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Almost Famous OGs: Bring it On with Melissa Rycroft Strickland · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hey, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited for today's interview. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking today with Melissa Redcroft Strickland. She was on Jason
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  Speaker 1: mesnixt season and if you didn't watch back then maybe
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  Speaker 1: you should go watch because it's one of the most
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  Speaker 1: dramatic episodes ever. I know that's very overused, but and
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  Speaker 1: it's all Chris Harrison's thing, and I'm not Chris Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: but it still is. It was an incredible season, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, since then, Molly and Jason have gone on
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  Speaker 1: to have a very happy family, as has Melissa. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy for her and Ty who they've been married. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long they've been married for maybe
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  Speaker 1: fifteen at least ten years. Actually they have a twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old, so probably like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited to talk to her. It's been a very
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  Speaker 1: long time since we've seen each other, but I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to chat. So let's bring her in.
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  Speaker 2: How are you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, summer as chaotic in your house as it
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  Speaker 4: is in mine. I'm like, I don't know what day
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  Speaker 4: it is. Time schedules changed daily, and I just you know,
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, I hate it, I get it. I
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  Speaker 3: get it.
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  Speaker 2: I know I get it.
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  Speaker 3: And but I'm so excited that you're here.
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  Speaker 1: I am so happy to welcome you to the almost
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  Speaker 1: famous ogs podcast, because that's of course what you are.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you know all about podcasting because you've
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  Speaker 1: been doing it for a while.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just so excited to be able to chat.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It has been a very long time. I think it
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  Speaker 4: was that old show Bachelor Pad. I'm pretty sure that
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  Speaker 4: was the last time.
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  Speaker 1: But actually I think it was Dancing with the Stars
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  Speaker 1: the Well, let's see which one was first or second
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  Speaker 1: or I So I know that we were both there
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  Speaker 1: for the episode, right maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know what's first, that chicken or leg
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  Speaker 4: You were at the hundredth episodes, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you were at one hundredth episode. Yeah, so where
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  Speaker 1: they had like a cake in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: ballroom and a big we took a big picture, yes, yeah, yeah, yes, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe that was the last maybe either or but yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's been regardless, it's been it's been a while. It's
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  Speaker 1: been three kids later, and for you a bottle. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of life changes. How is life?
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  Speaker 4: Life is good, Life is good. It's we are in
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  Speaker 4: summertime right now. I've got three of them, seven, nine,
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  Speaker 4: and twelve. So it's just it's chaos. But I got
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  Speaker 4: really emotional at the start of summers. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: only have like five or six more with my daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Oh less, I know, it's like it's a weird thing
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  Speaker 4: when it hits you. So I told my husband Ty,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I want to travel this summer. I
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  Speaker 4: want to start making memory and you know because before
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  Speaker 4: long she's going to invite a friend and then vacation
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  Speaker 4: changes and so but it did hit me. I went,
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  Speaker 4: how did we get here? Like, how do I? I?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I just went on, I just got back from
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  Speaker 1: a mother daughter trip to a friend's cabin or like
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  Speaker 1: big barn that they just built and tell your ride.
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  Speaker 3: And it was, you know, the moms and.
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  Speaker 1: The daughters, and the daughters of course, just mainly hung
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  Speaker 1: out with the daughters. So you know, I was hoping
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit more time with her, but I
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  Speaker 1: was also happy that she was happy and having fun.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So she's fourteen and Matt held Max is fifteen. So
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  Speaker 1: we are we so and the chaos of like summer
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  Speaker 1: for me right now is we are currently trying to
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  Speaker 1: sell our house and move to Denver and go They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be going to a new school. But in
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  Speaker 1: changing schools, it's really sinking in because we consistently are saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: we only have four more years with Blakesley here, so
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  Speaker 1: we could live in a house that you know is
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  Speaker 1: close to school. Blah blah blah, you know all of
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  Speaker 1: those things. But so it really sinks in like it has.
