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S6 E4 A One on One, a Twitter Feud, an an Engagement · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with i R Radio. Hey everybody, this has been and Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: We have no Ashley today and study. This is just
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  Speaker 1: me talking to myself, talking all alone. But that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean we don't have incredible guests. We have absolutely incredible
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  Speaker 1: guests on those podcasts. Later on the podcast, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hear from Clay himself after being sent home on this
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  Speaker 1: week's episode. Clay will be with us in studio. Then
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  Speaker 1: we're have Granger Smith, who we saw on this week's episode.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Granger Smith is one of my all time
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  Speaker 1: artist favorite artists. He crushes it. His lyrics are incredible,
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  Speaker 1: his voice radiates. A big fan of Granger Smith. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna come on and give us the inside look into
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to be an artist on the Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: at Then, something I'm very excited about. Something I learned,
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  Speaker 1: not anymore than I don't know two hours ago. My
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  Speaker 1: co host Ashley, I can, Eddie and Jared Haban are engaged.
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  Speaker 1: This was not something I knew. It's not something anybody
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  Speaker 1: from the Almost Famous team knew. This was kept a secret.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Ashley couldn't have told us because I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she knew either until it happened. But on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: today I saw a picture of Jared down on one
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  Speaker 1: knee with my beautiful co host, actually can Eddie standing
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  Speaker 1: above him, laughing and smiling, And I bet their heart
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  Speaker 1: is full right now. Next week we're gonna get the
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  Speaker 1: inside look into what exactly went down and this engagement.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear all about it from Ashley herself. I
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  Speaker 1: am so pumped for her, And let me just take
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  Speaker 1: a second. Really, Ashley, I can Eddie is engaged and
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  Speaker 1: engaged to the love of her life, the man of
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  Speaker 1: her dreams. I think all of us out there who
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  Speaker 1: listened to this podcast, or for myself that speaks on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, we can relate with having that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: dream person, And for Ashley, Jared is it. Jared was
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  Speaker 1: in and I think it took him a while to
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  Speaker 1: realize that Ashley was his dream person, but I know
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  Speaker 1: he knows that now. Ashley, if you've ever been around her,
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  Speaker 1: she just radiates this this love, she RADI just passion,
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  Speaker 1: she radiates this this desire to be known and to
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  Speaker 1: know other people. But there was always this one person
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  Speaker 1: that kind of she always wanted to know a little
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  Speaker 1: bit above anybody else, and that was Jared. And for years,
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  Speaker 1: as I got to know, actually I knew, and I
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  Speaker 1: was always confused at their relationship. They would hang out
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  Speaker 1: as friends, yet they had a romantic history. They wouldn't kiss,
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  Speaker 1: but yet they could cuttle on the couch and watch
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  Speaker 1: a movie. I never got it, and they would just
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  Speaker 1: be friends. Right. Jared would stay in l a and
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  Speaker 1: he would sleep on her pull out bed, uh in
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  Speaker 1: the living room. I've been over and I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally it was called Jared's bed. They would, they would,
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  Speaker 1: They would have no kind of physical interaction for years,
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  Speaker 1: but yet they got along so well, and yet Ashley
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  Speaker 1: was always very open with the fact that she had
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  Speaker 1: a huge crush on him. It was always super confusing
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I think it was confusing to all
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  Speaker 1: of us out there. I've been reading through comments today
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  Speaker 1: after people posted the engagement announcement, and everybody out there
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  Speaker 1: is super excited for this, and I think everybody was saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's about time. We've waited so long to see this
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  Speaker 1: couple come together. And sometimes in life we don't get
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  Speaker 1: the fairytale ending, but in this scenario we did. My
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  Speaker 1: co host is one happy person right now, and her
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  Speaker 1: fiance is in for a really great ride in life
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  Speaker 1: with Ashley and and I'm excited from both. I love
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  Speaker 1: Jared um a ton and and this is something that
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  Speaker 1: makes my heart very very happy. So if you're out there, uh,
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  Speaker 1: cinema kind word, uh, cinema well wish And And also
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  Speaker 1: I really hope the same love story that they have
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  Speaker 1: is something that we all can relate with at some
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  Speaker 1: point in our lives. I hope we can all be
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  Speaker 1: down on one knee or standing up or however that
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  Speaker 1: works and looks for everybody and just be so confident.
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  Speaker 1: It's so excited about what the future withholds with that
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  Speaker 1: person singing in front of you. So Uh. From the
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast and the team here and from myself personally,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations Ashley and Jared. Celebrate, Relax, take a deep breath. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you have found your person and you have found love
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  Speaker 1: and and we cannot be more excited for you. We
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  Speaker 1: support you, We're here with you through it, and we
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  Speaker 1: are pumped. I mean, I'm anxiously excited to get the
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  Speaker 1: inside scoop into what went down, uh during this engage
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  Speaker 1: because like I said, I had zero idea. I found
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  Speaker 1: out like everybody else on Instagram today, which at first
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  Speaker 1: made me very upset. It's like, how in the world
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  Speaker 1: did you keep this from me? But I guess when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to engagements, they are secrets, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I was expecting. I just feel
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  Speaker 1: like I want the inside scoop. I want to be involved.
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  Speaker 1: Um So, so with that, actually be back next week
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  Speaker 1: in studio. I will be with her in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be sitting down and chatting. I mean, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: more than a month ago she was crying over Jared,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure she'll be crying again on next Monday.
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  Speaker 1: But this, this is gonna be tears of complete joy
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. Uh. Later on the podcast, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: this week's so we're gonna break it down. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this week's episode I had a lot. We're gonna talk Colton,
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  Speaker 1: what we think of Colton. We're talking Garrett's one on one,
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  Speaker 1: the breakdown on the group day, We're gonna talk Wells
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  Speaker 1: and his one on David is back in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan's is wearing gold underwear. But first we gotta throw
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  Speaker 1: this back to real life and talk my opinion on
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  Speaker 1: the Becca versus Raven Situation's gonna hop in here really
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  Speaker 1: quick with a spoiler alert. If you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be spoiled for the Bachelorette, skip ahead five minutes from
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  Speaker 1: this point. This is a spoiler alert. You've been properly warned.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't know if everybody out there has
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  Speaker 1: seen it, but on Twitter this week, Becca m from
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  Speaker 1: our season of The Bachelor, uh publicly spoke out against
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  Speaker 1: Colton and his intentions of being on the Bachelor. She's
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  Speaker 1: claiming that he went on the show for tea and
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  Speaker 1: then if you've watched me of this season so far,
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  Speaker 1: this is how the story is played out. Colton approached
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  Speaker 1: Becca on last two weeks ago on the episode and
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  Speaker 1: sat down Becka and said, Hey Becca, I'm here for you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're great, but I gotta let you know
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  Speaker 1: that that after the Bachelor went on, UM, I reached
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  Speaker 1: out to Tia, and Tia and I hung out and
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  Speaker 1: we dated and we had a great weekend together and
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  Speaker 1: nothing crazy happened, but but we had something and we
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  Speaker 1: talked for a while. But he said, you know once,
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  Speaker 1: she you know once I thought I was going on
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  Speaker 1: to the show. Things ended and there there wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: flame there anymore. And in Becca's approach, it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just like any wise person would. She took her time,
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  Speaker 1: thought it through and said, Okay, if he's here for me,
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  Speaker 1: then then I'll say this is okay. But people out
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  Speaker 1: there and Bachelor Nation kind of spoke up and spoke
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  Speaker 1: their opinions and said Colon is not there for the
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  Speaker 1: right reasons. He was there for Tia. Now it's Becca.
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  Speaker 1: Why is he still around and why isn't he pursuing Tia.
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  Speaker 1: Colt wanted to stay and Becca let him stay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now we know that Colton is in paradise. We've heard this,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen it, and becat am has spoken out against
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  Speaker 1: it and said that Tia and Colton we're planning this
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  Speaker 1: all along. Well, TIA's good friend Raven came back after
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  Speaker 1: Becca Uh and this initial tweet and said that Becca
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  Speaker 1: needs to stop and hold her opinions because she is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Tia Uh and Colton are have the right to pursue
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  Speaker 1: any relationship they want, and so this became a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a Twitter war, one that reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: high school. All over again, and I gotta ask anybody
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  Speaker 1: out there, am I Am I wrong for somewhat being
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  Speaker 1: very interested in this war? Is it? Is it weird
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  Speaker 1: of me? Now, maybe this is a little bit evil
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  Speaker 1: of me. But when people start arguing on Twitter, no
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  Speaker 1: matter who it is, if it's the President United States,
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  Speaker 1: if it's people from The Bachelor edit, it's just regular
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  Speaker 1: people in general, I'm intrigued and I read and I
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  Speaker 1: read every single tweet that comes out. I mean even today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm doing it right now as we had a
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  Speaker 1: little break in the podcast, I'm scrolling for an update
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter to see if anybody, if if Ray, even
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca has posted anything new. I want to hear your opinions,
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  Speaker 1: please emails that been in Ashley iHeart meatia dot com
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  Speaker 1: to say, to send in your opinions on into Colton
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  Speaker 1: Tia situation. And then also what you think of the
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  Speaker 1: Becca and Verse Raven scenario. I mean, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a small thing. These these people have influence. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they have a social media following, and they're willing uh
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  Speaker 1: to go out and speak outwardly uh against each other
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  Speaker 1: on their following. This this is something something that we
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  Speaker 1: should all watch either for entertainment or intrigue or just
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  Speaker 1: to get the juicy news. We're gonna be keeping up
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  Speaker 1: keeping track of it here on the podcast, but I
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  Speaker 1: needed to bring it to your attention. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it again, make sure you check it on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing super cruel and and and personal has been said.
