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You Gotta Have Faith with Faith Martin · 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: Hey, everyone, welcome to a very special episode of the
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  Speaker 2: Almost Famous Podcast. I am sitting here and I know
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  Speaker 2: Ben's gonna be jealous of this interview because we've separated
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  Speaker 2: these Bachelor Mansion house interviews and I'm sitting here with
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  Speaker 2: the Faith Martin, who I thought was the front runner?
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  Speaker 3: Who I was?
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  Speaker 2: Faith?
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  Speaker 3: Did I make you cry?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't cry, but my jaw was on the floor, like,
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  Speaker 2: and you know people say that as an expression, but
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  Speaker 2: my jaw really did drop. So we have David Archiletta
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  Speaker 2: in the house here also because we're doing like a
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  Speaker 2: boy band reunion in the house. And I'm just rambling now,
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  Speaker 2: but like, it reminded me. Your elimination reminded me of
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  Speaker 2: an old school American Idle episode where like or Chris
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  Speaker 2: Daughtry or someone is eliminated.
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  Speaker 3: I watched that season with Chris Daughtry's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That's when America watched all together, Yes, and we were
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  Speaker 2: all shocked together. And that's how I felt like when
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  Speaker 2: he sent you home actually after that hometown, I know you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, well you know it's interesting because I think you
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  Speaker 4: know they say you have a brain in your gut.
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  Speaker 4: And even though logically I felt like I had the
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  Speaker 4: best home date ever, I was on you know, cloud nine.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was just amazing. I thought it could
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  Speaker 4: not have gone any better. But it was strange that
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  Speaker 4: in between that and the hometowns, my stomach was telling
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  Speaker 4: me different. It just was telling me something wasn't quite right.
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  Speaker 4: And of course he's going to hometowns with other women,
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  Speaker 4: so I knew that, right, But you know, there was
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  Speaker 4: something that somehow an intuitive sense to me felt like
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  Speaker 4: it could not possibly go my way. You know, that
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  Speaker 4: was an option, and so I was really unsure about
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  Speaker 4: the whole thing. And I should have felt more confident
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  Speaker 4: if it was right, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, but faith, I felt like watching all those three
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  Speaker 2: hometowns that he was most vocal about his feelings for you.
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  Speaker 2: So are you annoyed at all at the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he was so vocal with all three of you women.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't at all until I watched him with Life,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Then I was annoyed for her because I think when
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  Speaker 4: it got down to that, that was a little harder,
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  Speaker 4: you know, seeing that she got so far and it
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  Speaker 4: looked like it was going to be less.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about you, You're saying beyond hometown weeks and when
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  Speaker 2: it's between her.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, just looking back on the whole thing, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not annoyed at all. I mean, we know what we
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  Speaker 4: signed up for, and I don't think it's ever a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing to be loved. So if somebody loves you,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's a reason, a season, or a lifetime, they
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  Speaker 4: love you in the moment, I think I think you
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  Speaker 4: can only be grateful that they expressed that, because that's
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  Speaker 4: what the world is about.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you love someone, go ahead and tell
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  Speaker 3: them it.
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  Speaker 4: Mate doesn't mean you know, if we're all so afraid
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  Speaker 4: to say I love you, if it won't last forever.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody would say it, you know. So I think it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: I don't fault Gary for telling people that he loved them.
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  Speaker 4: And that's how I was thinking this whole time. But
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  Speaker 4: then tonight when I was watching and I was seeing
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  Speaker 4: Gary telling Leslie she's the one and you know, all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, then I was like, okay, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: that's not fair. So, you know, when it's about me,
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  Speaker 4: I'm okay with that. When it's about somebody else, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more protective. I think so it was
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  Speaker 4: a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit of leading on And I have mentioned that, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's because it's from sweet, wholesome Gary, who is sweet
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  Speaker 2: and wholesome and a wonderful gentleman. Yeah, but if it
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  Speaker 2: were somebody who was thirty two on the main show
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  Speaker 2: saying these, he would be like the Bachelor fandom would
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  Speaker 2: just be ripping him to sah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think too, like nobody knows until you're in
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  Speaker 4: those shoes just how intensely emotional and how the heightened
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  Speaker 4: emotions of what you're going through is different than anything
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  Speaker 4: you've experienced. So I feel like if you are one
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  Speaker 4: that can stay in the moment and stay present, and
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  Speaker 4: I think Gary did a great job of allowing himself
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  Speaker 4: to be completely engaged in what he was into at
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  Speaker 4: the moment, and he did feel those feelings, and he
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  Speaker 4: did have genuine love for those women, all of us.
