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It's Tough to be the GOAT · 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 IR Radio. We're back with another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Almost Famous Podcast, and today we're going to start out
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Speaker 1: with one of the sexiest people and Bachelor Nation, Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Would you agree with me? Yes? The most sexy, the hottest,
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Speaker 1: most beautiful face, and the kindest, warmest soul, Jared Dared.
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Speaker 1: You're ready for real? Oh he's here here, Jared, thanks
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Speaker 1: for coming on. I'm gonna take a step away. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna let you to handle this. I know you have
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Speaker 1: something really exciting you want to tell everybody that at
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Speaker 1: the Almost Famous family about. And Ashley, I know that
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Speaker 1: you're sitting right next to Jared, which makes you interviewing
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Speaker 1: him a lot easier. I'm just letting you know, based
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Speaker 1: on what you said, it sounds like we're about to
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Speaker 1: announce a baby. That's okay, are you now? Then? What
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Speaker 1: are you announcing? All right? So tomorrow and I help
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Speaker 1: I suck at dating me Dean Angler. We have our
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Speaker 1: first ever live podcast. That's right. We waited untill the
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Speaker 1: pandemic to do our first live podcast, which is why
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Speaker 1: we're doing it virtually now. It's gonna be awesome. You
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Speaker 1: guys can come on the podcast, ask us questions. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to ask us to talk Dean you talk
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Speaker 1: to me. You can ask if Dean's married. You can
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Speaker 1: ask if him and Kaylin are planning to get married.
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Speaker 1: You can ask Ashley and I, uh any anything you
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Speaker 1: really want to ask us about dating relationships. That's the
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Speaker 1: whole point. I'm too well, seeing how we live together,
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Speaker 1: you'll probably make a cameo. Uh So, what you want
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Speaker 1: to do is you want to go to high said
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Speaker 1: slash tixar dot com. That is wait a second, High said,
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Speaker 1: is that your acronym? That would be help I suck
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Speaker 1: at dating. Unfortunately, we don't have an a f alright,
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Speaker 1: we're not fancy like you too, we have a long name. Okay,
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Speaker 1: High said, uh so you go to high, said dot
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Speaker 1: tisar dot com. That is h I s A d
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Speaker 1: dot tis r t i x r dot com. It's
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Speaker 1: ten dollars just to get into the podcast. But if
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Speaker 1: you want a pretty awesome help I suck a dating
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Speaker 1: Camo Beanie, which Dean and myself both rock and let
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Speaker 1: me tell you there spectacular, it's thirty tag suck Army.
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Speaker 1: Parents were like, Jared, what, Yeah, that's probably the best
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Speaker 1: thing to show your wife's dead. Well and once once
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Speaker 1: I told them what it meant. You know, you just
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Speaker 1: need a little explanation. But it's you know, listen suck army.
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Speaker 1: That's what you know. We call the listeners to the
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Speaker 1: podcast it sucks coming inside joke. Yeah, so if you
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Speaker 1: listen to help by suck a Dating, you'll understand the
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Speaker 1: inside joke of hashtag suck army. So you for thirty dollars,
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Speaker 1: you get the beanie and a ticket, or if you
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Speaker 1: just want to stop by, ask some questions, talk to
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Speaker 1: us on the podcast. It will be a great time.
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Speaker 1: It's ten dollars. Once again, the website is high said
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Speaker 1: dot tixar dot com, h I s A D dot
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Speaker 1: t t i x R dot com. Okay, good job
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Speaker 1: being an auctioneer. His guest tomorrow or Taylor Nolan who
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Speaker 1: will be having on the podcast in a very short bit, Um,
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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson and Evan Bass. That is correct. All three
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Speaker 1: people will be on the podcast. Um, and that's all
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Speaker 1: I really have to say. Okay, well, should we give
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Speaker 1: them some juicy dish into our relationship to make them
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Speaker 1: feel like this is something that they do want to
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Speaker 1: listen to you you. No, if you want some juicy dip,
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Speaker 1: is that what you called it? Dish dish? I think
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Speaker 1: that like dip, like you're dipping a chip in there.
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Speaker 1: Let's changed the expression to juicy dip because that is
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Speaker 1: way better than that's a better visual than juicy dish. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of of salsa. Anyway, what was I saying? Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great time. What are you gonna like?
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Speaker 1: You said, Oh, no, we don't want to give any
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Speaker 1: juicy quote unquote dish on us. Because if you want
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Speaker 1: juicy dish on our relationship, just tune into the live
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Speaker 1: podcast tomorrow and then you can get all and then
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Speaker 1: you can ask us whatever you want. All right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: and that's it. Let me let me let me interrupt
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Speaker 1: you here because Ashley and I uh did a live
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Speaker 1: podcast just a few weeks ago. Um. It was a
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Speaker 1: really awesome experience. Ashley called me afterwards and we were
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Speaker 1: talking like that's just it's a lot of fun because
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Speaker 1: you get to interact with the people listening to the show.
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Speaker 1: You get to actually answer and clarify some of the
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Speaker 1: things you said in the past, And I think the
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Speaker 1: best part is you get to spend a little bit
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Speaker 1: time with the people who have invested so many hours
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Speaker 1: into listening to your voice, to get to see your
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Speaker 1: face and see your reaction. Jared, have you I just
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Speaker 1: want to be clear, you've never done this before, right, No,
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Speaker 1: we've never done a live podcast. We've talked about it
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Speaker 1: after we saw you guys do the live Pack podcast
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Jared, are you okay? I have something
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Speaker 1: stuck in my craft lying as for the past four minutes,
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Speaker 1: just like, actually I'm excited. Also, I got a text
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Speaker 1: from producers saying like, make sure you get the energy up.
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Speaker 1: And I'm getting the energy up, baby, and the energy
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Speaker 1: is gonna be up tomorrow night. Summer of Georgia. Good god. Well, um,
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you're interested in hearing from Mike Johnson,
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Speaker 1: Taylor Nolan, Evan Bass, Ashley Iken, Eddie, Dean Ungler, and
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Speaker 1: Jared Havan, go to help I Suck at Dating live again.
