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Mercedes Meets Her Date! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts, bring you the ultimate Summer of Love Tree.
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  Speaker 2: This is famously available.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, guys, it's one of your famously available gals. Deanna
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  Speaker 1: here and I am jumping in to take over this episode.
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  Speaker 1: We are at jingle Ball and we're getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: send my girl Mercedes out on a date with a
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  Speaker 1: single eligible man.
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  Speaker 3: And he's here. He is here.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about him all day. But before I'm
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  Speaker 1: allowed to introduce Mercedes to him, Ben has tasked me
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  Speaker 1: with getting to know him a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: So Bryce, welcome to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. I'm come to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I have had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Mercedes.
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  Speaker 1: So we were running through all of our what ifs,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're in the car. We're talking about what
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  Speaker 1: it might be like. She's a little nervous. Okay, are
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  Speaker 1: you nervous?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not nervous.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just gonna be a fun experience and
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  Speaker 2: meeting new people is always a good time. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I'm not nervous as though.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well that's confidence is attractive.
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  Speaker 2: I think, So, I mean, do you have a type?
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  Speaker 2: This is it's a it's kind of like a blanket statement.
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  Speaker 2: But I just like beauty, right, It doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 2: what they look like or you know what, race, ethnicity,
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  Speaker 2: nothing is just like if they walk into the room
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  Speaker 2: and all the eyes are on them, that's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of who I gravitate towards. So just like beauty in
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  Speaker 2: any form. And I know that's kind of subjective because
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  Speaker 2: beauty's and the eye of the beholder, but yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: just beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Like great, So you typically date twenty somethings, blonde, fake
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  Speaker 1: boobs in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that's my type of beauty to.
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  Speaker 1: Be, Okay, so give it to me, run it down,
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  Speaker 1: give me something specific. Have you had girlfriends before?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've always been kind of like a relationship guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of a monogamous guy. The longest I've been
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  Speaker 2: single is right now, which I forced myself to be
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  Speaker 2: single for like last year and a half, almost two years,
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  Speaker 2: just because I needed to.
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  Speaker 1: You forced yourself, force myself beat them off with a stick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I had to beat myself off with
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  Speaker 2: a stick, no pun intended. But but I just I
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  Speaker 2: get into these relationships where it starts really fast, upfront,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm like, oh, of course the love bombing
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  Speaker 2: that we're both doing to each other is warranted because
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  Speaker 2: we're both awesome. But then I get into the relationship
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  Speaker 2: and then within like six months to a year, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years, you start seeing that maybe what was
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  Speaker 2: portrayed or sold to me wasn't exactly who they were.
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  Speaker 2: So I've kind of been in a cycle, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been very clear, a very clear cycle. So I've taken
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  Speaker 2: the year and a half almost two years and now
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  Speaker 2: I'll just say two years of being single and just
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  Speaker 2: focusing on myself growth therapy, Like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: God, I was literally going to ask if you've seen
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  Speaker 1: a psychiatrist, So I'm so glad to hear you tell
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  Speaker 1: us that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, that's been like that. I mean, my breakups
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  Speaker 2: have been always kind of gnarly too, because one of
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  Speaker 2: my exites reached out a couple of years after we
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  Speaker 2: broke up and she told me why she kind of
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  Speaker 2: had a crash out, and she was like, the relationship
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  Speaker 2: was the best relationship I've ever been in, so when
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  Speaker 2: you walked away from it, it was like the whole
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  Speaker 2: world collapsing. She was trying to hold on right, and
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  Speaker 2: so I think that that's been the trend, and so
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  Speaker 2: I do give a lot to my relationships. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big giver in every type of way. Like if I
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  Speaker 2: see potential, I want to know foster that and like
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  Speaker 2: grow that and just make my partner the best person
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  Speaker 2: they can be. But I kind of lose myself within that.
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  Speaker 2: So this last two years being single has been me
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  Speaker 2: focusing on me for kind of the first time ever,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been the most transformational two years of my
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  Speaker 2: entire life, Like night and day.
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  Speaker 1: I love to hear that because I think that I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little bit older, much wiser. I didn't hear you
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  Speaker 1: say anything complimentary to me.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce, Oh you're beautiful. Yeah, you're beautiful, You're something you
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  Speaker 2: speak very well. But I'm not here dating you.
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  Speaker 3: Older and wiser.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to hear you say that, because you
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  Speaker 1: are still in such a place in your life. You're
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  Speaker 1: still trying to figure out who you are. There is
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  Speaker 1: a part of you that you're born with, that's in
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  Speaker 1: your soul, that's who you are. But through relationships, through friendships,
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  Speaker 1: through experience.
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  Speaker 3: You will learn who you are and what it is
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  Speaker 3: that you want.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also here to tell you that it changes
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  Speaker 1: to your only thirty You said, yeah, that stuff changes
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's kind of change in five years, ten years,
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  Speaker 1: another four years after that, right, it evolves, And the
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  Speaker 1: important part of relationships is that you can find someone
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  Speaker 1: that can.