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  Speaker 4: And so you can't fault the guy for that, right,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you just can't. I think he led with
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  Speaker 4: his heart, and you know, I think he made the
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  Speaker 4: best choice in the outcome is good.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the risk we all take, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight we found out that Teresa and he will be
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  Speaker 2: married yes on January. Course, this is fast fast in September.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about this?
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  Speaker 4: I had a feeling when they said there was going
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  Speaker 4: to be announcement. I was like, oh my gosh, they're
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  Speaker 4: going to announce their wedding date, and I think it
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  Speaker 4: will be right away. And because you know, like Gary said,
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  Speaker 4: at this age, why wait, Like, let's do it now?
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  Speaker 3: We don't.
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  Speaker 4: They don't really have time to waste. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: seventy and seventy two years old, seventy one and seventy two, Like,
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  Speaker 4: if they know they want to be together, why not
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  Speaker 4: do it?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I had met my husband and we kissed and got
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  Speaker 4: married eight days later and it lasted twenty one years.
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  Speaker 4: So I think, you know kind of what life is
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  Speaker 4: all about. You got to go for it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: why why should they wait? You know?
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  Speaker 3: And were you surprised it was Teresa?
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  Speaker 2: Because no, once really Okay, so I need to know
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  Speaker 2: all this, but I do want you to know that
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  Speaker 2: like once you were eliminated, which I was shockedalke by tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I was spoiler free until tonight. I was again just
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  Speaker 2: mind blown that it was Teresa and not Leslie. And
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  Speaker 2: I do feel like you and Leslie were a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more similar, and then Theresa was more of the
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  Speaker 2: outlier and the top three because I feel like you
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  Speaker 2: and Leslie carry yourself a little bit more in like
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  Speaker 2: a sexy fashion.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: No, you know, I was not surprised, because this is
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  Speaker 4: why since day one, I would watch how Gary would
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  Speaker 4: look at all the other women. You know what it's
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  Speaker 4: like to be a woman. You know, you're watching your guy.
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  Speaker 4: You can tell if he thinks somebody else in the
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  Speaker 4: room is attractive. That's kind of how I did. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, I thought, maybe he's going to fall in
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  Speaker 4: love with Ellen. So I'm looking at Ellen and I'm
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  Speaker 4: watching him watch her, and I was like, no.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't love Ellen, he doesn't love on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like watching him with The surprise was that I
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  Speaker 4: didn't see a really big connect with him and Leslie ever.
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  Speaker 4: Oh but I totally saw it with Teresa from day one.
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  Speaker 3: And it was weird. We would be at the Rose
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  Speaker 3: ceremony and I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, he's totally googly eyeing Theresa. Every time
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  Speaker 4: they would look at each other, he'd have this little
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  Speaker 4: googly eye thing going on. I was like, serious, it's Teresa.
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  Speaker 4: So I felt like that all along that she was
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  Speaker 4: going to be either the winner, you know, he would
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  Speaker 4: choose her or she would be right up there clothes.
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  Speaker 4: So and they had so many things in alignment with
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  Speaker 4: their life, with their past relationships, with their going to
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  Speaker 4: help them, their commonalities. They're very traditional. They you know,
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  Speaker 4: they really are a really compatible couple.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: So, why do you think that during hometowns she was
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  Speaker 2: the one that he didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Say I love you too. I don't know, because that
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  Speaker 3: threw us off.
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  Speaker 4: It did, And I wonder if he I think he
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  Speaker 4: said I love you to me pretty quickly. And it
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  Speaker 4: was funny because my sister, if you remember, in my hometown,
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  Speaker 4: my sister goes, you know, Gary was going to have
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  Speaker 4: to leave and go to the other hometowns.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said.