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  Speaker 1: It's mostly just opinions based on the Colton and and
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  Speaker 1: Tia situation. But but it is fun to watch, it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to listen to, so I'm excited to see other
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  Speaker 1: place out. I bet this will be the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: especially if if the rumors are true and Coldness is
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  Speaker 1: in Paradise Um, this storyline will be playing out for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. We are. I think that's the point
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  Speaker 1: of everything I'm saying here is drama is existing in
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation as we expect, but it's also spreading to
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  Speaker 1: the real world. This is why these situations are so
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  Speaker 1: intriguing to me. Is we're watching a show on TV
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of us ask, is it true? Is
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  Speaker 1: it real? Is it fake? It's not, And I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's real. It's it might seem crazy, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: life's a little crazy, it's real. But then also we
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  Speaker 1: can get on Twitter and and see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different people speaking out opinions or arguing with each other
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  Speaker 1: UM via social media. It's the world we live in
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  Speaker 1: the day. It's a it's a it's an interesting world.
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  Speaker 1: It's an entertaining world, and Batchel Nation is not above it.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure again to go out and check out
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  Speaker 1: this recent UM debate between Raven and Becca. But also
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  Speaker 1: it today. Okay, So this week we're really quick show recap.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. I mean, there's so much
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  Speaker 1: going on that this this episode has to be broken
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  Speaker 1: up into two segments. And again I'm talking to myself
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  Speaker 1: in studio, so this is gonna be weird. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: share my thoughts and nobody can really argue with me today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, if you want to argue with me, if
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: you want to disagree with me, I appreciate I needed
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  Speaker 1: emails at been in Ashley. iHeart Meta dot com or Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how about you respond on Twitter? I always like to
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  Speaker 1: read your tweets. Actually love three your tweets. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you tweet about her and Jared's engagement, but also tweet
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  Speaker 1: about the Almost Famous podcast tag hashtag the almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 1: When you tweet us, I'll read it. I love hearing
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  Speaker 1: your opinions, positive or negative, mostly positive. So, as I
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  Speaker 1: talked to myself here, your way to help me co
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  Speaker 1: host is the tweet, Instagram, or write us an email.
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  Speaker 1: So this week we have we have a big one
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  Speaker 1: on one day. I think this is a huge one
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  Speaker 1: on one day. Obviously, Garrett's been brought up in this
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  Speaker 1: podcast before. His controversial social media activities have caused kind
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  Speaker 1: of a ruckus in Batchelor Nation. Uh. He has apologized, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we do not support what he did or said on
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  Speaker 1: social media or the likes that he gave. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: completely inappropriate. Um. You know, we we've we think that
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  Speaker 1: social media, uh is a responsibility um that we all
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  Speaker 1: have and one that especially during the Bachelor, as your
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  Speaker 1: popularity grows, you're gonna be scrutinized, and so you gotta
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  Speaker 1: hold yourself above reproach. You gotta hold yourself with respect
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  Speaker 1: and dignity. Um. But but outside of that, Garrett did
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  Speaker 1: have the one on one day this week, and this
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  Speaker 1: was a big one on one day because everybody's emailed
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  Speaker 1: us and everybody in studio right now, we believe that
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  Speaker 1: Garrett's gonna be around for a long time. We see
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  Speaker 1: him being maybe the front run. I mean he did
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  Speaker 1: get Becket's first impression Rose. She is just incredibly giddy
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  Speaker 1: every time she sees him in That was clearly obvious
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  Speaker 1: during this one all one day. I I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: Becca kind of lose herself in this experience like she
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  Speaker 1: did when she was with Garrett. I mean it was,
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  Speaker 1: it was incredible. You've seen this Becca as the bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen her hold herself class and dignity and and
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  Speaker 1: she's walked and thought with wisdom and taking pauses when
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  Speaker 1: she's needed to, and she's held herself, um, just to
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  Speaker 1: a standard that almost seems untouchable. But with Garrett, she
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  Speaker 1: just lets her guard down. You can see if she's dancing,
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  Speaker 1: she's laughing, she's seeing It's it's not like she's the
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  Speaker 1: bachelor anymore. It's like she's in a relationship. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why as I'm watching as as a fan and judging
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  Speaker 1: and being critical of their relationship. I'm seeing something different
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  Speaker 1: with him. I'm seeing this become a relationship that I
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  Speaker 1: felt during my Season one that you know almost which
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  Speaker 1: just like I, this might be too good to be true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening, but I'm feeling something that
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  Speaker 1: I've never felt before. And she's using crazy words during
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  Speaker 1: this date, like I'm in trouble, and she doesn't not
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  Speaker 1: to to garner attention. It's interesting when she says I'm
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, it's almost like she's saying it to the
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  Speaker 1: producers or the camera, like you have something that you
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  Speaker 1: need to watch here, Like I might be falling for
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  Speaker 1: somebody very quickly, more than I ever thought I would.
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  Speaker 1: And and we still have a show to do. We
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  Speaker 1: still have a lot of dating to do. She's in trouble,
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  Speaker 1: she knows it, she admits it. Her quote exactly is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in trouble. There's not a lot to deny. But
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  Speaker 1: she likes Gary. Do you like Garett? Though? After watching
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  Speaker 1: this day, what are your thoughts on Garrett? What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on their relationship? Um, since it's your opinions,
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  Speaker 1: we want to hear them. I mean, there's a lot here, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and every time during the Bachelor, I find myself
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: getting over the Bachelor. Just let's just say this, in general,
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  Speaker 1: I find myself getting more critical of the contestants than
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  Speaker 1: I ever would have any person in real life. I
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  Speaker 1: think we all can relate to that. Right, we watched
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  Speaker 1: the show. We judge, we criticize, we drink our wine
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  Speaker 1: and big parties, and we laugh and and we joke
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  Speaker 1: with our friends about the crazy person on the show.
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  Speaker 1: But if we can say that Garrett is a front runner,
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  Speaker 1: now we need to start judging him under the frame
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  Speaker 1: that is he right for Becca? He seems super excited
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  Speaker 1: to be there, He seems incredibly excited to be in
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  Speaker 1: the moment with her. But is it real? Is it truthful?
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  Speaker 1: Is his love and admiration Rebecca is something that could last?