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Speaker 1: The link is this h I s A D dot
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Speaker 1: t i x R dot com. Tickets are ten dollars,
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Speaker 1: but as Jared mentioned, if you want an amazing beanie
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Speaker 1: to represent the Suck Army, it's thirty dollars. So that's
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Speaker 1: all you get. You get a great beanie and you
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Speaker 1: get to meet them on the podcast. August eighteenth is
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Speaker 1: the day. Make sure you tune in five thirty Pacific
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Speaker 1: time the Help Help I Suck at Dating Live podcast. Jared,
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Speaker 1: you're the man, Ashley. I'll be watching you guys tomorrow night. Hey,
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Speaker 1: thank you you're the man. Just for for clarity, and uh,
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Speaker 1: you look great by the way, the beard on point,
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Speaker 1: you're you're you're study, I'm growing up. He just compliments
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Speaker 1: Ben every time he sees He's very easy to compliment. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And and just before I go, I just want to
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Speaker 1: bounce off what you said, Ben about the listeners, the
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Speaker 1: people that listen to the podcast, listen to all our
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Speaker 1: podcasts and follow us on Instagram. Uh, just always know
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Speaker 1: that we appreciate you, and specifically to people who listen
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Speaker 1: to Help by Second Dating, Like, I can't tell you
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Speaker 1: how much it means to myself and Dean. The idea
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Speaker 1: that people listen to us on a weekly basis just
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Speaker 1: spewing my nonsense. So I don't ever think that I
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Speaker 1: am not in immensely grateful for every single one of
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Speaker 1: you guys. So okay, bye bye now okay, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's funny because every time somebody comes up and it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I love almost famous, Like that's so sweet.
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Speaker 1: And then Jared's like, if K she wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: listen to a new podcast, make it part of your life.
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Speaker 1: I have one called Headlost Secreitating. Well, it's uh, it's
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Speaker 1: been a podcast's been around for a while. They have
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Speaker 1: had great success. I've listened to many of their episodes
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Speaker 1: because they're insights. Now here's the thing. This is gonna
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Speaker 1: come off so mean, but it's your husband, so I
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Speaker 1: feel like I can say this to you. Oh you
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Speaker 1: can make from them so much. Well, the concept of
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Speaker 1: help by second dating, we've talked about it. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: really make sense because he's married to you. Dean's in
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Speaker 1: a very successful relationship. But you listen to the insights
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Speaker 1: of the podcast, and I've learned a ton, or if
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Speaker 1: I haven't learned from them, They've raised questions and topics
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Speaker 1: that I want to think about. I honestly, I think
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Speaker 1: it's worth it. And our next guest is somebody that
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Speaker 1: you and I have both learned a ton from over
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Speaker 1: the last few years. She has been a constant on
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Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. The reason is because her insights
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Speaker 1: not only are sometimes very new to you and I,
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Speaker 1: but they also are always very thought provoking and thorough.
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Speaker 1: She's gonna be live tomorrow night. And I'll tell you this,
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Speaker 1: Taylor and WiLAN has no, no boundaries on how she'll
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Speaker 1: answer questions. And I love that about Taylor is you
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Speaker 1: ask your question, no matter how personal, no matter how vulnerable,
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Speaker 1: She's going to answer it to the best of her ability.
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Speaker 1: And she'll be live tomorrow night. Hey, Taylor, how you doing. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: had the nicest dedication to your friend Vanessa last week,
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Speaker 1: who got engaged. Can you tell us a little bit
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Speaker 1: of the deeds when? What went into that engagement? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. Yeah, her and Josh are absolutely fantastic,
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Speaker 1: And I feel really really happy that I've been able
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Speaker 1: to actually develop a great friendship with Josh. Um. I
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Speaker 1: feel like he's got my back. He's always like, who
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Speaker 1: are you dating? And you know, Okay, we gotta find
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Speaker 1: you like someone really good so we can do double
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Speaker 1: dates and stuff. Yeah. It was really really sweet and
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Speaker 1: he had been planning it for a while, and Um,
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Speaker 1: I was asking for my help in it, and everything
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Speaker 1: turned out perfectly and she was super super surprised, had
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Speaker 1: no idea it was coming, um and absolutely loved it.
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Speaker 1: So like she this was not like this is one
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Speaker 1: of those like surprise engagement. She didn't know it was coming.
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Speaker 1: Did she have any clue that like a ring was
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Speaker 1: even purchased. I will let her share that. Where did
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Speaker 1: it take place? Uh, they were in Quebec City and
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Speaker 1: it was it just like a like a random part.
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Speaker 1: It was not like it was it a park. It
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Speaker 1: looked like a castle type of thing, but it was
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Speaker 1: kind of like a bridge thing. I think kind of
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Speaker 1: from the photos you can tell a little bit. Um,
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Speaker 1: But it was super sweet and he had like candles
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Speaker 1: up there and like they played like music and it
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Speaker 1: was really really beautiful. Well, we're here to have you
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Speaker 1: talk about your appearance on the Live Help I Suck
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Speaker 1: a Dating podcast, which will be tomorrow night. But I
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Speaker 1: also wanted to talk to you a little bit before
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Speaker 1: we get there about the upcoming Goat episode of Nick
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Speaker 1: Fiall's season. Is it Is it weird at all for
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Speaker 1: Vanessa to like just be engaged and then have to
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Speaker 1: watch her season back and watch her engagement to Nick. Um,
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Speaker 1: I don't really think so, because the that was recorded
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Speaker 1: way before all this happened. So, if anything, I think
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Speaker 1: it's kind of weird that, like with her update with Josh,
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Speaker 1: they won't be engaged on it and they are now. Um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, is it weird for you? Like is are
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Speaker 1: you what's your emotions? Um? I went back and rewatched
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Speaker 1: my season and it was definitely not as terrifying as
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Speaker 1: I thought it would be, which was nice. Um, it's
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Speaker 1: a little nerve racking, of course, because like you're back
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Speaker 1: on TV and you know, that opens up the floodgates
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Speaker 1: on everyone's opinions on everything about you in the like
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Speaker 1: thirties seconds that they see. Um. So yeah, it's been
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Speaker 1: nor bracking. I feel like no one who has been
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Speaker 1: on the show has been excited about these guy episodes hearing. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't think so either. It's not for most of us.