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  Speaker 1: It has definitely sunk in for me lately.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like every time I think about it, I just
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  Speaker 4: get the goosebumps of like, oh, I'm not ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I know, I know, And and your boys
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  Speaker 1: like what is everyone into?
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  Speaker 3: I believe it's ava right?
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  Speaker 1: Your daughter yes, and she's a dancer, does answer.
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  Speaker 4: She's kind of following up.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: But it makes me nervous too to get.
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  Speaker 3: That mine is true.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I love it. I was very adamant of like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm you find your own path, girlfriend, you know where
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  Speaker 4: I went. I will not push you. And she you know,
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  Speaker 4: I worked with the Cowboys cheerleaders this past weekend and
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  Speaker 4: I came home and she goes, Mom, do you think
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  Speaker 4: I could make the team if I keep doing what
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing? And I'm like, oh, that breaks, Yes you can.
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  Speaker 4: But oh it's such I feel like I feel like
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  Speaker 4: because she's chosen the past, she has, there's a high
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  Speaker 4: bar that, like she wants to be on Dancing with
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  Speaker 4: the Stars, I'm like, baby, they ask you to be on.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You can't audition and get
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  Speaker 4: on Dancing with the Stars. And you know, twelve is
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  Speaker 4: a hard age when they're coming into their own. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: she's a dancer. She loves it. This is what she
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  Speaker 4: wants to do when she grows up. And so I
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  Speaker 4: was like, we'll put all our eggs in that basket, girl,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll do whatever I can to help you fulfill
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  Speaker 4: that dream, whatever the dream may be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, No, that's totally Blakesley too.
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  Speaker 1: She is all in and it's been it's it's it's hard,
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  Speaker 1: and it is so amazing to see. Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about about you, how you how your experiences, but
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  Speaker 1: for me, I always say, like, she is so much
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  Speaker 1: more talented than I ever was, Like she is technically
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  Speaker 1: traditionally trained, like you know.
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  Speaker 3: I was not.
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  Speaker 1: I was just like I did the school thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like in high school and then in college and then
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  Speaker 1: for my Miami heat Like I that was my path
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  Speaker 1: and her path is competitive, like technically trained, which just
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  Speaker 1: fills me with so much joy. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me so nervous because I'm like, it's a
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  Speaker 1: hard career to choose because you know, they're not very
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  Speaker 1: kind all the time. You know, at auditions, they're not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily gonna just you know, tell you all the nice things.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna, you know, kind of beat you down. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is hard.
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  Speaker 3: But I love that our girls both bound dance. I
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  Speaker 3: love it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a thing, you know, I will say.
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  Speaker 4: I love that it's becoming dance is becoming more of
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  Speaker 4: a quote unquote thing, if you will. We just had
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  Speaker 4: a girl that we grew up dancing with who got
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  Speaker 4: dance scholarships to Michigan State University, and I'm like, dance
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  Speaker 4: scholarships didn't even exist back when on not that I
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  Speaker 4: ever got one, but that was people laughed at that,
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  Speaker 4: like what is a dance scholarship going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: So I do like that it's evolved a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I mean, there is some incentive to
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  Speaker 4: keep up with it, that there's there's more than what
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  Speaker 4: we had growing up as totally for them.
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  Speaker 1: And there's so many incredible schools with dance programs now
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  Speaker 1: that I'm finding out, like I had, I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea because it wasn't something that I necessarily wanted to
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  Speaker 1: study as a career. But yeah, so you so you
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  Speaker 1: spoke about the Dallas Cowboy Chailader thing.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me about that, like, do they do?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I've caught it a couple times on TV.
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  Speaker 1: I tell me the channel, tell me all the things
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  Speaker 1: about what's.
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  Speaker 3: Going on with that, and how long have you been
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  Speaker 3: doing it?
