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Bachelor Boys Trip with Ben Higgins, Wells Adams, Andrew Firestone and Chris Harrison · 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 her radio. Welcome to a very special episode of
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  Speaker 1: the almost Famous podcast that will either get me fired
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  Speaker 1: or be a massive success. We want to start this
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  Speaker 1: out by saying thank you to Uber Eats for bringing
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  Speaker 1: us on an amazing boy's trip to the Monterey Peninsula.
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  Speaker 1: I said that, right, Wells, is that the right thing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with Wells Adams and Andrew Firestone. Chris Harrison
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  Speaker 1: is playing golf with us um as well out here,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a great trip. Andrew, for those
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  Speaker 1: who do not know you, can you explain who you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am a very average golfer. Let's set that out there.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was on the Bachelor when you guys
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  Speaker 1: were in diapers, um years ago. I was in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three. I was the third Bachelor to uh
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  Speaker 1: to be on TV way back in the day, the
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  Speaker 1: third Bachelor, Third Bachelor. What years at two thousand three? Wait,
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  Speaker 1: I have a question because I feel it's different than
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  Speaker 1: it used to be. Uh so well, because you you'd
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  Speaker 1: go on the bach Sorrette and then the guy that
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  Speaker 1: got his heart broken the most a k A. Ben
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  Speaker 1: gets to be the Bachelor if that didn't happen, So
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  Speaker 1: that that was a big, big difference. So when I
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  Speaker 1: was on The Bachelor, it was a surprise, so it
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  Speaker 1: was like nobody knew who I was, Like the girls
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  Speaker 1: didn't know who was going to be there when they
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  Speaker 1: opened up the limo door. Um, and I was sequestered
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  Speaker 1: for weeks or a couple of weeks ahead of time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, it was it was a total mystery. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of pressure because all these girls
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  Speaker 1: are opening to the door and I'm like, oh god,
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, I'm not looking at them they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at me right because they're like they're they're like I
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  Speaker 1: could see some faces like damn it, like oh this
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  Speaker 1: is the guy, Like like they have a vision in
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  Speaker 1: their head who's gonna be and might not have been me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the what the hardest thing about that show is is
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  Speaker 1: convincing the audience that that it's justified for all of
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  Speaker 1: these beautiful women who all want this one guy. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's got to be like the pressure has gotta
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  Speaker 1: be ratcheted up because no one knows who you are.
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  Speaker 1: So then you're like, are you having to sell yourself
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  Speaker 1: being like well I have a million dollars and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hung like a exactly like a donkey. Look at this, um,
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  Speaker 1: look at it. No, no, but but but so okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I mean quite frankly, one thing that happened.
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  Speaker 1: So it was like the second Rose Ceremony. And even
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  Speaker 1: before it goes, one of the girls just said, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just this isn't for me. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what her excuse was, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were
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  Speaker 1: in the super Bowl and she wanted to go to
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  Speaker 1: the game. I swear to God because I filmed in
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  Speaker 1: January of two thousand three. Look who's in the super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And literally that was she walked
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  Speaker 1: she walked off. So you guys, you ben had it
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  Speaker 1: better because at least they knew who you were. You
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  Speaker 1: know how people leave voluntarily within three weeks. But that's
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  Speaker 1: that's that up. They Bachelor took it to the two
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  Speaker 1: yard line. You can score, but like, but it was
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  Speaker 1: that was a huge thing. And and actually, um, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Harrison was one of the only people that I knew
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time on the show, and we spent some
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  Speaker 1: time together and I could tell he was a little
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  Speaker 1: nervous that I was going to be the captain of
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  Speaker 1: this ship for for this show. But this was so
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  Speaker 1: early on in um you know, in reality TV that
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  Speaker 1: it was such an experiment, and to see a guy
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  Speaker 1: and a girl kiss without a script on TV was like,
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  Speaker 1: like it was mind blowing. And and the way I
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  Speaker 1: describe it all was, it's like back then, it was
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  Speaker 1: like a little fender bender. If we're driving along, you
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  Speaker 1: see a fender bender, you'll stop and take a look.
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  Speaker 1: If you've seen a hundred fender benders, you need it's
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  Speaker 1: not interesting anymore. Back then that was like a little
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  Speaker 1: fender bender. The show today is way more dramatic and
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  Speaker 1: it has a lot more stuff going on. You guys
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  Speaker 1: dates that you guys go on. I went bowling on
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  Speaker 1: one of my I'm not joking. I went bowling on
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  Speaker 1: one of my dates. That's you know that that that
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  Speaker 1: was the budget back then. UM. I want to pause
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  Speaker 1: here and say, speaking of kissing, you and Wells know
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  Speaker 1: each other from the past, and I don't know this story,
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  Speaker 1: so weird preamble, let's get commercial. Speaking of making out,
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  Speaker 1: we can hear anyway. Last night at dinner, I asked, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how do you two know each other? How are you
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  Speaker 1: familiar with each other? And you said, We're gonna wait
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  Speaker 1: for the podcast to Mars, I've been waiting to ask
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  Speaker 1: this question, how do you two know each other? Because
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  Speaker 1: then we got a video this morning of Wells showing
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  Speaker 1: a picture of Okay, let me, I'll tell you. So
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  Speaker 1: stuff starting to make sense. We made Wells and his
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bride to be a couple of years ago at
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  Speaker 1: an event. Uh We're there with Chris and Um. And
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  Speaker 1: that was the first time that I thought that I
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  Speaker 1: had met him. And I was doing and on the
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  Speaker 1: on the drive up Chris picked me up and to
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  Speaker 1: drive up here to yesterday, and I was asking about Wells.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I know you a bit, but He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's from he's from Carmel and he's from up here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I must know him from
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. So Wells walks in when the
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  Speaker 1: lobby sitting down before dinner, and Wells walks up and
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  Speaker 1: Um and I'm starting to like kind of like ask
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  Speaker 1: him a little probe questions and he looked me dead
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  Speaker 1: in the eye and he goes, do you remember Whitney
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  Speaker 1: Adams And like my jaw on the floor. I'm like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like you, how do you know Whitney Adams
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  Speaker 1: And I'm then my slow brain starts working and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: wells Adams, Holy crap. I took his sister to a
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  Speaker 1: prom when I was a freshman in high school. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she's the same age. But there is a I have
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  Speaker 1: a I have a photo to this day, and I
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  Speaker 1: wish I would have. I mean, I didn't know to
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  Speaker 1: bring it, but at that point, I was like five
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  Speaker 1: ft four and feathered hair, and I'm I'm arms around her.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see this on radio, but like I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: the awkward like trying to put my around her shoulders
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  Speaker 1: like cocked over to the side. And I also know
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  Speaker 1: your older brother, Brett. So it's funny because when the
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  Speaker 1: first season of The Batch Driver watched was Andrew season.