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  Speaker 2: Evolve with you exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's run through some basic things. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a lot about you. No one would give me
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  Speaker 1: information because I'm friends with Mercedes. I'm her girl, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think they knew that I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be giving her a heads up, so they kept everything
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  Speaker 1: from me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I like that. Okay, you're thirty one, Yeah, I'm thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and your last relationship was a year and a
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  Speaker 1: half ago, you.
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  Speaker 2: Said, like, it was June of almost two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: So I guess we're past two years now a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay. What's the biggest thing you learned about yourself
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  Speaker 3: in the last two years?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, like so much. I think the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: is I carry a really magnifying light. Like any room
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  Speaker 2: I walk into, people are gravitated to that. And I
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  Speaker 2: like that because that I can give just like just
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  Speaker 2: the best opportunity and like, like, I don't know, just
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  Speaker 2: best vibes. I hate that word, but like just make
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  Speaker 2: sure everyone feels great, like that's That's my biggest thing,
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  Speaker 2: is like I know who I am in that way,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I kind of had never realized that
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  Speaker 2: in the years and prior, cause I there was a
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  Speaker 2: moment in time where I was very unsure of myself.
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  Speaker 2: And now I would say the biggest thing is I'm
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  Speaker 2: fully confident in who I am. I love myself and
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  Speaker 2: not a way that's like psychotic or coyotistical part of you. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: I yeah, I try not to have ego, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: very mindful of that, but yeah, I just I think
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  Speaker 2: I fell in love with who I am at a
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  Speaker 2: very core level. My faith is a huge part of
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  Speaker 2: that as well. So that's what I've really grown in
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  Speaker 2: my faith in the last couple of years as well,
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  Speaker 2: and getting back to just having a relationship, like a
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  Speaker 2: personal relationship with God, which has been super helpful. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: What's your longest relationship?
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  Speaker 2: Three years?
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  Speaker 3: Three years? Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So I do know that you're a mortgage broker and
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  Speaker 1: a DJ. Yeah, so is that important to note in
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  Speaker 1: my list of things?
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  Speaker 3: I run down for my girl.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not a DJ yet. I would say I
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  Speaker 2: bought like a DJ deck maybe like two months ago,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been practicing.
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  Speaker 3: So you are a connoisseur of music.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm a partner in a music label as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I run a pretty successful music label. I do
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  Speaker 2: the mortgage stuff on the side whenever my old clients
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  Speaker 2: need something that still help them out. And yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: music is kind of like the full time thing from
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  Speaker 2: an executive standpoint at this point, which is great. And
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  Speaker 2: then I, you know, have that passion part of me
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  Speaker 2: where it's like I still want to make music as
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  Speaker 2: much as I'm like helping these artists build their careers
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  Speaker 2: and get them off the ground and or you know,
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  Speaker 2: working with artists that are already big and trying to
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  Speaker 2: shape their brain to something that leaves like a legacy.
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  Speaker 3: Wait do you sing? Also?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Are you about to serenade our girl right now?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: She can be ours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as long.
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  Speaker 3: As I can just creep around and hang out all
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  Speaker 3: night long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're more than welcome to hang out
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  Speaker 2: with us, of course, But I'm not gonna be singing
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  Speaker 2: tonight unless I'm singing to the music with the acts.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll do that if I know the songs.
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  Speaker 3: But she sent to music, Okay, she likes music.
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  Speaker 2: We can rock and roll with that. Then that's my
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  Speaker 2: whole life.
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  Speaker 3: What are you looking for now?
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  Speaker 1: If you took some time off of dating, and you've
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  Speaker 1: been single for the two years to work on yourself,
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about yourself, your career is taking off.
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  Speaker 1: What is it that you're looking for now?
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  Speaker 2: A woman like a like a like a wool and go.
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  Speaker 3: Without saying right, So you've got to give me some details.
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  Speaker 2: Here, strong, powerful, knows what she wants, uh Like, has
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  Speaker 2: a good head on her shoulders, is super motivated, has
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  Speaker 2: her own life, and we can do our own lives together.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's the biggest thing. Like, I know it's very cliche,
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  Speaker 2: but power couple is really what I need. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of my not a lot. All of my exes have
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  Speaker 2: kind of been They've been always obviously beautiful and smart
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  Speaker 2: and stunning, but they all lacked the one thing of
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  Speaker 2: like they just didn't know who they were. And so
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  Speaker 2: I would come in and like kind of direct them
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  Speaker 2: in that way. And and that's a big reason why
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  Speaker 2: I think I ended all the relationships was it was
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  Speaker 2: just like this is in like a relationship if every
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  Speaker 2: relationship felt like I was a therapist at the end
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  Speaker 2: of it in some type of way. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing that anymore. And I need someone who's passionate
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  Speaker 2: about something, like just doing something to the highest extent
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  Speaker 2: of her ability and is like chasing after something and
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  Speaker 2: knows what she wants. And you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be a therapist anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me put it a little bit more plainly
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  Speaker 1: for you. Okay, do you want marriage and children? Yeah, Okay, totally,
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  Speaker 1: that's in your that's in your goals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And is that your five year plan or that's your
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  Speaker 3: ten year plan?