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  Speaker 4: Let's I think I've been on the judging side of
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  Speaker 4: it for seven years now.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I get it mixed up with my timing. I'm very
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  Speaker 4: bad about that and I think it's been about seven
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  Speaker 4: Everything is always two years ago for me. It's awesome
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  Speaker 4: being on the other side of a professional sports team,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, like being in one, and you kind
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  Speaker 4: of always want to know what's going on behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: And now you know, I'm able to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of the tryout process and the Cowboys cheerleaders have a
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  Speaker 4: three month tryout process.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty intense months.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa and they follow it with camera.
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  Speaker 4: We just is there a show they did? They did,
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  Speaker 4: there was a show on CMT it it went away
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  Speaker 4: two seasons ago. So now we're just just doing doing tryouts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just doing tryouts. But yeah, I mean it's I love
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  Speaker 4: staying involved in the organization. I mean, I think that
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  Speaker 4: was a big reason why I was able to launch
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  Speaker 4: kind of into the quasi career that I had. Ye,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and so you always go back and do
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  Speaker 4: what you can to keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, of course, it's so much fun. We just
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  Speaker 1: had a Miami Heat reunion alumni reunion, and they had
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  Speaker 1: really yes, they had a reunion and there were I
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  Speaker 1: think there were seventy seventy five of us on the
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  Speaker 1: court at the same time dancing. We and mind you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fifty. So I was scrolling your Instagram just kind
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  Speaker 1: of checking out what you're doing lately, and I saw
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  Speaker 1: you post on her fortieth birthday of the picture like
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  Speaker 1: what was the old T shirt?
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  Speaker 4: Love that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's old.
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  Speaker 4: I know what you're talking about about, But.
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  Speaker 1: I'm now one of the old people essentially, And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, but she's only.
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  Speaker 4: Forty, but still every time it hits you where you're like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: you're old. Oh but we went to high school together.
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  Speaker 4: My bad never.
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  Speaker 1: Totally yes, So anyway, I definitely feel old. And when
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  Speaker 1: they yes, oh, well, right back at you, right back
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  Speaker 1: at you, thank you. I just they sent us like
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  Speaker 1: choreography in like, you know, videos so that we could
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  Speaker 1: do it from home. So we did if we didn't
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  Speaker 1: live in Miami, which a lot of us don't, and
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  Speaker 1: I had to go to my I called the dance
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  Speaker 1: director of my daughter's dance studio and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: can I please.
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  Speaker 3: Use the studio?
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  Speaker 1: So she has like a TV up and I put
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  Speaker 1: it on the TV, like learning this at my daughter's
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  Speaker 1: dance studio. Mind you, of course she's totally making fun
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  Speaker 1: of me.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, oh my gosh, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Been a long long time and it was so hard
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  Speaker 1: but so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: Have you gotten to do anything like that?
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  Speaker 4: They do alumni games every year, and it's always about
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  Speaker 4: when our anniversary is and we're in Vegas, so I
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  Speaker 4: have mist like every alumni performance. But last year I
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  Speaker 4: saw the routine. I was like, that's a they're doing
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  Speaker 4: double pirouette. And jumps in the CLUMPI are you getting me?
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, they didn't ask me to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: It was unbelievable, and they were doing it, these fifty
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  Speaker 4: sixty seventy year old women. I was like, all right, girls,
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  Speaker 4: get it, do your achievers.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not me, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Right, just meet me at the barn after thanks exactly whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You totally could still do all that stuff. I definitely
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  Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, I mean my flexibility is
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  Speaker 1: poop and yeah, I have definitely not kept up with it.
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  Speaker 3: So you said, Vegas. Do you go to Vegas every
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  Speaker 3: year for your anniversary?
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  Speaker 4: We go like four times a year. You do work
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  Speaker 4: are really weird and that Vegas is our happy relaxation place.
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  Speaker 2: Boys do we go to Vegas?
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  Speaker 4: Are y'all like crazy gamblers? Are you going to the clubs?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like bed by eight thirty in Vegas?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm making a collect dinner reservations. We walk the
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  Speaker 4: strip home. It's it's like a one stop shop. You
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  Speaker 4: have pool, massages, shopping. It's the best people watching you
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  Speaker 4: will ever find in your entire library.