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  Speaker 1: Because my family is like, we know him, we totally
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  Speaker 1: know him. And so I had heard the story, but
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was true. So I asked Brett,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're from this area, we're from Carmel, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not from here. You're from from Santa Barbara. But but
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  Speaker 1: but I was going to school up here, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a there's a high school here that you can It's
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  Speaker 1: a boarding school, but it also has day students. So
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  Speaker 1: my brother was a day student and Uh Andrew was
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  Speaker 1: a border. And so the way that my brother tells
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  Speaker 1: a story is that when you have um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kids from out of town living in the high school,
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  Speaker 1: they take the day student older kids and team them
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  Speaker 1: up with the younger borders um to kind of show
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  Speaker 1: them the ropes and show around and make him feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: So my brother, Brett of whom you know ben Uh
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  Speaker 1: was his big brother and at school, and so my
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  Speaker 1: sister needed a date to I guess the prom or
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  Speaker 1: Sadie Hawkins or something. And so my brother was like,
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  Speaker 1: you need to go with my sister to this dance.
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  Speaker 1: And so I never knew that the story was true.
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  Speaker 1: So last night when we got together, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, like my family, UM, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if this is true, but like, did you take
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  Speaker 1: my sister to prom? And you took me? I thought?
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  Speaker 1: He was like it was like it was like a punchline,
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  Speaker 1: like do you take my sister prom? But his but
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  Speaker 1: his older brother, he was a senior when I was
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  Speaker 1: a freshman was so kind to me, and and you
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  Speaker 1: know he had yeah, but but he had to play
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  Speaker 1: the role of big brother to a you know, to
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  Speaker 1: a to a freshman. But he was super kind to me.
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  Speaker 1: And he was also like one of thost popular guys
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  Speaker 1: in school. So I had kind of a free pass,
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  Speaker 1: you know for a while. Like I was able to
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  Speaker 1: kind of hang out a little bit with my sister,
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, and and you guys hang out after
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  Speaker 1: prom withne and and yeah, I mean I a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here and there. But she went to a different school.
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  Speaker 1: She went to another school here in town. Um. But
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  Speaker 1: but that was the first dance I'd ever like, the
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  Speaker 1: first formal thing I've ever gone to my life. I
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  Speaker 1: got like a corsage and the whole nine yards. And
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  Speaker 1: I must have met you because I came to your
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  Speaker 1: house to pick to pick her up and we had
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I had dinner there or something. But your
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  Speaker 1: family was so kind to me. And I was so
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  Speaker 1: awkward and so nervous and um, and the picture really
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  Speaker 1: speaks to that about how awkward I actually. I still
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  Speaker 1: I am a little bit, but but was certainly back then.
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  Speaker 1: I have a very uh naive question. So when you're boarding,
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  Speaker 1: when you're you're living out here, your families in Santa Barbara,
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  Speaker 1: you have a dance like this, Like when I had
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  Speaker 1: to dance like this, my mom when I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school would go out help me pick out my tugs,
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  Speaker 1: my soup, the flowers, walked me through the process, make
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  Speaker 1: sure everything was good. The girls show up or I
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  Speaker 1: go over there, my mom would be there, my dad
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  Speaker 1: would be there. The parents kind of like coach you
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  Speaker 1: into this dating world when you're out here, Like, did
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  Speaker 1: you have to find a way and figure out a
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  Speaker 1: way to get all those yourself? Yeah, it's a little
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  Speaker 1: it's a you kind of have to be uh fairly
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  Speaker 1: self sufficient from a very young I mean I was
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  Speaker 1: doing my laundry, you know, not that that's crazy thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, but like you're taking care of everything on
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  Speaker 1: your own, and whether that's you know, your studies or
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  Speaker 1: just like normal everyday life, but a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of learning on the fly and um and
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  Speaker 1: luckily there are a lot of other guys, older people
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  Speaker 1: there at the school that you can kind of look
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  Speaker 1: up to and ask questions. But like you know, they
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  Speaker 1: have a thumber ride to go down and get a corsage,
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  Speaker 1: the date to take Whitney. You know, like there's there
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  Speaker 1: was like a bunch of things that you had to
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit. You had a little bit scheming
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  Speaker 1: to pull off. That's super interesting. So wait it comes
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  Speaker 1: even more. We can kind of put a pin in
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  Speaker 1: this after it. So and I told you this the
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  Speaker 1: last time I was on your podcast when we were
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  Speaker 1: actually recording in Monterey. Uh was the way that I
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  Speaker 1: got on The Bachelor was because my brother was actually
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  Speaker 1: approached by a casting director. The fact that my brother
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  Speaker 1: was Andrew Firestone's big brother who then became the Bachelor,
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  Speaker 1: was also you know, hit up by a casting director
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  Speaker 1: to be on the show. He turned it down. Then