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  Speaker 1: Right? We're being really honest here because I do know
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  Speaker 1: that you live in LA and then in LA.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The good thing is I'm from Kansas, so
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  Speaker 2: I got that Midwest like Midwest thing. My parents are
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  Speaker 2: still together. They have the most beautiful relationship I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: So I grew up with that, which is why I
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  Speaker 2: don't stay in relationships too long if I know it's
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  Speaker 2: not what my parents have, right, because I know it's real.
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  Speaker 2: I know what my parents have is real, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm not settling anymore. So it could be could be
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  Speaker 2: five years, could be ten years, It could be thre years,
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  Speaker 2: it could be one year. I don't know. I mean, right,
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  Speaker 2: you'll know, Yeah, if it's the right person, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I will know at that point in time.
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  Speaker 3: Are you an only child?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm the oldest. I have a little brother. So
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  Speaker 2: a little brother, a little brother.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, two is better than one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah for sure. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm wondering do their opinions really matter? My sibling
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  Speaker 1: and my parents, all of them, your family, your core, Like.
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  Speaker 2: My brother's opinion doesn't matter. I love him, not to
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  Speaker 2: dish you, bro. Yeah, I'm not dissing him, but his
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  Speaker 2: opinion is very different in all aspects of life. So
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  Speaker 2: I love him, but we're just very different people. He's engaged,
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  Speaker 2: so he's got it figured out. I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like his fiance?
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  Speaker 2: She's so out of it? Okay, Austin, if you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: I love you. She's so out of his league, like
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  Speaker 2: in every way, and it's awesome to see how much
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  Speaker 2: they love each other and like it's it's so That's
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  Speaker 2: the other thing is like I know that relationships like
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  Speaker 2: that exist because my brother has it and my parents
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  Speaker 2: have it, so it's like, why would I settle for
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  Speaker 2: anything less than what my family has. My parents' opinion
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  Speaker 2: matters a lot. It's so funny because every time I
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  Speaker 2: would bring a girlfriend back home, they'd always be so
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  Speaker 2: nice to her, but then as soon as we left,
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  Speaker 2: they'd call me like, what are you doing? And this
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  Speaker 2: is clearly not your wife. I'm like, no, she is,
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, no, she's not. And then I break
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  Speaker 2: up with them a couple months later and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are right. So that's another thing too, I've
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  Speaker 2: learned over the last few years is like, listen to
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  Speaker 2: the people that love you the most, because they're going
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  Speaker 2: to give you the best wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a fine line though you love and respect
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  Speaker 1: your mama or are you a mommy's boy?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not a mommy's boy, But I will say
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  Speaker 2: my mom is a son's mom, Like she's obsessed with
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  Speaker 2: us in the best way. She's super allian, so she's
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  Speaker 2: just so fun. I love my mom. I would not
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  Speaker 2: say my mama's boy, just because she's a lot to handle. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a little distance there and they live
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  Speaker 2: across the country they lived. They live in Florida now,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't see them other than, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: couple times a year.
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  Speaker 3: Those are called healthy boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally agree. But I love my mom, love my dad.
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  Speaker 2: My dad is like work hard and my mom's play hard,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like I'm like a perfect combination of
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  Speaker 2: both of them. So yeah, they're great.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, have you figured out at this point what your
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  Speaker 1: love language is?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what yours is? And what is yours to give?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so physical touch is my number one to receive?
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  Speaker 1: Is that every man wants physical touch? Let's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's just dive there for a second. Why is it
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  Speaker 1: that every man says, Oh, my love language is physical touch.
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  Speaker 3: We get it. You guys like to have sex.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what I was gonna say. It's not
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  Speaker 2: even the sex part to me. I can just sit
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  Speaker 2: there and if my girl's just playing with my hair
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  Speaker 2: or like just doing the tickles on my arm. I
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  Speaker 2: even told one of my girlfriends, I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is better than sex to me. I was like, just
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  Speaker 2: this moment of like just being touched and there's not
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  Speaker 2: even any sexualness going on, that's better than sex. Sometimes obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but physical touch is great. I love words of affirmation
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  Speaker 2: because for ever, since I was a kid, for years
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  Speaker 2: I struggled with like confidence. I got bullied really bad
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  Speaker 2: when I moved from Seattle to Kansas because I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: just was a whole thing. And so like people like
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  Speaker 2: my friends know that, Like my best friends always like
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not like they have to, but there's
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  Speaker 2: we go out of our way to make sure we
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  Speaker 2: all feel that we're appreciated. And when my woman does
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  Speaker 2: that too, it goes like a long way.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're in a relationship, how do you best
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  Speaker 1: care for a woman that you're with.