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  Speaker 3: That's so true.
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  Speaker 4: So we do, we go.
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  Speaker 3: We go a lot that is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I have never heard anyone explain to describe Vegas as
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  Speaker 1: a like retreat.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, do it right, That's what I'm saying everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: While we're walking home and I see the lines for
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  Speaker 4: the nightclub and there's you could say me money.
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  Speaker 3: No go into that night right, No, thank you? Uh uh.
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  Speaker 2: It can actually be a very relaxing place.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you like, go to the
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  Speaker 1: right hotels. They do have incredible restaurants, great shopping, great pools,
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  Speaker 1: great spas.
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  Speaker 3: So you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I just never thought about it like that. Ryan took
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  Speaker 1: the kids one one year. I had a work trip
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  Speaker 1: around spring break and so he was like, well then
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go somewhere, and he's like, where can
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  Speaker 1: I go? They went to Vegas and did like Blue
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  Speaker 1: Man Group and you know, did the roller coaster rides
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, right, whole other part of Vegas that is not
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  Speaker 4: Blackjack tables in my clothes And it's so true.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So Bachelor, do you used to watch?
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is not shocking. That's not shocking. I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of people watch of ogk
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  Speaker 1: of like the Ogs.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I do feel like it works an explanation
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  Speaker 4: because it sounds like you're bitter when you're like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I don't watch, and I don't watch for any other
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  Speaker 4: reason other than I just don't relate to anybody anymore.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're hot, even twenty year old that can't
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  Speaker 4: settle down at twenty and I just am like, I
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  Speaker 4: just can't relate anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I've aged out of you know, having this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh and we try, I always try, and I fall out,
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  Speaker 4: and I know I haven't watched a long time.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like I am starting to feel that way,
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  Speaker 1: as like the first one. I have always said that
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  Speaker 1: I feel very maternal towards everyone on the show, just because,
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  Speaker 1: like I've watched, I've watched everyone kind of go through
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, and so I feel like I have
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  Speaker 1: an obligation in a way.
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  Speaker 3: And now that I'm you know, have been.
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  Speaker 1: Doing this podcast, I feel like a little bit even
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  Speaker 1: though we just mainly talk to OG's. So I definitely
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  Speaker 1: feel that way. And but recently I have been like,
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  Speaker 1: oh gosh, like I just feel the same way.
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  Speaker 3: These people are so young, like I could I could
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  Speaker 3: be their mother.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy yeah, and as their mother, I like twenty one,
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  Speaker 4: you do not need to take this route right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So I definitely feel you I have. I do
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: watch Bachelor in Paradise, like I do love Bachelor in Paradise,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the shows.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I am going to watch I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: try to.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Watch Charity season, which is the new Bachelorette that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be coming out. Actually I think it's on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's coming out next week, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Think it is. It's either next week or the week after.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say it's next Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't finish Zach season completely, so I didn't
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: see like her final episode. But I think that she's
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: pretty strong in terms of like all things that I
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: personally feel like you need in terms of being a bachelorette.
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  Speaker 1: But but who knows how long i'll watch, We'll see, right.
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  Speaker 3: Do you still get recognized?
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  Speaker 2: I do?
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  Speaker 4: And you know what's funny is I feel like, as
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  Speaker 4: much stuff as I've done in my career, it's always
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  Speaker 4: Bachelor really that they Yes, it's always Bachelor that I
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  Speaker 4: get recognized for. And Ty still gets the oh, you're
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  Speaker 4: so much better than that other guy. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: y'all it's been nearly twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've all we are all so where we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be and we're.
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  Speaker 4: Fine, like a lifetime ago. But our I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know if you again, my timeline's all off. Like three
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  Speaker 4: years ago, my season of The Bachelor came out on Netflix.
