fans that drove down from l A.
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  Speaker 1: They want to meet you. I'll give you a Vomba wine.
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  Speaker 1: Well that just became just like my normal. So I
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  Speaker 1: was in there four nights a week, drinking ball beck,
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  Speaker 1: meeting my fans, and then one day I meet Liz
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's kind of how we we met. And
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  Speaker 1: we started to talk and develop a friendship and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, one thing led to another and and we
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  Speaker 1: were offer and running. But I will say this for
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  Speaker 1: the record, Liz made the first move physically, and I
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  Speaker 1: just tried to hang on the whole time. Really really yeah, actually,
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  Speaker 1: how did you Well yeah, yeah, boys don't talk, kid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but it's I can say this is that, Um,
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  Speaker 1: Liz taught me more about um, how to be in
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  Speaker 1: a relationship than anybody that that I've ever met. And um,
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  Speaker 1: look we had we had great nights in the in
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  Speaker 1: the hot tub and I'm by my fire pit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: drinking mall Beck and champagne and you know, just it
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  Speaker 1: was great. I mean, it was great to have somebody, um,
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  Speaker 1: not just emotionally marked but physically. I mean it felt
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  Speaker 1: good to wake up every morning um and make her
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  Speaker 1: breakfast um or make her bring her her coffee. And
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  Speaker 1: we did a lot of traveling in this short amount
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  Speaker 1: of time. We were from Seattle to Oklahoma City to Phoenix, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: to Vegas. Like I think we have to Vegas like
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  Speaker 1: four times, so we I don't know, it was somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of a very quick world world romance. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: just happened literally overnight, and you get swept up in
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  Speaker 1: in the emotion and the the activities and whatever. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that you know, Yeah, it's I have some amazing memories
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  Speaker 1: with Liz that I'll never forget and it's right in
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  Speaker 1: my backyard. Yeah, you really do. Then the episode I
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  Speaker 1: watched last it ends off with you asking Liz to
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  Speaker 1: move in with you, and then you tell producers on
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  Speaker 1: the side and Liz is a way that you have
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  Speaker 1: picked out an engagement ring and that you would want
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  Speaker 1: to propose in the very near future. Can you share
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  Speaker 1: more about that? How did you know it was the
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  Speaker 1: right time to ask her to move in? How did
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  Speaker 1: you go about picking out a ring? Um, well, what
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see on the show is one day, whep
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  Speaker 1: the mall and um, my favorite stories Tiffany's not because
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  Speaker 1: of my daughter, um, and like, hey, why don't we
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: walk into Tiffany's and you know, check it out? So
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  Speaker 1: she's like okay, So we go in there. It's during COVID,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, we had our masks. Thought it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy, and we go in. I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, can we look at some engagement rings? And
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  Speaker 1: Liz is kind of turning red. It's so funny, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, why don't you try one on? And
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  Speaker 1: literally her hand was shaking, So, UM we left rather quickly.
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  Speaker 1: UM from there, but it's just yeah, so I I
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  Speaker 1: did all of that. Um. You know, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to spoil what's gonna happen. UM, but I mean, I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that you're happy. Okay, you look happy,
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  Speaker 1: you look happy. I feel great. I've never felt better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my life. And um, yeah, you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta you you, you know, you just gotta watch, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta watch. What would you say is your most sexy
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  Speaker 1: quality about yourself? My sexiest quality? Um? I think my eyes? Like, um,
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  Speaker 1: people tell me, they tell me, tell me do things.
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  Speaker 1: They say I have a beautiful eyes and this is
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  Speaker 1: a weird one. They like my hands. They're like, you
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  Speaker 1: have whole hands. I'm like, really you have no? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy. I'm like, I would have never thought that
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  Speaker 1: was my friend. Jamie's like you you have very nice hands.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what a great couple of Um but no, big,
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  Speaker 1: it's the whole package, you know. I'm I'm m I
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  Speaker 1: have a zest for life. Um yeah, I'm I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Liz mentioned that she had a hard time
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  Speaker 1: following you on Instagram because you share so much of
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  Speaker 1: your life with your your followers. Uh do how often
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  Speaker 1: do you women slide into your d m s? How
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  Speaker 1: often do people try to reach out to you and
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  Speaker 1: get your attention? And what does it take to get
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  Speaker 1: big ads attention in a romantic way. Um, you mean,
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  Speaker 1: um today today, like this morning, like I have a
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  Speaker 1: I have a I have I have Um, I got
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  Speaker 1: other marriage proposal this morning, um from a Galli met
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale. Um, you know it's here's what it is. Um.
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  Speaker 1: The my family gives me love, lives gives me love.
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  Speaker 1: My mom gives me love. My daughter Teddy, they give
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  Speaker 1: me love. But my my fans, UM give me my
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  Speaker 1: energy to to They let me know mark that I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the right place, moving in the right direction. Now. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I get a ton of hate and I choose to
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  Speaker 1: ignore it because it's a lot of the stuff they
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  Speaker 1: say about me is not true. Um, and they actually
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  Speaker 1: have made me viral. But UM, I love taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: with girls. I'm not gonna lie. It feels really really good.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also an opportunity for me to kind of
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  Speaker 1: inspire them, you know, and kind of make their day.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, I mean, these these women will
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  Speaker 1: like don't be shaky, Like they'll oh my god, him
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  Speaker 1: shaking around, like why are you shaking? You know, just relax,
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  Speaker 1: you know, take the picture or the picture won't turn out.
