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Almost Famous OGs: A Visit from The Stork with Travis Stork · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everybody, Hello, Bob Guinea, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wonderful, Trista Sutter.
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  Speaker 4: So great to see you again after all the drama
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  Speaker 4: on the Instagram and the Facebook.
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  Speaker 5: I just did an interview who with the Betches, and
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  Speaker 5: Jared Freed said that he met you at I Think
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  Speaker 5: Good Morning America one time and he wanted me to tell.
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  Speaker 3: You, Hi, I love that Guy's funny.
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  Speaker 5: He's amazing. She was on it and she was talking
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  Speaker 5: about the YouTube. I was like, the YouTube now and then.
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  Speaker 4: So funny, Yes, so much drama about it was almost
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  Speaker 4: like like where's Waldo. It was like this this hot
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  Speaker 4: topic sweeping the internet. It was like a buzzworthy moment
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  Speaker 4: of where's Trista and what's going on? And you know,
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  Speaker 4: And I loved your response to it because I it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: I think knowing Ryan as I as I feel I do, well,
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  Speaker 4: I was reading those those posts and going, I love
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  Speaker 4: that man. He is just you know, I I clearly
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  Speaker 4: knew that something was going on, but I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I love the way he just gets on there. And
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  Speaker 4: he says he.
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  Speaker 5: Clearly knew that something was going on. How what no,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't tell you anything.
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  Speaker 3: So no, no that I had I had to do.
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  Speaker 4: I had a let's just say, while we were scheduling podcasts,
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden my partner in.
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  Speaker 3: Pod you was gone, and I don't know where.
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  Speaker 4: I responded I all of a sudden you were like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be gone for I'm gonna be unavailable.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's what you said, I'm unavailable for this
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  Speaker 3: period of time. I'm like, hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And then during that period of time, Ryan takes to
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  Speaker 4: the interweb to spew his feelings of long missing and
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  Speaker 4: loving his beautiful wife, and next thing you know, drama ensues,
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  Speaker 4: and you know.
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  Speaker 5: It's a slow newsday, and it gets picked up by
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  Speaker 5: every freaking news outlet on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like it happened. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for the record, I do not know where you were.
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  Speaker 4: I have my suspicions and.
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  Speaker 1: I have already.
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  Speaker 3: I will, I will, I will.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure still try to get this stuff out of you.
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  Speaker 4: But whatever it is, I'm excited about it. I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: you're back.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is harmonious and wonderful in the Sutter world as
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  Speaker 3: it was then as it is now.
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  Speaker 4: But you were very missed by America during that little
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  Speaker 4: period of time there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's sound good to be to be missed
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  Speaker 5: and to be cared for. But at the same time, people, gosh,
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  Speaker 5: make a lot of assumptions from one little thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, never positive ones either. It's never like, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure she's doing something. It's like, hmm, they must be
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  Speaker 4: having problems.
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  Speaker 5: Well, okay, So as with everything, I feel like when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to social media or fans or whatever, followers,
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  Speaker 5: ninety nine percent of it is positive. So I love
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  Speaker 5: all the people out there who were like, we're we're
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  Speaker 5: with you, we support you, we love you, guys, and
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  Speaker 5: whatever's going on, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: You do you kind of thing, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And then there's, of course the one percent that's just god.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, oh, Ryan's doing this for attention. Clearly you
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  Speaker 5: don't know my husband.
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  Speaker 4: Last thing Ryan Sutter would ever want in his life,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, last thing.
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  Speaker 5: Why can't you just be private about it? Why can't
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  Speaker 5: you just text you? And I'm like, okay, have you
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  Speaker 5: ever heard of the term shout it from the rooftops?
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  Speaker 6: So he was.
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  Speaker 5: Shouting it from the rooftops. That's something that he's able
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  Speaker 5: to do. On his own freaking page, like he just
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  Speaker 5: wanted to put it out there in a very public way,
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  Speaker 5: or not given in a very public way, because usually
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  Speaker 5: people people don't care about what we post, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: if they do, it's a very minimal amount of people,
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  Speaker 5: so in you know, all relative, right, So he was
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  Speaker 5: posting like he always does and shouting it from the
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  Speaker 5: rooftops that you know he loves.
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  Speaker 2: Me essential yeah, yeah, And gosh.
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  Speaker 5: The people who just come out of the woodwork and
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  Speaker 5: they're like, oh, you just want to I'm like, yeah, literally.
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  Speaker 4: Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, former reality start to say that
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  Speaker 4: about quite honestly, I mean, honest to god, there's no
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  Speaker 4: one who craves uh not being in the spotlight more
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  Speaker 4: than Ryan that I've ever met that's been on a
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  Speaker 4: show like these, And I mean I've met a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of people from this stuff. And I was going to say,
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  Speaker 4: how many red carpets have you and I walked together? Well,
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  Speaker 4: Ryan's standing there watching us and my wife and my
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  Speaker 4: wife the same way Keny is the same way.
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  Speaker 3: She'll she'll be standing there.
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  Speaker 4: With Ryan talking to him while you and I are
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  Speaker 4: on the red carpet, and neither one of them care
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  Speaker 4: one iota about it, like, and it's just always blows
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  Speaker 4: my mind. It's funny, and I love it because we
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  Speaker 4: you and I laugh about it, like there are there
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  Speaker 4: are our plus ones, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad that.
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  Speaker 4: You were able to kind of set the record straight
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  Speaker 4: when you came back. And I love that you didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I love that you were like, he's free to do
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  Speaker 4: what he wants, and I love the way he you know,
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  Speaker 4: did that, and but yeah, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to find out where my my partner in
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  Speaker 4: POD was, So I'm very excited Pod. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: find out where you were, what you were doing, and
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  Speaker 4: how how it affected you and and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it's going to be such a great story.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear it.
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  Speaker 5: I will I will share as soon as I possibly can.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, life is crazy right now. Life is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: And it's summertime with two teenagers who need to get
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  Speaker 5: jobs and yeah, yeah we need to get ready for
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  Speaker 5: their junior and sophomore years. So yeah, life is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: And then we're just continuing to do stuff to the house,
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  Speaker 5: like you know, people say I think. I mean, this
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  Speaker 5: is basically like a room that we have. It's empty,
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  Speaker 5: like nothing in it. So anyway, life is good. The
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  Speaker 5: moral of the story. Life is good. Ryan and I
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  Speaker 5: are very happy. We just came back from a family
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  Speaker 5: vacation in Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: That Yeah, that looked that looked incredible. Your pictures were incredible.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Like I was thinking we would go to Europe because
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  Speaker 5: we went to Europe years ago and haven't been back,
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  Speaker 5: and we have family over there. The freaking flights I
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  Speaker 5: looked at like thinking I wanted to go somewhere warm.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at Spain and Portugal and economy seats four
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  Speaker 5: thousand dollars eighteen thousand dollars for a first class ticket
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  Speaker 5: and not that you would have paid dollars for an
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  Speaker 5: economy seat for I was like, well, okay, no, And
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  Speaker 5: I told Ryan, and he's like, let's just go to
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  Speaker 5: Mexico because it's just so easy from Colorado, right, we
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  Speaker 5: hit the easy button. Friend of ours goes to Puntameda
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  Speaker 5: all the time, and she sent me.
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  Speaker 3: This, that's where we got married. We got married. I
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  Speaker 3: love it there. Yeah, that's so beautiful. Well, we we.
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  Speaker 4: Rented a house down there and we got married at
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  Speaker 4: the house, but our family and friends were able to
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  Speaker 4: stay at either the Ritz Carlton or the Four Seasons,
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  Speaker 4: which were like on either side of our house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which was super cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Four Seasons. This week?
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  Speaker 3: Did you go to Saylita? Did you go to the town?
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  Speaker 5: Walked around Sita? We went to Don Pegro for dinner.
