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The Most Dramatic Wedding Ever · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today, Ben
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Speaker 2: and I are just gonna chat with you guys about
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Speaker 2: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zima's wedding. It was a great weekend.
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Speaker 2: I just like, oh, I love our little bachelor family reunions.
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Speaker 2: It really fills my soul.
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Speaker 3: It's a great weekend, tons of fun, so many details
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Speaker 3: to talk about.
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Speaker 4: Let's jump into it now.
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Speaker 3: Ashley, obviously, you and I seem to be I guess
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Speaker 3: the Bachelor world. We should say, are really into the
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Speaker 3: Westerns themed weddings at this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently, and it really works for you. And I
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Speaker 2: am the person who both times has been like, wait,
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Speaker 2: it's a themed wedding and then you're like, yes, Ashley,
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to wear like cowboy boots and I'm like, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: I don't have those right now, and I just I'm
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Speaker 2: a mess when it comes to this theme. And then
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Speaker 2: Ben shows up looking so dashing every single time, and
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Speaker 2: you like carry yourself with a certain confidence when you
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Speaker 2: have a.
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Speaker 4: Yes the weddings.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, actually, Jessica said, the funniest thing for
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Speaker 2: me it is definitely one of those not suitable for
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Speaker 2: work comments. But I so so wish that I could
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Speaker 2: caption my Instagram tonight, which yes, I am putting out
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Speaker 2: another Ben Higgins dancing at a wedding Instagram rail because
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Speaker 2: he serves the content at these weddings, and I'm like, Ben,
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Speaker 2: we have a few, we have a few more weddings
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Speaker 2: on the agenda for the next year, and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to make this the fame.
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Speaker 4: I really like the tradition.
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Speaker 3: I really enjoy weddings because it feels like a party.
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Speaker 4: Like I'm not a go outer. I don't like the clubs.
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Speaker 4: I don't like the bars.
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Speaker 3: I never really have, and I think the reasoning is
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Speaker 3: because they, especially at this point in my life, they
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Speaker 3: feel very pointless, Like I don't know what I'm doing there.
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Speaker 3: I'm either going to drink way too much, which I
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Speaker 3: don't enjoy doing.
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Speaker 2: But you sometimes do it at weddings. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: whether you do or not, but like you definitely act
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Speaker 2: like that on the dance floor. Yeah, when you've got
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Speaker 2: your like tongue hanging out and your hips thrusting.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good explanation of me.
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Speaker 2: Actually, that was so dirty.
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Speaker 3: But my point was, yeah, so I don't like to
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Speaker 3: drink too much. I don't drink too much at weddings.
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Speaker 3: In fact, Jessica's still to this day would say and
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Speaker 3: five years a knowing me, she's never seen me intoxicated.
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Speaker 2: I've not seen Jared. It's so weird.
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Speaker 3: But so my point was to this being weddings are
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Speaker 3: different for me though, because there is something to celebrate,
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Speaker 3: like there's a point to being there, and so I
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Speaker 3: have a really good time being around people, like having
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Speaker 3: a drink in hand, dancing, singing, talking, like because there
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Speaker 3: is a reason for being there. And if I were
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Speaker 3: to go out to the bars, the really only reasons
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Speaker 3: to go to the bars are to maybe spend some
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Speaker 3: time with friends, which is it makes sense, but really
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Speaker 3: like it's too find a love interest, or to drink
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Speaker 3: too much or to stay up too late. None of
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Speaker 3: those three things I enjoy, need or want in my life.
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Speaker 4: But weddings are different, and they're a big, big party.
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Speaker 3: So Ashley, I think everybody listening wants to hear some
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Speaker 3: of the details of this wedding.
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Speaker 4: They want to hear who was all there.
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Speaker 3: They can obviously see it now on social media, I'll
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Speaker 3: kick it off with kind of our agenda for the weekend. Yes,
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Speaker 3: it was a Western themed wedding because we were in
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Speaker 3: Austin Friday night.
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Speaker 4: Chris and Lauren did an incredible thing for us.
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Speaker 3: We arrived into Austin, everybody kind of got there around
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Speaker 3: the same time, and then they invited us over to
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Speaker 3: their house about I would say twenty of us the
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Speaker 3: bachelor crew for cocktails, incredible wine and or d'Ors for
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Speaker 3: a few hours just to be together. And I don't
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Speaker 3: know if you witnessed this, Ashley or thought about it
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Speaker 3: this way. They didn't need to do that, like that
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Speaker 3: wasn't something I think they wanted to write.