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  Speaker 1: But I was most recently with Liz up in Newport
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  Speaker 1: Beach and Um, we're walking down, We're doing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of shopping, and um, this eight year old boy
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  Speaker 1: kind of comes around the corner and with his skateboard
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  Speaker 1: and just freezes in his in his tracks and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: are you the guy from TikTok. I'm like, yes, I am,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, you are a legend. He leans into
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  Speaker 1: you're a legend, and I'm like, I mean for me, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: just like taking pictures with my with with um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the younger women. I get as much satisfaction out of
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  Speaker 1: this eight year old boy telling me that I'm a legend, Um,
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  Speaker 1: that I can impact his life as I do, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And Fort Lauderdale, but yeah, I do. You know. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said, Liz, ha, we we had
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: our ups and downs, and when you know, when we're
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: in our off moments, I would be you know, in
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  Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale or Vegas with my daughter and and I
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: can't I mean, I get I get swarmed, I get
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by these fans. And there was one incident. I
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  Speaker 1: was at the wharf in Fort Lauderdale. This happened recently,
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  Speaker 1: and I walk in It's never happened to me before.
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  Speaker 1: And literally the whole bar stood up at once and
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  Speaker 1: started to walk towards me, and it literally scared the
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  Speaker 1: hev gbs. I mean security guard had to whisk me
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  Speaker 1: off to the side. I eventually took pictures with just
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  Speaker 1: about everybody in that bar, but at that moment, I'm like,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is like, it wasn't fun that
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: that incident kind of scared me a little bit. You
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: become like Elvis in a way. You're almost like people
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  Speaker 1: just want to attack you and have a piece of you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you changed? Has Fame changed you since you've been
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: on Really? Have you seen my Elvis costume? So? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Has it changed me? Well, let's put it this way. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm, I'm I'm an ordained minister now and um,
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  Speaker 1: I have an offer to marry somebody in the UK
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  Speaker 1: in my Elvis custome. Has this changed me? Um? You
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: know what? Not? Of course it has, um And one
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  Speaker 1: thing that I want to really um that Liz really
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  Speaker 1: helped me understanding about myself was this is like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to date Big Ed. I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: want to date Ed and I'm not your fan Liz
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  Speaker 1: told me when we first started dating. Look, I want
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to make it clear to you, I'm not your fan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't like your stickers. I'm okay with
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the fans coming up, but i'm your girlfriend, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a fan. And I got that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: same feedback from my therapist and she's been she's been
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: really able to help me distinguish that there's the the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: character big Head that I created on screen, which is
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: just a character, that's all he is, and and he's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a performer and he's an entertainer, and then there's the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Ed who's the human that you know, at the end
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of the day when um, you know he's not around
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the people that he loves, he's sad, you know. So,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: um has it changed me? Absolutely? And I'll say this, Mark,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I UM knew at a very young age that I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: was gonna be known. They were just this was this
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: feeling I had. I never knew how, I never knew cool, what, when,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: where and why? And the fact that this has happened
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to me so late in my life is it's just interesting.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Like I literally was. I was a very successful German
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: interior designer. Um I worked for first high end show room.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I had a million dollar clients, and Um, I fell
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: in love with Rose online on Facebook and she's like,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: why don't you come and see me. I'm like, okay,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So I bought a ticket and I posted on Facebook.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: My buddy Richard who's on the show, sent me the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: link because they watched it all the time. I've never
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: seen the show, and I filled it out like it
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: was a lot of tickets, right, And and that's how
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: this all started. Within two hours, you know, I'm on
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the phone with them and and the rest is history.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And now I'm world. It's insane to me how well
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: known I am. And they told me early on ed
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You're gonna there are a lot of the producers are like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I've been doing this twenty three years and there's something
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: about that. People are gonna love it. I didn't see it,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Like I couldn't see it, right, Um, are you are
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: yourny talent? Do you have in your regrets about the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: way things played out with Rows? Are you guys in
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: contact at all? Yeah? Well, I'm friends with her on
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize I had actually had blocked her, but
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: now I'm we're friends on Instagram and I I reach
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: out to your every once in a while. She looks
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: freaking amazing. She just got her hair cut, um, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I want to I want to see her one day.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I fell in love with not just Rose, but her
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: son Prince and her dad, Freddie, who has a pig farm,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and we actually talked about investing and you know, going
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: into the pig business. But um, I'm so happy that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: because of the show and me, that Rose is one
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of the most well known faces in the Philippines. She
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: just bought another pig farm for her dad. She built
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a second story house. She has over eight and a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: thousand followers on YouTube. And when I go back and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: look at our episodes, which is kind of it's almost
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: like for me, like God had his hand in this.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Like I think God was not not just looking out
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: for me, but it was also looking out for Roads,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: which is why it didn't work out. But I could
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: not have fell in love at the time with a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: more perfect person to be on TV with. And that's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: not why I did it. Like, if you go back
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and watch her scenes like and our scenes, it's like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: all the dumb things you asked me what I regret,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I regret the way I said that things said. Absolutely,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you know, asking a girl on international TV to shaver