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  Speaker 5: I just walked around the shops there. But yes, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a much.
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  Speaker 5: Needed trip and for no other reason other than we
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  Speaker 5: really like bond as a family going on family vacations,
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  Speaker 5: and we just hadn't been on one since we went
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  Speaker 5: to thirty a like a year and a half ago,
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  Speaker 5: two and a half years ago, so it's been a
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  Speaker 5: long time, and we've had you know, you go to
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  Speaker 5: a psychologist's office and they're like, or you're filling out
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  Speaker 5: some psych of like psychological report. I've done it a
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  Speaker 5: couple of times in my life where they're like, have
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  Speaker 5: you gone through any big changes in life? And one
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  Speaker 5: of the biggest ones is a move, and oh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so we've moved our life twenty years in Vail, so
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  Speaker 5: we went through a huge move. We went through a
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  Speaker 5: death with our dog, and you know, like all of
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  Speaker 5: these changes. The kids are at a new school and
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  Speaker 5: like activities, like all of those things.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's got the major shifts in your family right now? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's me, You're right. They always say, like loss of
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  Speaker 4: a family member, loss of a job, moving from a house,
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  Speaker 4: you know, change in marital status, whatever, like those are
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  Speaker 4: the big ones, right and it's like you go through
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  Speaker 4: that stuff and you don't realize. I mean, I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: the kids are affected too, even though they're happy and
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  Speaker 4: enjoying the move. But good for you. I think it's great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Kenyon and I went to LA with the boys,
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  Speaker 4: and you know it is. I will tell you, flights
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  Speaker 4: are crazy right now. I totally agree with you, even
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  Speaker 4: for four of us to fly to LA. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean we got a two and a half year old,
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  Speaker 4: right who. It's like people forget. They're like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: why aren't you guys traveling that much? I'm like, cause
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  Speaker 4: I gotta buy four tickets now and pay full price,
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  Speaker 4: even for this two and a half year old that
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  Speaker 4: everyone gets pissed off is sitting next to on the
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  Speaker 4: plane anyway, So it's like, you know, I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just then you end up having like a four hour
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  Speaker 4: flight from hell.
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  Speaker 3: Not because your kids are being bad, but because.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime they make a noise, half the people are looking
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  Speaker 4: at you like you're a horrible human being.
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  Speaker 3: Bringing him, it's like, hey, guys, full price ticket right here.
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  Speaker 3: He can do whatever he.
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  Speaker 5: Wants, you know what. Like the first flight we took
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  Speaker 5: someone on the plane, the pilot came on and he
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  Speaker 5: was like, so if you're having an altercation with your neighbor,
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  Speaker 5: please remember kindness. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, what
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  Speaker 5: is happening? Like you hear about people fighting or like
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  Speaker 5: just people being rude to flight attendants or flight attendants
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  Speaker 5: being rude to people, and you know, people on the plane.
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  Speaker 5: I was my my spidy senses alerts were up, like thinking,
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  Speaker 5: let's go explain anyway. It's just crazy to travel right now.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm grateful, very grateful that we could make it work.
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  Speaker 5: I know that a lot of people like just it's
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  Speaker 5: too expensive to go anywhere. You have like a two
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  Speaker 5: and a half year old and and kids and young
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  Speaker 5: kids and their activities and a lot of stuff and
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  Speaker 5: work and all of that, so it's not last one.
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  Speaker 5: I am grateful that we could make it work. I
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  Speaker 5: will be stressed out about money for a while.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be stressed out about money forever. I
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  Speaker 4: decided there's just no so.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and you know, my mom was just here on
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  Speaker 5: vacation and or she came to visit, and she was
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  Speaker 5: always the person, my parent that was stressed about money,
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  Speaker 5: always stressed about money. And she told me she was.
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  Speaker 5: We were talking about it. She said, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: just go on the trip. If you have the credit
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  Speaker 5: card bill for a month or two, that's fine. Like
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  Speaker 5: get the memories and make the memories bond, you know,
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  Speaker 5: do all the things because it's so much more important
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  Speaker 5: than the stress over I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not like you're not going to be able
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  Speaker 4: to handle it. It's like you're not you're not irresponsible.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like you're going bananas. It's like I know
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  Speaker 4: you and how your family are. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: we're the same way. But it is one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like, you know, yeah, it's interesting, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm just glad you're back.
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  Speaker 3: You've been missed, and I'm so excited to find out.
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  Speaker 3: Finding to your dick, I'll find out with everybody else,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, but.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you I had a great experience this
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  Speaker 4: weekend in Charleston, and then we can get to our guest, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: But I was in Charleston this weekend and one of
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  Speaker 4: one of the people I was there with randomly kind
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  Speaker 4: of there with, is like, can I please call my
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  Speaker 4: friend because my friend is a huge fan of the
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  Speaker 4: podcast listens every to every one of them, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: and so we got on the horn and we were
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  Speaker 4: we were talking to her friend, and we were having
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  Speaker 4: a great time, but we were but we were on
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  Speaker 4: a boat, so we couldn't really hear each other, and
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't able to figure out what her friend's name was.
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  Speaker 4: But I will tell you we had a great We
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  Speaker 4: had a really great, you know time with our fans friend,
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  Speaker 4: and so I was really happy to know that someone
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  Speaker 4: besides my mom was listening to the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, our moms, our moms. So all right, well
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  Speaker 3: let's get into it. We have a great guest today.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so excited doctor Travis Stork, famous of course from
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  Speaker 4: season eight to the Bachelor, and of course The Doctors,
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  Speaker 4: a long running show, any winning show, The Doctors is
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  Speaker 4: joining us. And I know you've talked to him a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of Trista, but I haven't really ever gotten to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him in person, so I'm very excited to
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  Speaker 4: meet him and have him on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So let's do it. Hi, Travis, Hello, Hello, how goes it? Hey?
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  Speaker 3: What's up? Doctor Stork? How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Life is good? How are you two doing?
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  Speaker 3: We're doing great? Thank you so much for joining the show.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good to hang with the O G crew.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, you are a true og.
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  Speaker 4: I mean season eight, man, we got to think about this.
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  Speaker 4: They're on like season one hundred and sixty four. Write
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  Speaker 4: Trista right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm too old. I can't remember now.
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  Speaker 3: So long, I know, imagine how I feel. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, you know, like Trista and I.
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  Speaker 4: She's the fairy godmother of the show, of course, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm the great grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not even fair. Am I am? I like
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  Speaker 1: the older middle child that Yeah, you're.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're like the favorite uncle. Yeah, you're the favorite uncle.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, he's the funk call. He's the fun on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much for joining us. So I
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  Speaker 4: have to tell you this story. I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 4: I I, well, the reason why I won't forget it
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  Speaker 4: is because of the juxtaposition of things. So it was
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: a few years after my season The Bachelor, and I
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: had hosted the CMA Music Festival seven years in a
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  Speaker 4: row down in Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it, Tennessee Titan Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: I'm out there on stage and all these cool people
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  Speaker 4: and these executives from CMT come over and they're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: we really want you to host this show.
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  Speaker 3: It's a companion show to one of our top shows
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  Speaker 3: on our network and one of the top shows. And
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  Speaker 3: I and I didn't even ask.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, hell, yeah, let's do it, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: I was just all excited. I loved CMT and trist
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  Speaker 4: that knows me well enough. It's like, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: power of yes, Okay, And then I find out later
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  Speaker 4: maybe I should have thought this through. But anyway, they
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  Speaker 4: they have me hosting this show that is called Trick
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  Speaker 4: My Trucker. And the show at the time that was
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: a top rated show for them was called Trick My Truck,
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  Speaker 4: which was very much a makeover show, you know, where
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  Speaker 4: they bring in like a crappy semi truck and they
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  Speaker 4: fix it all up and it goes back on the road.
