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From DM Slide to Bride with Garrett Yrigoyen · 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: Garrett is here talking about his wedding. Garrett, congratulations, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you hey, Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, this is wild. It just feels like,
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  Speaker 3: tell us about your story with Alex, your wife, who
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  Speaker 3: you've been with for about three years now, right, yeah, a.
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  Speaker 4: Little over three years or right around three years?
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  Speaker 3: Where does time go? Is what? I mean? What three years?
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  Speaker 4: I know, it flies by super fast. I was living
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  Speaker 4: in San Diego, and I mean, just cutting to it.
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  Speaker 4: She just sent me a DM and we met up.
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  Speaker 4: So it turned out that she lived like three miles
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  Speaker 4: down the road from where I was at. I was
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  Speaker 4: living with my brother, my sister in law and their
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  Speaker 4: little guy, and she lived down the street, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, let's meet up. So that's kind of how
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  Speaker 4: it went.
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  Speaker 2: Dms are a good way to meet people. That's a
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  Speaker 2: good way. I like that move, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of skeptical about dms, but then I
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  Speaker 4: had to creep on her. So I had because she
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  Speaker 4: was private, and I was like, she's hot, she's blonde,
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  Speaker 4: she looks like she's fit, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 4: And so I freaking followed her and then she messaged
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  Speaker 4: me back, and then the rest is history.
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  Speaker 3: It was relatively soon after you ended things with Becca,
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  Speaker 3: and you and Becca ended things together, And was it
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  Speaker 3: your first date out back out there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so the odds, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 4: so it's pretty crazy that it's the first person after that.
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  Speaker 4: But I think I was just in the mindset that
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  Speaker 4: I knew what I wanted and what I was looking for,
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  Speaker 4: and then she pretty much fit all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So, so it's been three years now that you two
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  Speaker 2: have been together. When did you really know that she
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  Speaker 2: was somebody that you could potentially see spending the rest
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  Speaker 2: of your life with.
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  Speaker 4: I would say she made a commitment. I moved back
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  Speaker 4: to Reno. I was following a lifelong dream and career
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  Speaker 4: up here, and she was down in San Diego, still
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  Speaker 4: living a block from the beach. And then she's like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I want to make this happen. I'll do
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  Speaker 4: whatever it takes to make it work. So she moved
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  Speaker 4: up to Reno, she left living by the beach and
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  Speaker 4: committed herself to me and making the relationship work. And
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  Speaker 4: then especially when I went through an academy up here,
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  Speaker 4: she was there for me every single day, made sure
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  Speaker 4: that you know, I was taking care of everything was
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  Speaker 4: set because it's hard going through those academies. It's a
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  Speaker 4: grind academy. It was a fire academy. Oh okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so it was a grind because and it's hard on
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  Speaker 4: the relationship too, because every day I wake up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like five in the morning, get all my stuff ready
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  Speaker 4: for academy. By the time I get home, it's like
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  Speaker 4: seven o'clock at night. Then I got a study till
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  Speaker 4: like ten nine, ten o'clock, go to bed, wake up,
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  Speaker 4: do it again the next day. Yeah, it made it work.
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  Speaker 4: And then it was sometime in there like there after
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wow, you know, like in our hardest
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  Speaker 4: time of the relationship and the most challenging, she was
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  Speaker 4: there for me. She never you know, shied away from
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  Speaker 4: it or anything like that. And that's really when I
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  Speaker 4: could tell that I can spend the rest of my
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  Speaker 4: life with somebody like that.
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  Speaker 2: How soon was that, like after you guys met just
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  Speaker 2: her timeline purposes.
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  Speaker 4: That would have been that would have been right around
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  Speaker 4: the two year mark, like year two year mark, so.
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  Speaker 2: She was all in. She said, Hey, I want to
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  Speaker 2: be his support system. I know he'd do it.
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  Speaker 4: For me.
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  Speaker 2: This is a season he needs me. I'm going to Reno.
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving the beach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Reno is tough as somebody is. Just people who
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  Speaker 3: fly into Reno sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: I like Reno. I think it's one of the best
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  Speaker 2: things in the US. I think it's great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't explored it much beyond the airport. It's always
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  Speaker 3: just a stop on the way to Tahoe. For like,
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  Speaker 3: Amy's like get together as our producer, Amy, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: See the best part SNA. Reno has a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great city.
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  Speaker 4: And we got Tahoe in our backyard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So why did you decide to go to a
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  Speaker 3: fire academy? Are you firefighter? Now you graduate? Okay? So
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  Speaker 3: why did you decide to do that in Reno and
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  Speaker 3: not maybe in San Diego.
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  Speaker 4: So I was looking at San Diego and there was
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  Speaker 4: just like different career opportunities. I applied to San Diego.
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  Speaker 4: I applied all over. They call it like a shotgun application.
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  Speaker 4: So I pretty much did everywhere on the West coast.