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: her legs and press your teeth, you know it wasn't
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the most tactful or appropriate thing to do. Um, my
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: daughter's like, Dad, why don't you get an STD test
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: before you went down and then asked her to take one?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That would have been the appropriate approach. But obviously I
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: blew that one. Um when I got back, I got tested,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and like my daughter's like, Dad, you you kind of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: screwed up. So, UM, I regret It's that I don't
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: regret falling in love with Rose. I don't regret um
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: going there. And I and I spent a lot of
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: money like that all is all out of pocket, you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: know they oh, oh the show page rather than I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: know they don't the shows. Like, look, if we did,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: then we're responsible for Rose and we can't be. So
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you know that's all real. That every dime I spend
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that was you know, they just they just came along
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for the ride to tell my story. And if the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Rose is listening right now, what would you want her
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to know? Okay, Rose, if you're listening, Um, I love
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: your new hair. Um, I'm so proud of you. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: one thing that I noticed recently about you, Um, roses
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that I because I know at the time you didn't
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: have a job. You weren't working, Um, but you got
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: up every day and made Prince breakfast. You walked him
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to school, and you waited at school, and you walked
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: him home. UM. I want you to know how proud
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I am because of from having nothing, Rose. You were
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a great mom, and you are a great mom. So
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I acknowledge you Rose for being an amazing mother. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I have so much respect for you in that sense,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and I wish you the best amount of success. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: am a little bit upset that I only have forty
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: three thousand followers on YouTube and and you have over
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: eight hundred. I don't know how that happened, but but
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: so what congratulations. I hope I see it one day. Um,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I might come and visit you, and I want to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: see Freddie and his big farm and and see Prince.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I think you will. And we touched on this earlier.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: But with fame comes social media trolls and opinions, and
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you know you you, I think you know this. Some
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: people have a negative view of you online. What is
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: your response to the haters who rejoice in your failures
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and the things that don't go right for you, what
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: do you say to them? So to all my haters
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: out there, um, um, thank you for my brand new BMW,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: thank you so very much. Um. First of all, Mark,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I don't read the hate. And the way I look
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: at it is this is that there if somebody has
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: actually feel sorry for them. If somebody has or is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: going to take the time to create a fake account
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to say something bad about anybody, Um, I feel sorry
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: for you, I really really do. But look, I can
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: take it. You can bring all the hate you want.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And they there is so much fictitious and un um um,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: just untruth on on, not just for me, but for
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: any one that's in the public eye. And look, I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: take full responsibility for putting myself out there. And that's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the risk that you take. My life is now an
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: open book. I mean I admitted on international TV that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I was unfaithful to my first wife. I mean that's
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the truth. I was a young, dumb kid. Um. Now
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that people hear that, you're like, oh, he's a cheater
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: or you know whatever, whatever whatever you know. I Um,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: two things. One, I don't care. I don't read the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: negative negativity. You guys are actually making me popular, so
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I in a way, I kind of thank you. But
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: here's where I draw the line is when I hear
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: about a thirteen year old that committed suicide because they
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: were bullied, that makes me sick to my stomach. Yeah,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: bullying is not cool, either inline online or in person.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Before we go, I want to ask you something. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I know you typically like to date younger women, but
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you make one exception, and that woman would be j Lo,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: who we love here in the podcast. Jaylo was almost
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I think fifty one years old, so she's age appropriate.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: If Jlo was listening, um, what would you want her
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to know about Big Ed? And have you tried to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: shoot your shot with her yet? Okay, So, first of all,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: j Lo is someone that I have um admired for
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: many many years. Um. I love the fact that she
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: grew up in the Bronx and that she started Um,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you know, she had to, she had to crawl her
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: way to the top. And she is perhaps one of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the most beautiful women that I've ever met. And if so,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: j Lo, if you're listening, if you have if you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have one else a pity called big Ed, that's hilarious
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and yeah, so and you know what, I'm learning this too. So, um,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you know you gotta watch the show, but say that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it never did work out between Liz and I. Um,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna definitely go for a j Lo. I'm gonna
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: go for a much older woman. And actually I'm gonna
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: let me let me correct myself. I would say this.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that as long as it's the appropriate age.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care how old they are. As long um
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: as they they respect me. I can trust them and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: they care about me. That's my number one, you know
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: goal in life. If you know things don't work out,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: those are your non negotiables. Listen, those are non Big
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It's been such a pleasure to have you on this show.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: For everyone at home to see more of Big ed
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: his show ninety Day The Single Life That Tell All,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Part one episode begins streaming tomorrow Sunday, May sixteenth, on
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Discovery Plus. And for all the Natis, I'll see you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: guys back here on Thursday with Rob as we break
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: down all the juiciest celebrity news of the day. Have
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a great weekend.