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  Speaker 1: Was the questions we have to ask ourselves. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting for me. Two is, as we're watching his story
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  Speaker 1: play out there, he's admitting the things that I never
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: thought we would hear from him, right, I mean, who
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: knew that Garrett was married? And a lot of us
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: out there, you know, can relate to having very uh intimate,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: important relationships that have ended, and we'll have to speak
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: of him publicly. They have affected our life, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: positively or negatively. They're a part of our story, so
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: we have to talk about him. But there is obviously
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: one that Garrett was feeling. You could see in his eyes,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you know, for a guy. I think Becca said it like,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Garret's so good at making eye contact when he's talking
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to her about this, this last marriage, in this last relationship,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: it was hard for him to make eye contact, which
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: for me is a sign that he's still feeling it,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that it's still important to him, and it should be.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It will probably
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: always be important to him. And and it's hard to
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: get over love until you found love again. And so
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I'll have to see if Decca and Garrett find love,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and then if he's able to tell her you're the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: one and I love you, and I'm I'm willing to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: trust some buddy again. But it's an interesting story, isn't it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard many like it. You know, they got
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: married there together for a while, they got divorced after
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: two months, and I don't know the details, and really
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it's none of my business. It's not my business to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: know what happened in details of what happened. Um, but
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: he got divorced two months. I have a I have
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a feeling and I'm not but I never claim to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be the smartest person out there. I have a feeling
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that that walking into a marriage and being so confident
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that you that you found your person and then it
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: ending after only two months, it's pretty it's pretty defeating.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I feel like Garrett has really been affected, um emotionally
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: by this experience. So outside of everything else, outside if
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you like Garrett or not, if you agree with what
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: he's done or not um or or what you feel
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like a relationship, it's gonna be interesting now to see
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Garrett's story and how he moves into relationship Rebecca and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: how they pursue it. So I canna ask you the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: question with finding out someone's divorced after only two months,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: or divorced in general, would you care? Would it affect you,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: would it bother you? Or are you willing to look
• 19:18
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• 19:21
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• 19:24
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• 19:26
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• 19:29
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• 19:31
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• 19:34
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• 19:36
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• 19:39
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• 19:55
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• 19:57
  Speaker 1: on here. Beca handle it very well. Um, she as
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: she has to this whole season so far. Um she's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: been slow to judge, uh, slow to speak, um, but
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: quick to to find compassion and so at the end
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of their date, one of my favorite things to ever
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: happen on this show. I mean, I had Amos Lee
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: on my on my season of the Bachelor, and he's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites of all time. But I love
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: country music. I'm a huge fan and the Bachelor seems
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to always bring in country artists and and good ones.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, we have some huge names that have been
• 20:29
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• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But first I gotta mention Granger Smith
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: saying Rebecca and Garrett on this week's episode of The Bachelorette,
• 20:39
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• 20:43
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  Speaker 1: we have one of the most specialist guests ever on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, Granger Smith is in studio in Los Angeles
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: right now. Granger, thank you so much for joining us. Yeah, man,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: good to be here. Thank you. Uh. You know, you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: obviously on the podcast because we claim to be not
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: only Bachelor focus, but we seem to always relate this
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: podcast back to the Bachelor, and you were just on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor at uh on the latest episode. Yeah, really
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: cool experience. And obviously we play shows a lot, but
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: this one was very different, and so I'll remember that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: for a long time. What was your okay? So back
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: in the day when I was a Bachelor, I had um,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I had Amos Lee. I don't know if you know
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of Amos Sleep. I'm a big fan of his, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he came on my season and it kind of worked
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: out where they knew my my song, my my my
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: love song, and and they asked him to come onto
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the to the episode and play for us. UM, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: he he really enjoyed his experience. I was surprised he did.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I was kind of almost embarrassed. I thought, Oh, no,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this is could be a train wreck. Did you enjoy
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: your experience on it? Yeah? I did. I did, And
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I could see how you might think that. But it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: kind of like I said, it was, it's such a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: different environment for us to go into this with producers
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: telling us when to play and where to stand and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and how to cue the music, and and there's kind
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: of just this excitement in the air, almost like it
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: was live television, even though we could have done it
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as many times as we wanted to make everybody happy,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: but it felt like a big, live TV show And
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: there's this kinetic energy in the air that we all felt,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: me and my band and crew, and um, yeah, it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: was a blast doing that. So how does this work
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: for an artist like yourself? Um, you get a phone
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: call from The Bachelor AD or The Bachelor ABC or
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: whoever does. Then you show up to You show up
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the park city, which I'm assuming isn't the place you live,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: correct now. I live in Austin, Texas, and and then
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: this I have audiences there, and I was actually surprised they.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I mean not surprised because if you can pack out
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: as many places you want, but because of this small
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: little venue, this whole thing got filled up, right there's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: there was no open space. Yeah, yeah, they did. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it's relatively small venue. I think it it was like
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: four capacity and um and so kind of a small venue.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: But but that was perfect for what they were going for.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So we we loaded into this little stage and and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: UM did a sound check and they had you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: as you expect from bacherette. They had really beautiful lighting
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and UM, you know, candle esque type stuff everywhere are
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: you romantic stuff, and and then they brought the crowd in.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: UM long before we shot the video, and so they
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: brought the crowd in and we played some songs for
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: them to kind of amp them up, and it just
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: really felt like, UM, a very intimate concert and you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: kind of forget the cameras were even there. Did you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: walk away from that? I mean this is did you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: walk away from that feeling like the the audience and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: your band and yourself, uh had a good experience, Like
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the audience walked away going okay, I got not only
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a little like live free concert, got to see a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: couple of people making out on stage, I got to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: meet Granger smith in personally. Is that how they walked
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: away from you think? There's absolutely no doubt they did.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: They did, and we did too. Everyone walked away that
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: night with a smile on their face. And it's just
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: because we all felt like we were part of something
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: greater than ourselves, you know what I mean. We felt
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: like we're part of something that will be shared tonight.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: And back then it was I think it was like March,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and so we were a couple of months out and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: June seemed like eternity away. But we all felt like
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: we were we were a part of something that everyone
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: would share on this night. And uh, and we felt
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: very proud to be in that moment. You know, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, man, Uh, being a former bachelor it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: means a lot. And I'm sure I'm gonna speak for
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Beccy here, but it means lots of any of us
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: when you do come on and we walk into the room.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Because I don't know if Becca knew it was going
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to be you or not. For me, it was a surprise.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But when when you walk in and somebody like yourself
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is willing to take time out of their schedule, um
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to come and play during you know, a crazy reality show,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: but a show that does have a lot of personal impact.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: It just means a lot. So thank you, uh from
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: from Becca and Bachelor Nation for for giving up your
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: time to come on. It's just really awesome absolutely man.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that that means a lot to hear you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: say it. And you know, I was talking to the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: date that night, Garrett, and and he told me he said,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I think this is the greatest night of my life,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: oh man. And and and the way he said it,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: it looked completely genuine and I could tell that he
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was living in that moment. And it's not that he
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: didn't say that because we were there. That was just
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it was part of the moment and he was living
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: that night to the fullest. And that made me feel
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: really good. And that's awesome. You you are really creating, uh,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: something that will last lifetime for Garrett, Rebecca, for any
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of these contestants, uh, you know, no matter what their life,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: where their life's taken, this show does play a big impact.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: The show has been known uh. And you know throughout
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the last twenty years of filming to have some big
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: name country artists on. I'm gonna run through the list here.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: We've had Lanko, Russell Dickerson, yourself, Chris Lane, Billy Currington,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the Eli Young Band. What is it about country munic
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: music in these country artists that bring them to the Bachelor.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a great question. I'm friends with
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of those bands you just named, and it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: it's an honor to be part of that list. And
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: you know, country music is is so lyric driven, and uh,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of love songs, and and our
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: love songs are very um, very truthful from the heart,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: lyric driven songs. And I think that's that's the connection
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that you could have with a show like Bachelorette. Yeah, definitely. So,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I mean that raises the question. I think everybody's always
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: interested in this, What is your inspiration behind the music?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You come out with great lyrical songs. They tell these
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: incredible stories that are relatable that I can listen to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: uh at any given time to go Yeah, that's me.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I get what he's saying. But where is your personal inspiration? Well,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it comes from all over and and I wouldn't. No
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: one could live enough life to write album after album
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: worth of songs with with just one life. So you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: really have to to open your eyes, and you have
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to listen to other people's stories and and sometimes it
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: comes from movie scenes or a friend of yours just
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: went through this this crazy breakup, or are are gotten married,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and and you listen to those stories and you talk
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it out with them, and suddenly a lion will pop
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: out here and there. Um, sometimes the most special ones
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: are the ones that you live yourself, you know, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you know something that that happens to me, and I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I jotted down some notes and as I start writing it,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you could just feel the energy of that song coming out.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: So the answer is really all over the place. But
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: we just have to keep our eyes open and pay
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: attention when those songs are out there. That's incredible. And
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta imagine to your mind never shuts down, right,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, at any given moment a song could be had.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You have to keep your phone right by your bed
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: so that you could have that voice memo ready to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: go if you dream something. That's how, that's how it
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: is unbelievable that I mean, I I used to agree
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: this is a little bit of inside looking in my life.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: When I was in middle school. I have a notebook.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I'll try to find it here. Maybe I'll take a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: picture of it at some point that I used to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: write songs on that They're terrible, absolutely awful. I can't seeing,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I can't do anything. But I used to write these
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: songs down because all of a sudden, something will pop
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: into my head. I'd be like, I won't to remember
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: this moment, like this is a this is a special
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: moment that I think a lot of people, uh fell
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, oftentimes I could never communicate how I felt,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and so whenever I could feel like I could put
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a lyric out there, I'd write it down. That's how
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I started. And um, it doesn't matter whether it's technically
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: good or bad lyric. Sometimes it's just therapy to get
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that out there. And it makes you feel good. It
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: makes you, like you said, live in that moment and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: uh feel the color of that specific emotion, and writing
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it down really does it, really makes it. It makes
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it reality, and so yeah, you're doing the right thing.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It's always impressed in me. And I gotta say this,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and I've I was preparing for this podcast, I was
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: listening to a lot of your music here. Um. One
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: thing about music and this is not this is common knowledge.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Music opens up our eyes to what we've already felt,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: right Like the lyrics communicate in words what a lot
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of us are feeling. I think that's why I love
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: country music so much. I'm a big red Dirt. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: love my my Texas and Oklahoma country. But but I'm really, uh,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: just a huge country fan myself because I feel like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: any time I turn on a little music, I can
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: relate and and that's and your music does that, including
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: this new single that you're coming out with your in it,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Can you tell a little bit of us a little
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: bit about that? Yeah, this song is um And first
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of all, you're you're right that that's our that's our
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: job to as as musicians to try to to connect