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember that?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: They did, yes, during COVID they did like a best
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  Speaker 1: uh best in show kind of thing, so Chris did
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  Speaker 1: like episodes. Actually they showed the entire series. I feel
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: like of some of them, mine was on same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think that's when it was because I know
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  Speaker 1: it was during COVID.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was weird, and now my daughter's friends
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  Speaker 4: were watching it. I was like, ooh, I had kept
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  Speaker 4: that a nice little secret for a while. It did that,
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  Speaker 4: But I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Do they do they think it's cool or do they
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  Speaker 3: think it's because.
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  Speaker 4: It's on TV. They don't even really care about the
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  Speaker 4: story or what happened. It's you're on my TV. Let's
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  Speaker 4: pat off.
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  Speaker 2: I've got other things you can watch. Let's not watch that. Yeah,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: it's yeah, yeah, it's just weird.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Do you regret doing the show?
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Because I'm interested to hear like your take, because I
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: have a I'll share my opinion in a second.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can't say I regret it because I
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: look at everything that happened in my life after, including
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: the fact that I got back with my ex boyfriend
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: who became my home you know what I mean, Like
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: everything in my life changed case of that show, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I really went on it. I had a friend, she
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: was a cheerleader with me or front. Her name was Natalie.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: She's the one that nominated me. I don't even know
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: how they do the process anymore, but she submitted my
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: name and fogo online and I got this huge packet
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: in the mail and I went.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Well why not.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm not happy right now. I hate
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: my job. I'm not cheering anymore. And I just went,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: let's just see what I Let's just see And so
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I really went into it with a who knows what's
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: going to happen. I mean, you know, when we did this,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: there's no social media. There was really no ulterior motive
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: for going on this show other than one with fits
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: finding love or two like what I was doing of like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I just need something else. I'm not happy where I
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: am and I just need a change of scenery and
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: to see if this could be it, and so because
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: of that, I don't regret it now. I hate what
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: happened for sure, but if it hadn't happened, I don't
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: know what would have happened after, And so I can't,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: you know, I can't hate that totally.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That is that is my mentality for the people like obviously,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: for me, I found my husband and we are still married,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, so yes, for me, it's different. But
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like for the people who didn't have like
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the happy ending that they wanted or maybe were looking for,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that it led you to where you are today, you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, hopefully you're happy now
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and it led you to where you were today. So
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you said that you hated what happened. What do you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: for the people who need a little refresher? What do
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you hate about what happened?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: You really?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know everyone knows. Everyone knows, And it's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: funny to me that people are like when they count
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: like successful relationships, they're like not Molly and Jason, which
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is interesting to me because they met on the show,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you know, so even though things went down like they did,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's just that's always interesting, you know, I.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Mean, here's here, Like, I've had so much time to
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: sit and reflect, and it really only took a couple
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: weeks of me sitting at home stirring before I realized
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: what happened. I legit think he got played as much
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: as I did, you know what I mean. I think
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: he was telling producers what he was doing and how
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: he was feeling behind the scenes. They told him not
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: to say anything, so he didn't say anything, and they
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: said wait for it on camera. Because I heard the
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: phrase the audience deserves to hear it, and so.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I know he was hearing that, and it ended up.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Making him look like a horrible villain and embarrassing me completely,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like all around, I think
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: we were all victims in the production of the show.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Do I blame production? No, we know they're making the show.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I get that now.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Like when I was twenty two and twenty three, I
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: was mad, you know, when they approached Bachelorette, I was like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: absolutely not. You guys are psychos. I want nothing to
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: do with you or.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Your show right like you say you're Bachelor the bus.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be a part of it. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: now being forty and seeing it. I'm like, they didn't
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: owe me anything, they didn't know Jason anything. They exactly
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: what they wanted when they put us on that stage together.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So so right, You're so right, And I think that's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: so wise, such a wise way to look at it,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a mature way. You know, when you're when you're twenty two,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty five, thirty whatever, going through it, it's hard,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: especially when you're in the middle of it, I'm sure,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: but I have always felt like, you know, I have
