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Shared Friendship Custody · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: It's the Almost Famous podcast. Today we're breaking down all
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Speaker 2: the headlines and we're gonna end this episode with an
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Speaker 2: incredible announcement about and from the Almost Famous podcast. So
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Speaker 2: stay tuned until the very end when we celebrate something
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Speaker 2: absolutely spectacular. Today, I have producer Heather with me breaking
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Speaker 2: down the headlines. Here's I always call Ashley our expert,
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Speaker 2: but I behind the scenes there is an expert on
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Speaker 2: top of an expert that didn't wasn't meant to sound weird.
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Speaker 3: You give me too much credit. I don't where is
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Speaker 3: this going? I don't know, but it sounds like a compliment.
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Speaker 2: Heather is here with us to talk about everything that
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Speaker 2: she's put in this rundown and everything she's researched, and
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be incredible. We're gonna do it the same
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Speaker 2: way as we always do, Heather. We're gonna start out
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Speaker 2: with this one. Joey g chose this Bachelor Nation star
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Speaker 2: to be as best man ahead of wedding.
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Speaker 3: So Joey and Kelsey's wedding. I feel like we've been
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Speaker 3: talking about it for months. Every single week. It's they're
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Speaker 3: working on their first dance or they've set the date,
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Speaker 3: but yes, now he has chosen his best man. The
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Speaker 3: former Bachelor revealed that he has chosen his best man,
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Speaker 3: Tanner Cortet. The pair both were on the Bachelorette and
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Speaker 3: since have remained friends. He shared a video of himself
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Speaker 3: offering Tanner the special wedding role on Tuesday, and in
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Speaker 3: the clip, Tanner has a drink, but upon further inspection,
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Speaker 3: he notices that the cup was engraved with a very
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Speaker 3: important question, which was will you be my best man?
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Speaker 3: That's very sweet. When you and Jess got married, did
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Speaker 3: you do this whole thing with like asking in a
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Speaker 3: special way or did you just literally be like, hey, man,
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Speaker 3: let me be my best man.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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Speaker 3: It's not like then. You did not give him an engraved.
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Speaker 2: You know, my best man was my dad.
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Speaker 3: Wait, Ben, that's so sweet.
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Speaker 2: It was the best I mean, he is my best man,
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Speaker 2: and so it was awesome and it was really fun
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Speaker 2: having him as my best man. He was useless in
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Speaker 2: planning anything because he didn't come to the bachelor party
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Speaker 2: because he was sick at the time. But also I
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Speaker 2: don't know if I'd want him planning my bachelor party,
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Speaker 2: but he was so thankful and it was cool. He
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Speaker 2: obviously was my best man, so he walked down the
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Speaker 2: aisle with me, and then when the ceremony started, he
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Speaker 2: sat down next to my mom because I wanted the
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Speaker 2: visual of having the two of them sitting together in
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Speaker 2: the audience, like up front, up close when I was
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Speaker 2: getting married. So enough about me. I love this and
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Speaker 2: I obviously get to hang out with Joey quite a bit.
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Speaker 2: I know his close friendship with Tanner. They are so
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Speaker 2: tight and so close, Heather, we need to celebrate. I
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Speaker 2: think that this is a Bachelor Nation connection. They met
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Speaker 2: each other through the show and now he's his best man.
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Speaker 2: That's a big deal.
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Speaker 3: That is huge, and I feel like it's just another
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Speaker 3: success story in the recent years, right. Obviously we spend
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Speaker 3: a lot of time with Katie and Zach, and you know,
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Speaker 3: Charity and Dowton are still engaged but heading in that direction.
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Speaker 3: So I think this is, you know, great, It shows
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Speaker 3: that the show works.
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Speaker 2: It shows that shows it works for so many reasons.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of the show not working, though, Rachel lindsay, we're
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Speaker 2: still talking about this and Heather, I'll be honest, I
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Speaker 2: especially as I get older. I don't like to celebrate
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Speaker 2: or become intrigued by other people's pains. However, for the
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Speaker 2: sake of the show, we do it often. And this
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Speaker 2: is one that I have been intrigued by really since
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Speaker 2: the announcement, because not that I'm really emotionally attached to
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Speaker 2: either of them, but it's been so mess like it's
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Speaker 2: and it's so public, and it's been so out there
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Speaker 2: that I'm like, what is actually happening and where does
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Speaker 2: this spit itself out? Well, the headline reads this way,
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Speaker 2: Rachel Lindsay calls out x Brian over fertility claims during divorce.