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  Speaker 2: Acts of service and words of affirmation, I'd say telling
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  Speaker 2: them they're awesome all the time, how beautiful they are,
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  Speaker 2: how great they are, and then doing whatever they need.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever do the bulls go on the top rack of
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  Speaker 1: the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 3: Or the bottom?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: It's very important one I the bulls.
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  Speaker 2: On the bottom, cups go on the top, and then
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  Speaker 2: sometimes if there's not enough room on the bottom, I'll
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  Speaker 2: put some balls on the top if there's not a
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  Speaker 2: ton of cups there. It's about just making things work
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  Speaker 2: where they fit fit.
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  Speaker 3: You know you rinse before you put them in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you can just put gunky bulls in
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  Speaker 2: the dishwa washer. Your dishwasher will get clogged and then
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  Speaker 2: your dish washer will break.
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  Speaker 1: You're in luck tonight. I think I'm gonna let you
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  Speaker 1: meet Mercedes. That was the question that all bared pressure
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  Speaker 1: on it, and you have passed that one, so fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: One of the last most important questions that I have
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  Speaker 1: for you is how tall are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like six to one, but I'm wearing these boots
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  Speaker 2: so that I'm like six four sixty five probably with these.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the perfect Yeah, yeah, yeah for all of
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  Speaker 1: us here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic perfect. Yeah. I didn't know how tall she was.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, let me wear my boots that they
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  Speaker 2: have like four inches on them.
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  Speaker 1: Is tall and she is stunning. I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: expect anything less. I'm really glad that they didn't let
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  Speaker 1: you google her tonight either, because this will be It's
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  Speaker 1: a shame our cameras aren't here tonight because I would
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  Speaker 1: I might have to turn my phone on. And this
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  Speaker 1: is like, I love love, I love relationships. I've also
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  Speaker 1: had far too much therapy. But I now wonder I'm single.
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  Speaker 1: But this is one of my favorite situations where two
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  Speaker 1: people who have never met each other. You guys have
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: been and I don't know what you think this is.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: It is a podcast. We are doing a job. But
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: she also very much wants to find someone that she
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: clicks with and has a relationship with. That is true
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: and it is important to her. But it's also a podcast.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: So and just like you have been on reality TV,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: we have as well.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: So there is this.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: There is this there where you come in and you think, oh,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: someone's only coming here.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: To either write.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Famakers, right or or to further their care a little bit.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: That's always there. But she is a little nervous because
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what she truly truly
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: wants is to meet someone who she likes and someone
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: that she can date. So she's a little nervous, but
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: she's super stoked because this is her first date on
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: the podcast.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: She hasn't been on one yet.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Wow, I feel it's what one then done?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Like if we want doers not sayers? Yeah, so what
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: if it is one and done?
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm down.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: You're gonna let us follow you for the rest of
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the time that we produced this whole season.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: That'd be kind of fun. Actually, fine, that would be fun.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Am I allowed to ask questions about her?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that's all right?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Okay cool?
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Do you know what reality show she was on?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I know nothing. I just think I know nothing. I
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: just I tolds. I didn't want to know anything. I
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: just want to come in here blind and just you know,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: know nothing.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get Judgie on you first. Which reality
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: show were you on?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Is?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: This could say a lot about you? Bryce's fun about me?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I was on this show called f Boy Island and
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I okay, so the about you know? Do you know
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: about this show?
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Or I do know?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: You?
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: A producer from my show who started that show along?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Yes? Oh, I love him as my boy.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I was on a show called The Bachelor and the Bachelorette.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Nice and amazing. Okay, great, well you know Bill as well? Yeah,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: those are my boys. Anyways, So as you have.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Taxty Lawn right now, he's going to say wonderful things
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: about you.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope he still follows me on Instagram. So
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I think I think I'm good. And I see Bill
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: at the gym sometimes and is always love but work
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: out good to know. I definitely work out.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Do you like to eat?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I loved I'm Italian, so I love to eat. But okay,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: So on the show for people that don't know you,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: like half the guys come in as self proclaimed f
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: boys and half come in as self proclaimed nice guys.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: What do you think I came in this?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I think that you came in as a nice guy.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: You correct?