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  Speaker 1: I went on the show. I think is it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: schools some good looking people on it. Then, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you and Brett both, you know, you've got it
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  Speaker 1: going on. Who's better looking? That's a good question. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you're canna answer it. I think it's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you're better looking than him now, but
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  Speaker 1: I think he had you maybe like tenures his model pictures.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great head a lettis letna tell you what, like,
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  Speaker 1: Like his hair flow was so good. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: him in a thousand years, but back then, like he
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  Speaker 1: was definitely a ladies man. He he had so many
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  Speaker 1: girlfriends and cute girls were always falling him around. So
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  Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I want to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be that guy that well, um a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too to explain why we're all out here, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I waited to tell you this, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: but when I first met you was at Jaden Tanner's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Chris, who um, I really love. He kind of
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  Speaker 1: walked me. He was like my big brother. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like through this whole weird process, right, I mean said
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  Speaker 1: to many times. I was twenty five years old. I
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  Speaker 1: had no clue what I was doing in this world.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't, um, but he kind of like put
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  Speaker 1: me under his wing and would take me around and
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  Speaker 1: introduce me to people. And one of the weirdest things
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  Speaker 1: for me was I always felt like, and and this
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  Speaker 1: is is no bs towards you, Like Andrew Firestone deserves
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  Speaker 1: to be the bachelor, right like it's he's he's a stud,
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  Speaker 1: he gets it. I watched these guys in the past,
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  Speaker 1: like they all understand more than I do. And I
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  Speaker 1: just kind of got thrown into it. Well, we go
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  Speaker 1: to Jaden Tanner's wedding and Chris says, hey, how about
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  Speaker 1: you come golf with Andrew and I and so we
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  Speaker 1: do that and I was really fresh. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was maybe still filming or just after filming when this,
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  Speaker 1: when this wedding happened, and you were very kind, very funny,
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  Speaker 1: very much made me at ease. And I've told everybody
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  Speaker 1: listening to this podcast many times, well, the only reasons
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  Speaker 1: I was able to do the show and have any
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  Speaker 1: type of enjoyment was because I saw guys do it
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  Speaker 1: before me and go, Okay, if they can do what,
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  Speaker 1: I can do it too. Like he's not he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like walk on water. He's a great dude, normal dude,
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  Speaker 1: a fun dude. And uh, and that's why you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to get back out here play Pebble Beach today.
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  Speaker 1: Um again, thanks uber eats for doing that. Uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: a big deal. And here's a funny uber each story.
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  Speaker 1: As I continue to so I fly in last night.
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  Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to this trip for a long time. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I I golf with Wells quite a bit. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen Chris in a while. I was really excited to
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  Speaker 1: get to hang out with you again, Andrew. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: we're playing Pebble Beach come on, like one of the
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  Speaker 1: best places in the world on a beautiful day, too gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: And so I fly in last night from Denver and
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  Speaker 1: I'm standing at baggage claim. My bag doesn't come. And
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  Speaker 1: in this bag has my golf bag, my clubs, my shoes,
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  Speaker 1: all of my clothes for the weekend, all of my toiletries,
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  Speaker 1: every thing possible. I packed it all into this travel
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  Speaker 1: golf bag and it doesn't come. Called the airline and
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  Speaker 1: uh and they said, oh, you're bag still in l A.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to get here until eleven o'clock the
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  Speaker 1: next day. So today still not here. So as a result,
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  Speaker 1: thanks super Eats for making sure that I have my toiletries,
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  Speaker 1: I have all of the snacks I need, any of
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  Speaker 1: the food I need, any of the drink we need.
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  Speaker 1: Fooder Eats really saved the day. So this has been
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  Speaker 1: a great trip. Not only come out here with you all,
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  Speaker 1: but to have them make sure that I am the organized.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that your bag got lost, maybe just to
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  Speaker 1: like just to crush this whole thing. And like the
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  Speaker 1: day Yeah. The only thing that I didn't get delivered
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  Speaker 1: is my golf clubs, but I still believe they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be coming. Um. All right, So I want to start
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  Speaker 1: today talking a little bit about golf. We're not going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into it too much because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody out here really cares. But there's a question that
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  Speaker 1: is is haunting everybody here. Who is the best golfer
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  Speaker 1: in the group. And let's throw Chris into this um.
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  Speaker 1: Who is the in Europe inion? Who was the best
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  Speaker 1: golfer in this group? So I played golf yesterday with Chris,
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  Speaker 1: and he shot a seventy six. I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: wants anyone to know that because he has to post
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  Speaker 1: that score, which will screw up his handicap. But he
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  Speaker 1: was rushing the ball yesterday. By the way, a very
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  Speaker 1: very difficult golf course uh NPC Monterey Peninsula Country Club.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell you a heart because I was there.