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  Speaker 3: So mine was this companion show.
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  Speaker 4: To this, and I really had a good time filming it,
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  Speaker 4: and it was it was a good show. Let me
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  Speaker 4: just say those things to protect myself, but I will
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  Speaker 4: say that the grounds with which we were filming was
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  Speaker 4: this truck stop, and it was it was, it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tough it was a tough neighborhood, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And even though I'm from the main streets of Detroit,
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  Speaker 4: they're actually the suburbs. I was not prepared for where
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  Speaker 4: I was filming every day and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I just you know, this is crazy. I've got a
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  Speaker 4: little trailer there and and a truck stop in between,
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  Speaker 4: like California and Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: And I get a call.
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  Speaker 4: From this guy that I had met at this party,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm trying to find his name on my phone
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  Speaker 4: because I know, I know Travis will know him, but anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have him on my phone anymore. But he's
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  Speaker 3: his producer.
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  Speaker 4: And he's like, hey, man, so I'm calling about this show.
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  Speaker 4: It's called The Doctors, and I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh my god, he must he must
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  Speaker 4: think I'm a doctor, like you know, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor.
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  Speaker 3: And so this conversation is going on and he's like,
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  Speaker 3: and I need your help. I really need to get
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: a hold of Travis Stork.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: And you're the only guy I've ever met from The Bachelor,
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: and this is the guy we think he's going to
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: be so great for this show and we really want
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: him to, you know, be the lead on the show.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: And you know, do you know how I can get
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: a hold of them? And I'm like, and I'm looking
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: around me, by the way, you know, my my, my trailer,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: my trailer area, park area, and I'm on a truck
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: stop and I'm you know, eating truck stop food every day, and.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I'm like, where the hell did I go wrong?
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Like why am I not doctor Travis Stork right now
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: getting called for you know, a show that would go
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: on to be hugely successful, And congratulations on that run
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: for you, by the way, multiple Emmy's great show. I'm like,
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: you know, obviously, you know, let's start where I went wrong.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Let mean, I I didn't go to medical school. There's
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: as that one, you know, but you just crushed it
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: on that and it was so fun because I remember
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: connecting the dots with somebody, to someone that I thought
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: might be able to get in touch with you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: It might have been Jason Carbone.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I can't remember who it was that I gave the
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: information too, and then they helped connect the dots. But
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I remember always thinking like I'd be watching on that
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: show and I'd be.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, that's all me. You're welcome, Travis. I which,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: let's not get ourselves.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I did I owe everything to you, my friend?
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we know that's not true, but thank you.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Interestingly, during that time, Tristan know this, knows this, I was.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I was essentially living down the road from trist I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: was living up in Breckenridge, Colorado, like full on you
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: all know the you're on the show, and it's a
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: little overwhelming, yea, So I straight up moved to the mountains,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: was an e ar doc literally lived I think one
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: hundred yards from the Colorado Trail, living the very simple
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: mountain life. Awesome. And when when those things started to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: unfold and and the whole idea of honestly going back
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: on TV potentially was a little bit overwhelming. But I'm
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: in retrospect obviously ecstatic that everything evolved the way it
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: did because one of the coolest things for me now,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: twelve years of hosting The Doctors honestly, what the Bachelor,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you're you do that and it lasts a few months realistically,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: but you carry that with you for life. So it's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: kind of cool, you know, to this day when when
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: people if they they stopped me on the street or whatnot,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: they'll say something along the lines oftentimes of, oh, my gosh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you know, I was watching this episode of The Doctors
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and so and so maybe it's their husband or their child,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you know, had this illness, And for the first time
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I actually understood what it meant, thank you. And I'm like,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh. I like, never in a million years
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: when I when I was on The Bachelor that I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: think one day that would lead to me giving And
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: so it all's come full circle and talking to you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: too as well. It's just the journey for all of
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: us has been so unexpected and and Bob your own
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: unique journey, buddy. Maybe you weren't meant to host The Doctors,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: but I bet ye, honestly, I bet hanging out at
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the gas station between Vegas and LA honestly has taught
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you a lot and is probably some brain story. So
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of jealous of you because that was probably things.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You know, I did learn some stuff I learned.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: You never you know, you never pick up a milk
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: jug on the side of the road to take a drink,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: because that's what they.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Call a truck or bomb. So I know these things
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: from that experience.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I think we maybe had met one time in passing
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: or something, and it wasn't even for a very long
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: period of time, but I remember feeling so proud of
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: of that jump you made because it was such a
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: great use of you know, like my thing. And Trista
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: knows this, Like whenever I get asked for advice for
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the next Bachelor, you know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: My advice is always, don't quit your day job.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: And it's not about you, right, It's about it's about
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: the thirty women that they've cast on that show who
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: have never lost anything in their lives, right, It's not
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: about the you could have a monkey hand on a flower.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: And I'm always like, don't quit your day job, you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: and and they always do, and you know, inevitably, you know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: they and no one listens to either piece of advice
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I've given them.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But I was so.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Proud watching you like just catapult like you know, to
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: this day. I mean, I'm twenty How how deep are
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: we trested from our season?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: How many years? Twenty three from.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: When you were a bachelorette twenty two and then so
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that means twenty one from when I was the actual bachelor,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: and you know, I'm married with a couple of kids,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: and I'm still bachelor bobbed everybody, you know, And so
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: it's it's got to be a pretty rewarding feeling for
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: you to you know, like like you said, you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you come off that show, you're hiding in the mountains
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: because you just can't take it, and and next thing
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: you know, you're back on TV, and you know, here
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: you are. If if we're twenty, you've got to be
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: sixteen fifteen years out from the show and to be
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: in that situation where you can be like you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: people are coming up to they're not asking about, you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: how you hand it out a flower and a rose ceremony.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: They're asking you about medical advice you may have given
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: them to save a life. I just think it's it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: great that it's what you were went to school for
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: it's what you set out to do and your career.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: You know, it just it just put you in this
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: next stratosphere.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I was. Really it means that I didn't handle my
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: post bachelor fame as well as you did. So I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: actually have a quote that I don't even know if
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it truly is from you, but honestly, going back to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the producer who reached out to you, I won't I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: won't name that producer, but so he told me some
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: stories about you and one of the quotes, and again
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is truly from your orner
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: probably is. He's like, yeah, you know, Bob said that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: when you become the bachelor a bachelorette, you go from
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: being completely anonymous to being like you're in the Beatles.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah that moment. Yeah, And I was like, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: that's kind of how it is. Yeah, And I honestly didn't.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think I personally dealt very well with the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: post bachelor, and maybe it's because I was in the er.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: You know, one day you're anonymous, the next day in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the yar you have people coming in and there's trauma,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: patience and like literally a family member that they're sick
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: loved one like, oh my god, this is the story
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, I'm just please, let's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: focus on the hand, like, what happened to my my
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not quiet life, but my very simple you know, go
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to the er, come home from r go for a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: run with the dog. What happened to this this life?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And so the reason I bring up that quote a
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: lot to people is no one fully understands how that works.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And I especially feel bad for super young people who
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: quite frankly become within a day because having the ability
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to handle that. So for me, this this story full
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: circle is I almost needed the doctors to happen for
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: me to regain my identity because I and I don't
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: know you're to how you all felt inside, but there's
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: just so much tied into who you were before you
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: go on the you know, the bachelor of the Bachelorette
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and then instantly you are, they at least called you
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: bachelor Bob like what they you know, they with me,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it was just oh, that's the bachelor, and I'm sure
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that's the way a lot of us feel. And you're like, Okay,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: this is the great experience, but you're like, hey, I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: actually that's like such a small part, right, right, It's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: five weeks of my life, right, right, So there's more
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: going on here. But the reason I bring that up
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is again, for me, the beauty of how everything evolved,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and the reason that I learned so much as you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: two did as well about the power of television is,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: especially with the Bachelor franchise, you're essentially giving people a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: glimpse into your your life, so they become very attached
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to you, your story, whoever you're dating, and the evolution
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of that. Honestly, for me to then letting me talk
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: about things that also are very personal, you know, things
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that matter very much, people's health, people's mental health. Like
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the transition ended up being smoother than I ever thought
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it would be, precisely because ultimately, I'm very comfortable with
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: having honest conversations with people. But it's a lot easier
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to have those conversations about something more objective like health
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: than it is like why did you pick so and so?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Like why did you break up? What
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: were you thinking? You're like, yeah, oh no, I have
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: no good answer here because that is such a subjective thing. Yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you do TV and you do something that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a little more objective, like something based on health. You're like, Okay, Well,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the reason I say this is because there are ten studs.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He's proved that it is okay to break the milk
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: jug on the side of the road because it probably