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  Speaker 4: My sister goes, I know you love Faith and you
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  Speaker 4: want it to be her. And I go, oh, my god,
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  Speaker 4: did you just say that out loud? I was embarrassed, right,
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  Speaker 4: And then he goes, I would say it out loud,
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  Speaker 4: and he goes, would you say it out loud? And
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  Speaker 4: I said, I'd say it out loud and he goes,
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  Speaker 4: I love you, and I go, I love you too.
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  Speaker 4: That was so meaningful to me. And honestly, I was
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  Speaker 4: the first hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so it was a little out of order in
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  Speaker 2: the airing, which I am.
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  Speaker 4: I allowed to say it, but yeah, so and then
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  Speaker 4: I think he kind of thought, oh, I better not
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  Speaker 4: be so quick to say that, and so then he
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  Speaker 4: held off with Teresa, okay, and then I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you know. I'm just guessing. I really don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it shocked me too. I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: gonna lie. It was hard. It was really hard.
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  Speaker 2: So when you saw Gary again tonight in person, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how did that feel? Because I know this sounds like
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  Speaker 2: I remember being on the Bachelor, and I knew very
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  Speaker 2: well that Chrystals wasn't my husband as soon as I
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  Speaker 2: like got on that plane home, you know, I like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that did make sense for a reason. But like when
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  Speaker 2: you see them at the reunion show, your heart still drops.
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  Speaker 4: I still am perplexed at my emotions at the show.
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  Speaker 3: I get teered up.
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  Speaker 4: At lunch today, somebody said something we were talking about
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  Speaker 4: Gary and I get teared up. I don't understand it
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  Speaker 4: why because logically I'm over the moon happy for him
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  Speaker 4: and Teresa, I really am. Logically, I think their lives
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  Speaker 4: are way better aligned. I think he made the right choice.
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  Speaker 4: But I still have times where I get really emotional
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  Speaker 4: about it, and I don't even like I want to
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  Speaker 4: smack myself in the head and go, what is wrong
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  Speaker 4: with you?
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  Speaker 2: Stop?
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  Speaker 4: But yet I'll see something or somebody will say something,
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  Speaker 4: I'll start talking about it, and I get all choked up.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the weirdest thing. I wouldn't believe it if
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  Speaker 4: I didn't live it. I don't know what is going
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  Speaker 4: on with me?
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  Speaker 2: What about what you will? Let's play that comparison game.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that your age plays a role? And
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  Speaker 2: like you still being a little hung up on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's also really fresh, like your season was filmed and
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  Speaker 2: aired really quickly, and you know you just broke up
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  Speaker 2: with him in September. Yeah, so I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 2: we have two months under the belt. It's nothing.
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  Speaker 3: But then thank you because that makes me feel a
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  Speaker 3: little better. It's like a lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes I think there's a Sex in
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  Speaker 2: the City quote that said it takes half the amount
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  Speaker 2: of time you're with somebody to get over them. I
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  Speaker 2: actually think it sometimes it takes twice a man of it.
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  Speaker 4: It's always taken me, you know, Like I was with
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  Speaker 4: the guy once for three years. It took me six
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  Speaker 4: years to get over him. I couldn't even tell you
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  Speaker 4: who I went on a date with. I don't remember
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  Speaker 4: their names. I don't remember their faces. I you know,
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  Speaker 4: I just I kind of you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you think it hurts more of being older
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  Speaker 2: and heartbroken.
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  Speaker 4: I know that when when I hear that he's going
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  Speaker 4: to be happy, when I see him and Teresa together,
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  Speaker 4: it it like heals the hole.