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  Speaker 1: I was playing, and it was a abject disaster. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was just a mess, spraying balls left right
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  Speaker 1: and center, Chili dipping off the t it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was a mess. Chris was puring it. I played with
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  Speaker 1: you also been years ago and uh, and you you're
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  Speaker 1: a very good golfer, but it's been a while, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you're also married, so usually that there's
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  Speaker 1: a decline in your skills. Not at all. He's playing
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  Speaker 1: golf a lot good. Well then maybe just falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: But I haven't played with with Wells here, but I
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  Speaker 1: hear that that he hits it very, very long. So
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun for me just to watch you
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  Speaker 1: guys playing in compete and I'll just be there having
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  Speaker 1: fun eating snacks. Yeah, that was a long diet tribe
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  Speaker 1: to say I'm the worst. I'm the worst, Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll see it right now. I think I think Chris
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  Speaker 1: is the best golf for the group right now. That
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  Speaker 1: feels like a game. It feels like a game. Proved
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  Speaker 1: me wrong. Ladies, come on, the best, the best is.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that Chris is sitting on the side right now,
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  Speaker 1: like this is the one conversation the day. I want
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  Speaker 1: to join into eating him out now. But he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a hard time because we just went on a
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  Speaker 1: trip and uh, seven out of ten times Wells beats
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  Speaker 1: me at golf. I told you this last night. Um
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  Speaker 1: in Utah, just a few weeks ago I did beat
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  Speaker 1: Wells straight up, and so today is kind of like
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  Speaker 1: that that to really figure out where we're at in
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: our game. To answer your question, I do think Chris
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: is the best golfer of the group. He's the most consistent.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: That there's an argument also, uh, the thing that I
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: guess everybody in trouble and golf his nerves, and I
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: think that he's able to regulate his nerves better than
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: any of us. For now. Yes, I think that I
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: can have days where I can I can beat everybody,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: but my vote is for for Mr Harris. I also
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: will put the vote behind that too, because I believe
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: right now in his head he's like Wow, everybody believes
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: him a good golfer, and he's gonna get on that
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: first tea today and shake it. Hey, we're gonna take
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: a break when we come back. We're gonna come back,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: talk more about the trip, talk more, um about a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: story I have from my honeymoon that I've never shared
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: on the podcast that you guys found really funny last night.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: That's a great that's a great tease. Um, We'll be back.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Thanks again for Uber Eats for setting up this amazing
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: trip to the Monterey Peninsula. I shared a story last
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: night at dinner and every goes you've got us share
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: this on the podcast, and I, uh, I'm excited to.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: It's a hard one to explain this. There's a lot
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of visuals to this, um that are necessary. I'm sure
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: at this point people, you know, my mom and everybody
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: else has turned off the podcast, like we don't know
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: what we're getting into. Um, okay, So anyways, here's the storm.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to explain it the best I can. Uh.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Jessica and I went to St. Bart's for our honeymoon.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And the reason this story came up last night is
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: because I'm a big fan of blue cheese stuffed olives
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and I love them in a good martini, not a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: dirty martine, just straight up martini. And we land in St.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Barts a like eight o'clock. We go right to our resort.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: It's a great resort um in St. Bart's um, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: it's a French speaking island and late at night. Uh,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of staff around. Uh,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: there's just a few people in the restaurant. And we
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: sit down there like you have thirty minutes of order
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I said, great. So all I want right now is
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a blue cheese stuffed olive martini, so I asked for it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: The waiter, who did not speak English, because it is
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: not in English speaking island for the most part, there's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of them down there, goes, looks at me, goes,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I have no clue what you're talking about, like pretty
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: much just confusion. I don't know what the blue cheese
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: stuffed all of this, And so I I said okay,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and he goes, let me get uh somebody, the smally
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: so as a result, and I the Smalley walks up
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and said, can you have any blue cheese stuff olives?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And I make like a circle like like what I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: thought was like an olive with my hand, you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: like your you put your index finger and your thumb together,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: okay symbol, like an okay symbol. And I take my
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: other hand and I give my index finger in my
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: middle finger and I start like doing the sign where
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you like you're pushing stuffing. And the Smalley gets really confused,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, and walks away and says, I'm
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: gonna get my manager. So I'm sitting there, I'm still
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: going do you have any blue cheese stuffed, all of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: them saying it very slow, like they're gonna understand it
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: if I speak slower, which is a very terrible thing
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to do. And I'm still stuffing my fingers at the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: same time, the manager goes, I need to get my
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: like GM of the hotel you contain. He goes, I here,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: we have a problem here, and he's spoken elish. I said,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know there's a problem, and my and my
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: wife suddenly catches on. It goes, no, you have a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: big problem. Then you've literally just asked every single person
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: that comes up here. You've just signaled to them if
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you're down, if you have anything stuffed, you have anything stuff.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: The GM finally goes, oh, we don't have any blue stuff,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: but we can't make your martini. That is the story. Um,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: it's still today what Jessica does when like things get awkward,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: when I say something stupid, she just does the little
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: stuffing signs that just to remind me um of of
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: how weird I am. Yeah, and and also how the French,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: uh do different hand signals for that? Yeah, well the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Americans do this. This means this as a very young age,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty explanatory Yeah, I hope, I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: hope that. What I love about that is that there
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: are waiters and small as that thought that this six
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: four hunk of a man was like, hey, do you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: want to go in the back room on the first
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: night of your honeymoon? They were like, wow, they all
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: swing us. I guess this guy was absolutely. I guarantee
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the all spokes perfect English, like they're like this, just
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: check this out, check this out. This guy's just over there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I was just I was not stopping, was not stopping
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: at all. Uh. And your question for you, do you
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: ever use Uber eats? Oh? Yeah, so, um, you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I have three kids, and um, you know it is
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you know, this isn't any sort of advertisement for but
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this is just a utilitarian thing that we use all
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the time. And you know, half the time we've forgotten
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: something somewhere, we need a snack, some of the kids
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: are you know, milk for one of the kids, whatever
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: it is. And so it's actually super convenient in Santa
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Barbara to go and and have you know, food delivered,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you know, have whatever delivered. Um, and uh, it's really quick.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: So we and I'm very slow to adopt technology. My
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: wife was first using it. Now it's almost it's funny
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like these things now become like kind of part of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: your like everyday life, like you know, it's so much