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Speaker 1: I mean, even if we find love on it, or
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Speaker 1: even if you know, we make great friends from or
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Speaker 1: even if we have a quote great at it, it
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Speaker 1: still is a lot that you go through. So I
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Speaker 1: don't think, Yeah, I agree with you. I think most
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Speaker 1: people are like, why why are we doing this, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think there's the level two where like most people
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Speaker 1: are thankful for it in some way. Right, it's either
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Speaker 1: enhanced our friendships, it's enhanced our relationships, and it's enhanced
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Speaker 1: our life. But you've also, just like anybody would expect you,
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Speaker 1: you've moved on. You know, you've either found new relationships
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Speaker 1: or you've started to invest into a career path that
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Speaker 1: is either entertainment focused or it's not. And so to
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Speaker 1: pull back, like I wouldn't said it this way, I
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Speaker 1: would I had to watch my good episod I don't
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Speaker 1: want to watch myself in College again, great experience. Loved
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Speaker 1: every minute of it, but like if I had to
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Speaker 1: watch it, Yeah, if I had to watch it back,
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Speaker 1: that's like horrifying. And so the same thing happens with
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Speaker 1: these good episodes. You know, you're watching yourself kiss again
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Speaker 1: and those things. So I get it. Um, Taylor, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: you know you are going to be on the Help
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Speaker 1: I Secondating Life show HM. And before you came on,
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Speaker 1: I was just kind of talking to Ashley offline about
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Speaker 1: you know, some of the things I really respect about
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Speaker 1: you is your vulnerability. Um. I feel like you you
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Speaker 1: really have been an open book, UH, which helps everybody
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Speaker 1: connect with you tomorrow night. What is your when when
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Speaker 1: somebody's asking you these questions? Is there anything off limits
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Speaker 1: or is there anything really that you're excited to talk
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Speaker 1: to them about? Mm hmmm, I mean I appreciate the
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Speaker 1: acknowledgement there and kind words. Then, UM, I do try
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Speaker 1: my best me an open book obviously with still having
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Speaker 1: my own boundaries. UM. You know, I'm not gonna share
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Speaker 1: anything about a partner or you know, a past partner
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Speaker 1: that I know they would be super uncomfortable with me sharing. UM.
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Speaker 1: So I don't like share any kind of private or
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Speaker 1: personal information about like people that I date, UM, unless
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Speaker 1: I have their permission to UM. I think I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more about like the conversations
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Speaker 1: around sex within relationships and how we go about, like, uh,
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Speaker 1: engaging in our sexual experiences within our relationships. I'm always
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Speaker 1: excited to talk about sexuality. So I think I'm looking
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Speaker 1: forward to that. Tomorrow. You're going to be like the
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Speaker 1: resident expert tomorrow. I mean, I'm totally happy to take
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Speaker 1: that role on UM. I'm starting my pH d in
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Speaker 1: clinical sexology UM, and like two three weeks the program
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Speaker 1: starts so really yeah, thanks, super excited about that. Um.
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Speaker 1: But I also do want to say, just to talking
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Speaker 1: about go for a second, Ben, you know, I watched
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Speaker 1: your your Goat episode and just have to say, like,
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Speaker 1: you truly were a fantastic bachelor, and everything you said
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Speaker 1: to Olivia was so heartfelt and so genuine and I
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Speaker 1: think really healing, um. And I was just like, yeah, wow, damn,
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Speaker 1: Like then it's like really a stand up guy. He
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Speaker 1: is like really thoughtful and kind. And I was just like, damn,
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Speaker 1: good for you. I was like that was that was
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Speaker 1: really really great? You know. It's it's interesting, um, because
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Speaker 1: you look back on an experience and there's there's so
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Speaker 1: many elements to being on the show and being the bachelor,
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Speaker 1: Bachelor of being a contestant. It's never wracking. It's a
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Speaker 1: risk and if you summarize it all I think looking
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Speaker 1: back now and I don't know if you'd agree or disagree,
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Speaker 1: but it's like, hey, I just hope every body comes
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Speaker 1: on the show at least either can grow or say
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Speaker 1: they're glad they did it. Like the worst thing that
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Speaker 1: you could do would say, hey, I took this risk
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Speaker 1: to like create a story, to enhance life, to get
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Speaker 1: to know myself in it, and in a sense, it
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Speaker 1: like ruined me. And I think for Olivia, she's one
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Speaker 1: of the prime examples of somebody that, like when you
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Speaker 1: get hurt as deeply as she was hurt from the show,
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Speaker 1: you know, she cares and you know, like there's there's
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Speaker 1: a depth inside of her that just wants to belong
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Speaker 1: and it and it really I think even the fans
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Speaker 1: response to it that night was like I actually and
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Speaker 1: Olivia could attest this like I cried. I called her
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Speaker 1: and she was crying and I was cranks, like no
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Speaker 1: matter if I was associated with or not. It was
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Speaker 1: beautiful to see the fans response saying, hey, Olivia, welcome,
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Speaker 1: welcome like you, we love you. That's cool, that's good stuff. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think that every Bachelor thinks about it
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Speaker 1: in the way that you do, which I think was
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Speaker 1: part of what. You know, I had had conversations with
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Speaker 1: Nick and you know, knowing that the goat is coming
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Speaker 1: up and um was on his show and whatnot, and
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Speaker 1: you know, his his response more so to like me
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Speaker 1: being sent home was just kind of like, well, I
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Speaker 1: knew it didn't matter, Like I didn't really care because
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Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to be with Vanessa, and just
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Speaker 1: the fact that you have this like empathy for the
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Speaker 1: contestants that were on your season, I thought was just
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Speaker 1: very very kind of you, very decent of you. And
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Speaker 1: I know it meant a lot to Olivia for you
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Speaker 1: to like have her back in that way. Um, And
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Speaker 1: so just watching and I was just like, Wow, Ben
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Speaker 1: was like, actually not only a really great bachelor, but
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Speaker 1: like is a real stand up guy. So that's a
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Speaker 1: great segue then to talk about where where I've learned
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Speaker 1: a lot in my life and being convicted a lot
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Speaker 1: from and it's something that you and I have in
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Speaker 1: common and it's definitely someone want to talk about. So
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Speaker 1: you uh have publicly talked about and also shared with
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Speaker 1: us that you're a big fan of Burnet Brown, who
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Speaker 1: I am a massive, massive fan of. Listened to also
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Speaker 1: read a ton from what about Burnee Brown? And for
16:56
Speaker 1: anybody out there listening, Burnee Brown is an author and
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Speaker 1: a speaker. She has an incredible ted talks out there.