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Speaker 4: But then again, they had a lot of friends in town.
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Speaker 4: They had a lot of.
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Speaker 2: Groups, so so nice, and they actually had three events
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Speaker 2: that night, and I suspected that perhaps they were going
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Speaker 2: to do that. They had something with her sorority sisters
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Speaker 2: and then something with her mom and her friends, but
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Speaker 2: first was the bachelor party at their house, and it
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Speaker 2: was just so incredibly nice of them to have us
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Speaker 2: over their house. I was really looking forward to this
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Speaker 2: element because you know, both you and I are kind
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Speaker 2: of like introverted extroverts. Or were extroverted introverts, and it's
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Speaker 2: nice to have like a calm place where we could
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Speaker 2: be really comfortable with the people that we know. And
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Speaker 2: it was just that it was so it's just like
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Speaker 2: the greatest one we all get together, because I just
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Speaker 2: feel so at home with everyone.
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Speaker 3: I'm with you, and I was looking forward to this too.
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Speaker 3: I was a little nervous about it. I think there's
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Speaker 3: some dynamics.
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Speaker 2: You thought there was going to be some drama.
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Speaker 3: It was like, really kept at Bay, there's gonna be
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Speaker 3: some drama. We're going to talk about the drama, the
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Speaker 3: potential drama, but let's first talk about who was all there.
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Speaker 4: Ashley. Let's start.
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Speaker 3: There was Ashley and Jared, myself and Jessica, Chris and
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Speaker 3: Lauren Wells and Sarah, Bob Guinea and Canyon his wife.
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Speaker 3: We also had Ari and Lauren Lyondyke, Taysha and her boyfriend, Luke.
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Speaker 4: Colton and Jordan were there.
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Speaker 3: Becca and Hayley were there, Jojo Fletcher, Caitlin Bristow, Jason Tartick,
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Speaker 3: which we'll talk about later. That dynamic obviously one that
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Speaker 3: was full of intrigue and interest. For myself, at least,
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Speaker 3: I don't know for anybody else.
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Speaker 2: We were all I'm really curious to see what would happened.
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Speaker 4: Tanner and Jade. Trista Sutter was also there, whom I
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Speaker 4: forgetting and Sean.
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Speaker 2: Kathern didn't come to the Friday Night thing.
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Speaker 3: But Seawan and Catherine at the wedding, but they did
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Speaker 3: not come to the Friday night thing. Was there anybody
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Speaker 3: else that I'm missing that was there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly Travis and her husband Hunterry.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, great friend.
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Speaker 2: One Populo season. Okay, so yeah, should we just jump
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Speaker 2: into the whole Caitlin and Jason interaction.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is one there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of build up, you know, behind the scenes. I can't
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Speaker 3: say that anybody fully knew the dynamics.
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Speaker 4: Of their relationship.
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Speaker 3: We all know though that anytime you see an X,
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Speaker 3: even if.
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Speaker 4: The breakup is mutual and amicable and.
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Speaker 3: Very sweet and nice, the the dynamics can be awkward,
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Speaker 3: right they are because you've broken up for a reason,
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Speaker 3: Like you haven't broken up because you still like each
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Speaker 3: other so much. You've broken up because at some point
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Speaker 3: you're like, hey, this isn't working, We're not getting along.
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Speaker 4: We need to end it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was wondering whether or not they were seeing
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Speaker 2: each other sharing the dogs in Nashville. But I'll let Caitlyn,
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Speaker 2: you know, on her podcast explain their situation because I
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Speaker 2: don't want to overstep, but I will say this, it
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Speaker 2: had been a while since she's seen him, and she
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Speaker 2: Jade and Trista and I were planning on getting a
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Speaker 2: drink before going over to their house on Friday, and
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Speaker 2: Caitlyn was a little bit late getting down there, so
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Speaker 2: Jade and I were we were sitting down at like
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Speaker 2: a little table by the bar, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: who walks up and grabs a drink at the bar? Jason.
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Speaker 2: So then we're like, oh my god, what do we do?
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Speaker 2: What do we do? She's like she literally had just
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Speaker 2: texted us and she's like on her way down. So
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Speaker 2: we did our best. We intercepted her, and we walked
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Speaker 2: her out to like the outdoor sitting area and we
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Speaker 2: found like a little empty spot in the in the corner.