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I think you are a nice guy.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Correct. I did come in as a nice guy. But
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: it was funny when I was talking to Alon before
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the show, I was like, hey, man, all the guys
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: in the previous seasons that were nice guys are kind
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: of pushovers in a way, and I was like, I'm
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: not a so oh yeah, Like so you know, I
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: stand on my own two feet and I don't get
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: pushed around a lot of the nice guys did in
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the other season. So I was like, look, man, like
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come in. I'm a nice guy. The woman
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I cheat women with utmost respect, like I you know,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I really I was raised right in that way. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: saw my dad treat my mom like a queen every
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: single day. So I was like, that's what's in me
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: to do? Just through osmosis, but I'm not a pushover,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: so I was like, hey, let's let's make some shake
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: in the house with the guys, Like I'm down to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: run plays, and like, they didn't really show too much
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: on my season just because he was on a different
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: network and they wanted it to be like really family friendly.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I guess this network that it was on. I wish
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I wish our season would have been on HBO because
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: we had some moments and I was like puppeteering the
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: guys because me and the producers were kind of in
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: lockstep doing fun stuff behind the scenes. So I had
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a good time. But then, yeah, just didn't work your time.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: We each have our own path. It wasn't your time,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: and maybe it's tonight.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll tell you what Mercedes is wearing these
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: really beautiful heels, so I'm not going to make her
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: stand outside for that much longer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Why don't you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you three things about her, because what I
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: really would like is for you guys to meet each
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: other without knowing a whole lot about each other.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, you can ask me three things.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Three things? Okay, what is she passionate about?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Ask me something else.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: That's a good question for her tonight as you get
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to know her on your first date.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, okay, hmm.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: You can ask me the surface level questions.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you want to go.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Super you'll ask her the deep shit.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: You know her sign? What's her sign? You don't know either,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that's the most service.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: She has brown hair, okay, sign, she's tall and gorgeous, amazing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Is that going to be
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: an issue for you? Why she Nashville, that's where she lives. Well, why, well,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you can ask her that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I told you. I'm giving you the service.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, got you.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: She list it's interested in a change and a.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Move, understood. Okay. I think now that you kind of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: put in my head that I think I just want
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to get all these answers from her on this.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I think that would be really great.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Let's just do that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: What if you guys are vibing so hard? Are you
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: going to kiss her tonight?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're down for a first kiss. You didn't hesitate?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah? If the if the moment is there and it
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: feels right, you got to.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Do it, like you have to commit. If you're going
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to go in for it. You have to commit. It's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: got to be great, Okay, Okay, easy.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Make sure I make sure I'm nearby so I can Okay.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be like, hey, not to.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Make it too weird, but.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: We're going to do We're ready for you, okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Because I asked her the same question in the car
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and she was like, I don't know.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Should I kiss on the first date? And I was like, girl,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I'm forty four, I have two kids.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: You should absolutely if you're feeling it, Yeah, you should
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: kiss on the first date. If the vibe is there
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and you guys like each other and the conversation is great,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I think you should. Why wouldn't you? But if you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: don't get to see each other for again after.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: This, well that's the thing. She goes back to Nashville
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: or is she here for a while's I guess I'll
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: ask her that. Yeah, yeah, that's going to be an
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: issue for you. I mean, I travel all the time.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I have artists in Nashville, so it's like I'm there,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: so okay.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if it does go well, will you ask.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: For her phone number at.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: The end, I'm gonna ask for her phone number, right,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: after we leave this room.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Don't make it weird.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Bryce, why if Okay, if the conversation is we're in
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the room, I'll be like, never mind. But if the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: conversation is good in the room, I'll be like, look like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: let's just get the phone number.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Part over with, Let's get the let's get the stats.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because what if we get lost at this massive
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: music festival. I'm like, I gotta call.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You're not going to get lost. We all stay together.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: We're a technic grip. Okay, guys, we're going to keep
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you close. Does Bryce get to ride with us?
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: This is fair for a real treat. Yeah, you know
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: no one and Mercedes knows everyone.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Oh so I love that dynamic.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You were asking about the wingman. She's got about third
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: of them here tonight.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I will say this because I'm such a out there
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: type of person. My core people I hang out with
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: is a very small circle.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: So it's normal. That's normal, that's good.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I got like three men in my life
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that are like my only people that I really like
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: hang with. But yeah, outside in about I'm nice everybody,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: But like I'm I kind of have a photographic memory
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: for faces, so I might recognize people and be like
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: do we know each other?
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Or what?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Have you ever watched The Bachelor?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: It was my mom and I was guilty pleasure when
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I was like a child.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So well, okay, so what was that five years ago?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Would you say you were thirty? Yeah?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: No, like like when I was like twelve fifteen? Okay,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: those days?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: So I think you'll recognize Mercedes.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: No, she's my age, right? Or no? How did she?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: She's close to your age, she's a little bit younger
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: than you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Then no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't know her.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Listen, I think this is the perfect time to bring
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in Mercedes. I'm really excited that I'm here to witness this.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like your third wheel tonight.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. That's great.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: All right, let's bring are in?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool? Oh my, what's up? Can I get up?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Or do you have to sit here? Okay?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell Bryce a whole lot about you, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I know he knows you don't know a lot about
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: him either, because I thought some of those questions should
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: be taking place tonight on your first date. But let's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: just start with, like, you guys are dressed the same tonight?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Anything about each other. You don't know each other and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you're both wearing silk.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Are you nervous?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: No?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: No, do you get nervous?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: No no, Are you like a little but I'll make
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: sure that you're not nervous. Honestly, as soon as we
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: leave the room, you're not gonna have anything.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think tonight it will be really fun.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Have you been a dingle ball before either?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Verything?