17:02
Speaker 1: But if you if you just want, I'd say every
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Speaker 1: person and Ashley, I don't know if you evenne okay,
17:10
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you're like I've never heard Bernie Brown.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you this right now, go out
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Speaker 1: there and just like google her watch some of the stuff.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really gonna like relate with a lot
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Speaker 1: of us. But Taylor, what about Burnee do you most like,
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Speaker 1: uh associate with And what do you get from from
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Speaker 1: just reading her and thinking through what she's saying? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So she's like the world's leading researcher on vulnerability and shame.
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Speaker 1: So those are like the two big topics that um,
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Speaker 1: that she speaks on. And it's funny because whenever people
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Speaker 1: ask me why I went on the show in the
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Speaker 1: first place, I usually include her in that response because
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Speaker 1: her second book or second book and like after Gifts
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Speaker 1: the Imperfection, then Daring Greatly, then Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness. UM,
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Speaker 1: I was reading Gifts of Imperfections during in my program.
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Speaker 1: When I finished my program, I started reading Daring Greatly.
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Speaker 1: Now was when the opportunity for the show came on,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, okay, how can I dare
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Speaker 1: greatly in my life and like be vulnerable? And but
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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, you know, what better way to
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Speaker 1: air greatly and challenge myself with being vulnerable than to
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Speaker 1: go on a national reality data show and data total stranger.
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Speaker 1: Um So that piece to me. Um, There's so many
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Speaker 1: pieces of her work that really like resonate and stick
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Speaker 1: out to me, but certainly, like the most life changing
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Speaker 1: for me was taking on the like how do I
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Speaker 1: dare greatly and that's what literally led me to going
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Speaker 1: on the show So cool, so very cool. So tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: when you're on the live podcast, we know that you
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Speaker 1: have a lot of insight, whether it's vulnerability or sex.
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Speaker 1: What is one thing that you feel like you still
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Speaker 1: need to learn a lot about and still need to
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Speaker 1: approve upon yourself to become a better data Um. Certainly,
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Speaker 1: I would say sitting in my independence. Um. I think
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Speaker 1: one of the things I struggle with in relationships is
19:09
Speaker 1: when I get in one, it like becomes my whole identity. Um.
19:12
Speaker 1: So I think navigating how to maintain your own sense
19:16
Speaker 1: of independence while in a relationship is something I'm always
19:20
Speaker 1: continuously working on, and in that it's developing interdependence. Um.
19:26
Speaker 1: So for me, that interdependence is kind of like where
19:29
Speaker 1: I talked about on Paradise of like being your own
19:31
Speaker 1: full puzzle. But I look at it more as like
19:33
Speaker 1: even diagram now, So it's like I'm my own full
19:36
Speaker 1: circle here and my partners their own full circle here,
19:39
Speaker 1: and when we come together as a ven diagram, we
19:41
Speaker 1: still our own full people, right. But then we have
19:44
Speaker 1: this like middle space where we have interdependence, where we
19:48
Speaker 1: can rely on each other for things while still knowing
19:50
Speaker 1: that like our life and our identity exists outside of
19:54
Speaker 1: each other. You are so fun to listen to. Where
19:58
Speaker 1: can people know for real? Like I could just listen
20:01
Speaker 1: to you and not speak for a while because you're
20:03
Speaker 1: just full of knowledge. Where could people listen to you more? Um?
20:08
Speaker 1: I try thank you? Actually? Um really smart in some areas,
20:11
Speaker 1: not at all in others. The main people, the main
20:14
Speaker 1: place that people can listen to me is my podcast
20:17
Speaker 1: which is called Let's Talk About It um. I've also
20:19
Speaker 1: started a Patreon page where I'm gonna be doing like
20:22
Speaker 1: bachelor breakdowns, talking about sex, doing sex Q and a
20:26
Speaker 1: s um sharing like the things I'm learning in my
20:29
Speaker 1: PhD program on there, which you can also just search
20:31
Speaker 1: I think patreon dot com slash tamoka um. But on
20:34
Speaker 1: my Instagram at tamoca is where I have like all
20:37
Speaker 1: the links in my bio for all the places that
20:39
Speaker 1: you can follow me, find me, support my work, UM,
20:43
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. How long will this PhD? Uh?
20:47
Speaker 1: I guess I don't want to say class, Like, how
20:50
Speaker 1: long will it take you get your process? Take the journey?
20:54
Speaker 1: The journey from my PhD will be about two years. UM.
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Speaker 1: I'm getting in that modern sex therapy the institute, and
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Speaker 1: so the first the first whole year is your coursework
21:04
Speaker 1: and then the second year is like your dissertation and supervision. UM.
21:08
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of regulation around sex therapy certification,
21:15
Speaker 1: around being a sexologist. UM. Florida is the only state
21:19
Speaker 1: that actually has regulations around being a sex therapist. UM.
21:24
Speaker 1: And so the institute is based there and their license
21:28
Speaker 1: and UM. I have a friend here in Seattle who's
21:31
Speaker 1: an a sex certified therapist, UM, who's gonna be doing
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Speaker 1: the program with me. Literally excited about UM. But yeah,
21:37
Speaker 1: a SECT is like the largest accreditation for sex educators
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Speaker 1: sex therapists. UM. And you know that I could do,
21:46
Speaker 1: but it would take me about the same amount of time.