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: has pissing it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Right, right, So it's a proven statistic.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I feel like, like Trista, you were
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: really such a trailblazer in so many ways. I mean,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: you and I've talked about this a lot, but never
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: with Travis on the phone. But like, you know, one
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: of the things that you and I were, you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: like when I said that quote, I mean that is
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that's something sex I used to say that
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: a lot, and I was like, in the hardest part
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: about it is we're not paid, like the Beatles right
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: to go on and hand out flowers. So you all
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: of a sudden you're like in the grocery store, mine
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: in your own business, trying to get back to your
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: normal life, which just I always say that you and
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Ryan in particular have done that better than anyone.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: From the standpoint of the way that you.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Two went back to Colorado, you could have done a
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm sure you could have done a billion
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: different things. And Ryan's like, I'm a firefighter and I'm
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: going back to protecting my neighborhood, you know, And it
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: was just going back to you know, patrolling the community,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: and you know, but it was like one of those
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: things that I think, you know, it was a good
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: lesson for me to watch that and then, but it
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: still was really difficult to walk into a grocery store,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: you know, when you're trying to mind your own business
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: and go back to your day job, and you know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: there's three covers on the magazines talking about things that
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: you know you didn't even do or you weren't at
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: and you're like, what And granted that's all changed now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: and now it's all social media, so it's you know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: it's way more I'm sure you know, just blown up
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: an immediate But your season kind of came around that
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: time when when social media was was really starting to
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: get invested in the show, didn't it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I mean you were kind of.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Like, luckily for me, I was pre social media, okay, man,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I think so the unique thing about our three experiences,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I think there's a few things, and correct me if
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you don't agree, but when we all went on, it
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: was just network television ruled today, right, So no streaming,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: there's no and you know that they're all the There
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: was the MySpace isn't that what it's called? Yeah, in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the blogs that basically resembled social media, but you could
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: actually correct any misinformation. So when we went on, you know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the number of viewers obviously was really especially for you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: two ogs, like just through the roof, and continued kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of on through that stretch till streaming obviously became more popular.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: So the one thing that like the blessing I feel
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: like for me is that I didn't have to interact
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: as much with all of the pure say but what
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I did it was you guys again, agree or disagree.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You really had no way to respond to it. So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: it's almost like having social media as a double edged sword,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: because at least nowadays people can directly respond to whether
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it's rumor, you know, rumors or you know. We were
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: kind of stuck in this. Everyone watched us, and then
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we had to sort of hear the.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: We've got no, you're so right, I've never thought about
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: it like that, and and you're so and you're so right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I guess the only way that we could respond, was
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: if we had the opportunity for an interview, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: or something like that, you didn't have crass releases that
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: we would put out, you know, it would just be
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: like all magazine stuff. And they never necessarily got that
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: right anyway. But I will say even with social media,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: like even if you put something out, people still spend it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: However they want to spend.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: It, so you know, they just went through that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been all crazy around here, but no, I uh,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I think you're right there. There are definitely benefits and
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: pitfalls to social media. But I feel like I've always said,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: especially with being married to someone similar to you, Travis,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: and that he just wanted a simple life. He wanted
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: to go back to the fire department. He didn't want
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: people pulling fire alarms to meet him, and he just
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: wanted to live in the mountains and you know, forge
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: a relationship and it was hard. So I'm sure it
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: was so hard for you, But with social media, I
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: think it would have been even harder because it's just
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: like people just like to chime in and they think
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: they know everything about your relationship and they really don't.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Well, and with the chatrooms too, I was going to
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: say with the chat rooms too, not not everybody had
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: access to chat or knew how to get on chatrooms,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like, so, yeah, you're right, Travis,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: we would have to sit there and read all this
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: stuff and sit there and go, oh, these people don't know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: What they're talking about.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: But if we got in there and responded, now we're
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: like feeding the machine.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: So we would never do that, you know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Now it's like everyone's got social media, so everybody feels
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: like their opinion matters, right, which it does.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they'll be like, well, I.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Think, you know, Trista did this or whatever, I think
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Bob did this, And it's just, you know, I would
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: never I would never be able to handle being the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Bachelor today, Like there's no way.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: The one the one thing though that you alluded to before,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: which is so true, and no one realizes this. You know.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I actually have a lot of respect now for people
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: who go on the show and are genuine, But if
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: they are then able to spin that into increasing their
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: social media followers and they have some purpose, you know
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: again other than just the reality is you you're five
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: minutes of fame when you are on the Bachelor of
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Bachelorette is pretty much that if there's something else that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you have that you know, you want to talk about,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I think it's cool to use social media to your
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: advantage and to either spread that message or if you
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: want to get some endorsement deals. I'm all for that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: because back in the day, you all know, everyone would
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: go on the show and pretty much we're like, Okay,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: this is cool. Like for me, I got to go
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to Paris, literally Paris is where it was, and I
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was totally fine with the fact that I had. I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: got to live in a castle and I got to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: like meet some really cool people and go on private
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: jets and helicopters. Like that's enough for me. That's all
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I'm looking.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: That's all we got.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But yeah, you do you get back from it. And
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I mean I was a resident physician, so yeah, you know,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'm barely making enough to put food on the table,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: got my my med school loans, and like you come
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: back from that, and then and then all of a sudden,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: you're famous. You're like, but I still I still.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: Have no money, right, Yeah, So nowadays I like, I'm all,
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: I'm all for the ones that are able to like
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: parlay that into making some money because you're making the
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Bachelor franchise a lot of money, so you might as well,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: you know, take part if you will.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I would love to know. Like you've been
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: talking kind of back in the day, but how how
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: is life now? Like, tell us how life is where
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: you are all about your family and what you're doing now.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean mainly you can call me, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the guy living the dad life. So dad is kind
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of my new idility and you know, without going into
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the specifics of it, one of the blessings of everything
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that's happening in my life. And this is honestly that
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I almost want to cry thinking about it. But I
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: started a family later in life. And in many ways
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: it probably is because the Bachelor is so just. It
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: causes so much confusion, unless, of course, you're Tristan and
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: you meet your person right right.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, For one person on this call, it didn't cause
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: her any confusion.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: For the other, you was that you met a great
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: person and you're still together. And I think that's the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: storybook ending that everyone goes either on the show or
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: hopes for in life. Well, you know, for me, it
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: took longer to find my person and start a family.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm fifty two now, and so my daughter literally
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: today's our second birthday, hey, and so she and she
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: is just absolutely incredible, rambunctious, energetic. My son turns four
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in two weeks. And so over the last four years,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: my son was born during the pandemic, during that whole stretch,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: like maybe I don't know, he was born in June,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: so was it March or so that the world kind
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of shut down in marchiele And ironically, so my son
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: is born. And then because of the pandemic, you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the doctor stopped filming in LA and I no longer
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it was like it was the perfect time. Twelve seasons
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of the doctors y and doing that for twelve years,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: traveling from Nashville to LA just gone like that. So
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I kind of dug my heels in and like I
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: got this little baby boy, and like I have an
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: opportunity to spend a ton of time with him. And
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: as life sort of evolved, Like one of the cool
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: things is I kind of made a conscious decision because
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: your kids are pretty much at home for just a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: few years and then they're gone, and then they care
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: more about their friends than you my girl was born
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: two years later, I sort of committed to trying to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: spend as much time with her as I did with Grayson.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So it's it's been hard only because as you two
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: both can attest to, any parent out there listening knows this.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm an er doc b trader. I can't tell
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you how chaotic life in the er can be, or
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: some of the nights I've had, and just the pure
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: chaos right for the most part, like my whole life.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was a math major in college. Like
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you solve problems, you know. One plus one equals to
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the last four years for me because I'm a logical
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: type person. Spending this much time with two toddlers, I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: have never felt in an er shift the amount of
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: angst and anxiety and high speach tone as I felt
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: over the last four years. I have so much empathy
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: for any parent out there who actually gets in the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: dirt with their kids literally and also figuratively, and that
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: like learning how to actually get your kid to go
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to bed. Yeah, like literally as hard as an er shift,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to get your kids to not throw
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: their feet in to eat it. There's no logical reasoning
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and you're just this is this is this is so
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: hard and so it's funny because the last four years
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: party was like, it's been the best I've had all
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: this time with my kids. The other party is like,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: who am I now?