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and to try to relate with songs. And um uh,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: we're we're simply messengers of of the music. Because it's
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: so music is such a powerful thing that for all
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of us, we were all fans before we did anything else,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: we were fans of music. And that's why you see
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: little babies, you know, will will nod back and forth
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to music. And people on their deathbed, the last thing
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: they're doing is you know, wanting to hear music. It's
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's uh, it's a crazy thing music, the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: power of music. But um, but yeah, this this single
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: is is a fun one for me because it's kind of, uh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: an upbeat, feel good song and it's about how we
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you never really know what tomorrow might bring. You never
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: know where we're where we're gonna be tomorrow. But uh,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're love and when you have someone
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: special that you that you're in love with, Um, if
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you're with that person, then that's really all that matters.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: And so that and that's kind of what this song is. Now.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the future holds, but all I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: know is girl, you're in it. And that's what the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: song is about. Yeah, and and and why was this
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the song that you're you know, promoting on on The
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Bachelor act Is this is this the upcoming? You think
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: this is gonna absolutely rock people's worlds? Or you feel
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: like this is relatable right to this specific situation that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Becca is in. I think if I could say what
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: is going to rock people's world? Um uh, then I
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: would be a huge mega star right now, possibly predict that,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: but I just hope that it could connect with somebody,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: um in a situation like Becca. Absolutely, yeah, that's incredible.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, going into this, this little segment on The Bachelorette,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: were you a fan of The Bachelor before before all this, Like,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: did you know about it? I? I I absolutely knew about
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: it because my wife is a mega fan and um,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: she as as many people are, she you know, religiously
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: watches it and um. And so the first time I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: was supposed to batro Nation was, you know, walking in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and you know, you know, I kind of walk in
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: mid show and and see scenario going down, and I'll
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: sit down on the couch with her and and usually
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: say what in the world is going on here? And
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: she asked to tell me the backstory and tell me
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: who this guy or girl is and why they're doing
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: this crazy thing, and uh yeah, and that's how it's
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: been for years and uh and so I get more
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and more into it and and the most important thing
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: about that show to me is that that's, uh, that's
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a special time for us together, you know, to to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: sit down and and discuss this, whether whether we're saying
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: how crazy it is or how fun it is. Whatever,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's good time for us together. The
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that's the that's the part of that. I think I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: love to hear so many times couples come up to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: me and one of the couples if it's the wife
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of the husband or whoever, come up and say, oh,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't a fan of the show, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: they've made me watch it. But then they're always the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: first person, the person that doesn't want to admit they're
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: a fan, to ask me to follow up question, Really
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that crazy really fall off? Oh yeah, it's impossible to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: not discuss it. You can't sit there and absorb that
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: television and walk away and not have a comment of
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: some sort, which is why it's great. I think that's
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: why our listeners listen to the podcast too. I mean,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it's awesome, but the the inside look into things is
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: why people listen here because this is a captivating show
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and it's relatable, just like we talked about with the music,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you know, the Bachelor is relatable and the sense that
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: everybody wants love, you know, every everybody wants to pursue love,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: everyone wants to fine love. But with the Batcheler, we
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: get this unique twist where we get some crazy stuff happening,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: which this week's episode was not without it is how
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: excited is your wife about, you know you being on
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the show? Was she thrilled that she cared? Oh my gosh.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: She was the first person I told, you know, yeah,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I've done a lot of I've done a lot of
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: cool things that I'm really proud of. But when it
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: came down to this, she was the first person I called.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And because I knew that, I knew how excited she
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: would be to hear that, I mean, her favorite show
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and her husband's gonna be on it. That that was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: That's something special. You can live at least sell out stadiums.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: You can sell stadiums. That wouldn't matter. Not being on
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor is the thing to get too excited. It
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: is crazy, man, I'm living in this world for a while.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: You have people, uh from all different walks of life
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: who find the Bachelorette and Bachelor to be the one
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: thing that gets them excited. If they're making fun of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: it or if they're super invested into it, the Bachelorette
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and the Bachelor really is all inclusive, and that's I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: think that's what's the fun part about this? You know,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Granger Smith's wife can get excited about him being on
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor at that that's cool. Yeah, and that's kind
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of an understatement too. I mean she is ecstatic. She
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: has all of her friends coming over tonight, and they
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: do that anyway, but tonight's really special nights. So they're
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: all coming over and and they'll have their wine and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: you know, they're just gonna go all out. It's gonna
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: be great. The that's that's awesome. So then after that,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be on Jimmy Kimmel correg Yeah, taking over
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: ABC tonight. It's gonna be pretty cool. You literally are
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: taking over ABC. And what does ye? Nation? So the Nation,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: for anybody out there listening, is the group that supports Granger.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And I mean they're passionate. I'm reading right now. Granger,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: you have over seven million people that follow you on
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: social that's You've got to be one of the most
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: popular country artists when it comes to social correct. It's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: important for sure. So and we love we love our
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: fans and um, yeah, Nation, it supports us to the end.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And um that's all I could ever ask, That's all
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: anybody could ask is is to have that kind of support.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: What does ye? What does that stand? So that that
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that's uh, that's a little brand that me and my
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: brother started and uh it's a way of life, as
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: we say it's it's living life to the fullest is
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: really what ye means. And it started with just a
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: funny video that we came out with about five or
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: six years ago with this alter ego, this crazy ultra
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: country boy named Earl Dibbeles Jr. And h Earl Dibbeles
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: yells out ye ye and it's like this old Texas
• 38:56
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• 39:00
  Speaker 1: a new dimension and people started coming to the show's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: holding up signs saying yee and yelling it and we
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: just really adopted that is is our thing. We trademarked
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it and it's just become um a lifestyle brand for us.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: So so there's there's hats are sure, it's like what else?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: What else can you nation purchasing? Josh is created if
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: you as you want to be there is a geek
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: on something. I mean we have beach towels and sunglasses
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and lipstick and I mean you name it. If it's
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: not out there. We We even have an energy drink
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: called Ye Energy. So yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a fun lifestyle brand for us live it.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you okay, so if we take the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: nation a group that is passionate and supportive of View
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Granger and your music and your pursuits. Um, but it's
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: also a lifestyle brand if we if we kind of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: looked at everything from a thirty foot view, what is
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: your hopes for your music career, Cree Nation, Like, what
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: are you hoping to accomplished? Well? I think ultimately, Um,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: this grows more than just music. It all. It really
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: started with just music, but is well rounded as we
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: could be. And I say we my two brothers, we
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: all work together on this and as well rounded as
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: we can be. Um, that makes us happy. You know,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: we have the energy journey we have, Um, we have
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: we have some documentaries coming out. Earl Earl Dibbles has
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: a book coming out this year, and so that stuff
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: just makes me excited. It makes me happy. And and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: this this endless pursuit of happiness, as we all say, Um,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: you know that's more important than than any kind of
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: accolades are number one songs or trophies that you could
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: hold up. You know, just doing something that you love,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that that it always is exciting and always taking having
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: a new twist and turn is really the goal. It's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: how how many things can we get our hands in
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and have fun with? And that's what we're trying to do.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I think that's incredible, man, I and I hope this
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: is my hope, and I'll speak on behalf Bachelor Nation. Again,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking on a half a lot of people, but
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I guess that's why I have a podcast. UM, I
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: hope you appearing on The Bachelor at is something that
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: that really does support the nation, that supports this pursuit
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: of of you and and the happiness that you're trying
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to spread. UM from anybody listening out there, make sure
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: you go check out Granger Smiths music. UM watch him
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: tonight on Jimmy Kimmel. But also UM, if you if
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: you like hats, if you like t shirts, if you
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: like beach doles, if you like sunglasses or anything creative,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: make sure you go out and you purchase a Nation
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: branded UM product. Hey, Granger, before we leave, I gotta
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: ask you, what are your thoughts? Honest? Feedback on on
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Becca our Bachelor and then when I asked the same
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: thing about Garrett her date. But let's start with Becca. Yeah, Um,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I got to spend significant time with both of them
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: that night, and um, granted that they were on cloud nine,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you know, and they were, they were in the moment,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and um, they had had a great dinner and some
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: drinks and uh, we're in this really cool environment with um,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of fans, you know, everyone there was it
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: was a fan of them as well, and so they're
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: cheering them on. So you could imagine, you know, make
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it out and while people are cheering you on. So
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they were on cloud nine. But at the same time,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: just talking with them, they seemed, Um, I'll start with Becca,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: she seemed, um, just so down to earth and um
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: grateful to be in her position where she was, and um,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: she didn't seem to be in a hurry to do anything,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: you know what I means. She didn't seem to be
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: on some kind of tight schedule where she she she
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: could only chat for a second, and that was so nice.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: That was so nice to see from her, Um in
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: her position, because I know she's just uh having in
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: a whirlwind at least she wasn't during that time when
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: we when we filmed that, and her life must have
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: been absolute chaos, but she didn't show it at all.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: She she held she held herself together with grace and um.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: It was fun to see. And Uh, I could say Garrett, Um,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: he seemed like he could be a buddy of mine
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: for sure. He seemed he seemed like he was very loose, um,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: very relaxed. Uh. As I said, he told me that
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: that was that could have been the greatest night of
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: his entire life. And the way he said it, it it
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: looked like he meant it. It really did. He was
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: he was just happy to be there and um and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and living it up. You could tell that that he
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: knew that kind of excitement and energy might might never
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: happen again, and he was going to take full advantage
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm with them typically
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: in life. I'm just really happy to be there. I
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: don't know how we got there, how it's happy. I'm
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: just happy to be there, especially when foreigner people are literally,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: like you said, plotting at you, making out. I mean,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: nothing makes me feel cooler. People watching kids. It's celebrating, Yeah,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: celebrating exactly. It doesn't happen often in life. Uh granger
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: happens for you all the time. But for me, man,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I happened often in life where I can stand in
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: front of a crowd of people and they cheer. I
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: promise you never it never gets old, that never fades.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: And and I'm just like you, I I I love
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: to live in that moment. And um, you never know
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: when the last time is going to be, and so
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: we only have this moment and um, yeah, I'd never
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: take that for granted. Hey, before you go, I got,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I got. I just have one more thing, because you
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: just said something that I think is important for anybody
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: out there listening on this podcast. This is a Bachelor podcast,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and we like to try to relate the Bachelor to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the real world. And and and oftentimes we get these
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: contests that come on the show and and all these
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: people I think, uh, you know, desire something more from
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: life when they come on the show. If that's um
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the influence of its love or whatever it is, and
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the show catapults you to a level of um recognition
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that you've never had before that you'll never really probably
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: have again. The batchelor is such a popular franchise that
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: millions of people watch. As soon as you do the show,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: A lot of people recognize you. Grange are the same
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: thing happens in your life, But you have a talent,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: you have a skill behind it, and you've worked hard
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: to get there. But but a lot of people recognize you,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of people love you. How do you and
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: if this is advice for yourself or advice for any
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: contestant coming on the show, any future contestant coming on
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the show, how do you keep your head small? How
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: do you not let your head get super big and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: your ego totally inflated where this world becomes very selfish?