21:48
Speaker 1: And I was kind of like, you know, I think
21:49
Speaker 1: I wanna get my PhD instead, So really excited about
21:53
Speaker 1: the program, and yeah, I'll be finished by the time
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Speaker 1: of thirty and hopefully also be an author. Maybe that's amazing. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Taylor on behalf and not to be cliche. Thank you
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Speaker 1: the best in your further studies. Yea, thank you so
22:45
Speaker 1: much for having me. All right, Well, up next we
22:49
Speaker 1: have Bachelor Hall Topics. Ben is going to share a
22:51
Speaker 1: crazy weekend story with me and Lauren. Lindyke is talking
22:56
Speaker 1: about her new clothing line. Actually, this weekend I went
23:08
Speaker 1: and hiked my first fourteen er in Colorado. You know
23:11
Speaker 1: what that is? Nolp Okay. So if you live in
23:15
Speaker 1: Colorado or anywhere near the mountains, everybody always asks you
23:18
Speaker 1: have you done a fourteen yet? Which means you've hiked
23:20
Speaker 1: and summitted a mountain that's above fourteen thousand feet. So
23:25
Speaker 1: it's a long hike. It takes about a half a day.
23:27
Speaker 1: You wake up super early to do it. It's not easy. Um,
23:31
Speaker 1: and I did one this weekend. That's an accomplishment in itself.
23:34
Speaker 1: I'm super proud of myself for doing it. However, here
23:37
Speaker 1: is the story I want to share with you. Okay,
23:39
Speaker 1: So I'm on this hike. I'm going down the mountain
23:43
Speaker 1: and literally the trail walks alongside of like a thousand
23:48
Speaker 1: foot drop off, Like it's like a I mean, it's
23:50
Speaker 1: just straight down and the and the path is about
23:53
Speaker 1: let's say, three to four ft wide, so you have
23:55
Speaker 1: enough room to walk. It's not that scary, but it's
23:57
Speaker 1: I mean if you go off the side like you're
23:59
Speaker 1: going down on the mountain, which happens like people, It
24:02
Speaker 1: exists with people, right, it happens so sore on this
24:05
Speaker 1: walk and there's a ton of dogs in the walk always, uh,
24:10
Speaker 1: but a dog gets left alf off its leash and
24:15
Speaker 1: there's a mountain goat and this dog runs off the
24:19
Speaker 1: side of a mountain right in front of us after
24:22
Speaker 1: this go a dog. What Yeah, somebody's puppy runs right
24:29
Speaker 1: off the side of a mountain after this goat. So
24:31
Speaker 1: we're standing there. How did I hear go Because it
24:34
Speaker 1: ran after a goat. So there's like a mountain goat. Um.
24:38
Speaker 1: So this dog runs literally off the side of a
24:40
Speaker 1: mountain so far down that like you can't see it anymore.
24:44
Speaker 1: It's that steep like you're looking over the cliff and
24:45
Speaker 1: you can't see the dog. And this this the owner
24:49
Speaker 1: is freaking out, obviously is super sad. And then we
24:51
Speaker 1: hear we hear the dog bark, but it's so far
24:55
Speaker 1: down the mountain. This owner, so this is this represents
24:59
Speaker 1: love to me. This owner, out of pure love for
25:01
Speaker 1: their dog, literally like like climbs down this mountain side
25:07
Speaker 1: which is so dangerous after their dog and then grabs
25:11
Speaker 1: the dog. Finds a dog five hundred feet below them
25:14
Speaker 1: off the side of his cliff, and the dog is
25:16
Speaker 1: only staying onto the cliff by a snow bank. So
25:20
Speaker 1: there's like a snow build up and the dog had
25:21
Speaker 1: like fallen down to the snow bank and was sitting
25:24
Speaker 1: on it. The owner goes down and then out of
25:28
Speaker 1: pure like fight or flight, crawls their way with their
25:32
Speaker 1: dog back up to the trail to walk at home,
25:37
Speaker 1: right in front of us, all wild, wildest day. I
25:40
Speaker 1: don't know, it's crazy weekend. How does this dog survive
25:44
Speaker 1: that drop? Uh? It probably actually like ran and it
25:48
Speaker 1: just like never fell fully. And if it fell, then
25:51
Speaker 1: it fell just a few feet because it was the
25:53
Speaker 1: steepness of the cliff was like gradual until a certain point,
25:57
Speaker 1: and so they didn't put the dog. I mean, I
25:59
Speaker 1: don't know, I to see, but I'm assuming the dog
26:01
Speaker 1: to actually fall five feet. It ram probably you know,
26:05
Speaker 1: four seventy five ft and then fell the last But
26:08
Speaker 1: the dog was fine totally like just like stumbled and
26:12
Speaker 1: likely down the yeah, and then got caught up on
26:15
Speaker 1: the snow bank and the owner was able to crawl down.
26:18
Speaker 1: It was it was the wildest thing for the snow bank.
26:21
Speaker 1: What a wild thing to experience. I mean, my hands
26:24
Speaker 1: are sweating talking about it, Like what a wild thing
26:26
Speaker 1: to experience in person. Um, But that was my weekend
26:29
Speaker 1: and obviously, Ashley the Bachelor headlines didn't stop this weekend
26:34
Speaker 1: at all, and we have a lot to talk about.
26:36
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear from you. Everybody. Always I
26:38
Speaker 1: asked me, you know, what's Ashley's insight? Like, it's always
26:41
Speaker 1: above and beyond anything I could ever come up with.
26:43
Speaker 1: So the first headline this week is Joejoe Fletcher, Yes,
26:47
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Fletcher, the beloved contestant from the twentieth season
26:51
Speaker 1: The Bachelor and then The Bachelorrette on season sixteen, is
26:54
Speaker 1: filling in for Chris Harrison as the host. I think
26:59
Speaker 1: it's probably the first time Chris has ever not hosted
27:01
Speaker 1: an episode of The Bachelor Bachelorette, and she will be
27:05
Speaker 1: doing it for the next fourteen days. This according to
27:07
Speaker 1: US Weekly. Yeah, okay, so actually Chris Harrison did have
27:11
Speaker 1: a fill in. I think it was another former contestant
27:14
Speaker 1: who filled in for him. And this was over a
27:16
Speaker 1: decade ago. This is before I watched the show. Forgive
27:19
Speaker 1: me for not remembering what season it was, um, but
27:23
Speaker 1: I hear from a very inside source that Jojo was
27:28
Speaker 1: supposed to go down to the Quinta for fourteen days.