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: more useful. It saves time so long way to say yes,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I wonder if you can get blue cheese stuffed olives.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I guarantee of uber heats. I almost can promise you that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, think about this stuff that we ordered in fact,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: um it should be Oh, it's probably coming there and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I just saw Amy walk away. Um there's more coming today.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I mean we ordered everything, uh for for our trip.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: We order some alcoholic Seltzer's. That's what I requested or
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: over to do that. But we all are one thing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I noticed that that you put on your request list,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: which I didn't know about you. But if you would
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like the same kind of potato chip I do. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: know a lot of potato chips, yes, which I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it's a very particular style. I mean, not like a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: tortilla chip or like as like this is a something
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: very specific. So cheddar and sur cream is the way
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to go. It is halapinia boy like a hallapenia. Yet
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I don't like hell open, I don't like salton vinegar
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: like that, like I love salt. Now, I see I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: can't do that. You know, the one thing that was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: always told to me. I don't know if you agree
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: with this, but I know people listening, well, we'll understand.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: There's a new chip out there that lebron Um has designed,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: which is a Cheddar and Sarah cream Um chip with
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: spice added to it. There's a spicy noess to it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: When you open up, they taste fantastic. But when you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: open up the bagga smells like feet. Have you ever
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: gotten that? So you know, I can't I can't have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a bad smell. Yeah, it's always told me. Okay, we're
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: gonna talk a little Bachelor here, Bachelor at Uh Andrew,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: do you still watch the show? Uh? Yes, I do. Um,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: But it's funny. I mean, so I want to talk
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: something Bachelor, not directly answering your question, but it's funny
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: how we're all sitting here together and you kind of
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: touched on it earlier. And there are literally hundreds and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: hundreds of people, men and women that have gone through
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor over the years. But it's funny how, um,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you can create a relationship with somebody and it makes
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that experience that much better and it lasts long, you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: like and again, so Chris and I, um, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: when I was sequestered for all that time beforehand, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, I I didn't know anybody know
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: what I was doing. I didn't what the show is about.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And Chris took me out to lunch with with his
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: en wife Gwen and their two year old son at
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that point, Joshua. And so we go out to lunch
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and like, you know, he's trying to you know, kind
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: of figure me out, and I'm trying to figure him out.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And I remember this moment when his son, Joshua is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: pinging me with French fries and I'm trying to keep
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a straight face, and I've got nieces and nephews and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I've got lots of little kids in my life, and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I want to throw a French fry
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: back at him, but I'm not going to. But but
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: there was like this genuineness about that experience, and a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: lot of The Bachelor's all, you know, it's it's TV,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's it's edited and all that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, But there are so many real moments
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: where you actually developed these relationships, not just the not
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: as the men and the women, but like you like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: like you find these friendships and it makes it not
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: only tolerable but enjoyable. And um and it's and you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's not a fraternity or anything like that. It's just
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you do develop these unique relationships that can last a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: lifetime and um and I've had that with Christopher. It
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: will be twenty years that I was on the show,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: uh next year, and we've remained great friends ever since.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And you know, I we met five years ago when
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you when you do on the show. Yeah, but it
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: was and I didn't even know I met you him
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: here thirty years ago. Not true, Not true, not true.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But it's funny how it's this like it is this
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this this group of people that that's that that somehow
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you kind of find up you find a commonality in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a friendship. Well, it's you're you're exactly right, because you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Wells and I have been always spent a lot more
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: time this year together along with Dean. Um. Dean's around,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but you never know where he's at in the world. Um, typically,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but I doubt Wells and I other than personal um
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: stuff that we're trying to figure out have talked about
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor ever? Like I don't think it comes up.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And that's when you know, like you know, sometimes you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: get around the group of people and like that's still
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the thing that's discussed, or it's what are you doing next?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Or uh, you know, are you going on the next show?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And and uh, when you get a real friendship, you
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: start to enjoy the other person and you we've only
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: met through this weird experience that now we can all share.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And then going back to what I said earlier, it
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: was on that golf course thatt day with you that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I said, Okay, like Andrew's a good dude, Like he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have he's not he's not a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: weirdo that sold out for the fame of this. Like
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: he's just a good dude who thought it could be fun.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I can do this too now, which is I hope
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's a huge compliment to you. Was all right, we
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: can we can do this thing. Um. But also I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: think you probably played golf with hundreds and hundreds of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: people that have a connection to the Bachelor or whatever else,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and some people just kind of want to be near it. Somebody,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you know, want to want to talk about it, but
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's I mean, how else would I
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: know a guy from Indiana or how would you know
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: make this connection back with you know, persone, but the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: guy that I that I knew but did stuff. Jeez,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: this sister, Now I'm gonna describe it as that. But Sarah,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it's time Martini. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we want some prisons. The the Andrew. I think everybody
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: here would be interested. Tell us more about this sequestering
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that you did. Uh, that wasn't a thing. When I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: was the bachelor, I got a phone call I showed
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: up to In fact that the back story to that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is I went to Honduras for a wedding. I came back,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: uh from Honduras with a parasite that I had through
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the whole time that people know about. I lost thirty
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: pounds when I was a bachelor. But I flew into
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: l A three days before we started, and everybody in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the world knew I was the bachelor at that point, right,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: They knew where I was going to do, so you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: were hidden. So yeah, so so nobody knew obviously that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I was on it. It was a big a secret
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and uh, it was the the whole reveal. Back then,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it was that I was gonna come out on Good
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Morning America and it was gonna say, this is the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: next Bachelor, and so I there. I mean, I had
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: ad anonymity going into it. But then but then, you know, afterwards,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it was it was like, you know, all of a sudden,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the curtain had fallen, and it was a really weird thing. Um,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: but it was there was all the secrecy about who
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I was or whatever else. But there was a moment
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: on the show when one of our dates, we were
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: ice skating and Century Plaza, you know in l A.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It's the the ice skating rink down there part of
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the year, and there's this huge kind of viewing deck.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And so there we were on a date and me