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: always told people I'm friends with the exec producers because.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: I'm able to separate it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I know that they're creating a show, right, and then
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: we also have this relationship. So as long as I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: get that, then it's fine. Like for Ryan, it's different,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Like he just always reflects back to when we were
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: trying to plan the wedding and you know, people were
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: not being super kind so like from production and and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: he so he reflects back to that and kind of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: holds a grudge in a way. And I'm just kind
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of like, they're producing a show.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's their job.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: You know, I'll ever go back and be there for
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: it again. But they're gonna be right, Yeah, No, they're right,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: there's definitely a lay.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Have you talked to Jason?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: No, you looks really funny.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Seven or eight years ago, we were in talks Ty
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: and I were for a wife swap. Do you remember
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: that show on ABC?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yes? Of course they asked us to do that too.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: That would have been fun if we would have swapped.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Going to the whole process and kinda like, let's whip ever,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: it's fun, it'll be fun. Well, some sweet producer at
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: the very end of the whole casting process goes, I
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: just need to tell you, and I didn't even cross
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: my mind. How it didn't crossed my mind, I don't know.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: But they're like, they're gonna switch you with Jason and Molly,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and I went yeah, no, yeah, And it was a
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: very quick note for so many reasons that where I'm like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: that's disrespectful to Mollie.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: She doesn't need me in her household first of all.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: And your kids just every like all of everyone.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: And she told me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: That this against sweet producer who wasn't supposed to tell me,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: and like, I'm sorry, you just lost probably your job
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: for telling me. But she had said they want y'all
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: to have like this whole conversation of like closure, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I went, there's no need for nobody's mad, there's no
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: need for that conversation.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Like, yes, I was hurt at the time, and I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: was mad he didn't.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Tell me beforehand, but it only took a very small
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: amount of time for me to feel bad for him,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: with all the badlash cot that he again was just
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: as much of a victim. I'm not mad at him.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I'm not mad at Molly. Mollie and I were really
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: good friends. Like people tend to think that there's like this.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Huge oh you would against Jason and Mille, Like, really,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: there's some thing I would.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I'd say, I don't know, if we need to like
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: have double dates and stuff, probably.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Right, go to Vegas for your anniversaries, wife swap. I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: cannot even imagine if that had happened. Oh my god,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: if you had, if you had gone through with it
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and no one had warned you, and you and you
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got that, what would you have done?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, because you know how TV works.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: When you've signed the contract, you're in, it's not like
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: you can turn around and no, I'm not, I don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I really don't know. It would have been so awkward
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: and uncomfortable and like and again producers of like what
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: are you doing?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Like stop doing it?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: So, but I have not talked to him since I
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: walked off the stage that day, Like there has not
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: been my gosh, yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: It's shocking to me that you haven't like run into
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: each other at an event or something, do you know
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: what I mean?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Like, you know, I have not gotten invited to any
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: bachelor me neither. Lately. I'm like, ah down bachelorette pretty hardcore,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: and I think that made them angry. I don't get.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: People are like, why weren't you at so and So's wedding.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well, one, I don't know them, and two yea,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I didn't night. I don't know why I don't know them.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: That's that you even have to say that. I mean,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: it's so true.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I remember going to Jane and Tanner's wedding and seeing
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: them like at the like pret reception like beforehand that
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: like you know, we're like hanging out before the wedding
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: like the day before or something, and I walked up
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to her and I'm like, Hi, thanks so much for
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: inviting us, Like this is so weird that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I'm just meeting you. But thank you. We're so excited
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to celebrate you.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I mean only in Bachelor verse, you know, Firstachelor Nation.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah it is, you all know each other.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I got asked Jason and Mollie's wedding. I was like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: are you kidding me? Is that really?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? Who asked you that? Stupid?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Probably we're so interestal going or not going?