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: First date, first jingle bell? Yeah, it's gonna be fun matching.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I look at us like we call each other.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: We did something good tonight. Good job, guys, you have
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: done something good.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, lock in, I'm locked in.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't get into the nitty gritty with him because
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I wanted to save it for you to experience. But
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering right now, Like I'd love to know
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: your initial thoughts of each other. Just like rattle off
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: quick quick shots your initial impressions.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I'll go first, Okay, well she's clearly stunny, totally totally
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: my time. Yeah, I like your laugh, Oh, thank you,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: your smiles? Great, ten out of ten. We're good.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: We're sadi, yeah, very attractive obviously. But first, but also
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: I can just tell your energy is great.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I feel like you can talk to anyone, which I
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: love because I don't know good conversations good obviously, And yeah,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: I feel like we're gonna.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Have a really good time tonight.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: We sure are.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Don't you want to know what reality show he was on?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I do.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Actually they told me that earlier about show.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So there's this show right called Fay Island.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: No, you were on that. Have a couple of friends
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: are on that? Well, not really my friends, but Casey,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Casey Casey he was previous season.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: There's another guy too, but I forget his name.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: He was on Katie's season.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Oh wait, I've never watched it, So you like dated Katie?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: No, there there was another Okay, so I technically didn't
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: date any of them.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Run down the concept of the show, like you broke
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: it down for me.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, So have you ever seen it?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: No?
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, So there's like half the guys come in as
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: self proclaimed boys.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Was that you?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well, let me get through the whole thing first, and
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: then the other half come in as self proclaimed nice guys.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Don't tell her which one you were, Okay, I made.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Your guess, so you can guess what do you think
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I came in this, well.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I'm going to feel bad. I don't know.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You can't heart my feel I think you can say
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: that my feelings. You were I was the good one? Yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I was, and you were she was on the best one? Okay?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Did do you know Alan and Billy were?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: They were done over season.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: So the creators or executive producers of The Bachelor of
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: years ago started this show. Okay, so we're kind of
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: in the same family. I'm like the dumb step child,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I guess. But it was super fun. And one of
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the things I told her about it was when I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: was talking to a lawn about it, I was like,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: in the previous seasons, the nice guys tend to just
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: be kind of pushovers.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: M h.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm not that way. So I'll
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: come in and be a nice guy to the girls,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: but I'm down to like Greek havoc in the house
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: of the guys. And so we had we had some fun.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was cool.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, nice. Well that's what I wasn't expecting. Floy Island, I.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Wasn't expecting it either, but it was okay. I actually
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: pecked him for a nice guy, but I In my defense,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I got to talk to him. I got to talk
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to him a little bit before, so I kind of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: could hear his answers.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: So I pegged him for a nice guy.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he said when I start talking about the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: family and my parents and everything, she was like, this
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: guy's not that boy.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He's solid things about him, he's got he's in for
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a relationship.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: He's been single for a couple of years.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Purpose Yeah, yeah, do you have anything that you would
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: like to know about him before we go tonight?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: I think we should just like make it like as
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: like easy and natural as possible and.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Like organic is great.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, I love it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I do.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Know one thing about you that I want to talk about.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: What so you? She said, you live in Nashville. Yeah,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I live in l A. Yeah, What's what's going on?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Why are you in Nashville? Are you from there?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: No?
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: So my grandparents lived there, so I moved there, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I just I'm from Iowa, like a grew up on
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: a farm.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'm from Kansas.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: And it's perfect about.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: So Nashville just like gave me the like Midwest kind
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: of vibe. Everyone's super nice and I just fell in love.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: I've been there six years.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's typically what I hear from my people in
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Nashville is like five to six years, or like, let's
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: do something else, okay.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Because I know something about you. You were like in
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: music too, right, So do you go to Nashville a lot?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm a I'm a partner in the music label.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: So music execs a.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Little different, a little different from an aspiring DJ.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so funny. She came in. She was like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: you're a DJ, and like, no, like Saturday, It's something
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I bought my first like DJ deck like two months ago,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: just like how funse I love house music and I
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: love like my happy place is Meek and those So
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: if that tells you anything about me, but yeah, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I just love music. So I was like, let me
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: just dive into that world. And it's been fun. But no,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I'm a music executive. I have artists and the label's
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: doing great, so I'm very proud of it. And yes,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: we got people out in Nashville. My partner in the
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: company is actually one of the biggest songwriters producers from Nashville.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: His name is Andrew Merrick.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I actually have heard of them.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, maybe he's big time. But yeah, he
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: stepped away from that stuff and now we created the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: company together and.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: That's so cool.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: It's been very fun.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. Do you like music?