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Speaker 2: I had no clue he made these claims. This is
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Speaker 2: news to me. I mean, I've taken Rachel's side in
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Speaker 2: most of this so far, and I have a feeling
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Speaker 2: if he's diving into that topic, I'll still I'll be
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Speaker 2: taking her side on this too, but tell me why.
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Speaker 3: I will also say that this I think is equally
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Speaker 3: surprising that we're still talking about it, but also that
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Speaker 3: Rachel is talking about it so publicly. So she went
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Speaker 3: on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast this week and was
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Speaker 3: opening up about her you know situation now that everything
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Speaker 3: is final, final, when it comes to the divorce. She said,
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Speaker 3: he talked about fertility, and it wasn't even the truth
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Speaker 3: of what he was saying. Other than say I wanted
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Speaker 3: to have kids, I never talked about that, and so
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Speaker 3: to kind of like rewind back. During Brian's twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: four interview, he shared that part of his and Rachel's
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Speaker 3: issues in their marriage stem from fertility problems. He said,
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Speaker 3: I wanted kids like anybody else, but other things were
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Speaker 3: made a priority, which put a lot of pressure on
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Speaker 3: the both of us, And then he went on to
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Speaker 3: say women have a different biological clock than us. It
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Speaker 3: was going to be me going along with the plan,
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Speaker 3: but I was under a hell of a lot of stress.
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Speaker 3: That was tough. That was so hard. It felt terrible
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Speaker 3: just watching her sadness. It broke my heart. It was
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Speaker 3: like I was failing expectations on all fronts. Woof, I
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Speaker 3: got to say that that is extremely personal. I think
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Speaker 3: to share on the behalf of your former partner that
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Speaker 3: you wanted kids and it was going to be difficult.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm reading between the lines, that they
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Speaker 3: were going to have to find alternative ways to have
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Speaker 3: a baby, and he wasn't interested in.
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Speaker 2: That there are topics and goodness, I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: haven't been through a divorce, and I know divorces can
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Speaker 2: get ugly, and obviously you're saying goodbye to somebody, so
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Speaker 2: it's painful. There are topics I feel like should just
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Speaker 2: be off limits. I agree, and this is one of them.
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Speaker 2: It is a very it is a very emotional experience.
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Speaker 2: It's a very stressful experience. I don't know how much
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Speaker 2: of the man is stressing here. I mean, let's be honest,
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Speaker 2: the women carry the load and the way when it
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Speaker 2: comes to that experience. The men have a very simple
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Speaker 2: job point and shoot. But I don't think it should
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Speaker 2: be talked about publicly. I don't and especially when you
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Speaker 2: have maybe outside of everything else, here's my point. When
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Speaker 2: you're in a public relationship, it should one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: not be talked about publicly. When Lauren and I broke
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Speaker 2: up from the show, there was like a maybe even
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Speaker 2: unspoken agreement of hey, let's not push this thing too
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Speaker 2: far publicly, because it just gets out there, it gets
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Speaker 2: worse and it gets harder for both of us. I
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Speaker 2: think that's how most Bachelor Nation couples have broken up.
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Speaker 2: Is like maybe a social media post and it's gone forever.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the respectful way to do it when
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Speaker 2: you have a public relationship.
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Speaker 3: I agree, but I will say that I commend Rachel
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Speaker 3: for trying to clear up some of these maybe misconceptions
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Speaker 3: that are out there about her. It's her body that's
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Speaker 3: being spoken about, and I think she has every right
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Speaker 3: to share her side of that situation.
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Speaker 2: Definitely, I just wish she would have done it here.
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Speaker 2: I'm almost famous podcast, But what do you of.
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Speaker 3: Course, but we love everybody at the Bachelor Happy Hour.
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Speaker 2: They're nice people. Yeah, they're nice people. Bachelor's Mattie Prude
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Speaker 2: explains how she remained pure while dating husband Grant Trout.