27:33
Speaker 1: And this I was told like I was actually told
27:36
Speaker 1: this before Harrison went on the trip to drop his
27:42
Speaker 1: kid off at college in Texas, So either they were
27:47
Speaker 1: planning on her filling in the entire time, Like if
27:51
Speaker 1: he was going to go to Texas, that was the
27:52
Speaker 1: plan he was going to have to quarantine for fourteen days.
27:57
Speaker 1: It seemed a little fishy to me though, because the
28:00
Speaker 1: other quarantines down there have not been fourteen days, They've
28:03
Speaker 1: been about seven. And usually with two negative tests you
28:08
Speaker 1: are able to start roaming about. And I do want
28:11
Speaker 1: to just emphasize again that it is so safe down there.
28:17
Speaker 1: You are quarantine to your room, can't see anyone, can
28:20
Speaker 1: see producers, not even with a mask on um. You
28:23
Speaker 1: can't go out to get food that the food is
28:25
Speaker 1: delivered to your door, and you have to have two
28:30
Speaker 1: negative COVID tests up the nose, two nostrils before walking
28:34
Speaker 1: around the campus. It's super safe. And I do believe
28:39
Speaker 1: that the producers and the casts had a quarantine for
28:42
Speaker 1: about seven days before they started shooting. Now, why would
28:47
Speaker 1: they change that with Harrison that he goes, he goes
28:52
Speaker 1: to Texas, drops off as kid of college, comes back,
28:54
Speaker 1: and then has to do fourteen days. There's also reports
28:58
Speaker 1: that Chris wasn't very happy about that. I have no
29:00
Speaker 1: firsthand knowledge of this um, but I do think it's
29:03
Speaker 1: interesting that Jojo was set before Chris came back to
29:09
Speaker 1: have fourteen to have a fourteen day stay at La Quinta,
29:13
Speaker 1: to throw a little twist in this. While we've been
29:16
Speaker 1: recording this podcast, et who I find a very reliable
29:20
Speaker 1: source in all this, as Laurence Ema, Chris Harrison's girlfriend,
29:23
Speaker 1: works there is has new pictures of the executive producer,
29:30
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Claire in a red dress at La
29:35
Speaker 1: Quinta filming with cameras and lighting around them. It could
29:39
Speaker 1: be a promo. They could be shooting a promo. But
29:43
Speaker 1: he's definitely not quarantined to his room right now. So
29:46
Speaker 1: is this a twist? Are they just trying to twist
29:48
Speaker 1: this season so much that Jojo fills in and it's fun,
29:52
Speaker 1: it's just like a new thing, it's a new a
29:55
Speaker 1: new whoe moment. Or is he actually busy to something
30:00
Speaker 1: else for the season. So, Ashley, I think everybody's asking,
30:07
Speaker 1: is this a change in the guard for the Bachelor?
30:11
Speaker 1: Do you see this being a long term change or
30:14
Speaker 1: is this really just a temporary fill in of Jojo
30:20
Speaker 1: for just this season. Well, what do you think? I
30:22
Speaker 1: think this is just truly a temporary fill in. However,
30:26
Speaker 1: there's some fishy smell around it all that there's more
30:31
Speaker 1: to this to me, That's what I'm wondering now. I
30:34
Speaker 1: don't think at any level Chris Harrison is close to
30:38
Speaker 1: being done with the show, and I do think Jojo
30:41
Speaker 1: is going to do a tremendous job at hosting this.
30:44
Speaker 1: It makes sense to me how I don't think this
30:46
Speaker 1: is a permanent thing. I don't even think it's hinted
30:48
Speaker 1: at that it is fishy. There's still a lot to
30:50
Speaker 1: be found out. Here's the truth to it all. To
30:53
Speaker 1: sum it up. As a fan, I am so interested
30:56
Speaker 1: in this season now. I mean there's so much chaos.
30:59
Speaker 1: It's they took the environment and the in this like
31:04
Speaker 1: what the world is feeling in reality, and just moved
31:08
Speaker 1: it down to Palm Springs and like hyping it up
31:11
Speaker 1: a little bit. Oh yeah, There's never been more promotion
31:15
Speaker 1: of a season than this, and it's almost all natural promotion,
31:19
Speaker 1: and it's great because nothing else is happening in entertainment today.
31:22
Speaker 1: I also think we should mention that Claire was spotted.
31:26
Speaker 1: There's photos that have been linked to her from from
31:29
Speaker 1: her stay at Laquinta over the past week. I believe,
31:33
Speaker 1: not not that I have this as factual knowledge, but
31:37
Speaker 1: from what I gather, that Claire is just gonna end
31:40
Speaker 1: up staying at Lacina and has stayed at Laquinta since
31:44
Speaker 1: she supposedly dropped out of her season. Really yeah, I
31:49
Speaker 1: would be shocked if they were like to sing Claire home.
31:51
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like even if she's off the season
31:53
Speaker 1: and after show, they're gonna follow up with her. They're
31:56
Speaker 1: going to do interviews with her, They're gonna show whatever
31:58
Speaker 1: the progresses in her really aationship. I have no doubt
32:01
Speaker 1: she's still probably down there hanging out doing her thing.
32:04
Speaker 1: It's probably a lot easier than mean The Bachelor at uh.