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: What is your what is your advice for anybody out there?
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: You know that that's that's a daily question that that
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I have to answer, that I'm forced to answer, and
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and not necessarily because I always find myself in that
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: in that boat. I don't, but I do see people,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: especially people on a greater level than I am, and
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you wonder either how do they do it? Or be
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: they're really they've really fallen off the deep end here
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and and and I think that the best way to
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: answer that is you have to really compartmentalize what's it
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: what's a job, and what's work and what is theoretically
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: not real life and and what is And when I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: go up on that stage and the lights come on
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: and they're on me and I'm singing a song and
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: people are cheering, that's not real life. That's not who
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: I really am. That's my work self and I have
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to put it put it that way in my brain.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: And those people are not cheering for me personally, Granger Smith.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: They're cheering for what I'm representing in that song and
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: that moment on that stage. That's what they're cheering for. Um.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: They're cheering for the office that I'm holding at the time,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: during those three minutes at a time during a song.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: But when I come off the stage, I'm just as
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: normal as any other guy. And and I still have
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: my same ends that know who I really am. And uh,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: my tour manager has been he's known me for seventeen years.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: My brother is my manager. So I've kind of surrounded
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: myself with these people that would slap me across the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: head if I started becoming something that I wasn't. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: so so if you could surround yourself with with the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: people that know who you really are, and then try
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to compartmentalize what is real and what is not. You're
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: gonna be okay. That's that's incredible advice around yourself with
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: a group of friends that really know who you are,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna hold you accountable when life gets a
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: little out of balance. Granger, thank you so much for
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: coming on the podcast. We're huge fans of you. I'm
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: a personally a huge fan of you. I've listening to
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: music for a long time. I'm a huge country fan.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: But also I'm pumped. I'm excited to see where this
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: new single is gonna take because I think it's gonna
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: be incredible. I do think I will speak and say
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that I do think this is gonna take over the world.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Make sure you listen to You're In It by Granger Smith.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: If you want to get more information on Granger, go
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to Granger smith dot com for just anything a nation.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: But also man, just just thanks for coming to talk
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and and thank you for coming to The Bachelor at
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: everybody out there appreciates it. Thanks for making this show
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit better. You're welcome, buddy, and thanks for
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: taking your time to have me on. Man, it means
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: a lot. Hey, We'll see Sam. Thanks Buddy again. This
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: week's episode had so much one and we had to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: break it up in two segments. Uh. Thanks again for
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Granger Smith coming on. He's amazing. He's incredible. Check out
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: his music. It's worth it. He was on this week's episode.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: But this week's episode was not without much more than
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: just Granger. We had a group date Colton, Colton, the
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: good old Colton, good old Denver boy. Colton is now
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: fighting with Jordan as well. And this is the thing
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: with Jordan. He's he's He's such a captivating character. He's
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: one of the only people I've ever felt like watching
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the show that he has to be a plan, there
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: has to be a character, and he's not. I know
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: he's not now because he hasn't changed the whole time.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: But when I first met Jordan, or I guess having
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: met him, I feel like I met him just like
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: all of you probably have. When I first watched Jordan's
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: on this show, I was like, this guy cannot be real.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: He's so much, he's too much. He's so confident. But
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: typically when you're that confident, there's there's a lot more
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes, um than than any of
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: us really realize, and that's one thing we always have
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: taken the consideration is do we really know Jordan's or
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: is it is there a front that he's putting up
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that at this point, but Colton
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: seems to know that. He seems to be seeing right
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: through this front that Jordan's putting up. So we're gonna
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: bring Colton back into the team of against Jordan's. So
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: not only now is David not on Team Jordan's, Colton
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: is not on Team Jordan's. There's a few other people
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: that are gonna join on. It's it's interesting because I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: feel like if I was there, and I've talked a
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: couple of people about this, and um, I feel like
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: if I was there. Yeah, I don't know if if
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Jordan would be the best ist of friends, and I
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: don't think he's right for a bat, but I feel
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: like him personally would just be entertaining. Maybe there's there's
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: more annoyance going on than I know, but I just
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: feel like watching him would just almost be entertaining. Having
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: him a of of the show would almost be the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: comic relief you need when you're starting to stress out
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and you're starting to have feelings. You need that like
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: fallback person. You need that person that's always gonna make
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: light of the situation or or at least make fun
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: of the situation, because I know, for me, I was
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: taking it so serious with Caitlin when I was there,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: and and there were so many emotions being on, you know,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: pulled into my life that any comic relief or any
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: relief from that intensity was welcomed. And I'm surprised that
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Jordan's not bringing that to the people around him, that
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: people are actually getting upset some So at some point
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: we can ask Clay when he comes on the podcast
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit, what is it about Jordan's that really
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: ruse people the wrong way. I don't get it. I
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: think he's I think he's kind of funny. I think
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: he's weird. I think he probably should go home pretty soon.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: But don't get mad at the guy. He's just he's
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: just being Jordan's. But things got weird quickly. Outside of
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the quote and jordan relationship, things got really weird. Jean
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: blanc out of nowhere. Okay, he gave her a gift,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: he said he was falling in love with Becca. Then
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: there was awkward sense and when we kind of knew
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: going into this that their relationship was not where he
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: thought it was. She thinks it's too much, too soon.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I get it. I think at this point he's the
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: first to really admitted to her and we haven't really
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: seen him have anything yet other than if you kisses,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: he needs to go, he needs to go home. Then
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: he says he said it because he thought she wanted
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: to hear it. It was also weird, right, I mean,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I mean, Becca is is smart.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: She she understands where she's coming from. But why would
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: he say something as powerful as love if she thought
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: she just wanted to hear I mean, we've talked about
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: a thousand times. We know my story. We know that
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I am I am one to throw the love word around.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: But but I meant it right. I meant that I
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: cared about both women, that it was at the very end,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: and this journey had taken us to a place where
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: our relationship were deep, they're entrenched in each other, that
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: real emotions and real feelings were there. I felt like
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I had to say it because it was what I
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: was feeling, not because Jojoe needed to hear it, or
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: that it was gonna make what her feel better. I mean,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe it was that satisfaction and reassurance that I
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: was trying to give her. It's like, hey, I really
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: care about you, I really love you, even though this
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: is this is the end. But it seems like Jean
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Blanque was just saying because he thought she just wanted
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: to hear it what to keep him around longer. I mean,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: love is not something just to mess with. And I've
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: learned my own um from my own mistakes. I've learned
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a thing or two, and I've learned that the saying
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I love you means a lot and it carries a
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: lot of weight. And that's that's a good lesson for
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: me to learn. I get that, But I would like
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: to think that my situation was a little different than his.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Got super weird. Anyways, Then Becca got really mad about it.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: She was mad and her I mean, I'm personally thinking
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit, like, is she overreacting, She's being too critical.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: She just let him go. But but then I realized
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it was a trigger for her. This is reminding her
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: of a situation that wasn't long ago, and it took
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: her back to ari or her past. Because who cares
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: about John Bach. I mean, really, he hasn't been around
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: a long time. We don't we don't know a lot
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: of history between him and back. We've seen him Kis
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: a couple of times, and he smells nice, right, I mean,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: that's that's what we know about John Blanch. But but
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: it was a trigger. It was a small situation. It
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: was a minute situation that brought up a bigger issue.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: That was she was holding it that by him just
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: saying something because she but he because he thought she
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: wanted to hear it. It was reminding her of a past.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: It was reminding her of something deeply seated inside. So
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I getting out why she was so sad. I get
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: now why she maybe looked like it was she was overreacting.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, on this show or in life, we run
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: into a million weird situations, a million weird scenarios, and
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: every once in a while there is one that just
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: really stands out and that really affects us I can
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: speak to that, and this one was one for Becca.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: So so that is a huge moment that we have
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: to remember as you watch the rest of this season.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: This is is that kind of breaking point Rebecca when
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but all of a sudden so some inner feelings, some
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: inner turmoils came out. We now know that Becca is
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: triggered by somebody admitting feelings when she doesn't feel like
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: they mean it. But then she walks into an amazing
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: one on one day with a guy, uh named Wills.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: We don't know a lot about Wills yet we know
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: a lot about a lot of these guys. But what
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: we do know is he seems like a cool guy. Um.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: He he knew he was walking into a situation where
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: she was going to be in a tough mood. He
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: was aware of that from the very beginning, and he
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: knew that he was taking on the burden that responsibility. Say, hey,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: if anything, if if nothing else in this day, I
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Wills wasn'tmitting to his job. Now it's had just lift