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Come on, like.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but what Yeah, although I say that and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: then I go back to you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So I just did an episode about my wedding.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know if you watched it, but
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on and you don't, It's okay if you didn't watch it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But Charlie, who was the runner up, like the second
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: guy that I didn't choose, he was the like commentator.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Do you remember did you watch it?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I know I watched it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: No, me too, I mean pretty much.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: So I feel like bachelor relationships don't count if they
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: don't last past that engagement day.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Like I look, right, do all those guys you dated
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: really count as exes?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I don't think so either. But like so many people,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: you know, joke about that. If whatever it is, what
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: But that's so that's embarrassing, like that I had my
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: ex boyfriend commentating at my wedding.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Like literally, he.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Is on.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Commentating at a wedding, and there's a whole reason behind it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: like people can tune into the episode where I talked
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: about the wedding. But so it wasn't like this decision
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: was made lightly. I knew full well that it was
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: going to be really weird, but there were reasons behind it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: It was just funny like he's commentating. He's in the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: room with.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Ryan and his dad as like, oh, let's tune in
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Ryan and Bob's about to give Ryan some the last
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: minute advice.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. It was so bad. So I just
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: can't like that was my wedding weird. Okay, so tell
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: me about the podcast.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: So in your podcast, sorry figured, we talk about your
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: logically irrational time I do it. I think this is
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: your number five that we have been doing it, and amazing.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: The idea just came one night we were watching TV
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: and we talk while we're we're big reality TV fans,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: like just kind of love mindless television and how different
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: are takes on everything?
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: I was like, how can you even how are we
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: watching the same show and you think this, and I
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: think that podcasts we're still kind of new. At the time,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: I had babies at home and so I went, this
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: could just be a fun way to still connect with
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: the audience without me having to travel and.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: You know, working out stuff like that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: And it's it's been successful. It's been you know. I mean,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: like I said, we're going into year five. It's exhausting.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know how you feel about a podcast, but
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: like when you do it from top to bot, it's
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: it's it's a lot of work.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: But I do and do I do everything.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I do, do all of that. You do everything, So yes,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it is exhausting.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I do get it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: So I'm a control so like from making our topics,
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: making the outline, I do the editing. I do it
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: all because I'm like, I kind of don't trust when
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: it's your voice, you know what I mean. And I'm like,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I don't want anybody to leave in a part. I
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: don't want or take out something that I like. So yeah, right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: it definitely is a lot, but I love it. And
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: it kind of is a time that Tay and I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: we lock ourselves up in our room and we'll sit
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: up there for a couple hours and just kind of
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: go at it. So it's therapeutic in a way, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: guess for us.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I had a podcast called Better et cetera. And I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: had a company that I was working with, but basically
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I was because I'm a control freak. Two, I was
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: doing all of the editing like they would have done it,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: but I was like, I'll just edit it, I'll send
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: it to you.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I was the one who was booking guests, the one
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: who was you know, researching.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I was the one who was writing an outline and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: doing the interview all by myself, and so I get that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I took a break for a little while and I
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: was like, well, maybe I'll go back to it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And then this opportunity came up with almost famous Ashley
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I and Ben do it and I actually I think
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: we reached out to Sugarman. I'm sure you know Sugarman,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Well maybe you don't, but she's like, you know pr
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: person that a lot of us have crossed paths with
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in Bachelor Nation, and I was talking to her and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: trying to work something out with her, and Bob and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I did an interview together and we were like, this
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: is actually really fun, like we need to do something together.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: We talked to her and that's when it happened. And
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: because it's like there's a production team you know that
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: basically does everything for this, I I you know, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: do a little bit of research on my own just
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to be sure that I know who I'm talking to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: when what's going on in their life prior, because I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: feel like if you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Don't, that's a little disrespectful. But I've been in interviews
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: with it. I have no idea what so my name?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who are you again?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So anyway, I do that just because I feel like
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it's important. But it's a whole different ballgame when someone
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: else is doing, you know, all the other stuff, and
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like I can fit it in and it's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: so fun. I feel like for you too, like we