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Speaker 2: But Jason had when he made I con back with Jade,
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Speaker 2: was like you could just tell he was like, Oh gosh,
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Speaker 2: I got there's somebody got There's definitely she's definitely coming down,
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Speaker 2: and then we were sitting there in the corner and
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Speaker 2: she was like, oh my god, this is so awkward.
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Speaker 2: What do I do? So actually he ended up texting
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Speaker 2: her basically was like I saw you, like, do you
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Speaker 2: want to say do you want to like say hi?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? And which is great?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is great. And then once they said hi guys.
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Speaker 2: Not to make you like, sorry to disappoint for those
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Speaker 2: who want drama, but they were like so totally normal
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Speaker 2: all weekend long once the initial high was done.
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Speaker 3: In fact, they were kind of I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: it'd be it's interesting going to a wedding alone, and
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Speaker 3: I think when you go to a wedding alone, there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of couples there and sometimes you.
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Speaker 4: Wonder how you're going to kind of fit in.
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Speaker 3: And I would say the two of them were around
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Speaker 3: each other a lot, got along really good. I was
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Speaker 3: just really proud of them, like proud in the sense of, hey,
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Speaker 3: I can learn from them in this moment. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if I would have had that ability or in
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Speaker 3: my past with an ex to do that. And I
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Speaker 3: think I was just like admiring how well they navigated
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Speaker 3: that everybody there knew they were once together. Everybody knew
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Speaker 3: they've now broken up, and they didn't let it be
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Speaker 3: a thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could tell there was a really good, just
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Speaker 2: foundation of friendship there because they did. Chew used to
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Speaker 2: hang out together at certain points, like even on Friday
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Speaker 2: night when we went to dinner, they like hung out
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Speaker 2: the other side of the table. They took ubers with us.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't as it, It was not like at all anything.
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Speaker 2: It looked like people who really enjoyed each other's company
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Speaker 2: for so many years.
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Speaker 3: Were you at all at any point, Ashley hoping to
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Speaker 3: witness a rekindling other flame?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we all did, because they were like
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Speaker 2: so friendly. They were like, well, if they're so friendly,
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Speaker 2: then like maybe they should just maybe, you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: just tonight fun, you know, fun for all of us
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Speaker 2: at least.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't tell if I was in like wanting it
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Speaker 3: or not. I didn't know what was healthy and what
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Speaker 3: was not. I don't know enough details to have.
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Speaker 2: Probably healthy not to and they didn't.
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Speaker 3: It was really great, really proud of them again. I
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Speaker 3: learned a lot from them in terms of everybody else.
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Speaker 3: It was just good to see everybody else. It was
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Speaker 3: great to see Jojo I.
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Speaker 2: Love Jojo so much, Like I haven't seen her for
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Speaker 2: three years, but how is it that when I see her,
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Speaker 2: I feel like yesterday and I just like want to
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Speaker 2: hang out with her so much much more. She's such
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Speaker 2: an addictive personality, Like I'm got a personality that you
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Speaker 2: want to be around.
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Speaker 4: She really is.
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Speaker 3: And I had told Jess because before the weekend kind
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Speaker 3: of gave her a rundown to everybody, uh, And you know,
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Speaker 3: she was like, should it be weird between Jojo and I?
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Speaker 3: Because somebody had asked her one of her clients had
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Speaker 3: asked her, are you nervous to go to this wedding?
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Speaker 3: Like is it going to be awkward? And I was
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Speaker 3: like no, I was like, it's going to be opposite
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Speaker 3: of awkward. There's nothing awkward to it. We're all in
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Speaker 3: a really good place. And JoJo's the best, Like she
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Speaker 3: is incredible. And Jess and Jojo got along so well,
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Speaker 3: they really did.
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Speaker 2: Like I looked over and I saw the two of
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Speaker 2: them hanging out, just chatting the two of them multiple times.
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Speaker 2: Was really, it's really nice.
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Speaker 3: It was never even an that was never or even
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Speaker 3: a thought on my mind that that could be. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: then she knew a lot of the others from kind
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Speaker 3: of past weddings or past events, so the group was incredible.
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Speaker 4: We did a Friday night at Chris and Laurence. It
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Speaker 4: was just a good catch up.