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: up her spirits And I think that's awesome. And that's
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: about all I got from that day. You know, I
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: think they have something. I don't know how long term
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: it is, but he did an amazing job at lifting
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: up her serious when union the most And for that,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Will's good job credit goes to you. Kudos, buddy. So
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of this episode, I was I found
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: myself asking the question, and he's definitely a candidate for
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the who the heck are you? Coming up in the future.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: But we have this guy named John Well. I have
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: no clue who he is, zero I GA. I haven't
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: seen him from the beginning till now. But all of
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he pops up during this Lumberjack Day. And
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how or it was incredibly unexpected, but
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: but this John guy pops out of nowhere and it
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: ends up dominating this Lumberjack Day. Seems like a good guy,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: seems like a nice guy. I think he had a
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: couple of I think he had a funny line that
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I wrote down here and I'm gonna get it wrong,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: but you'll get it and you'll understand it. He makes
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: a line that he's like, I typically get intimidated or
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: nervous around cute girls and really good looking guys like me,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: and you went on the wrong So the Bachelor is
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: not the right show. You're gonna get intimidated by cute
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: girls and and good looking guys. I thought that was funny.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: It shows who John is. He's humble, um, he's he's
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: a great guy, and he's super athletic. Who knew that
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: that John was going to pop out of nowhere and
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: dominate the Lumberjack Dave. Okay, skipping, We're starting to the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: guys a little better. We're starting to the standouts Garrett, Connor, Blake, Colton, Jason.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: I would throw in there as well, who else is
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: this stand out to you? Let us know who else
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: is standing out? Who else is a front runner in
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: this season? I mean, I think these are these guys
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: that are standing out. Uh, It's it's pretty clear Becca
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: isn't holding back her feelings. But we also just know
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: that these guys are are not only good looking, but
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: they're also charismatic, and they're also intentional and they're kind
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: of taking that leadership role in the house. These guys Colton, Garrett, Connor, Blake,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: and Jason are really standing above. But one guy that
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: really stood above for a long time on this season,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: one guy that I think Becca was really into, is
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: our next guest. And and Clay will be joining us
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: right now after his dramatic exit from last week's episode
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: after an injury. Uh that will affect his real life
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: and I can't wait to hear about it. Here about
• 57:12
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• 59:05
  Speaker 1: left two episodes of Great Clay out there. Yes, sir,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: hey man, thanks for joining on this famous podcast. I
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on. Yeah man, thanks for having me.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the real world. We we saw you
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: leave uh two weeks ago on this on an episode
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of the Bachelor at tell Us about that experience leading
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: up to your departure. Yeah, man, it was, it was.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: It was really good experience. It was it was fun.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously I got to make a lot of
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: good friends with the guys and and build relationships with them.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: But um, it's good to get a chance to to
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: meet Becca, and you know, me and her started off,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: you know as a little lower than i'd say some
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: of the relationships, but I feel like every time we
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: got to get some time together, we built on that.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: We progressed, and we progressed until you know, the last
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: couple of episod so it's there. I thought we were
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: in a really good place, and you know, I got
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: the group rose and then obviously, you know, I find
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: out how severe the wrist injury was. So you know,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: it was tough. There's a tough decision to make to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: have to leave, leave the episode, to leave the season
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: and you know, back up. But you know, ultimately, I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I think it was the right thing to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: do to you know, take care of a lot of
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: people in my life and my family and to continue
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: my you know, NFL career. I think that's admirable. Buddy,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and I can't really talk more about that, but first
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I gets talk talk. You're you're a good looking, uh,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: you're a successful NFL football player. How in the world
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: you end up on the beach threat. Okay, it's actually
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: a pretty funny story. Um, a good friend of mine
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: who played a few years NFL. UM we grew up together,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: training and stuff went on, tried to try it out
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: for the show and he didn't quite make it. And
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: one day he just happened to be out in the city, Chicago,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: having some drinks or some friends, and he ran into
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: the lady that interviewed him in Chicago for the casting process,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: and she sees him and comes up to him and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: tells them that she would like for him to come
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: from out again. He happened to have a girlfriend at
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: this point, and he says he thinks he has a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: couple of guys that she would like, so he shows
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: her a picture and and she thought, um, that I
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: might be something that the rest of the casting team
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: would be looking for. And you know, he told her
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I played football and stuff, and he didn't know if
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I'd even be able to do it. But um, me
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: and the casting lady got in touch that way, and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: we shot a few texts back and forth, and before
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: I knew it, I was, you know, stepping out the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: limo meeting back. I mean, this is totally unexpected. Then, yeah,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: totally unexpected. You know, I had no idea this would
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: happen if it wasn't something that you know, I went
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: and pursued. But I had just got hurt on in
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. I was on injury reserve the entire season.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: There's no chance I was gonna play last years an
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I are off season, and um so I'm just rehabbing
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: at own and you know, I'm finally getting healthy, healthy
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: enough to to do things, but not playing NFL football,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: and and then, um, you know I started that's and
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: then that's when I got in touch with the casting
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: people from the back. So I started talking to them
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: and going back and forth and it is something I
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: should do or not, And I, you know, I just started.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, give it a shot and take
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: a shot at load. That's amazing. I mean, were you
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: concerned all what people would think? I mean, it's it's interesting.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan, big big NFL fan, and I
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: watch all these guys on TV and they're battling Sunday
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: after Sunday, but we don't get it up close and personal,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: looking to their like personal lives typically and and especially
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: their love life. What were you fearful at all or
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: why weren't you fearful maybe of entering into a show
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: that really does highlight who you are and your insecurities
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: and and and makes you vulnerable to the public. Yeah, no,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: that's a good question. It's you know, it's tough and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: most people don't really see us. I'll want to run
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: the NFL field as as people. We got all the
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: pad n you know the name on the back of
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: the jersey, and you know the favorite team. We're just
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a player for a team. You know. It's it's you
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: don't really I really know that the actual person. You
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: just see the person you see every Sunday, the guy
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: that you know does this or that, makes this sort
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: of player, what position he is? You know, I'm not
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: a type. I'm not Clay Harbor the person I'm playing
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: hard at the tight end. So it was different. Yeah,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: there was a piece of me that was nervous. You know,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: what do people think if I you know, if I
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: go on the show and you know, we'll coaches GM
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: think something of it. But for me, you know, I
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: think this will be a good thing for the to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: the league. I'm gonna go out there be myself and
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: just show people that, you know, NFL players and prestonal
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: athletes are just normal people. You know. We struggle sometimes
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: to meet people, and sometimes it's even harder. It's hard
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: to meet people when you're when you're an NFL player,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: you're you're successful in people. Some people like you for
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: the wrong reasons, you know what they It's it's tough
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: sometimes to sepuate that. And when I knew Beco was
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: going to be the best threat, she was definitely a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: woman that I was interested in. And she has so
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: much going for others in her look. She's you know, successful,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: beautiful obviously, and I thought it would be a good
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: opportunity to you know, meet someone potentially that's fund the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: rest of my life with we get it. Yeah, that's awesome, man,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: That's that's I'd say. It's really incredible of you to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: take that risk. Uh. And thanks for you know, as
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a fan of the show, thank you for letting all
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: of us get an up close and personal look into
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: your love life. Because now I know when I'm watching
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: on Sundays, I feel like I know you a little
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: bit better, which which is exciting for me. Um flash
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: forwards show. Now, Okay, how does it feel to get
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: hurt playing football with a budget clowns when you're a
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: professional football player. Yeah, I know, that's that's a tough one.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: And so it's interesting because you know, it's farmed a
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: lot of people in my life. But I'm looking at it.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a glass half fool. If I'm going
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: to break my arm on you know, Angeo, Ryan and
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: I probably would break it, you know, on an NFL linebacker.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: So obviously it wasn't healthy. It must not have There
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: must have been something there that that wasn't right. Now
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: it's fixed, it feels strong, and it's healthy in time
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: for training camp. I have a couple of workouts set
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: up coming up of teams, and you know, I've showed
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: them healthy, show them in shape, and I'm confident I'll
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: get back on a roster in time for training camp. Yeah.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Because I'm confident, Clay that a lot of gms, a
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: lot of head coaches are listening to almost famous podcasts.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: They're they're huge fans of this podcast. And so for
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: anybody out there listening that is a part of a
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: team or of a franchise in NFL, we got to
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: give him the update. Did you have surgery. What exactly
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: was that the diagnosis? And are you healthy enough to
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: go back to the NFL? Yes? So, I yeah, I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: had to drink and it's hilled up great. I've I've
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of times since I've left the show.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I've been rehabbing it, getting it ready and also working out.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff you can do while you're
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: rehabbing and doing all that, and honestly, my body feels
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: great and I feel like I'm in as good as