32:07
Speaker 1: But again, this is wild and there's still a lot
32:10
Speaker 1: of unknowns. However, we do know that Joe Joe Fletchers
32:14
Speaker 1: filling in for fourteen days at this point for Chris
32:17
Speaker 1: Harrison onto the Next Story, one of our favorites on
32:20
Speaker 1: the podcast, and somebody that's kind of come on a
32:22
Speaker 1: couple of times it helped us host and also just
32:24
Speaker 1: came on for interviews. Um Karine from Nick's season really
32:29
Speaker 1: came out this week and showed a lot of vulnerability
32:32
Speaker 1: and really started opening up about what it was like
32:35
Speaker 1: to be on The Bachelor. She thought her life was
32:38
Speaker 1: over after her actions on The Bachelor. Karan Uh mentions
32:44
Speaker 1: this on her interview with Nick, and then e Online
32:47
Speaker 1: covered it. But Karin and Nick sat down for a
32:50
Speaker 1: very vulnerable talk, which is obviously something that is intriguing
32:56
Speaker 1: to watch. Ashley, what do we know about Karine and
32:58
Speaker 1: what exactly did she say? So? She says I acted
33:01
Speaker 1: like a psychopath. She says, I was a completely different
33:06
Speaker 1: human at the time. I tried to do whatever I
33:09
Speaker 1: could to get your attention. I think she's referring to
33:12
Speaker 1: Nick and that in that situation, so she did everything
33:15
Speaker 1: that she could to get Nick's attention. Everyone freaked out,
33:18
Speaker 1: but I didn't care because I got my time with him,
33:22
Speaker 1: you know, on screen all that. Um. She also said
33:25
Speaker 1: that there was a lot about their relationship that viewers
33:28
Speaker 1: didn't get to see, including a heartfelt letter that producers
33:32
Speaker 1: never ended up giving to Nick, but she sent she
33:35
Speaker 1: put in their hands. She also said that she was
33:38
Speaker 1: upset because she feels like she has the qualities of
33:41
Speaker 1: a good wife and that she is a good girlfriend currently,
33:44
Speaker 1: but that side of her wasn't shown. She said that
33:47
Speaker 1: she felt like she looked like a pimbo. Well, we
33:50
Speaker 1: love Karen. We have appreciated her openness and honesty and
33:54
Speaker 1: her humor. You know, it's always a learning experience, as
33:57
Speaker 1: we talked about many times, and it, you know what,
33:59
Speaker 1: it helful to hear people come out and talk about
34:01
Speaker 1: their experience and how it affected them. Speaking of Nick season,
34:05
Speaker 1: Ashley um Vanessa, who was engaged to Nick after that
34:11
Speaker 1: season of The Bachelor, uh is uh is now engaged.
34:15
Speaker 1: She got engaged and Nick commented on the social media
34:19
Speaker 1: post uh with a very kind comment, which is which
34:24
Speaker 1: is nice to see. Yeah, he said, well, thank god
34:27
Speaker 1: I followed you back a week ago to hear this news.
34:30
Speaker 1: He wasn't following her for the past year or so
34:33
Speaker 1: after their breakup, and then continues to say, congrats to
34:36
Speaker 1: you two lucky guy. Um Vanessa started dating her lucky
34:41
Speaker 1: man over a year ago. For sure, Ben and I
34:44
Speaker 1: got to meet him at one of our Tahoe trips
34:46
Speaker 1: last summer. Wow, that was last summer. Time flies by.
34:51
Speaker 1: But he's super nice. He's a great guy. We're really
34:54
Speaker 1: happy for Vanessa. This isn't an unexpected engagement, but it's
34:57
Speaker 1: one that we still will celebrate. And it is great
35:00
Speaker 1: see Nick and Vanessa talking again. Uh. It's you know,
35:04
Speaker 1: obviously with Nick coming out with his new Patreon show. Uh,
35:07
Speaker 1: it's gonna always be interesting to fall along with those
35:10
Speaker 1: interviews and how they actually do speak of their relationship
35:14
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Speaker 1: I remember it as our very first in depth episode.
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Speaker 1: Uh is somebody that is constantly uh seen through the
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Speaker 1: headlines of trying to do good in the world, and
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Speaker 1: and we're pumped to have her on today. Lauren Lindyke.
37:19
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Thank n Hey, Ashley,
37:24
Speaker 1: have Ben. How are you guys? So good, so good,
37:27
Speaker 1: good good, good to hear. How are you doing? You
37:31
Speaker 1: posted something on Instagram the other day about how you're
37:34
Speaker 1: feeling a lot of anxiety lately. Anything you want to
37:37
Speaker 1: dive into with us, um, I mean, I don't want
37:40
Speaker 1: to go down a rabbit hole or anything, but obviously
37:43
Speaker 1: I'm overwhelmed. I'm dealing with the launch of my brand,
37:46
Speaker 1: which is a big thing for me, something I've been
37:48
Speaker 1: working on for a long time. And I'm also trying
37:51
Speaker 1: to be a good mom and wife. So there's just
37:54
Speaker 1: a lot on my plate at one time. And you
37:57
Speaker 1: guys recently just moved into a new house, right, Yeah
38:01
Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, so we moved in our new house
38:03
Speaker 1: like two months ago, and we're actually also remodeling our house,
38:06
Speaker 1: so that's another huge thing. Real quick, I want to
38:09
Speaker 1: pause you here because it's funny, Lauren. My grandma and
38:14
Speaker 1: my aunt both follow you on social media to like
38:18
Speaker 1: keep up with your life as a mother and as
38:20
Speaker 1: a wife, and they both followed me too, but like
38:24
Speaker 1: it's always impressive to me how much they know about
38:26
Speaker 1: you and uh, so on on behalf of them. I
38:31
Speaker 1: feel like I need to take a second here and
38:32
Speaker 1: and just ask what does it mean for you to
38:34
Speaker 1: be a good wife and a good mother, Like if
38:36
Speaker 1: we could dive into that a little bit, what are
38:38
Speaker 1: you trying to do? Um? So I guess on the
38:43
Speaker 1: front of being a good mom, I have a one
38:46
Speaker 1: year old daughter for those of you guys that don't know, UM,
38:49
Speaker 1: and I think for me, the most important thing is
38:51
Speaker 1: just setting a good example for her and showing her
38:53
Speaker 1: that she can do it all and she can be
38:57
Speaker 1: happy while doing it. So um, part of the reason
39:00
Speaker 1: I'm doing this clothing line is because I want to
39:03
Speaker 1: show her that she can do the same in her
39:05
Speaker 1: life too, So there's that, and then also just making
39:08
Speaker 1: sure that there's time for me to be with her
39:10
Speaker 1: and have quality time and teach her how to swim
39:13
Speaker 1: and talk and do everything that she likes to do.