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Speaker 3: I feel like it's another day it's another Maddie Prue
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Speaker 3: It headline, But this definitely caught my attention. You know,
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Speaker 3: Maddie has been pretty open about the temptation that she
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Speaker 3: has faced throughout different points in her life. But she
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Speaker 3: shared Grant and I made the rule were not allowed
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Speaker 3: to lay on the couch. It even got to the
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Speaker 3: point where it was like, I don't even think we
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Speaker 3: can be alone past nine pm, she said. When she
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Speaker 3: was on Candice Cameron's podcast, This week. You just have
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Speaker 3: to put the boundaries in place, knowing your temptation trigger
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Speaker 3: and the things that would typically cause you to fall
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Speaker 3: into that sin.
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Speaker 2: Here's my question, Heather, why is this a headline though
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Speaker 2: it's been out there all week? I've seen it pop
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Speaker 2: up on random news sources. Why is this shocking?
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Speaker 3: I think that people talk about remaining virgins until marriage,
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Speaker 3: and I think that that's a widely accepted kind of
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Speaker 3: topic that's not really headline making, but acknowledging avoiding temptations
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Speaker 3: and going into detail, I think is something that we
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Speaker 3: actually don't hear from a lot of people. I think
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Speaker 3: we do hear about it a lot from Maddie, but
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Speaker 3: I think on the norm, people don't really tend to
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Speaker 3: open up about those. And I will go one step
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Speaker 3: further and say, I don't think a lot of women
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Speaker 3: openly talk about sexual temptations and things like that, and
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Speaker 3: that's probably why it grabs a lot of attention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, because it is there is like a
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Speaker 2: communication style or a vulnerability that Maddie communicates that I
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Speaker 2: think people are shocked by enough to where it becomes
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Speaker 2: a headline. But in like my life, this would not
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Speaker 2: be a headline. It'd be like, hey, that is you
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Speaker 2: know a thousand other people that I knows experience. Yeah,
10:27
Speaker 2: but you're right, I do think the details are you
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Speaker 2: don't hear the details. You don't hear the choices being made.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever heard this, but I
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Speaker 2: used to go to like a Christian like summer camp
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Speaker 2: and there would always be like flings and interests in
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Speaker 2: somebody and the rule was you have to leave enough
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Speaker 2: room for Jesus, and so that would always be the rule.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if Okay, I heard that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well and tell me this. I feel like because
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Speaker 3: we talked about this when we were covering the Netflix
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Speaker 3: show Perfect Match, But I feel like, right, we're also
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Speaker 3: on this opposite end of the spectrum now in terms
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Speaker 3: of the media that we're all consuming widely, where we're
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Speaker 3: going really really raunchy with a lot of the content
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Speaker 3: out there that is geared towards a younger audience. So
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Speaker 3: I think when we hear something that's completely on the
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Speaker 3: other side, that feels abnormal right now in the times,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's why it grabs attention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually makes sense. So many people are consuming
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Speaker 2: things where it's so far on the other end that
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Speaker 2: when they hear something like this and it makes them
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Speaker 2: take ten steps back and go, oh wow, that's still happening,
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Speaker 2: which it is. It is still happening. That's not like.
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Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying, I'm not shocked by this, but
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Speaker 2: I think it is uncommon for us to consume in
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Speaker 2: our daily lives information that would relate more to this
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Speaker 2: than it would. You know, you open up your social
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Speaker 2: media and they're something like on the farther end. So
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Speaker 2: I get that. That makes sense. And Maddie shared this
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Speaker 2: on the Candace Cameron podcast and not her own, which
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Speaker 2: is still going on. Actually, I think my episode just aired.
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Speaker 2: You should go listen to it, Heather.
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Speaker 3: You're your episode on Maddie's podcast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Stay True podcast?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and Jess was on as well. Right, was
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Speaker 3: it same episode or different episode?
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Speaker 2: Same episode? That wasn't expected, but it happened and it
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Speaker 2: was great. I don't get to sit down and get
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Speaker 2: interviewed with my wife very often. I was nervous. I
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Speaker 2: was like, what's she going to say?
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Speaker 3: She looked very confident and comfortable in the clip that
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Speaker 3: I saw.
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Speaker 2: She is confident and comfortable. She's my better half for sure.