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: shape as I've ever been in. Um So, Yeah, I
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: tore a couple of ligaments and now they're fixed, they're
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: healed up. It basically rehab now is just working on
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: strengthening and range of oan everything else, the hard stuff
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: behind me. And you know, I got I got about
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: thirty five four days before my first workout, then a
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: couple of days later I have I have another one,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm really looking forward to to both of them.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: And it was important getting back up back on the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: field put both my passion. I love playing it, you know,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: and I don't I don't foresee me myself not losing
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: that passion anytime soon. For the game awesome man, And
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: I like I said, We're gonna all gonna be a
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: huge i mean almost famous podcasting a huge fans of
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: you every Sunday. Now, it was super sad when you left.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of people out there
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: which is kind of uh, we wish Clay would not
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: have gone so soon, especially in a situation like this.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: But it does sound like you're getting back into what
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: you're passionate about. Does sound like you're getting your life
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: in a direction that you love, and it does sound
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: like the show was it was a good experience for you.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Um look looking back now, two questions. Are you happy
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: and we'll just start with this, when are you happy
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: to the Batchel there at Yeah, I'm I'm really happy
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I did the Batret and not just because you know,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: I got I made a bunch of new friends. But
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: obviously you know, Pecca was was amazing. It's great to
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: get a chance to meet her and to spend time
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: with her and the whole the whole Bachelor Paschelor's family.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: It was great. The producers, you know, all the Tolman
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: everybody there, the handlers. I mean, it was and I
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: feel like I have a whole new you know a
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: group of people that are I'm post with that. I
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: didn't even know them before I went on the show.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: You know, the outpouring of support and love after I
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: got hurt has been incredible. I've gotten hurt on the
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: field before and had to get surgery, but it's you know,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: it's amazing, you know, to see the bat Threatte family
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: and the fans that that really care about the show
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: and they care about the contestants. They they see us
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: on TV, but they really they really do care and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: they really invested. And that's something that I've seen from
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: my time on there has been It's been crazy how
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: much you know, support and love I've gotten since leaving
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: a show and getting injured. It's it's I mean, you're right, man.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: You could play and have a super successful in their
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: NFL career, and I forgettable buddies who play, but Bachelor
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Nation just seems to come out and support more than
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: any other fan group I've ever witnessed and been around.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: You have a lot more fans now. I can expect
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: a lot more people to be wearing your jerseys every
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Sunday wherever you end up, and we hope you'd up
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: in the best place for you possible, and that seems
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: to be what's next for you right You're you're pursuing
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a career, you're looking for that team, and so as
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: a podcasts Bachelor Nation listens, how we can support you
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: best right now is just really cheering you on as
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: you as you find your next home. Yeah, no, yeah,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: that's that's great. It's um and I want to thank
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: everybody for all the wishes and you know, it's really
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: it's really been amazing, just um, you know, being from Chicago,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: I walked around a street finance this week and just
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: the amount of people that you know, asked about my
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: risk and am I healthy and sad to see me goes.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: The love online has been great, but yeah, right now,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: just um yeah, supporting you know, the the NFL career
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: and and everything there and people have been great. I've
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: I've got tweets from people tagging their favorite NFL team
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: to to give me a shot. It's been it's been
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: really funny to look at, you know, It's just it's
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: really incredible because you think you're prepared for something because
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: obviously playing football for so long, it's something that you're
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: you're in the public guy. But it's just a whole
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: different fall with Bachelor Nation, and then all the bats
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: are at and beasts are fans. That's it's You're right, man.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that people don't get too sometimes.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: It's it's just how inclusive, how large fashination is. You
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: can play in the NFL for a long time, as
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: you just said, but when you finally get part of
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: this show and this franchise, then the world really starts
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: to know you. Uh. There's a couple of contests. We're
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: gonna play a little round before we say good body here.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Uh this this is a little segment. Well before we do,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you a question. Will you now be
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: a recruiter for The Bachelor to get people from the
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: NFL on the show. I've already had buddies approached me
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: and ask me about how people that are interested. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: I've had friends, teammates and people that are are already
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: interested in going on the show. And I don't want to,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously spoil anything, but I think I do
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: have two buddies that are NFL players that are talking
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: to a couple of casting people. Absolutely incredible. That's awesome, man, Well,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: thank you for thank you for making this franchise is
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit more fun for me. Um, hey, Clay,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: before you go here, Like I said, we have a
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: little segment, I gotta ask you just a quick uh
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: ten second synopsis of the names I'm about to tell
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: you the first thing that comes to mind. Let us know,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be super nice, but you also
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: don't have to be super mean, just be honest. So
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: we asked, Okay, Clay, who do you think? What do
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: you think of Garrett? I love Garrett. I know he's uh,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: you know, he's had some bad news come out recently,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: but honestly, Garrett was one of my best friends on
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: the show. He's a genuine guy. He's a great guy.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: And UM support Garrett and if by chance he wins
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: the show or whatever, I think that he would be
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: a you know, a great a great match Rebecca. I
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: think he's caring, he's you know, he's successful in his
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: career than you're a genuine nice person. I love Colton.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Colton Um. First thing that comes to mind, Man, he's
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: a he's a really good looking human being. Um so
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I had a man crush it. You know it might
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: be Colton Um. You know, very athletic, genuine guy himself.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I know he had some you know, some drama with
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Tia of late, but uh, you know Colton. Colton is
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: a good guys, a good person, and he has good intentions.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Chicken soup David. Now, I like David Man. David's uh,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: you know, David an interesting guy. He's always he's fun
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: to be around. He has a hum and I think
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: that's why you know he's trying the chickens. Did you
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to put smile on sack to face? And you
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: know in the house David. Um, you know, David always
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: puts myle on people's faces. He's just always trying to
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: play games with the guys and big about stuff we
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: could do to pass on the time and the mansion.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: And uh also a good guy. That guy that's awesome.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: Um Man, what's what to say about her? Just super
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: easy to talk to. I don't think they've ever met
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: a woman is easy to talk to? Is Becca? You
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: know you kind of you go into a conversation you're
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: on the show first couple of weeks. I'm only let
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: me tell the things to talk to talk about and
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: make sure I have a couple of points I want
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: to get across to Beck, I'll len't know who I am.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: But then when I when I learned that you don't
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: need to do that with her. This the conversation flows
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: so great, and you guys just have such a good
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: talk and she just so easy to talk to that
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: it's better just to go in there like you know,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: any other time. And you know, beca just really easy
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: to talk to, really down to earth midwestern girl. And
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: I really appreciated, you know, this opportunity to get to
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: meet her and the time I have with her awesome. Yeah,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: And finally least the last but not least captivating character
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: one that we can't quite figure out Model Jordan's model.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: I'm actually a big fan of Model Jordan. I've getting
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: that's what's going to questions just walking around people, you know,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: stop being recognized you they want to know what's up
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: with what model Jordan is? He really? You know how
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: he comes off on the show, And to no man,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Jordan has a good heart. He's a good hearted guy,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: and I think he does a lot of things in
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: fun and he is He's very passionate about his career.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: He's passionate about modeling. At any point today, you can
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: go tell him you know, show me this book. Are
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: you gonna do it? He really loves modeling, and you know,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: and and that's the thing. But you know how I
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: feel about how about football? Somewhere someone want to ask
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: me questions about football? Talk to him And that's Jordan's modeling.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: He's passionate about it. He loves it, and I think
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: he just he obviously comes off as an interesting character,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: but you know, I love the kids. I'm sure he's
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: an interesting character. Like it, like him or not, I'm
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: sure he's an interesting character. Anybody that can give you
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: a look in seconds based on what you've asked is
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: an interesting character. Hey. Yeah, we're happy that that you
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: love him. It sounds like you love everybody. Clay. You're
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: just like a big, lovable human being. He plays NFL football,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: You're You're the total package. We hope best for you.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: We hope that love is out there and it's close
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: to you. Um and we also are gonna be huge
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: fans of you from the podcast, rooting you on this
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: next season in NFL. We'll find out where you're at.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Will be big fans. Man. Awesome, Thank Ben, I really
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, man, Hey, no problem, things are coming on
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  Speaker 1: the Homeless Face podcast, everybody that was Clay from this
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  Speaker 1: Clays just a lovable guy. You can hear in his voice.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: The man might play NFL football, but I've never even
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: watching the show. I've never came across somebody and talking
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: to him on the podcast here, his voice is just
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: sounds so black sweet. It's just a sweet voice. It
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: just sounds like a guy full love and just a
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: big old teddy bear that just pounds people on Sundays
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: for a living. What a what do the economy? How ironic?
• 1:16:04
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• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: tell him. You know, Clay, you seem like a nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: We like you, You've got a good voice on you.