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and this young lady we're ice skating, and back then,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you guys didn't have this, but like there was a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: hot tub on every episode, like every time, like anything
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: happened on the hot tub, one on the hot tub,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: one on the hot tub. They had a hot tub
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the skating rink. Hundreds of people
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: were watching all clean there and I'm like, am I
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: really gonna get not to right now with like this
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: kind of stranger on a ice drink, with all these
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: people watching, and it was this again. It was this
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: migration in a very short amount of time from being
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: just a guy to all of a sudden the Bachelor
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and and you know, it was Good Morning America and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: it was US Magazine and like all this stuff, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: it happened so quickly. And the only thing that saved
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: me is that I never took it very seriously. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: kind of laughed at myself the whole time. I never
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: though that's a bad picture, or you know, like, uh,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't like the way I look or
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: what I said. I just laughed about it the whole time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All my friends did. But it was crazy. Do you
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: still get recognized, um from the time on the show? Yeah?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when I was on it, it
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was you know, all this alternative TV stations and social
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: media wasn't around. It was still network TV was still
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, there was thirty million people watched
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: every episode along the way, so it was out there.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Then US Magazine followed it very closely, and People mag
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: because all the all the tabloids and so it was
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a it was a big part of people's lives for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: for a while, and so you know, definitely like you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: know that the younger generation, you know, it doesn't recognize me,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: but people kind of in my demographic kind of like
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: they kind of grew up with me, you know a
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: little bit. So, yeah, you're my aunt's favorite bachelor probably
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: still to this day. It has amazing taste. Yeah, he's
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a great woman. You obviously have a friendship with Chris.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Then he was the host of the show back when
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you were the Bachelor. You're sitting in a hot tub
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: in a skating rink with a hundred people watching in
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the back of your mind, going, this guy convinced me
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to do this. Yes, I do blame him for a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: lot of it now, but he was he was like
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and he's always been a confident on the show throughout,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Like you know, but I think more than ever and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I think he'd probably say the same thing. Like I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with him off the camera
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: because I was in a in in the mansion where
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: they filmed most of it by myself, but he would
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: be there a lot. We would hang out and so
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: like he was my only friend, like literally not just
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: talking about the Bachelor, but like just I mean I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: was there for I don't know, eight weeks, nine weeks
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: or whatever it took to film. It was a lot
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: longer back then. And you know, he was my guy,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: like he was my buddy and um and so, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I'm lucky to call my friends since you know, for
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: all those years and we're still very tight and uh yeah,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: but he had a chance to come up here and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: see you guys. We had a road trip for three
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and a half hours, driving up the coast. That was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: what an interesting like difference between your experience with Chris
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and like Ben and ours because we obviously are also
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: very close with Chris. But you did the show back
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: when there wasn't a huge age discrepancy between the host
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and the lead of the show. Because when I was
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: on the show was very much like he was a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: father figure and for you it must have been more
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: like a peer. So he was a buddy and like
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: so we would talk off camera. Uh like wasn't that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: weird or like what do you think about that? She
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: said that, like what you know, like there was it
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: was a buddy thing. We're only a couple of years
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: apart in age, and so um and he was, you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he had a young family, so like I wanted to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I wanted what he had, right, Like I was aspiring
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to have that. And I'm I'm a I'm a die
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: hard romantic and you know, and I went when I
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: did the show, it wasn't because I wanted to be
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: on TV. I didn't see the show before. Like I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: wanted that. I wanted the thing. I wanted the family.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I want all that stuff, and maybe this is a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: way to make that happen. And so having Chris there,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: who was again had a young family, whatever else, like
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I saw myself and him. So I took his advice
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: very genuinely because it had worked for him, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and he he was sitting where I wanted to sit
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in a couple of years. How did they find you? Then?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: You didn't know? So um so back like you could
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: apply for it. I didn't apply for it. I just
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I literally got a phone call at my desk, um.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And I think it was about the time that Joe
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Millionaire had come out, and so I think that the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: show kind of wanted a backstory. So the first two
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: gentlemen that we're on the Bachelor, you know, we're you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: just guys just like like, you know, like that just
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: bachelor guys. And I think they wanted to have something
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: that had a little backstory to it, had a little
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: history where, you know, they didn't have someone that America
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: already knew, but they wanted I think they wanted somebody
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that America could know or like, oh, yeah, I know Firestone,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I know firestontime you're like, I know that story. And
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I think the winery had something to do with it
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: as a backdrop for you know, for a lot of
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the of the of the story. But people that don't
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: know it's your family has a winery in southern California,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: so we're in the wine business, my brothers in the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: beer business eight oh five beer. I'm sure a lot
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of people are familiar with it, but my family, you know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: generations ago started Firestone Tires and so it fires something
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: pretty household type of a name. So I think that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: blended with what they were trying to get accomplished. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: especially because if none of the girls knew who it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was that they were going to see, maybe it's a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: little more familiar to have a name that was recognizable.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: But now, you know, having you having they know you
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: before you were the bachelor you that people followed your story,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they fell in love with you for for your personality
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and everything else. And the twenty five bachelorettes that we're
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: gonna show up also knew you kind of. I mean
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: not not to say they knew you, but they knew
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: enough of you to want to go and take that chance.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I had to agree to it. Where were the ladies at, then,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the women at when you were in the mansion You're
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: saying you lived in that mansion alone. It's a big house,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: was it? This is the same mansion. This was. This
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: was one of the first iconic I don't even think
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it's there anymore. It was, you know, on the water
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: in Malibu, and all the ladies were in a house
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: about fifteen miles away, also in Malibu, but they had
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: no he didn't live, but he was just there a lot,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you know, because like he would go there and hang
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: out and um, you know, because they were doing whatever
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the production stuff was. But there was a lot of
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: production stuff that was happening. But like they wouldn't interact
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: with me, and like I'm a very social person, Like