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  Speaker 3: In my heart.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I am really over the moon happy. It
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  Speaker 4: just made my heart full to see that they're both happy,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's part of the healing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and to feeling like I can always love Gary and
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  Speaker 4: he'll have a place in my heart, but I can
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  Speaker 4: love him in a different form and just you know,
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  Speaker 4: appreciate him moving forward in his life. And I think
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  Speaker 4: we'll always be friends, you know. I'm friends with Teresa
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  Speaker 4: and friends with Gary. So yeah, I think it'll just
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  Speaker 4: take a little time. It is weird that it all
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  Speaker 4: happens so quick, and I'm surprised at the deep feelings
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  Speaker 4: that I have for sure, But it'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: Will that be weird for Gary or you to continue
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  Speaker 2: a friendship with Teresa?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought so at first, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: think so. Gary is a gentleman and he's very kind,
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  Speaker 4: and he wanted to check on me. He called it Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to make sure I was okay. He's called
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  Speaker 4: me a number of times. Teresa has called me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we talk all the time. I think I have so
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  Speaker 4: much love for both of them, and I really am
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  Speaker 4: just over the moon for them. And I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: like Teresa goes, I know Gary loves you, and I
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  Speaker 4: know you love Gary, and like, yeah, yeah, no, she
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  Speaker 4: really is a lovely person. And the other thing is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you can love a person in so many
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  Speaker 4: different forms. And I think the connection that I had
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  Speaker 4: with Gary all along was more of kind of a heartfelt,
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  Speaker 4: soulful connection, not a chemistry type of connection, where my
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  Speaker 4: past relationships were maybe more chemistry ish. And so I
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  Speaker 4: think it really is just a long standing friendship. And
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  Speaker 4: I think Teresa knows that I would never be inappropriate,
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  Speaker 4: I would never want anything more. I am thrilled over
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  Speaker 4: the moon for both of them, and I feel like
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  Speaker 4: all three of us could be friends and it shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: feel weird at all.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so nice, that's really nice. She seems like
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  Speaker 2: a really sweet.
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  Speaker 4: She's lovely, she's lovely. And the thing, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: we talk about those traditional things, Teresa's very traditional, and
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  Speaker 4: you know she will really dote over him and make
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  Speaker 4: him a very lovely wife. Where I'm off roading my
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  Speaker 4: motorcycle and my horse and I'm singing in a bandit
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  Speaker 4: you know, right, So it wasn't really a very good alignment.
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  Speaker 3: He used to always say.
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  Speaker 4: He used to always say, like, we've been together for years,
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  Speaker 4: but he would say, you're so fiercely independent, and I
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  Speaker 4: kept thinking, well, I don't have to be. I would
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  Speaker 4: hang out with you more. But then I thought, if
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  Speaker 4: I'm in a recording session recording a song, is he
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  Speaker 4: going to be okay that I'm gone for nine hours
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  Speaker 4: while he sits at home waiting for dinner?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, so our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you also want to move, and it seemed a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more open to moving.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to move to California or Arizona
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  Speaker 4: or someplace warm, you know, I know, because it's a
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  Speaker 4: plane ride that's pretty quick. But Indiana oh hell no, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be there. I really don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be in Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: Can you blame me?
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  Speaker 2: That is where you need to have Ben come into
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  Speaker 2: the conversation because he's from Indiana. Oh no, and he's
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  Speaker 2: from a very close place from where it was.
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  Speaker 4: So and maybe I'm judging too harshly because I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's a flyover state. Yeah, nobody stops Sarah goes there
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  Speaker 4: for any good reason, I imagine.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe it's nicer than I thought. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently they have a good lake life going, and we
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  Speaker 2: heard it there was like there's some there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of crazy things that happened behind doors at the lakes
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  Speaker 2: of Indiana. We'll talk about some other time. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: I do want to I want to end with one question.
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  Speaker 2: You are like kind of like you're singer, you're a
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  Speaker 2: radio host. You definitely come across as like a badass woman,
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  Speaker 2: and now people want you to possibly be the Golden Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you were getting all of
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  Speaker 2: those I felt like, since you finished third place, you
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  Speaker 2: probably kind of expected that could be the chatter.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 4: What makes them choose whoever, I always thought it was
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  Speaker 4: the runner up, so I didn't think that I would
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  Speaker 4: even be not really see, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was too busy to watch the show.
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  Speaker 4: I have watched The Bachelorette though, and oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: I love charity so much. But anyway, Yeah, no, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's a I think it would be an amazing
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  Speaker 4: thing if they did the Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 3: And who would say no to that? Because the process works.
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  Speaker 3: I've lived it.
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  Speaker 4: I know how you can fall in love in a
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  Speaker 4: short time. I would, you know, I really don't know
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  Speaker 4: how that goes, but it would be an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 4: So you know I'm open to it for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are rooting for you for that, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I told you I was the most shocked about your
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  Speaker 2: elimination and the one who I felt like I was
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  Speaker 2: rooting for the most.
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  Speaker 3: Sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see where the road leads.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So much for being here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, appreciate it.
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