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: I love music?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, are you like a country music girl or what?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I love?
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Like R and B?
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I love country too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I grew up on nineteenth country.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: That did not our boys, Tim Kenny, you know the
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: good guys. Are you a country I'm from Georgia Brown,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Oh of.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Course, Okay, there you go.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so I definitely love country.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: But like my Spotify rap was like, all like, Sissa,
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: we're on the same page.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I was literally just gonna be like, hey, so Spotify
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: rap just dropped like what was your tough Olivia Dean?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Everybody is obsessed with that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: No, I actually am, Like I told my best friend
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: is a Swiftie and I'm not a Swiftie but she is.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: And I was like, no, I feel like a Dean
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: is my Taylor Swift Like I'm genuinely obsessed with her
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: and her music just like speaks to me, so I
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: love her.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: And then it was like Drake's is a who else
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: was it?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I don't even remember. The other ones don't matter, I
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: guess I don't remember the other two.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: But do you typically date older guys?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, am I technically older?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Technically or older?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But mentally you're right on her level?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Okay? Fun? Awesome? I try to keep that childlike spirit.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: No, I feel like everyone I've dated the last like
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: four years have been like probably at least two years
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: older than me.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: So, and how old are you? Okay, great?
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be twenty eight in March, so cool.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's your son?
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Guess you need to take a guess? Are you like
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: big in signs?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: So there's like certain European countries that still teach astrology
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: like a science. And so my mom is Italian and
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: she grew up on all that. So I learned all
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: of it like from like a real perspective of from
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: like the l a thing. There's there's a part of
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: me that wants to say Leo, but I don't think
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that's right. No, Aries, really, no, I would not expect that.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I guess I see it in the real world.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Everyone always says that they're like, you don't act like
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: an Aries.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know what that means. I'm
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: not really into the sign thing, but.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why you present the people is Sagittarius, so
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: people are like this dude's and f boy for sure.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Aries are a match.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fire.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: And always says that is my match.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: My moon is Aries.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: There we go. I have to look at my coast
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: start to let you know my Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get your no after this and we can
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: do the thing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the podcast Bryce, the one
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that we're on. No, I haven't heard of anything famously available.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I've heard of it now, and.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: You've never listened to an episode you haven't heard.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going in here raw dogging it like I don't know.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I love that's the best way to do it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't want to know anything. Yeah, no, I
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: haven't listened that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: I asked so many.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Times for your Instagram, like can I just see like
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: what Like Nope, nope, No, I like that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: And it's kind of nice though, because like I feel
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: like dating now, like you basically figure out who the
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: person is before you even meet them, so you have
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: like these you know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel like my Instagram does a kind
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of you seen my Instagram, right or no?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I didn't know they I told you they wouldn't tell
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: me anything. I would tell her things.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I came in here raw dogging it too.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like my Instagram is a good representation
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: of me, so I would. I would hope. I try
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: not to be a douchebag on there, but sometimes I am.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: But do either of you have any expectations for tonight?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Have fun?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah? That's what I said earlier too. I was like,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: just have fun, gets known, see where the night takes us.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I already asked him if he was going to try
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: to kiss you?
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: What did you say?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: What do you think? I said?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: And then he said, no, what if he tries to
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: kiss you? Mercedes, I don't know, I said, I'm doing
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: all the wrong things.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: She's but he doesn't want to kissing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: What if he tries to kiss you?
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, even have to see how the vibe is,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: but I'd be down. I don't know. Right now, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: feel like we're like vibing. We're good.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I think you're vibing. Yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I think the chemistry is palpable. Yeah, I think I
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: think it's I think it's good. She also has pretty
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: teeth and a mouth.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not kissing her teeth.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Don't you think teeth are very important?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Very important?
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I mean if she had busted teeth, you might not
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: want to hang out with her.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: She had teeth on things, you would be here.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: You can smile with your mouth closed.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people smile with their mouth close. I don't know.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I have a big as mouth, but she has a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: pretty mouth.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I almost something crazy. I was like, whoa, yeah, one
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: of my favorite things. Did you have braces or no? No,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: you're just perfect?
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: No, no, we might have to lead with it. She said,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: you're just perfect.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Love.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my favorite compliment is like people like you
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: have great teeth, and like how long did you have braces?