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like I want to play, I want to shoot
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: hoops with somebody like I want to do something, and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: they were very standoffish to me, because I'm sure they
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: were too, So it was it was a very odd
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: couple of months that I was in this huge house
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: by myself. Yeah. I remember when I went on this show.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: One of the first bit of directives that we got
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: from an executive producer was, I know, you want to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: talk to the camera guys and the sound people, but
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: they are furniture. Do not interact with them. And I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: was like, well, I can't do that, Like, I'm gonna
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: have to talk to these people. I got. I got
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: close to some, but like it was funny through those,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you know, those couple of months that I was there,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: like it they did sort of start to fall into
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the background, you know, like like eventually it did normalize
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a bit. And that's what people ask me most often,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: is like, isn't that weird being filmed all the time.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: The first couple of weeks, it was bizarre, but then
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: eventually it just kind of became it was just there.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: It was like white noise. Eventually the this whole thing
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: has transformed in incredible ways. You are now married. You
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: mentioned you have children, three kids, three kids? U um,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: does your wife it all look back on this time?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Has you ever seen it? Does she laugh at you
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: or enjoy watching it? So everybody laughs at me? Just
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: um no, it's it's funny. I mean it. It has
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: kind of faded into the background quite a bit, you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and like you know, I I didn't do any Hollywood
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: stuff afterwards, like I got back to my to my life.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: So it's it's a fun chapter that like like sitting
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in this calt right now with you guys, like like
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: all these memories are popping back up, and it's fun
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to reminisce about. But it's it's it's literally just one
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: chapter in my life. So it's not it's you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: it's not a defining moment by any stretch, but it
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Are you happy you did it?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely no. I don't regret any of it. And and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: you know, it's so easy for people to, oh, you know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I wish I wouldn't have said that, or they portrayed
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: me wrong, or I wasn't like that. But like if
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you're taking that serious, like that stuff seriously, like there's
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: something wrong like that is literally I mean, it's it's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: just a it's a snippet of a portion of your life.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And if if you can't look back on a photo album,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: it's like Whitney and I and like be able to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: laugh at yourself and be like, oh my god, I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: can't believe I was that awkward. I can't believe that
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I looked like whatever you should. You need to be
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: able to take it with a grain of salt and
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: so answer, Yes, I'm so happy I did it. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: made great friends. Didn't work out the way that I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: thought it was going to, but I have no regrets whatsoever.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Did they say on your season, uh, here for the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: right reasons, And I'll say, like I was a dent
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: there genuinely to see if this could work. I didn't
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: take I didn't take a dime of money. I paid
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: for for the ring myself, Like really, I did not
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: want any I didn't want any sniff that it was
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it was contrived. I wanted to be an authentic experience.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: That was the only thing I could control. I couldn't
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: control editing, I couldn't control the girls. I could just
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: control myself and my attitude and perspective on what I
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was doing. It's funny because you know that they're for
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the right reasons thing. It's brought up so often, and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I think that maybe you are the only person who
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: has ever been there for the right reason, because like
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you can you come from this winery family. You know
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you don't need to sell diarrhea t on Instagram, Like
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: there is no bullshit with you. You actually went there
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and wanted to And I didn't know about Neil Lane
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't there. You bought your own ring back then as
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Harry Winston. But I mean they were gonna offer a ring,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, if I give this ring to this
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: woman that I feel like I'm in love with, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I want to give this a real shot. I don't
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: want there to be any sense of like this is
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: not genuine. I don't want it to be like, well,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you this ring to then give to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: that to her that I'm gonna take it back or
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna whatever it is. I'm like, no, if I'm
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: gonna do this, it's going to be authentic. I might
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: get my heart trampled, but you know what, that's authentic
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and and and I would learn more from that than
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: faking it. That was one thing I always appreciated about
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Jordan Joe Joe was that Jordan went and bought another
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: ring afterwards and then did it again like without cameras,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and well, I think it's necessary. Yeah, I mean it
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: is like you come off that show and you're still
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: dating and then there's that like moment where you decide, Okay,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: is this really something or is it not? I think yeah,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I agree, I think that was It's a good move,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a good moment, and it's you know, it shows that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: next chapter where that the show isn't kind of what
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: like either brought you together, force you together. It just
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: helped you meet and in life beyond. Hey, we do
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: have a big, big day ahead of us. I want
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to make sure to tell everybody out there to order
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: with the Uber eats app. They stocked us up, I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: mean with everything for this trip, with chips, with tequila,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: with Seltzer's. Uh we brought in what else did you
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: guys order? Uh? Waters, but lots of waters to offset
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: some of the tequila we're gonna be drinking, so keep
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: that imbalanced. But I mean, I mean snacks, you know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: energy bars, like the like the whole the whole thing.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, if we're not totally jacked up all day
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: on the course, like just puring it yards off. That's
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: That's not uber ITT's fault, that's our fault. Yeah, so
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the uber Eats app is the way to go again.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you for bring us all together Uber Eats to
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: have this awesome trip, but also um to showcase something
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that we all use in our lives. Now as we
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: close this whole thing out um today and get ready
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: for an amazing round. Uh, wells we do have to
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: ask you, um we are we are in May? Uh
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: there's a show that usually is filmed sometime this time
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of year called Bachelor in Paradise. Familiar? Yeah, are you
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be on Bachelor in Paradise? Gonna ask that question
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to you? Are you gonna be doing it? What where
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: are you at with it? We haven't heard a thing? Well,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a weird thing because there was
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a bunch of talk that it wasn't going to happen.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys ever like talked about it. Yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: we talked about a lot. There was rumors that the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: show wasn't gonna happen. And I thought that was really
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: interesting because I do feel like it's a very successful
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: show one and for a lot of people. It's everyone's favorite.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Um So the idea of them of us not doing
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: it is kind of a silly clickbait story just in general.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Um So I can say that this of course he
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: has the show is coming back. We're going to film
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: it where we always film it. It's going to film
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: during the same time, um that it always does. Will