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Speaker 3: If anything else, it was mostly just meant to say
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Speaker 3: hey to everybody, to show who was all there and
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Speaker 3: got to meet, you know, obviously Tasha's boyfriend Luke for
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Speaker 3: the first time and that was great. And then Saturday
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Speaker 3: night or Friday night, I guess, we went to dinner
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Speaker 3: mostly all together, kind of in two separate groups, the
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Speaker 3: girls and the guys. I got sid by Jared and
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Speaker 3: Tanner and talked football the whole night, while the other
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Speaker 3: side of the table just had a blast. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the stories coming from that side of the table are
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Speaker 3: a wild What they were talking about. I don't even
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Speaker 3: think I could mention on the podcast, but you know,
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Speaker 3: it was the Bob Guineas, and it was Wells, and
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Speaker 3: it was Jason, and they are just all really funny
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Speaker 3: people who can make each other laugh and make anybody
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Speaker 3: laugh and any given time.
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Speaker 2: Bachelor Bob is just amazing. And I still refer to
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Speaker 2: him as Bachelor Bob because that's what I thought of
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Speaker 2: him as in high school. He is just another person.
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Speaker 2: He like you just want to listen to him talk
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Speaker 2: and be around him. He's so He's always just in
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Speaker 2: the most upbeat mood and just like seeing his face
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Speaker 2: kind of makes me laugh. He's obviously an attractive man,
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Speaker 2: but like there's something about him just makes me like laugh.
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Speaker 3: He is one of those people that their personalities make
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Speaker 3: you want to see them as often as possible. And
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Speaker 3: I think he likes being called bachelor Bob. I think
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Speaker 3: he finds it very fun to still be considered bachelor Bob.
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Speaker 3: I think his wife likes for him to be called
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Speaker 3: bachelor Bob because she gives him such a hard time
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Speaker 3: in the most cute and like loving way.
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Speaker 4: That I think.
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Speaker 3: Refer to hering is that I think at this point
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Speaker 3: his life makes him very like smile, really big he is.
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Speaker 3: I didn't watch his season. I need to go back
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Speaker 3: and see if I can ever find it. I would
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Speaker 3: say from the people I'd met, he and Andrew Firestone
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Speaker 3: would have to be two of the best of There's
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Speaker 3: many great people who have been the Bachelor and bachelorette,
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Speaker 3: but like two of the best bachelors of all time,
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Speaker 3: Like I think we have to say that because they
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Speaker 3: just are great people.
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Speaker 2: Well, Chris is really close to Andrew Firestone, and I
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Speaker 2: think he was at their Napa wedding. He wasn't able
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Speaker 2: to come to this for some reason.
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Speaker 3: He had a big family event that he couldn't get
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Speaker 3: out of, and so he had I had message with
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Speaker 3: him because he's one of those characters also. So the
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Speaker 3: girls went and had dinner. Jessica went with the girls,
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Speaker 3: which I was really excited.
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Speaker 2: About, me jojo Becca, Haley, Caitlin, Trista, Lauren, and Jade.
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Speaker 2: And it was yeah, so great, such a girl's thing.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we were not telling wild stories, but
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Speaker 2: we're talking about the boys, and we're talking about kids too.
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Speaker 3: That's gracious talking about kids talking about the boys.
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Speaker 4: And then we met up, went to bed.
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Speaker 3: That night, Jessica and I stayed up and had drinks
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Speaker 3: with Wells and Sarah till about one thirty in the morning,
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Speaker 3: which has to.
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Speaker 2: Be a serious chance because the two event. Well, jess
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Speaker 2: was falling asley with the dinner table.
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Speaker 3: She is not a late night per person, as I've
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Speaker 3: fully explained. But we stayed up till one thirty because
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Speaker 3: Sarah and Wells were telling great stories.
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Speaker 4: The next day we had the wedding.
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Speaker 3: The wedding was an event in Austin, Texas at a
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Speaker 3: place called the Ranch that has like longhorns and donkeys,
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Speaker 3: and then it's just this beautiful outdoor setting, kind of
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Speaker 3: this amazing patio. It was, and I said it during
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Speaker 3: the speech. At one point it hit me Ashley like
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Speaker 3: it was a very sacred moment because both of these
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Speaker 3: people have come together through thick and thin already. They've
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Speaker 3: stayed by each other's side. They found each other in
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Speaker 3: a fairly unexpected way. There's obviously an age difference that
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Speaker 3: everybody's aware of, and so nobody would have necessarily like
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Speaker 3: put those two together. They've been married before, they have
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Speaker 3: just a history, you know, of relationship in life and
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Speaker 3: being around them, not just this weekend, but many weekends before.