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: My greatest skill set is I figured out a way
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to get my son to go to bed every night
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: like four years, but he actually goes to bed now
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: when I ask him too, And I'm like, this is
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: this is everything.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I'm me, you did it.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize. I didn't realize how much we had
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: in comments. I'm fifty three and I'm my five year
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: old is Grayson and a boy? Yeah, and my two
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I have a two and a half year old Blake.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: So I had kids really late too. I was forty eight,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: uh when Grayson was born. So that's I love that
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't know yet. I didn't realize he had a grace,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: and I knew he had a son and a daughter. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: didn't know their names.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: That's spectacular. I love that well, Bob.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I mean this in a loving way. The beauty for
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you of life is you have a babyface years. I
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: don't look at you and think, oh, Bob's an old father.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy, thank you, because yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: You're you're very youthful, and it actually makes me feel
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: better whenever I talk to people who are of similar
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: aids with kids at our ages, because you would agree
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: with me. It's it's a different experience because you have
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: like if I had had a kid when I was
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in the midst of my er training and everything else,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Like the reality is I was gone eighty hours a week. Yeah,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and this was even way back before they had time
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: limits and all that, so just like gone, right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Now being older, like you have more choices because you've
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: been ryn for twenty thirty years, and so it's like
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you probably had that unique experience with me.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked about it at the time. I love it. Yeah,
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: I love that, you know. And where we are in life,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: you know, we're not we're not at that point as
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: a young parent would be, which you know, and there's
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: blessings and curses on both sides, right, Like I look
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: at the the you know, the half my guys I
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: graduated high school with them, their kids are going.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: To college, and I'm like wow, you know yeah, and like.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, let's go to dinner. I'm like, ah, I don't
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: think I can. I got to put the kids down
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: at seven thirty, you know. So it's like my life
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: is just so different than I you know, but I'm
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: so thankful for it, and I think I appreciate it more.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you feel this way too. I appreciate it
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: more at this age then I think I might have
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: had I done it differently, you know. And I and
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: I don't have anything to compare it to other than
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: my own personal life experiences, but I think I was
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: a little I was focused on different stuff back then.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: And so now it's like, you know, when my kids
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: come up and knock on the door, and I can
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: be in the middle of this interview and they're coming in.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Right, you know, it's the same. You know, I'm like, oh,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: here they come. U Yeah. I mean how many shows?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I mean twist that I have done a.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Bunch of these, and my kids generally will make a
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: cameo at some point or another, you know. But it's
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: it is one of those things where it's like, I'm
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: so thankful for that because I want to be that dad,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Like I want to be the dad that's never too
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: busy for my kids, and you know, and I love
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: that you've got that opportunity to be home with them
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: and spend all that time. I've often said that's been
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: the silver lining for me of of COVID, which you know,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I know a lot of people lost so much in
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: their lives and things of that nature, and my heart
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: goes out to those families. But for me, I was
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: able to spend a lot of time with my two
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: children that I won't I won't ever regret, you know there,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: you know, and I love that I had that time
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: where Trista.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Where Bob and I are different though, is Bob's like, ah,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't go to dinner at seven thirty
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: because I got to put the kids down. I'm like, sorry,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: can't go to.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Dinner because I'm.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Thirty and I'm going to put the kids down and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be at home. And I love get
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, I don't have to go be social.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Life is great.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And I'm like, I can't be social.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: That would be right, You would be like, yeah, no,
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I don't need to go out to dinner. I'm happy here.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I Yeah, I totally get that. And I love that
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: you have it. I love that you found it no
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: matter what time in your life. But I wonder do
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: you miss practicing at all or even just talk about
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: medicine and do you do any of it now?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm still I'm still a doctor obviously,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: once a doctor, always doctor. Yeah, I'm actually taking a
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: little sabbatical from actual practice. But here's the irony of
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: life as an e ard doct I mentioned my my
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: daughter's birthday today, So literally two hours before I hop
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: on with you guys, she gets a nurse maid's elbow.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if you guys, basically called radio
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: radiohead suplixation, So like their elbow, their their bone comes
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit out of joint and you got to
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: reduce it. And it's just funny because like, thank my
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: wife's like holding her she's crying and and I'm like,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: all right, what's going on. She's not not using her
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: left arm, and I'm like, I wonder, I wonder if she,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you know, had a little sublixation, and you know, she's balling, balling, balling.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'm gonna reduce it. And it's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: luckily a very simple procedure if you know how to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: do it, and like instantly she Perks starts using our arm,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: which is like the classic thing is you have to
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: do a high five after and that means everything's back
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: in order.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Paris is like, yeah, you're you know the beauty of
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: being in the yard doc is your whole life. Two
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: things like one. It is definitely a younger person's game,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: if you will. Like the energy I had in my
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: thirties and forties to do that kind of work day
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: in and day out is so much greater than when
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: you're in your fifties. But it's really kind of cool
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: because not only the lessons that you learn just about
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: health and wellness and hopefully avoiding disease. But I'm not
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: gonna lie, it's kind of cool when you're you don't
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: have to take your two year old daughter and her
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: birthday to the ar. Yeah, yes, do the procedure in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: your living room and you're like all right, yes, and.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: You can write yourself.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Can you write a prescription and be like, oh, my
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: kid has an ear infection, I'm gonna write any antibiotic
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: and don't have to go to the urgent care.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, here's pinky, here we are.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to start like digging into the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: uh moral grounds of medicine. But you know, having said
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: all of that, there there are other advantages. So when
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: you get to this stage in life, I think the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: one thing that I really pay a lot of attention
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: to is I mean, when you spend as much time
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: in the hospital as I have, your number one goal
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in life becomes I want to minimize the amount of
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: time my family's in the hospital, because yeah, sometimes no
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: matter what you do, you do everything right, still tragedy strikes,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: or you know, you end up having to go to
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the er, or you haven't develop a medical problem, no
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: fault of your own, but you I'm constantly sort of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: aware of a how we're living our lives. I'm obviously
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not a helicopter parent at all, but i will
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: say that I'm very very mindful of what my kids
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: are doing. Yeah, because you know, someone else can naively
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: watch their kids. And I'm like, yeah, if he falls
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: right there, he's got a broken arm, he's gonna have
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: to go to the hospital. I don't want to. I
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: don't want him to have that experience in the PEDSR
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: at five pm on a Saturday. So hey, you know, Grayson,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: my son, like you know, let's do that over here
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: where if you do fall, your falling into grass. And
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: so I'm very you know, my kids are never on
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: any sort of bike or anything without a helmet on,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: mainly because I'm trying to teach those habits. But the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: biggest thing is, like I, to the best of my ability,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I try to use all those little lessons that I've
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: learned as a doctor and implement them in my own life.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: And then of course the beauty is obviously a lot
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: of my friends are doctors, and some of my best
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: friends in Nashville are doctors. And two years ago, not
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: to make this all about medicine, but I have genetic
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: high blood pressure. And a couple of years ago we'd
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: had Dylan, my wife got COVID, so she she was
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: like laid up in bed, so for like five days straight.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Dylan was maybe two months old. I had Grayson Dylan
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: full time parent and on the fifth day, I went
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: into atrial fibrillation.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: And you know, I thought I was super healthy. Here
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I'm fifty. At the time, I was fifty, But yeah,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I've developed some high blood pressure, but overall I'm healthy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. But obviously exhausted from parenting everything else,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: probably drinking a little too much wine at night during
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: bathtime routine. I get it, but I go into atrial fibrillation.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: And it's pretty cool that my two best friends in
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: town are just great, great people, but also really smart people. Yeah,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm in a fib. My wife puts
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: her Apple watch on. I got all these traces, like
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I can't get out of it. And I'll be honest
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: with you, I'm like, Paris, I'm just gonna I'm just
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: gonna sit here and wait. So she calls my best friend.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, like he's at my doorstep five
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: ten minutes later with his wife. His wife like comes
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: in and take care of our kids. He throws me
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: in the car. Next thing, you know, like we're on
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the way to the hospital. Long story short. There there
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: are like so many I don't know what I'm saying
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: with them to say, like, I feel very blessed to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: have learned the lessons I've learned. And one of the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: most important lessons I've learned is it's not just about
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: being friends with doctors. What is being friends with people
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that like, if you have your time of need, they're there.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: For you. The fact that they're willing to like drop everything,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: come over and like take you to the hospital is
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: pretty awesome.