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  Speaker 4: I did California, Oregon, Washington obviously in Nevad Idaho, A
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  Speaker 4: lot of departments and I just started testing like crazy
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  Speaker 4: to see which one I could get into. And then
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  Speaker 4: just being up in Reno, I had a friend that
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  Speaker 4: lived up here and was like, Yo, why don't you
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  Speaker 4: come up here. We got some people because getting into
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  Speaker 4: fire is one of the hardest things ever. It's almost
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  Speaker 4: like if you don't know somebody in it, it's like
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  Speaker 4: it can take a very long time to get in it.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people will quit. So the process was
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  Speaker 4: kind of heinous. But anyways, came up to Reno and
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  Speaker 4: my buddy was like, you could live with me, won't
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  Speaker 4: charge your rent because I know times are going to
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  Speaker 4: be tough. So I started working at an ambulance company
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  Speaker 4: and then I got I tested with a couple of
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  Speaker 4: departments around here, and then I finally got picked up
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  Speaker 4: by one. So the department that hired me is the
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  Speaker 4: academy I went through. Gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is, obviously, you said, a lifelong dream
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  Speaker 2: of yours. What about it made it a lifetrong lifelong dream?
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  Speaker 2: Is it an interest in just helping people or is
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  Speaker 2: it you know, has fire and like the mitigation of fires,
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  Speaker 2: something that's always intrigued you.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, a little bit of everything. I've always enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: just helping people, but I think one of the biggest
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  Speaker 4: things is being a part of a team and playing
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  Speaker 4: like collegiate sports and stuff like that, and getting that
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  Speaker 4: fill for being a part of a team. It's almost
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  Speaker 4: like that same thing in the fire department where you're
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  Speaker 4: all trying to work together to accomplish a goal. You
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  Speaker 4: train together, you work out together, you eat together, you
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  Speaker 4: form like a special bond. And I was like, that's
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  Speaker 4: so sick that there's a career where you can have
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  Speaker 4: that same feeling as well as helping people and you're
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  Speaker 4: always improving or the thing is always like you can
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  Speaker 4: always be training and every day is different. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys got married in Hawaii this month? Why Hawaii?
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  Speaker 3: What was the vibe?
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  Speaker 4: Like? She's always kind of wanted a little destination wedding
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  Speaker 4: for me. I'm like, hey, I can get married anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: She's had a vision since she was a little girl
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  Speaker 4: kind of where she wanted to get married. Destination She
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  Speaker 4: thought of Hawaii. We were on vacation there last year
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  Speaker 4: and I had an old teammate actually and friend of
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  Speaker 4: mine who got married at the place that we got
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  Speaker 4: married at, but in a different location. And she's like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, Alec's gorgeous. So when we were in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 4: we're in Maui, we flew over to a Wahu to
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  Speaker 4: go check it out. Immediately when we showed up to
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  Speaker 4: the venue, We're just both stricken, like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: the mountains, the ocean, just everything was there. What we
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  Speaker 4: both love was in one one venue on location. It
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  Speaker 4: was nice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh perfect? Nice.
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  Speaker 4: How many people we had just about one hundred people there,
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  Speaker 4: a little over one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot for destination, buddy, that's really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, were you nervous, like is this something you've obviously
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  Speaker 2: been on national television? What were the emotions like leading
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  Speaker 2: up to the wedding?
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  Speaker 4: You know that's her dad asked me that too. You
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  Speaker 4: got to be anxious And I'm like, no, I'm not anxious.
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  Speaker 4: You're nervous. I'm like, I'm not nervous. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited. We've been engaged for a year. I could
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  Speaker 4: have gotten married and done this a year ago when
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  Speaker 4: I popped the question to her, So it's just been
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  Speaker 4: a year. I'm more excited than anything because I knew
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  Speaker 4: that it was like a lot of our close friends
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  Speaker 4: and family there, and then it was going to be
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  Speaker 4: one hell of a party. Like it was so sick
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  Speaker 4: how we had Alex got it all down. She loves
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  Speaker 4: live music. Her family is very musical, so she's like,
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  Speaker 4: we got to have a sax player there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I love that, Yes, under rated instrument.
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  Speaker 4: It was so sick. I mean the sacks mixed in
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  Speaker 4: with the DJ. She put the whole playlist together, so
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't like any typical dig at all. She's like,
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  Speaker 4: if you play one typical wedding song like you're fired,
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. I'll kick your as.
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  Speaker 3: Alex and I would get along.
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  Speaker 4: So well, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So she was a Bachelor fan obviously beforehand. Since
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  Speaker 3: she's slid into your dms, did she give up the
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  Speaker 3: show once you guys got together?
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  Speaker 2: It was weird?
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  Speaker 3: Is she still like it? What's her relationship to the
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  Speaker 3: Bachelor now?