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Speaker 3: They are deeply in love with each other, like deeply
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Speaker 3: in like with each other. They just are an incredible
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Speaker 3: couple who I believe do bring out the best in
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Speaker 3: each other.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for us, it's cool because we knew both of
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Speaker 2: them individually before they got together, and it was just
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Speaker 2: like one of those moments where it's like, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: you person that I really like are you were gonna
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Speaker 2: you're dating the person that I really like that it's
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Speaker 2: just it's a love those moments and they yeah, they're
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Speaker 2: just so they're like they are so compatible, but they
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Speaker 2: also have like a totally they have different personalities, Like
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Speaker 2: it's one of those like opposite track but also the
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Speaker 2: same at the same time. You know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think too.
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Speaker 3: Actually, something to mention is during Lauren's valves, she made
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Speaker 3: it a point to talk about how they both kind
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Speaker 3: of run their own race and yet they come together
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Speaker 3: to support each other. And I think the two of
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Speaker 3: them really needed that. They needed to be individuals and
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Speaker 3: to pursue their own passions and their own dreams. But
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Speaker 3: you know, it benefits them to have that partner that
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Speaker 3: stands beside them through those passions and dreams.
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Speaker 4: I think it would.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's not always easy in life to find
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Speaker 3: somebody who is not really codependent on their partner, completely codependent,
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Speaker 3: and the two of them could not have that.
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Speaker 4: They did not want that.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for articulating that way better than I. And she
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Speaker 2: also said that she never believed in soulmates until.
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Speaker 3: She gave the greatest explanation for that. On the definition
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Speaker 3: of soulmates and what that means.
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Speaker 2: She like loads of the definitions like does it fit that? Ees?
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Speaker 2: Does it fit that? Ees? It is really cute.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 3: I think when it comes out with Chris's valves, then
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Speaker 3: the part that meant so much to him and has
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Speaker 3: always meant so much to him his friends and family,
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Speaker 3: and I think he groups those into one big group.
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Speaker 3: But most of his vows focused around the idea that
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Speaker 3: Lauren has entered into life with Chris and has loved
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Speaker 3: his friends and his family and his kids as much
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Speaker 3: as he does. And I think that means so much.
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Speaker 2: He said that as much as I do, and I.
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Speaker 3: Think that's really a powerful statement. Chris, I don't think
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Speaker 3: ever imagine getting married again. I don't think he necessarily
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Speaker 3: saw the reason to get married again, but I do
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Speaker 3: think it took somebody, specifically like Lauren, who has been
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Speaker 3: been there with his kids and stood beside him with
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Speaker 3: his family and friends for him to say, yes, this
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Speaker 3: is something I want to do with you his vows.
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Speaker 3: His vows were obviously beautiful. I got the Chris host
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Speaker 3: voice back. I haven't heard that voice in the long missed.
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Speaker 2: The Chris host voice which did appear throughout the night,
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Speaker 2: so it didn't appear, of course throughout some parts of
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Speaker 2: the vowels where he did to get choked up, and
18:06
Speaker 2: so like I knew I wasn't gonna be able to
18:08
Speaker 2: get through the husson. He like had to take a pause,
18:11
Speaker 2: get that lump out of his throat. It's really cute.
18:15
Speaker 3: It's not often you see Chris get rattled. So for
18:30
Speaker 3: us there, I think it was the purest form of
18:35
Speaker 3: Chris that a lot of us know and love. But
18:38
Speaker 3: it was a Chris that was just being there besides somebody.
18:42
Speaker 3: He was admitting that he loves them and committing the
18:47
Speaker 3: rest of his life to them. And so then the
18:49
Speaker 3: party starts, the party that was the wedding. The wedding
18:52
Speaker 3: was a surprise. Now I want to let everybody know
18:54
Speaker 3: that the wedding was not expected by anybody going.
18:57
Speaker 2: The actual ceremony.
18:59
Speaker 3: Hetty, Yeah, we thought we were just going to a party,
19:02
Speaker 3: a celebration, a reception, just to celebrate their love. And
19:07
Speaker 3: yet they gave us all the gift and hopefully themselves
19:11
Speaker 3: the gift of being able to then do their vows
19:14
Speaker 3: and finalize their marriage in front of all of us,
19:18
Speaker 3: which yes, I was so excited about.