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's the huge thing for me is is
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: knowing and understanding that having that around me, which is
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: a huge probably because I spent you know, so many
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: years practicing the ear is a huge bonus for me
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: at this stage in life with kids being a little
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: bit older.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they I mean that is one of those
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: things to this day where I like, you'll never see
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: me without my watch now, oh right.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: It gives you hear your readouts and everything else you need.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, that's crazy. And I'm glad you found your people.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: That's so important in life. I feel like connection is everything.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: So for your wife, I'm sure you've been asked this
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: question before. Did she watch the show? Did she know
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: who you were from before from a bachelor?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I guess?
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: And where did you meet like before doctor? Much later?
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So she she was a I trained at Vanderbilt and
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: then she was a Vanderbilt trained lawyer and a mutual
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: friend of ours who was on the Bachelorette. Believe it
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: or not. Chris Stramberg, you may remember his his moniker
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: was Chris Cupcake. He was on, Yes, you know that guy,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: like the irony of how life ends up evolving. So
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Chris came on the Doctors to do a few dental
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: health tips, came on a few different times. I became
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: friends with him. He lived in Nashville, and he set
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: me and my wife up on a date. And yeah,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: here we are. I didn't know you.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Were set up by somebody from the Bachelor, like it
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: actually happened.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Because you know, it's funny how this works out, because
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and look for all the blessings and curses the Bachelor
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of them, if you will. My roommate when I went
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: on The Bachelor, So I got a couple of stories,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Like my roommate when I went on the Bachelor. You know,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: we're both r residents. One night and I rarely went out,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: but one night for my birthday, all my friends took
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: me out and of course it was chaos. This is
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: like a month after the Bachelor. Well, my roommate ends
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: up meeting his wife that night. Amazing, they're now married
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: with two kids. I have like three or four different
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: stories where again it wasn't the part that showed up
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: on TV. But by going on the Bachelor. There are
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: a minimum of four to five people married right now
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: because I went on The Bachelor, And so it's really
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: cool that this, again, however imperfect, these journeys are. Yeah,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, Tristy, you and Ryan meet on
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the show and you stay together. You know, Bob, I
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: know you've had some ups and downs in the you know,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: in relationships. Oh yeah, but it's kind of cool how
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: through all of that you can go back to your
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: experience in the Bachelor and say, yeah, unequivocally, there there
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: are happy married people in the world with kids because
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I did that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you could go down the rabbit hole even further.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, because of The Bachelor, you end up on
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: the Doctors, right, and I can only imagine you've probably
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: saved I would guess millions of lives, if not thousands,
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: by some of the advice you gave on the show
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: and the way that you would have resonated with people
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: at home.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: And I mean, we.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Could we could do this all day, but I bet
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: we could find even more like direct connections of things
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: that you've had an impact on just with your you know,
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: with your practice and everything else. I think it's pretty spectacular.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: I will tell you though. I did take notes per Travis.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: Be friends with more doctors. That's my note. That's one
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: note I have so far, and I'm gonna do that.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: You know, being older dads, we gotta we gotta listen
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: to each other.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Man. We got to share the wealth.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Just Bob, do this though. Be a considerate friend to
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: your doctor. Friend one you know that wants prescriptions? Yeah,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: call it two am, Like, Oh, I can't sleep? Hey,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: will you? Will you for me?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Can I get some?
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: What's I don't even know what you use to sleep?
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: But whenever people use the sleep.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: Dude, I love I love having you on the show
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: because I feel like we've been best buddies forever. And
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: it's like it's crazy because it's like, you know, one
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: of those things where you think you know someone you
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: know from the experiences that you share in common, but
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: you really don't, and then as you get to know them.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, I I've always really liked who I think
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: you are, and then after having you on the show,
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: I'm like, this is my guy. Like I'm going next
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: time I'm in Nashville, I'm calling him, you know, because
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, I just feel like it's one of
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: those things, you know, I think and I was it
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Lacey Pemberton that cast.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: You when you did the show?
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Do you remember?
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Was that was that the casting person?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: No, it was not Lacey, okay, because I was gonna
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: say I don't. I mean, she may have still been
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: a part of it, but it was some Yeah, it
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: was someone who was at a Nashville restaurant.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Ah.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one of those.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to say the connections for Travis. So
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: Travis went to my rival high school.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Oh I did not know this.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: I went to Parkway Central.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sure I saw him in a football game
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: or two basketball something.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Isn't that weird?
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: Like to think that we probably were at the same
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: place at the same time back in nineteen eighty nine
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: or something.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: You know, that is crazy, but you can tell the truth.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I was at the Parkway Central West High School football
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: game Rivalry. I asked you on a date and you
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: said no, yeah, And I said, I'm going to show
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: her someday I'm going to become the Bachelor. But you
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: beat me to it, And oh my gosh.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: That would be so funny.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: That would be crazy crazy, really.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: You know, the Parkway Central and Parkway West are I was.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I probably lived as close to Central as I did
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: to West I mean a few miles. Yeah, I mean right,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: because they're so close, and someone who lives in Saint
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Louis knows. Like the first thing you ask is when
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: you meet someone where high school and your rivals back
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: in the day. But now I'm like, oh, dude, you
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: went to Parkway Central. That's incredible. I know, I love it.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Do you ever get back?
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Do you ever get back to you still have family there?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't been back in so long. How
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: about you?
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I went back last year.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: My best friend lost her mom, so I went back
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: for her funeral, But and my dad's still there. I
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: just haven't been back a lot.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I should. I should go back more.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: You know, it's just with kids and their schedules hockey
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: and dance mom, that's me, And it's it's just hard
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: to travel when the school season is happening.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: So I wish.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: So, first of all, I'm sorry for your your friend's lost, but.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: How Like I can't believe you put your kids needs
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: in front of your own.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what the hell? Twist?