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: kind of did similar things, like I did you know
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of hosting gigs afterwards, so did you. I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: just feel like after the show I was so drawn
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to like media and like kind of like behind the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: scenes are like on air talent kind of thing. But
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: just because the energy and like the people, like, I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: just felt like it was fun, you know, it was
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a fun job. And getting to talk, like I'm obviously
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: both of us are fine talking, especially for you, like
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: talking to your husband all the time, Like that's got
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to be such a fun way to just connect.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, I do feel like, like I
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: hate to keep saying, but like back in our era
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: of reality TV, like the audience got to know us
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: as people, you know what I mean, Like that was yeah,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: genuinely where everything that we did after that was us,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: you know, Whereas now when you see people on social media,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: you're like, that's a pretty picture, but I have no
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: idea who you are. So I do think that there
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: is that club of us that are about our age
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: that we're in reality TV at the time that we were,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: that those people that still follow us follow us genuinely
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: for our life. They follow our kids, they follow our relationship,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: and to me, I think that's very special because I
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: don't think that's there anymore. I look at my twelve
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: year old daughter on social media and I'm like, you
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: are so disconnected from everything. Every even though like you're
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: doing is like scrolling on TikTok, but you have no
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: real connection.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And I really feel a.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Genuine connection to these people that have followed me for
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: nearly twenty years, and I'm like, I kind of owe
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: it to you to let's just keep the journey up.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: And I do enjoy it, you know, And so yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: that's a big reason why I like to I like
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: to continue it. I feel like all of our audience
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: from our era is just very special.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I agree. I don't.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you hear the same kind of things, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: we hear constantly about how our time on the show
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: was something that allowed them to connect with like a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: significant other or their mother, or like they were having
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a baby while they were watching our wedding in the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: hospital or whatever.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: So I definitely feel that.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I and there are multiple people that I have DMed
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: through Instagram over the years that I have never met before.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: They were fans, and we just have connected and every
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: time they write, I'm writing them back, you know, like
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it's a little it's a friendship, you know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Even though we've never.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I love that. I agree. I agree.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Connection is the most important thing to me in life,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and it just makes life happy, whether it's with Ryan
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: or my kids, or my friends or Bachelor Nation, and
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I love it. I'm so thankful for it
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and thankful that you are part of it and that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: we got to connect again. It's been a long time,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and I feel like our life is so so similar. Yeah,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: we definitely have done so many of the same things
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and even like scrolling. So I was with a girlfriend
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: yesterday who lived in Texas. She lived in Austin, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, I have to prepare for this for
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: this interview tomorrow.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: I just want to see you, like what Melissa's.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Up to these days, and so she was like scrolling
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: with me, Like as I'm scrolling, she's like watching, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I just felt like, you know, her and I are friends.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like your friends could be friends
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: with my friends. And it was very cute, like because
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Texas loves Colorado. I did see that you came to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: some well actually what you went skin.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: My brother actually, so we go to Denver Quite and
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: then stop. Yes, I know, so we're there all the time. Yes,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Parker Way, Yeah.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Is like very close to where my kids are going
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to be going to school. So it's one of the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: areas that we're looking that's hysterical. I'll have to I'll
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: have to like like actually see how he likes Parker,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Like if if you'd be okay with it, like connect
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and see where they go to school.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Does he have kids, Yes.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: He does. He's got two boys and they just had
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: another little baby boy.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: And they're young, but they're younger.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: You're younger.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're nine and seven.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: H oh yeah, they're definitely younger. Anyway. Yeah, I just
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: love that we got to connect against the thing. Thank
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: you for having me.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: This was fun to kind of hash it out with you. Yeah.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: I love I love just reconnecting with people.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I feel very maternal towards everyone because
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the I'm the dinosaur, I'm the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I'm the mate.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Very different.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: So I just have like a.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You know, a special place in my heart for everybody,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: including you. So thank you for coming.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thank you so much of course, till
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: tie hi and good luck with everything.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Thank You'll meet you in the Denver.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, awesome, thanks me listening.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Thank you,