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  Speaker 4: She doesn't really watch the show if she does watch it,
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  Speaker 4: maybe she doesn't in secret, I don't know, but no,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think she watches the show anymore. She was
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  Speaker 4: like a heavy viewer of it in the past. She
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  Speaker 4: just kind of like watched it. She didn't watch like
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  Speaker 4: every episode, but she'd watch it here and there with
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  Speaker 4: her friends.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, no, obviously she she saw something in you
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  Speaker 2: from the show that she said, I am going to
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  Speaker 2: message this guy. Has she told you yet? Like what
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  Speaker 2: made her say, out of all the guys that come
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  Speaker 2: through the show, out of all the seasons that she's watched,
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  Speaker 2: this is the dude I want to DM.
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  Speaker 4: Not really, she was just she said that it kind
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  Speaker 4: of happened on a whim with her friends where it
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  Speaker 4: was like, who is people that were on the show
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  Speaker 4: that would be like a good dude that might be
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  Speaker 4: in the area, And that's kind of how she came
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  Speaker 4: across me. And then she said when she was watching
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  Speaker 4: the season that I was her favorite on the season.
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  Speaker 4: But anyways, but she just said it was she liked
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  Speaker 4: that I was outdoorsy and I wasn't like trying to
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  Speaker 4: seek fame or anything like that, so it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of more attractive to her.
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  Speaker 3: What's weird about being part of Vagination is that when
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  Speaker 3: you do break up, you have to kind of see
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  Speaker 3: your ex continue to do life via the media. How
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  Speaker 3: has it been watching Becca get engaged to go on
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  Speaker 3: Paradise have a baby.
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  Speaker 4: I Mean, it's totally fine with me. Life goes on.
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  Speaker 4: Life moves and for me it's like when something's done,
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  Speaker 4: it's done, and I make that set in my mind
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  Speaker 4: in my heart, and when it's like that, like there's
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  Speaker 4: no going back for me. So when we broke up
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  Speaker 4: and there there was no chance of that reconnecting, it's
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  Speaker 4: like life goes on. We just want what's best for
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  Speaker 4: each other, at least someone what's best for her. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whatever she did to get to where she's
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  Speaker 4: at now, I'm happy for and excited as long as
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  Speaker 4: she's happy and living life the way she wants to.
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  Speaker 4: So to me, it has no bother, no worry, anything
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  Speaker 4: like that other than just hopefully you know, she's living
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  Speaker 4: the life that she wants.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is wild though, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: me personally, sometimes maybe earlier on, to see this person
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  Speaker 2: that you're known to be with from the show Live
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  Speaker 2: Life and they're everywhere, you can't escape it. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a constant reminder of the show. Really it was to me.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the best perspective, Garrett, to just be. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you both moved on. Now you're both doing your thing,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounds like you both are working working through
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  Speaker 2: life in the most beautiful way and one of those ways.
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  Speaker 2: As you've mentioned, you're in Reno, live in Reno as
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  Speaker 2: a fire men. Are you guys going to stay in Reno?
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  Speaker 2: Is that like you think that's the spot now forever.
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  Speaker 4: I never say any things forever, but it's our spot
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  Speaker 4: for a while for sure, because getting going in the
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  Speaker 4: career and everything like that. What's nice with the with
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  Speaker 4: this job though, is that it does give you a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of flexibility and the option to possibly live
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  Speaker 4: elsewhere and then commute in. But I don't foresee that
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  Speaker 4: happening anytime soon.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have any bachelor alum at your wedding? Forget
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  Speaker 3: to ask that earlier.
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  Speaker 4: No bachelor alem at the wedding?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you so much for joining us, Garrett.
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  Speaker 3: It's been really good to catch up with you. Is
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  Speaker 3: there anything else on the docket right now for you
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  Speaker 3: and Alex house kids?
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  Speaker 4: No, just thinking about the future. So hopefully we'll get
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  Speaker 4: a house here. I don't know when, with how the
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  Speaker 4: market is and just life in general. So we're just
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  Speaker 4: coming back from being on the wedding doing a little
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  Speaker 4: honeymoon action. Now it's just getting ready for the holidays,
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  Speaker 4: paying off that wedding that we.
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  Speaker 3: Just yeah, yeah, you enjoy the slowness and the bliss
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  Speaker 3: that is. Yeah, the first year and such.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah for sure. So but kids in the future for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Man, We're pumped for you. Congratulations once again. You guys
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  Speaker 2: are a beautiful couple and wishing the best.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys. I appreciate you having me on here
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  Speaker 4: and it's good to see you both too. Bye Garrett, Hi,
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  Speaker 4: bye you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Weddings are all throughout Bacheloration right now and here it's
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  Speaker 2: the Almost Famous podcast. We are covering him all, from
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  Speaker 2: Chris and Lauren to garretton Alex to Kenney and MARII.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we had Sarah Herron on just a few short
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. Uh, there's just so many weddings we need
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  Speaker 2: to get. We're gonna get teon. She's busy right now,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna get teon. It's just been a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: season of love and laughter and life for Bachelornation and
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  Speaker 2: we could not be more excited to be talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: But until next time, I've been Ben, I've been Ashley Cia.
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