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Come on, we should just call this entire episode of
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: like who we were versus who we are, yeah, versus joy.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: And honestly, you said something in the beginning about, you know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: we're only going to have our kids for a little bit.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: I have been like on this path of really focusing
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: in on that because Max will be a junior next
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: year in high school and Blakesley will be a sophomore,
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: and I they have been my identity, you know, bachelorette
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: was my identity back you know, early two thousands, and
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: now it's like I am a mom, That's that's who
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: I am. And to think that they're not going to
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: be here, like we just went on a family vacation
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: because we were talking about it and Ryan said, you know,
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: they're only going to be around for a couple more
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: years to do like family trips like this, and not
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: that we couldn't while they're in college obviously, or if
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: they go to college whatever they do after high school,
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: but he said that, and I.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Was like, Okay, We're going on vacation. That's it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: I don't care how much money it costs, like, I'm
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: just going to make it work. So it's so hard,
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: you just eat it seems like you're in it and
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: you're enjoying it, and I say, just continue to do that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: It's it makes life worthwhile. And I just wish we
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: could hold onto them more, although I love that they
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: get to spread their wings and fly soon.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: So well, it's your your colds. Are you know that?
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: That is the age where you've your hard work is
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: in many ways done, you know, And that's pretty awesome.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: It's funny, and Bob, you can probably attest to this.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: I have to catch myself sometimes from saying, gosh, you know,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I can't wait till they're a little bit older and
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: can feed themselves and clothe themselves and bathe themselves. But
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: then I hear the story talking about your kids and
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's my daughter's birthday today.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I wish it wasn't.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: I wish it was.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Because You're right, it goes by so quick.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I feel exactly that way. Yeah, I feel exactly that way, dude.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I generally I look at Trista's children,
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: who are so beautiful and accomplished, and it's like, you know,
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I wonder what my boys are going
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: to turn out to be? Like, you know, I hope
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: you know, I hope they want to do this. I
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: hope they want to do that, But I've got to
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: slow myself down, like what Travis said, and I got
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: I got to allow myself to enjoy the ride sometimes
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: because it's like, you know, Grayson is at this point
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: now and I'm sure you're going through it now to
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: Travis where he I have full on conversations with him,
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: like he is my guy. Like We'll be driving along
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: talking about the day and and I don't need anybody else,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: you know, and then along comes Blake, and now Blake
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: will be like, you know, Blake's the really soft sense,
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: and I've wanted to be like, I love you, daddy,
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh oh my, ready to cry ten
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: times a day.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: It's like, and I think that happens to guys as
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: we get older.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: I'll talk to my doctor, Travis Stork after the show
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: to go to a personal consultation on this one. But
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: I swear to you, I have become an emotional basket
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: case as I get older with everything that happens with
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: the boys, Like I'm constantly like, oh.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: My god, look at them.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud. He's all grossed up and he's.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: Five, you know, so it's kind of funny, right you
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: get to I don't want him to grow up either,
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: but I do want I, like Trista said, I want
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: to see him spread their ways.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: But it's tough.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Well that the difference there, Bob also is Yeah, my
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: son fully cognizant, great conversations. By the way, thank you
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: guys for not telling me that my wife's name was
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: on my Uh I did see that.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I didn't.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Think anything of it. Mind doesn't even have a code,
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: don't even know it.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's funny. I looked down. I'm like, yeah, no,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not parish. So the way I knew
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that my son was, you know, fully competent of having
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: conversations with me is not from having wonderful fatherly son conversations.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: It's when we're in traffic. Now he's like, move your
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: freaking car. I'm an impatient driver. And if we're like
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: the light's green in the car front, we're just sitting there.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, move your freaking car. My son now
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: does that. I'm like, yeah, I'm such a good dad.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, wow, I'm my son's so teaching a bit.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: He's almost four, but yeah, you know, I'm teaching them
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: all these invaluable lessons like impatience, screaming, screaming at the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: drivers of other cars. Who know that's so good?
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: Do you know what?
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like?
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: I am now in the point of my life where
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: I'm actually cussing again. Like I wasn't cussing for so
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: long because I didn't want them to pick up those
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: bad habits. And now I'm like, they're teenagers, they're doing
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: it on their They're they're cussing to their friends. I'm
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: so there's actually some freedom in that.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still not You're you going to drop drop
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: an F bomb right now? Trista, Oh yeah, you know.
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: Actually I just watched this Instagram video one, you know,
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: one of those four you's that pops up, and there
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: was this little girl who's looking outside and she goes,
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: there's a goat.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: There's a goat, Oh my god.
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: And my mom was like, no, it's not and she goes, yes,
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: it's a fing goat.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: All you gotta do is a you gotta do is
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: not your kids watch a Disney movie, which I'm sure
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: Travis is in the throws of them as.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: Well right now, but like yes, in cars.
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: So so my son, Blake, I'll be changing his diaper
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: like hey buddy, and he'll go, you fool, you idiot,
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm changing your diaper, like that's not
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: how we talk to people who are in diaper, Judy.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: But but it's like every Disney movie has a moment
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: where they call they throw the word idiot out I
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: swear or fool, and Blake uses it like crazy. It's
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: like his favorite adjective, you know. And so we're just
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if it's an adjective. I'm not
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: the grammar police here today, but whatever type of word
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: it is, he uses it, he uses it very freely
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: and fluidly, and it's just abusive. Like I'm like, why
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: is my two and a half year old calling me
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: an idiot all the time?
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: You know? So yeah, I'm very careful, you know. Is uh.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: It's sort of that classic you know, sticks and stones
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: will break my bones. Words will never hurt me as
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: a parent. It's you know, poop in my face will
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: really suck. You can say whatever you want if I'm
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: changing your diaper and you don't like, grab your poop
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: and throw it at me. This pool will call me
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: an idiot. I don't care. Just let me get this
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: diaper changed. Let's like contain the poop. Let's not having
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: up the backer here, Let's just keep it real. Let's
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: wipe the butt, let's get everything clean. And yeah, I'll
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: be I'll be your fool whatever, but let's get this
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: diaper on.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: Do that.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh yeah, so chi don't hurt me.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: My wife told our friends this week, and do I'll
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: have older kids, she said something, and she goes, wait,
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: so you guys don't play the fun family game.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: Is it pooper? Is it chocolate?
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: Because that's what we play at the Guinea House, and
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: seventy nine point four percent of the time it's chocolate.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm like, wait, what game are you playing?
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Because seven nine or four percent of the time with me,
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: it's poop.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say most of the time. So okay,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: last question. Do you still watch the show.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Sometimes? Yeah, it depends on the interview.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: No one watches it anymore, right, Bob, I feel like
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: most people don't, So I love that you're.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you know, well, it depends. My wife still finds
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: it incredibly entertaining, and I think it's one of those
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: things where it'll often be on the background. She'll put
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: it on. But to be honest with you, you know, it
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: really does depend on the season. She'll be watched, like,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you have to watch like and it's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: usually this, it's whoever the penultimate. I don't want to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: say character because none of us are characters, but like, yeah,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: everyone wants to ascribe one meaning to the franchise. Here's
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: the deal. Every single journey is so unique, genuinely, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: whenever the Bachelor or Bachelrette, or in the case of Jerry,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: the Golden Baster, whenever it's someone who's likable, we kind
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: of get drawn into it because even though it's crazy,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: it's chaos, it's not real world all this other stuff.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: The truth is, during that moment, during that journey, if
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: someone's having like an authentic experience or a cool person,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: I get invested. The Golden Bachelor's a great example. I
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: was like, this is really you know, do I agree
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: with everything going on?
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: No?