12:40
Speaker 2: The Bachelor in Paradise stars Alana and Chris Conrad expecting first
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Speaker 2: baby together. Now people will hear these names Alana and
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Speaker 2: Chris and be like, who I know that's going to
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Speaker 2: be the outcome. They are a success story from this
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Speaker 2: show that do not get talked about enough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if people will go back in the database of
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Speaker 3: their brain. They're actually from season seven of the show,
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Speaker 3: and they announced this week that they're having their first baby,
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Speaker 3: a daughter, with photos that were super super cute. The
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Speaker 3: soon to be parents shared the exciting news and express
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Speaker 3: how really really happy they are for their little one
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Speaker 3: on the way. And they also shared openly that this
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Speaker 3: is their rainbow baby, so this means that they have
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Speaker 3: experienced a loss in pregnancy before this, so that makes
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Speaker 3: this even more beautiful and exciting for them. Great news
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Speaker 3: to share.
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Speaker 2: It warms my heart when I hear somebody is expecting
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Speaker 2: a baby these days. It feels a lot different than
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Speaker 2: it did a year and a half ago.
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Speaker 3: That's because you're a softy now.
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Speaker 2: I'm a softie. Yeah, goodness gracious, good for them the congratulations,
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Speaker 2: and again another representation be because goodness gracious, the show
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Speaker 2: gets hated on and I understand why, but there are
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Speaker 2: success stories out there from the show, not only friendships,
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Speaker 2: but love and love in all ways. It's a great
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Speaker 2: thing and sometimes it works, that's cool. Speaking of it
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Speaker 2: not working, Tyler Cameron says he's in custody battle between
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Speaker 2: Rachel and Matt James. He said this on Chicks in
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Speaker 2: the Office.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if you saw this. Obviously, Tyler
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Speaker 3: is out there right now doing a lot of press
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Speaker 3: for the HGTV show, and we've seen this. I think
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Speaker 3: we've maybe reported it on previous episodes of him hanging
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Speaker 3: out with Rachel, posting pictures and things like that, and so,
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Speaker 3: you know, he said, me and Rachel are great, We're
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Speaker 3: good friends. There's a custody battle happening right now. I
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Speaker 3: get like every other weekend with Matt. So just really
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Speaker 3: making light of the fact that, you know, he has
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Speaker 3: been able to maintain a friendship not only with the
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Speaker 3: guy that was we all know was his roommate and
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Speaker 3: his buddy, but also that ex girlfriend of his because
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Speaker 3: obviously being the best friend, he spent a lot of
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Speaker 3: time with them. But it begs me to ask you
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Speaker 3: the question of if you've ever been able to maintain
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Speaker 3: a friendship with both parties after a split, because I'll
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Speaker 3: be one hundred percent honest, the answer is no.
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Speaker 2: For me, I've tried, I've tried hard. No, I haven't.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm kind of in it right now, trying
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Speaker 2: my best, but no, I'm not going to be successful
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Speaker 2: at it.
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Speaker 3: I won't go into the details, but I actually had
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Speaker 3: to have a full on breakup meeting in person with
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Speaker 3: my friend's ex because he was making the rounds trying
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Speaker 3: to keep the friendships, and I just was very straightforward
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Speaker 3: with that he was my friend because of her and
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Speaker 3: he was not in my life previously, and unfortunately he
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Speaker 3: wasn't going to be in my life after. But I
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Speaker 3: wished him all the best.
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Speaker 2: That's a very adult conversation you had.
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Speaker 3: It had to be done, and you know what my
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Speaker 3: whole thing is like, I moved through life the way
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Speaker 3: that I would want to be treated, and if the
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Speaker 3: shoe were on the other foot, wouldn't make me happy
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Speaker 3: hanging out with my ex.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean I've felt that, right, Yeah, And in
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Speaker 2: this world it's hard. I think in the bachelor world
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Speaker 2: it's hard because they're at a lot of events. For sure,
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Speaker 2: there's obviously cross pollination and friend groups. When you're not
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Speaker 2: invited to something and they are, or they're invited to something,
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Speaker 2: or they're not invited and you are. It does like
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Speaker 2: breed this like jealousy. Itlic It did with me, But
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Speaker 2: I feel like I deal with that often. It's a
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Speaker 2: hard one to navigate.
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Speaker 4: For sure.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're props to Tyler then that he's able to
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 2: Now I am friends with my ex's husband, if that
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Speaker 2: makes any cooler.
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Speaker 3: I did see that. If anybody hasn't seen, he was
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Speaker 3: on your first episode of your other podcast. Everybody should
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Speaker 3: go check that out for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can hear me with Chris Lane, it's great.