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  Speaker 1: Today our final segment of the podcast, and this is
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: an important one. It's the one we love doing. We
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: do it during the season um when he can, because
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: oftentimes we don't have time. It's reading your emails. We
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: we gotta read these. I'm gonna start with just a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: few here. This one's from Malan. Malan's title is Lauren's
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: Insta post with r This is a great one. How
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: you guys, I love your podcast. I'm a faithful listener. Okay,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: can you guys address Laurence insta post with Ari from
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: this past weekend. Her caption said something about how they
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: met at a location a year ago from that day,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: but I'm confused because they thought they met on The Bachelor.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: So many people comment on her photo asking the same question,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: but we didn't get any answers. I love you guys,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: love the Bachelor franchise. Thanks. Okay, so I have a
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of insight in this. Lauren and Ari did
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: me outside of the Bachelor and this let's talk about
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit during their season. It wasn't brought up
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: off because it really wasn't a big deal. Lauren just
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: happened to find herself at a race once about a
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: year ago. I don't know where he's asking as Dallas
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: or Detroit and place. Anyways, she was at a race
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: that Ari was participating in and they walked past his
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: his garage and saw are out working on his truck.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: At that point, warn her friends stopped and just said, Hey,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: you're Ari from the Bachelor at and he says, I am.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I am Ari from the Bachelor at And that was it.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: That was it. They got a picture. Uh, they they
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: laughed about something, and then they moved on. I think
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: that's what she was talking about, was that, you know,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: they met very briefly with with no romantic connection, um
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: a year ago, and how crazy is it that they
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: meet again on on the Bachelor. I mean she had
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: she had no idea he was going to be the Bachelor.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: He had no idea who's going to be a Bachelor
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: at the time. But yet hey, they fell him off
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: they got together. Next one from Christie Colton and Tia rekindled. Hi, guys,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut to the chase because I'm freaking out
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: over here. I'm reading all these tweets and Instagram stories
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: that Becky m has posting about Colton and Tia rekindled. Okay,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: so does that mean that Tia had to jump back
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: in the picture while he was on the show still
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: or do you think they started dating again after he
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: got booted. I never liked Tia, she says, you could
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: just see her intentions in those beady little eyes. Oh
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: that's mean of hers. When she makes us smirked, Christie
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: is not a fan anyways. Would love to know your thoughts, opinions,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: and an insider scooping you might have on the situation.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Love you guys so much. And then she just tries
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: to hook me up with her sister. At the end,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: she goes, ps, but if you're single, I really have
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a pretty sister. I think you make a great care
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: with Well, thank you, it's sweet. Figure sister is beautiful. Um,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: that's not we're here. We're not here to set me
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: up on a really sup We're here to talk Tea
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: and Colton. As mentioned earlier, it's a big deal. This
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: is This will be a storyline throughout this show. I
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: don't know how it ends, or if it ends, or
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: if it comes back in the picture or not, but
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, there's something romantic going on, um previously
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: for Tina Colton, and from what I understand from Becca M,
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  Speaker 1: it seems to be something going on now. I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the situation. What I imagine is happening
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  Speaker 1: is that t and Colton somewhere, somehow, it's in paradise
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, did get back together. Um through pictures or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they're pretty friendly. My friends typically don't
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  Speaker 1: sit on my laps, at least not when I ask
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  Speaker 1: you to. And so there's a picture out there where
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  Speaker 1: Tea is sitting on Colton's lab. I don't do that often.
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  Speaker 1: I think that only happens when you're romantically interested in somebody,
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  Speaker 1: or when it's Christmas and you know Santa Claus is near.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever is happening between Tia Golden, it's a little serious.
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  Speaker 1: It's something we need to follow. It's gonna be dramatic,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be incredible. The Becca and Becca M versus
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Raven scenario has will not end soon. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we've got to get this brought up. UM. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: it's great pr for the show. I mean, I'm well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving watching it. I'm staying connected from it. So anyways,
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  Speaker 1: my inside scoopa is this. I don't know a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but I do know that something weird is happening. Something
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  Speaker 1: we gotta follow, something we've gotta stay up the date on. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here it is little relationship and this will be a
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  Speaker 1: last one for the day. This one some Kelsey. It's
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  Speaker 1: called always bickering. But whose fault is it? How I've
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  Speaker 1: been in Ashley? So here's the problem I've been having.
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  Speaker 1: I've been having some issues. My boyfriend and I have
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  Speaker 1: been together for over four years. This past year was
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  Speaker 1: the first we've been living together in twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: he's twenty four. He is the love of my life,
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  Speaker 1: is the kindest heart, and our listship is great. He
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  Speaker 1: still gives me butterflies even after all these years. However,
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  Speaker 1: I find myself constantly getting upset over the smallest things
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  Speaker 1: he says to me. For example, sometimes he will say
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  Speaker 1: things to me in a cold, harsh tone, and I
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  Speaker 1: immediately get upset over it. I always feel so guilty
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  Speaker 1: because I'm the one who starts these fights. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, if he didn't act cold and harsh
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  Speaker 1: towards me, I wouldn't be upset. Is it my reactions
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  Speaker 1: to things that are causing these problems in our relationship
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  Speaker 1: or is he actually doing something wrong? And if my reaction,
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  Speaker 1: if it's my actions and things, how do I fix it? Oh? Boy,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: this one hits close to home. Ah feeling it, Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good one, I've said he recently. One
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  Speaker 1: of the things I've learned in my past relationships, and
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  Speaker 1: especially the one with Lauren, is my reaction to things
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  Speaker 1: are very bad. I am terrible at reacting. I don't
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  Speaker 1: react well. I get over sensitive, or I get um
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  Speaker 1: over anxious, or get over anger or whatever it is.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: I don't react initially to two situations as well. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where that comes from or why that is,
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  Speaker 1: and I should probably talk to my counselor about it,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't, and I admit that. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that I put myself in a situation that oftentimes is
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: worse than it needs to be because of how I've reacted.
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  Speaker 1: So I can exactly. I can picture multiple scenarios in
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: my life with with people, friends or romantic relationships where
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: somebody has said something that they don't even mean to
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: be completed completely um rude or um personal, and I've
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: taken it personally and I've reacted poorly because of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that comes a little bit from insecurity. I
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  Speaker 1: think it comes a little bit from being oversensitive. I
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  Speaker 1: think I have um a little bit of insecurity that
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  Speaker 1: that I try to mask, and when somebody hits it
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  Speaker 1: on the head, I react poorly because I think they
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: found me out. And I have this like weird feeling
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: and you've heard about it where I feel unlovable because
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: if somebody really found me out, they wouldn't love me.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: And so when somebody close to me, I feel like,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: finds me out, I'm like, oh no, here's it's the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: beginning of the they understand me now. And now they're
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: they're starting to make fun of my faults and they're
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: starting to pick up my faults and it's all over
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: from here. So I think I react um poorly too,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: to defend myself, to protect myself. And maybe that's what
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: you're doing. I don't know. I mean, I don't want
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: to say you have insecurities that you're masking or hiding,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: but I'd like to ask the question to you, and
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you to think about it for
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Kelsey, is why why is your reaction
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  Speaker 1: so negative? Why isn't it positive? Is there a way
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  Speaker 1: to switch the reaction to be positive, even if it's
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: to take a ten seconds and count down? And my
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  Speaker 1: mom taught me as a kid. I remember this, and
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: when something was bothering me and something was was was wrong,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: anytime I would feel that urge to defend myself, but
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: it was always always taught to me to count down
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: from ten, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five one, And
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: once you've done that, you take a deep breath. Typically
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: you're able to get yourself back into reality and it's
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: no longer reaction, but it's an intentional communication that you're
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: able to give that hopefully highlights the issue at hand.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think there's anything wrong with
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: you telling your boyfriend. Sometimes when you're cold, it comes
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: off harsh to me. And when you get harsh to me,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: I unfortunately react negative to it, and I would like
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: to change that, because honey, I love you and I
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: like you, and I don't want to be the person
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: in your life that's griping at you or that's causing
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: guilt fights, because that makes me feel guilty. When I
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: feel guilty, I don't feel like we're flourishing as a couple.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I think that's fine communication, to have great communication, to
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: have one that any caring partner would say, Okay, thank
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: you for telling me this. I get it, and I
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: will try to be less cold to you. I think
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: one thing that's just awesome here. And I'm thinking through
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: this because if my partner ever said to me, hey, baby,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to be cold towards me, because
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: I love it when we can just talk. And if
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: you're feeling tired or you're feeling upset, then take time away,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: take time alone. I get that you need that to
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: rejuvenate yourself. That would make me feel really caredful and
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: really loved and really uh really excited about the future
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: of our relationship. So communicate this stuff, but do an
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: appropriate way. Take some time and even your email here,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: I mean just just knowing how an instances, I always
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: feel so guilty because I'm the one who starts these fights.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you didn't have cold
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: and the hartshwords of me, sometimes I wouldn't be upset you.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: You can tell that you don't want to be upset
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: with it. So just the opening, honest um, talk to
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: him this isn't an issue that's gonna be fixed over night.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: We all have issues, though. This one hit close to
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: home for me, so so I get it. Um, it's
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: gonna be okay. It sounds like you really love this guy. Hey, everybody,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you hanging out today. It's just been
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: me and I'm sorry UM that my my wonderful co
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: host hasn't been in studio. I hope this is still
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: fun for you. I hope you've appreciated our talk. I
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: really want this to be a conversation. Make sure again
• 1:26:49
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• 1:26:56
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• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: together in studio again for the first time in a while.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk Ashley updates. She's got a lot of them.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: She's engaged in love and stuff, and so we're gonna
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: talk all about that. We've got my buddy Sean Booth
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: in studio. He is one of the best dudes, one
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: of the best dudes ever met. I mean, he is
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: a complete stud I love that guy. We're gonna be
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: with an in Student's gonna be the first time. I
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a while. We have a lot
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about, we have a lot to catch up on. Um,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that guy. Uh. Hey, some of you
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: been asking real quick about the ben Bitches segments. Um,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: that's an offseason segment. We're coming back to it. It's
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: not gone away. We got many more years with you.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: We got many more Bachelor seasons to recap. An update
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: on that will be coming back once Becca's season of
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: The bacheloret is over, But for now, we got a
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: pack schedule. I mean we just I just talked to
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: myself here for like two hours. This is unbelievable. I'm
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: going crazy or something. Anyways, with that, I love you guys.
• 1:27:55
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• 1:27:58
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• 1:28:02
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