39:16
Speaker 1: So that on the mom front, and then on the
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Speaker 1: wife front, obviously you have to spend quality time with
39:21
Speaker 1: your significant other two to make sure they're happy. So
39:25
Speaker 1: it's just it's more like a balance of time that
39:28
Speaker 1: is difficult to do, but I'm trying my best at it.
39:31
Speaker 1: So Yeah. On the same note as Ben. When I
39:36
Speaker 1: look at your Instagram, I'm like, how does she do
39:39
Speaker 1: it all? Plus looks so pretty and put together doing it?
39:43
Speaker 1: You're hilarious. No, seriously, Me and Jay talk about it
39:46
Speaker 1: all the time. We're like, her hair is like perfectly done.
39:50
Speaker 1: I was perfectly done. Um, but like I know you are.
39:54
Speaker 1: Probably you're probably like doing something towards work at all
39:59
Speaker 1: time times, whether it's your personal life or your brands. Yeah. Yeah,
40:05
Speaker 1: basically every single every day, whether it's the weekend or
40:08
Speaker 1: the weekday, we're doing something that is for work. Um.
40:12
Speaker 1: So maybe that's why I'm always looking put together, But
40:15
Speaker 1: I guarantee it's not always like that. Well, let's let's
40:18
Speaker 1: transition then over to your most recent projects, something you've
40:21
Speaker 1: already kind of hinted at and that you've been working
40:24
Speaker 1: hard on. You are coming out with your lifestyle line,
40:27
Speaker 1: Shades of Rose. Lauren Hut there listening to what tell
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Speaker 1: him about it. So I started working on Shades of
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Speaker 1: Rose about two years ago. Um, and I guess I've
40:40
Speaker 1: always just had this passion since I was in high school.
40:42
Speaker 1: I did a little modeling for fun. I wouldn't say
40:45
Speaker 1: I was serious about it. But I met this really
40:47
Speaker 1: cool designer locally in Seattle who helped me design from
40:51
Speaker 1: a bathing suit with her, and that's kind of what
40:54
Speaker 1: inspired my passion to go down and designed my own
40:58
Speaker 1: clothing line. So it's called a lifestyle line. I have
41:03
Speaker 1: a question, is there anything beyond clothes? Well, for right now,
41:08
Speaker 1: it's just going to be clothes. I'm thinking about benching
41:11
Speaker 1: into like kids clothes, maybe um, you know, maternity, or
41:17
Speaker 1: possibly begin like interior stuff in the future. But that
41:21
Speaker 1: far your play your houses always looks so perfect too,
41:26
Speaker 1: so I think a lot of people will be interested
41:28
Speaker 1: in that furniture home to core line. Thank you. Yeah,
41:32
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. I love doing that. When
41:35
Speaker 1: is the official launch of the brand. So the official
41:39
Speaker 1: launch of the brand is tomorrow on August eighteen. I
41:43
Speaker 1: got my my picks, my favorite items from your line
41:48
Speaker 1: and delivered to my door today. I am in Rhode Island,
41:52
Speaker 1: but it's an It's in l a and I can't
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Speaker 1: wait to put it on. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
41:57
Speaker 1: I hope so you. I was like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need every single item. She's thank you. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I really hope that you love them well for about
42:09
Speaker 1: the listening, you can go to the Shades of Rose
42:13
Speaker 1: dot com again. The launches August. I'm I'm assuming just
42:19
Speaker 1: because of of you, Lauren, and also the quality of
42:23
Speaker 1: the product, that sales will go quick. And so make
42:26
Speaker 1: sure you get online as as soon as you can,
42:29
Speaker 1: as soon as you wake up and check out the
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Speaker 1: Shades of Rose by Lauren Liondike. Lauren, thanks for coming on,
42:36
Speaker 1: and uh, we wish you the best and the most
42:38
Speaker 1: success in this. This is gonna be a lot of
42:39
Speaker 1: fun and and we are incredibly supportive of you. Before
42:44
Speaker 1: we let you go, Lauren, UM, if is there any
42:46
Speaker 1: little thing that Lessie is really into these days? Uh,
42:51
Speaker 1: she's starting to say a lot of words, like what
42:55
Speaker 1: was her first word? Yeah? So Lessie is a busybody.
42:59
Speaker 1: She's so independent only at one year old. Um, she's
43:03
Speaker 1: talking all the time in her own little language. She's
43:05
Speaker 1: constantly like babbling. Um, that's really cute. And then she
43:08
Speaker 1: also just learned how to swim under water, so I
43:11
Speaker 1: think that's probably her new favorite thing. She loves dunking
43:14
Speaker 1: herself under the water and holding her breath and she's
43:17
Speaker 1: really proud of herself. So it's really cute to watch.
43:20
Speaker 1: No way, that's so cool. That's impressive. I it's really impressive.
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Speaker 1: It's a big deal. Actually, my buddies and I were
43:27
Speaker 1: at the lake two weeks ago and we're trying to
43:29
Speaker 1: hold our breath underwater for as long as we could,
43:31
Speaker 1: and we're not very good at it anymore. So let's
43:33
Speaker 1: see good for you you might have. I'm pretty sure
43:38
Speaker 1: I was scared to do that until second grade. So
43:40
Speaker 1: she's ahead of the game. Yeah, I know. I was
43:43
Speaker 1: for a while too, so I'm really impressed with her.
43:46
Speaker 1: And I still gotta plug my nose. Well, Lauren, you're
43:51
Speaker 1: the best. Thanks again, and best luck tomorrow on the launch.
43:55
Speaker 1: Uh if you if you need anything, let us know,
43:58
Speaker 1: all right, Thank you, guys, Bye bye, Thanks for joining
44:02
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44:05
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about his Goat episodes and his
44:08
Speaker 1: in depth interviews with his girls. But until then, I've
44:14
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