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Speaker 2: Final headline. Hannah Godwin joins squig Game the VIP Challenge
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Speaker 2: on Netflix. The quote is I've been up to something.
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Speaker 3: So first of all, Ben, did you see squid Games
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Speaker 3: when it.
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Speaker 2: First hit the Yes, Okay, it kind of like wrecked
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Speaker 2: me a little bit. It was a lot.
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Speaker 3: I didn't finish season one, but I got the gist
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Speaker 3: of it. But obviously, like any other successful show, we've
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Speaker 3: already seen Squid Games make the real life version where
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Speaker 3: real people competed, and now they're coming out with a
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Speaker 3: celebrity version, so it was announced this week. Hannah said,
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Speaker 3: I've been up to something. Thrilled to announce that I
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Speaker 3: am joining Squid Game the VIP Challenge coming soon to Netflix.
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Speaker 3: The other great celebrities that will be joining her are
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Speaker 3: Spice Girls star Melby, The Trader's alum Dylan Efron, very
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Speaker 3: exciting NBA star Tristan Thompson, and Real Housewives of Atlanta
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Speaker 3: alum kimsel Siak Beerman. Other you know people that are
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Speaker 3: going to be on it as well are Content creator
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Speaker 3: Christy Sarah Owning Manhattan's Ryan Sirhan Amazing and The Challenge
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Speaker 3: Alum uh oh excuse me? And Squid Game The Challenge
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Speaker 3: Alum viper. So that's a really kind of exciting cast.
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Speaker 3: It's obviously much smaller than the real life version that
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Speaker 3: they did with people, so I'm interested to see how
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Speaker 3: this is going to kind of be formatted and see
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Speaker 3: obviously how Hannah does.
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Speaker 2: I'm intrigued. Hannah has always been very funny and quick witted,
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Speaker 2: so it'll be fun to see on our televisions. Again.
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Speaker 3: I love her socials. Do you ever watch like.
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Speaker 2: Just They're so good?
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Speaker 3: The stuff She went through like a slime phase. I
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Speaker 3: don't know why I was really invested. She was just
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Speaker 3: buying slime on the internet and like playing with it.
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Speaker 3: It was Anna, I don't know why you were doing that,
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Speaker 3: but it was fun to watch.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate that. That's so good. Hey, Heather, thank
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Speaker 2: you for joining us. We're gonna bring Ashley in to
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Speaker 2: talk about our big announcement. The almost famous podcast, which
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Speaker 2: has had the two same hosts since the beginning, has
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Speaker 2: traveled throughout the United States Together, has shared so many
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Speaker 2: memories seeing each other grow up, been on television shows together,
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Speaker 2: talked about everything that's happened in Bachelor Nation, good and bad,
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Speaker 2: and somehow still made it through without getting canceled. Has
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Speaker 2: officially hit over one hundred million downloads. Ashley, what are
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Speaker 2: your thoughts?
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Speaker 5: Congratulations to us. That's pretty cool. That is a big,
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Speaker 5: huge number. We're grateful to all of you out there
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Speaker 5: who have listened to so many of those episodes, like Wow, guys,
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Speaker 5: one hundred thousand times people have listened to us talk
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Speaker 5: about this show all times, one hundred million, one hundred
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Speaker 5: million times, one hundred million times.
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Speaker 2: I think it's the same thing, but I was a
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Speaker 2: little confused for a second.
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Speaker 4: How you said it a million times.
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Speaker 5: It's absolutely the craziest thing in the entire world.
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Speaker 4: So thank you, thank you. It's all because of you guys.
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Speaker 2: One hundred thousand actually be one million, So I was
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Speaker 2: wrong there in my statement. I just want to clarify.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like, wait a second, now, one.
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Speaker 2: Hundred million, one hundred million times, Ashley, that is incredible.
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Speaker 2: How many people do you think are in the United
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Speaker 2: States of America.
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Speaker 4: I think there is like three hundred million.
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Speaker 2: There is three hundred and forty two million people in
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Speaker 2: the United States of America. One third of that have
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Speaker 2: listened to our podcast.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you like to think like that, everybody in.
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Speaker 4: America Seation one, I mean one third of America is
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Speaker 4: tuned in once.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it is so special. I say it often.
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Speaker 2: I'll say it again. It has been nothing but a joy.