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I be there? Probably? Yeah. Here's the thing that, like,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I know that this sounds like very vague or cryptic,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: but this is how this is what I've learned about Hollywood.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Hollywood doesn't get there together until seventeen minutes before something
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: is supposed to start, so you never really know, um
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. So I would say it's definitely
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: happening and definitely probably gonna see me there, probably definitely,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: probably Maybe we're not getting a lot out of it
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the time. It works every time. Are you in any
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: fall up to that? Are you curious watch Paradise? I do?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I mean that is it is a fascinating show. Um
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: A lot of bikinis, a lot of a lot of tequila,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: and those like two of my favorite categories, like if
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I was on Jeopardy and those with like what is tequila.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: What are bikinis like? That would be those. I would
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: go for the daily double every time. Um, so yeah,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I I hope we see wellsy on there would be
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that would be you know that, that's like one of
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the best parts. Would you would like batchelor? Paradise wasn't
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: around during your time? Would you go? Would you go
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: on Paradise? You know, I'm forty six years old with
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: three kids. Nobody wants them. Like, if you want to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: if you want to kill a show, put me on it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: On a dating show. Let's flash back, though you're the bachelor.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Doesn't work out? Uh no, bachelor, I don't work out.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: It does doesn't It doesn't work out for you if
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you work out? Are you looking at my flabby ars? You? Uh? Um?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: You you're the first lead ever to do one of
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: those side shows. Um. Would you have said yes? Does
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: that feel like your cup of tea? Probably not? I
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: mean just that's nothing my I mean, I don't know.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It would be tough just because um, like I I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: would just get very uh cynical about the thing. But
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I do enjoy watching it and like um and and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the characters that have been on it before been so
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: compelling and so willing to kind of put themselves out there.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: So I will say this. I think I can speak
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: for everybody and say, well, as we hope to see
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: you on the beach, we hope to see you very
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: often speaking on the beach. Um. Those flowered shirts, ridiculous shirts.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: It fits you, man, you do a great job at it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: My olive skin down there in the Mexican summer sun.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: We'll have to U. We'll have to uh just I guess,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: wait and uh and wonder until the official announcement if
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: there is one, if you'll be there or not. Yeah,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: it's coming soon, it's coming soon. There we go. That's all.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: That's that's all we needed to make sure there's a
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: little peace of mind walking into the first tea today
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: at Pebble Beach. Again, thanks to uber eats for bringing
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: us all here. Uh, gentlemen, this has been a pleasure. Uh,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: it's really great to be with you all. Thank you
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: um for coming out here with the almost famous podcast,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: but also thanks to uber eats for bringing us together
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: out here. We're gonna have a great day uh at
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Pebble Beach. Um, we've got to get to the range.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I've got to make sure that my bag is on
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: its way to the hotel, because that's really important to
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: have golf clubs. Yeah, to play golf, to play golf.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: So I want to see if we can get Uber
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Eats to actually come out in the fairway. I want
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: to order something like while we're like walking down four
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and like see if you can meet us like the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: six tea bucks. I have the uber ets app. Okay,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get on. I wanna see. I wanna see
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like roast and brodies, like let's see crossover through through
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the yard, through the hedges onto the course. I don't
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: put it past them. That good. They're that good. Hey,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: follow my lead here. Andrew Wells has been around for
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: a bit. Thanks everybody for listening. Um, we'll be back
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: uh this next week with one of our regular episodes.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Ash will be there. Ashley is also having the producer here.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: She's also having like a girl's trip, right, that's coming
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: up sometime soon in June. In June, so that's gonna
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: be a very special episode. I imagine Ashley is very
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: ready for a girl's trip like hers is like slightly
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: different than this, Yeah, a little more like Ashley esque,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a little more spa a little more girls. Are we
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: invited to that too? We'll talk about that. I don't
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I don't hate a spat. It's funny because when this
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: came up and they said, hey, what do you want
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: to do? Immediately I was kind of joking. I was like,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I want to bring these guys to Pebble Beach and
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: play golf, and you're an Amy who has been our
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: producer forever responded with okay, and I was like, oh, well,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I don't always typically say that when you asked me things.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Ben called Danielle and I the other day and said
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: can we do this? And he asked us something. We
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: just literally said no, no, no, I'm not going to work. Yeah,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and I say, okay, well that works at least at
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: least we asked, right, You gotta know what they can do.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: All they can do is say no, hey, would that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: talk about Andrew's argyll socks? Did you look fashion? That's
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: what the ladies want to hear about. This is the podcast.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You can't see us. Yeah. Well, I think I got
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a picture at some point because I thought we were
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: getting Best Dressed awards. I'm giving it to Andrew. I'm
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: getting like first, second, and third Andrew's wearing a blue,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a light blue floral golf shirt just tight enough. I'm
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: not gonna it's a perfect tightness. Blue pants also just
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: tied enough, looking stylish our gyll socks wells is all
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: in black. He's like Johnny cash Over, You're looking really good.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Nice black golf sweater, black pants. Ben, let me tell you,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: is wearing the exact same elf he was because he
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any clothes or any underwear. The Uber Eats
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: is getting yeah, but just to be said, Uber Eats
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: is here with my deodorant, my toothbrush, my toothpaste, grabbed
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Q tips. It's here. Thanks Suberie for making sure that
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I have everything I need. It just came in. This
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: is a big day. Ben does have a lovely Kashmir
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: sweater with a like a hood, which I did touch
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: because it was so solid. He also is kind of
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: a weird smell. You can get this guy when get
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: his fresh clothes. Right now. There's a lot going on, um,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: but this day is about to turn to be incredible
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: because I believe everything's gonna show up. And I believe,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: uh that once again, uh Chris Harrison shoots low round today.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I believe Wells is in second, I believe I'm really close.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: And third, I actually think Wells and I are gonna
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: go back and forth into the final hole. I believe
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Andrew just has a great time and makes it. If
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: I don't, if I don't launch a club into the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean today, like that's a win. Like that's that's
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Today. There will be some
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: games being played. I'm assuming there'll be some updates, uh
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: that you can follow. I'm hoping. Um, if if I
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: take Wells down today, it's not gonna feel great because
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I do love the guy, but it's gonna feel so good,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: really deep inside my evil soul. Mean, he's gonna do
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you like one of those. It's gonna be really bad. Well.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I mean I can't beat you. You invited all of
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: us here, you know, so I feel like I gotta
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: take a nail here. Yeah that's right. Yeah, good for you.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Hey follow my lead here, Andrew, Thanks for listening. Almost
• 47:16
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