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: You know what I tell four people in the same day,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I love them or whatever, Like, no, probably not, but
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I really like Jerry I really like this. I hope
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: this works out. Does it often?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: But when my wife and I sort of get drawn in,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: it's usually because they are just some really really good folks.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: To me, the seasons where I literally don't watch one
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: second of it because my wife isn't interested. It's it's honestly,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: it's when the people tend to be assholes and you
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: can tell superficial and they suck and you're like, yeah, well,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit what happens because these people suck,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: and when they're nice and cool, good personalities, genuine I'm like, like,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: I hope it's worked out for them, Yeah, because you're
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: living proof that it can't. Yeah, And every every I know,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: every single moment of every day since then, has been
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: pure bliss. There's never been a.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: Moment sure, sure bless.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, that's right. That's all she had to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: say about that one.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, I feel like marriage is freaking hard.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: You know, life is hard, it's hard being a parent,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: it's hard just existing in the world sometimes. So I yeah,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: I am very thankful that we have gotten through the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: downs that we've had in our life and enjoy the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: highs as much as possible, but.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: But you're right, I am so drawn to the people
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: and I watch everything, so I'll watch even the bad
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: seasons or what we're calling kind of the bad seasons
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: of the people that people aren't necessarily drawn to. But
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: I am like with Gary, like with Joey, freaking love
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: Joey and this season and girls and just the like camaraderie.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: It reminded me of my season with the guys, like
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: people got along although there was drama still, like in
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: the end, how the girls came together. I just love
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: seeing humanity and authenticity and kindness, and so I'd love
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: more of that on the show. And it seems like
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: you do too, Chris.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Do you know, or Bob, how did the last season rate?
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Because you know, the world of TV is interesting, and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I think there was a period of time, certainly before
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: I went on the show. There were a couple of
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: seasons before, at least the one right now before where
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: it was all about just taking shots off of like
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: naked bodies, and it like didn't rate well, and I
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: think one of the reasons why I ended up getting cast.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: And you know, I was at that restaurant in Nashville
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: and someone came up started talking to my group and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: the person casting without us knowing who she was, like,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: you're a doctor. And the reason I bring that up
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: is there there was a notable shift towards, at least
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: on my season, towards being genuine and like some people
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: might call that boring. That's why I'm always cured that
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: looked recently, But like, I know, the Golden Batter did
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: really well because I thought it was genuine and the
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: storytelling is genuine and legit. I'm curious, do you guys
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: know with Joey's season did it go well? Because I
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: think I I didn't watch a lot of it, but
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: what I did, he's super likable guy and and the
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: women on the season seemed really genuine. I hope it
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: rated well because it did.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like a return to tour to the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: og days. Really, I mean it kind of was a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: little bit of a return to that.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: I think Golden Bachelor, and we talked a lot about this,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: but one of the things I loved about Golden Baschler
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: was the age appropriate casting because it could have been
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: a you know, it could have been a circus, and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: then they roll that into Joey's season and it's a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: really sincere, sweet and funny guy who's not afraid to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: take a couple of shots at himself and you know whatever,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, it was it was their
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: return to I think what made the show so great
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: so many years ago, and hopefully they keep that vibe going,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: you know, I think they will. I think that they're
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: pretty smart, right, they realize they've they got lightning in
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: a bottle again with the Golden Bachelor formula. Now maybe
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: they'll like apply that to the seasons again. I think
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: they just they maybe just got to a point where
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: they wanted to try something new for a couple of
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: years and it took off and it was like drama Central.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nobody wanted to I'll say one controversial thing
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  Speaker 1: any line of work. They're really smart people and really
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  Speaker 1: dumb people. A lot of really dumb people in LA
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: but also those smart ones. And it's interesting having now
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  Speaker 1: spent I mean, I spent a lot of time out there,
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  Speaker 1: and it's amazing how sometimes the dumbest voices in the
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  Speaker 1: room carried the day and common sense or practical anyone
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  Speaker 1: with a normal mind is like, yeah, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're making TV. If all you're thinking about is like
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  Speaker 1: a certain demographic out in LA, it's not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be thinking Trista, the folks in Saint Louis,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like how this who plays out? And and
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  Speaker 1: it's just funny because obviously twelve years on the Doctors,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: being The Bachelor and in between, you guys have done
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff where you just spend so much time
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: here on different shows. You're doing all this stuff and
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: you meet some really phenomenal smart people who seem to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: make really good decisions about making good TV, and then
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: you make others meet other people and you're like, why
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  Speaker 1: would you do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So true, so domb Yeah, it's like, you know, the
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: majority of the population out there isn't out here right
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: in the middle. It's it's what we call the flyover states, right,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: that's who's watching the show. So yeah, I agree with
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: you on that one. There's definitely, uh, there needs to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: be a return to a little bit more of the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: wholesome programming.
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  Speaker 3: I think they'll be surprised at how good it goes,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope I hope they do that with Bold
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: and Bachelorette I'm hoping just teare, but Travis, it was
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: a pleasure reconnecting. I'm so happy that you found happiness
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: and so happy and your babies and Nashville. Actually, Ryan
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 5: and Max are going to be in Nashville at the
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 5: end of the month for a hockey tournament, so I
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: wish I was going. I'm going to Vegas for nine
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: days for a dance competition. Vegas for nine days, whichld
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 5: we luck anyway, I couldn't last.
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  Speaker 1: If Brian needs anything. While as you're let me know,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: it's always so as we as we end this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the funny thing about it is going back
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: in time. When I did The Bachelor, I was I
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: felt like I was on an island, you know, being
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: a doctor and all this other stuff, and I just
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to sort of separate myself from it.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: And now with time having passed, it's so fun talking
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: to you too, because we are who we are now.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: We have this unique experience that we all had together,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: even though it's different. It just we know things and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: had experiences that very few people will ever have. Even
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: though it's different, it's really cool. It's like going to
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: a reunion. I know, and meeting or hanging out with
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: the people that you went to school with but you
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: didn't know them that well in school. But you're like,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: it turns out we have a lot in common because
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: we went to the same school, we took the same classes,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: and maybe we were a year apart, but like, hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I went to my reunion and I
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: met some great people, or I hung out with people
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know very well, or like with Trista, we've
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: talked a bunch, but it's good to like, I haven't
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: talked to you in freaking a decade, maybe.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: A long time.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I thought your number. I was like, I can't,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: I can't find it. I don't have his number. I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: don't know why. I feel like we talked and still.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: I still have the ninety seven oh number. I still have.
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  Speaker 4: So I.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you guys, appreciate uh the time talking to
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: you all. It was a lot of fun. And Bobby,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: if you ever had this way, feel free to look
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: me up. I will.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of big parties happening over here, Man, big parties.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they don't.
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  Speaker 3: We probably start when I'm already going to bed.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I've already played a start. Yeah, they started
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: at four and they ended six and they involved balloons
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: and other fun things.
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  Speaker 4: So this sounds like my guy party. This is awesome. Definitely,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: thank you for joining us on the Ogs, dude. It
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: was such a pleasure having you on the show. And man,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: I'm so I'm so thankful that we got we got
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: a chance to talk and catch up.
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  Speaker 3: And let's not let's not make it take so long time.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: All right, y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Well, awesome, Bye, Travis, have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Cheers.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, what a great guy. Huh. I love him.
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  Speaker 5: I've always loved him. I mean, obviously Saint Louis Roots
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: and then he was in Colorado for a bit, and yeah,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: he is just authentic, like assault of theirs kind of
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: people love.
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  Speaker 3: You know, hasn't that been our experience?
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  Speaker 4: I honestly, God, I feel like people come on our
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: show and we end up like every single one of them,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: you and I are at the end of like I
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: love that person. Like.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: That's why I asked him.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: That's why I wanted to know if it was Lazy
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: Pemberton who ultimately cast him, because I feel like she
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: just had this nose to find really just like minded
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: people you know, it's it's just really.
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  Speaker 3: Remarkable to me.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: But anyway, always great talking with you, Trista, and thanks
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: everyone for listening to almost famous the Ogs and uh
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: tune in next time.
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  Speaker 6: You'll never your ever love