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Speaker 2: It's weird to think we've been doing this for so long,
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Speaker 2: and that also so many of you have consistently listened
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Speaker 2: to us as we have grown up and as we
21:23
Speaker 2: have adjusted in our lives, and as we have appeared
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Speaker 2: on new television shows and had new things to talk
21:28
Speaker 2: about and talked about other people in their relationships. It's
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Speaker 2: been a joy. And Ashley, I think it goes understated
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Speaker 2: that you have been a co host of mine for
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Speaker 2: that like length of time. I mean I knew you
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Speaker 2: before I knew my wife.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we truly did grow up together, as you said.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have clips on my phone of
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Speaker 2: you crying, wondering like where Jared was at in the world.
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Speaker 4: Yes, oh my god, those times where.
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Speaker 5: I'd be like, it seems what is he doing out
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Speaker 5: right now? Like he's out with his friends. I mean,
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Speaker 5: there's a girl around you.
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Speaker 2: It's it's been awesome. Actually, I could never have pictured
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Speaker 2: a better co host, a better person to share this with.
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Speaker 2: But honestly, I think we both sit here in this
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Speaker 2: one hundred million it's kind of hard to conceptualize and
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Speaker 2: say thank you to listeners. And the reason people say
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Speaker 2: that is like thank you to my fans, is because
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Speaker 2: this doesn't exist without people listening. So the fact that
22:32
Speaker 2: people are listening one hundred million downloads have happened is
22:36
Speaker 2: the reason that we're still able to do this today
22:38
Speaker 2: and that we're still able to have fun with it today.
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Speaker 2: So thank you to all of you who've been with
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Speaker 2: us since the beginning who have shared that when you
22:45
Speaker 2: see us out in public that hey, you're a listener
22:47
Speaker 2: of the almost famous podcast, it means more than you
22:51
Speaker 2: can imagine. And I cannot wait for the day we
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Speaker 2: hit two hundred million downloads. I'm hoping it's next year.
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Speaker 2: I'm hoping this thing kind of picks up steam as
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Speaker 2: Taylor Frankie Paul becomes our bachelor at that.
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Speaker 4: And maybe my Housewives thing will give us a little jump.
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Speaker 4: But Ben, right back at.
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Speaker 2: You, I need to do something to help out. What
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Speaker 2: have I done?
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Speaker 5: You got to get on Traders or Special Forces or something.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we need you on one of those two shows.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I need I need to figure that.
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Speaker 4: Can we do Traders together?
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Speaker 5: Oh it's just I'm manifesting because like I have the crossover, right,
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Speaker 5: So I have a Housewives and Bachelor, so I fit
23:31
Speaker 5: I have two quotas there.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine how dangerous we would be We would
23:37
Speaker 2: form this alliance that like would be like we could
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Speaker 2: like speak to each other, but unspokenly, like.
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Speaker 4: We can we can talk to each other through our eyes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you'd be like, oh, I know exactly what
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Speaker 2: he's thinking.
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Speaker 5: We would have to both be the same thing. You
23:51
Speaker 5: could probably lie to me a little bit, because I'm
23:54
Speaker 5: pretty like I could fall for stuff like that, as
23:56
Speaker 5: you know, But I, as we know, can't lie it
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Speaker 5: all or exaggerate at all.
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Speaker 2: So let's put it on the world as I I
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Speaker 2: putting it out right now. Congratulations again to the almost
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Speaker 2: famous podcast team. There are people behind the scenes that
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Speaker 2: you've never heard from, never knew, that have helped keep
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Speaker 2: this thing going. Thank you to iHeart for giving us
24:16
Speaker 2: the platform to do it on and thank you to
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Speaker 2: you Ashley for sticking by our side through thick and thin.
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Speaker 2: And here soon. Here's my concern. You're gonna go on
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Speaker 2: Real Housewives. You're gonna become a megastar. I'm gonna start
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Speaker 2: getting really nervous to jump on here with you, and
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Speaker 2: you're gonna say, hey, like this just doesn't fit into
24:36
Speaker 2: my life anymore.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen.
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Speaker 5: If anything, I just hope that Housewives continues to let
24:42
Speaker 5: me live the life that I've been living for the
24:44
Speaker 5: past eleven years a little bit longer, and that includes
24:48
Speaker 5: being with you here multiple times.
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Speaker 2: A week until next time. One hundred million downloads later,
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Speaker 2: I've been Been I've.
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Speaker 4: Been Ashley Tulu.
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