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Like you have braces? Either look at us.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I would have to say, it's something that I look
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: at right off the bat. I look at someone's mouth
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and their teeth. It's very important to It's hard to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: get past teeth. You can get past a lot of things.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Teeth and when their eyeballs are too close together, because
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: now I know they're psychotic, so I was too close together.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Third time talking about that, You're okay.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Exactly man, they're perfectly.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Faced, and both of you they're so symmetrical. Your faces
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: are so beautiful. I can see the future now, your
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: children are going to beautiful.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: I'm going to love you.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: My mom will love you. Actually, yeah, we talked about
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: this a little bit. She was like, are you a
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: mama's boy. I'm like, no, not a MoMA's boy. But
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: my mom is like a son's mom, Like she loves
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: she loves me and my brother so much. Yeah, she's great,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: super Italian, like Psycho in the best way. Like I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: told her, I was like, my dad is work hard
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: in my mom's play hard. I feel like I'm like
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the perfect combination of both.
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: So I love that.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: No, they moved from Kansas to Florida like three years ago.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: They wanted to go retire where it was not Kansas.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I feel that your parents.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And I still really on the farm. So you're like
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Boots writing cow writing cows and almost. I think.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: She could also answer that, Yeah, well.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: She's in Nashville, so I already know they answer. But
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: so when you go back for the holidays, you go there. Yeah, okay.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: So I have two younger brothers. I have a twelve
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: year old brother. No, actually just turned thirteen. And then
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: a four year old brother.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Oh nice, Yeah, and you're the oldest.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love it. You know, I'm twenty seven, twenty seven,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: thirteen and four.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Your parents are still together.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Wow, it's lovely. That's so rare.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know right, Yeah, it's awesome.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Though.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I have seen the evolution of this relationship in the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: last fifteen minutes.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: You know, because when they.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: First came in, they weren't quite looking at each other
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: but looking at each other. They weren't quite making eye contacts,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: but like checking each other out. And now you're perfectly
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: holding eye contacts with each other.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I like this.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I like this.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I am creepy or if I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: should be really honored that the two of you are
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: allowing me to come along tonight.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, be as creepy as you want.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I'm having a great time too, and we're going to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: make sure that everyone has a great time.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I'm so excited for this. Yeah, thanks for things,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: for letting me be a third wheel. Like this is
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: so great.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Do you guys know each other pretty well or like,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: are you guys like homies or.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: What's I told poor Bryce that you have about thirty
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: wing women tonight.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, fantastic.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: She does have a lot of people with me to night.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah okay, but.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: You said you're very personable, you'll you'll make them good.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: No, for sure, I'm not nervous.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So you've met two of them, that means twenty eight
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: more to impress.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Wait what else did you meet?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: You one too? Oh?
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Even wing women?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Okay yeah, no, just you too so far. I mean
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: you're kind of your only woman tonight, too, true, That
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: is true. Yeah, no, I'm excited. There's twenty eight other
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: women or there's guys as well.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I tend to exaggerate bright. I either go real big
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: or real small.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: So you just yeah, I can't imagine me with thirty
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: women movie insane.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: It's not as insane as you think. Me with thirty
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: men is a lot of fun.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, that's terrible.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: That's not what I meant.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: We know, that's not what I'm No, we'll get it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: It's fine. Everything is fine.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: It's not filthy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: You're not awesome.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, thanks, I'm really doing well. Look at me.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're doing great. I have friends for you. I
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: can already there's already. Couple of guys in my head.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Are they coming tonight? I'm looking to find someone.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: N I'm the only one allowed to come tonight for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: my people.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I think my guess you're better. You have to do
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: another episode. It sounds like we do.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I did have one question before we head out to
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: jingle Ball. I want to know, Mercedes, how many more
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: days you're in Los Angeles? What if you guys this
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: you smash it out of the park. You can't wait
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to see each other again? Stop it, boy, I'm being clean.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I'm a mom.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: What if tonight could not go better and you guys
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: genuinely like each other?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Are you in Los Angeles still tomorrow?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: No?
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: I leave at seven am.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I guess you better? You better really really do good tonight.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Bryce. Yeah, you got a lot riding on it before.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: So when do you? I mean it's a holiday, so
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I guess like that's fine. But how often are you
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: in l A?
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Probably like once a month?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe okay, I'll work with that. I'm in Nashville like
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: a couple of times a month.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: That's a couple of times a month. That's great to see.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I feel like distance is not hard if you like
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: see each other a couple of times.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Plane ticket is like five. It's fun.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: You can't you can't put a dime on quality. And
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: look at the two of you. Yeah, I'm super excited.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for for letting at least me
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: be a part of this. Yeah, and and for coming
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: out and joining.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Us and going to thank you saving appreciate that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: All right, kiss, kiss now, I will take you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I will do it right now.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Can you say not the one who you need to
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: ask permission for? I am going to say yes.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: All right, you guys, this has gone smashingly. I think
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the two of you are hitting it off. I see
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the sparks.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: They're coming.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I am going to go and let them know that
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: this is really going well and we should probably go
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to dingle ball.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Let's go