19:20
Speaker 2: I was so excited. I I was like, I don't
19:23
Speaker 2: know how I'm gonna feel about going to a wedding
19:25
Speaker 2: brother it's just a party, you know, because like I
19:27
Speaker 2: love the ceremony. The ceremony is always like my favorite part.
19:30
Speaker 2: And I got a glimmer or that maybe we're going
19:33
Speaker 2: to get something when I asked them the day before
19:36
Speaker 2: if it was official, whether they had signed the paperwork,
19:39
Speaker 2: and then I think Lauren said no, we're going to
19:41
Speaker 2: sign the paperwork tomorrow. And I was like, hmm, but
19:45
Speaker 2: why and okay, and then you show up and they
19:48
Speaker 2: have the big arch and we're like, oh, okay. And
19:51
Speaker 2: then we were told to promptly be there at five
19:54
Speaker 2: point thirty as if there was something we miss if
19:56
Speaker 2: we showed up a little late. So there are signs,
19:58
Speaker 2: and I was really excited to hear that they were
20:00
Speaker 2: actually going to go through the whole thing. I don't
20:02
Speaker 2: know if you know the answer to this. Did they
20:04
Speaker 2: exchange like traditional vowels or also personal written vows during
20:09
Speaker 2: their NAPA ceremony which is about two or few weeks ago.
20:12
Speaker 3: I know nothing about the NAPA ceremony, so I don't know,
20:15
Speaker 3: but I do know. They had a ceremony in Napa
20:17
Speaker 3: with close friends and family, like mostly just their families
20:21
Speaker 3: were there with him in Napa to kind of celebrate.
20:24
Speaker 3: I imagine they did exchange more traditional vows there. It would
20:28
Speaker 3: be really hard to do credit twice, Yeah, tore at
20:31
Speaker 3: it twice, but they wanted to do that with their
20:35
Speaker 3: friends and family and Napa, and then I think they
20:38
Speaker 3: gave their written vows. I would imagine at this ceremony
20:42
Speaker 3: in Austin with about i'd say two hundred of.
20:45
Speaker 2: Us there, two and twenty, yeah, I asked.
20:47
Speaker 3: So it was a good solid group people from all
20:51
Speaker 3: different walks of life. We saw producers like Alan there
20:56
Speaker 3: who used to be working on The Bachelor. We saw
20:59
Speaker 3: direct that used to be on The Bachelor. We saw
21:02
Speaker 3: Hollywood hosts that were there, to professional athletes, to just
21:06
Speaker 3: good old friends from Austin like their neighbors. We saw
21:10
Speaker 3: her sorority sisters there and uh in which I thought
21:14
Speaker 3: was a really cool moment when she when Laurena announced
21:17
Speaker 3: each group that was there, because it shows each scope
21:21
Speaker 3: of their life like family, friends, family, you know, childhood friends,
21:25
Speaker 3: and then obviously the rest that I just had mentioned.
21:28
Speaker 3: So there was there was a solid group of people,
21:30
Speaker 3: a lot of which I had known. I didn't know
21:33
Speaker 3: necessarily that they were going to be at the wedding,
21:36
Speaker 3: but it was. It was spectacular. And it was also
21:38
Speaker 3: spectacular to see Chris's kids who are now in college,
21:42
Speaker 3: which is wild to me because when I was even
21:44
Speaker 3: on the show, you know, Taylor was in middle school,
21:49
Speaker 3: middle school, like just coming out of middle school.
21:51
Speaker 2: Maybe not maybe maybe elementary school, Jared, Jared.
21:55
Speaker 4: Maybe element Freudian slip there.
21:59
Speaker 2: Think about it. She's going she's a sophomore now, and
22:03
Speaker 2: you were the bats. Okay, so I was middle school.
22:05
Speaker 4: It was middle school because it was like right on
22:07
Speaker 4: the border.
22:07
Speaker 3: Because I remember when her and her friends was so
22:09
Speaker 3: fun for me because it was kind of the season
22:11
Speaker 3: where you expect her friends for the first time to
22:13
Speaker 3: be interested in the show, and so they would all
22:15
Speaker 3: get so excited and come and it was always really
22:17
Speaker 3: fun for me to be like around them because they
22:20
Speaker 3: were just like giddy. But yet also Taylor's dad is
22:23
Speaker 3: the host and like the leader of this franchise. But
22:26
Speaker 3: it was really the first time that she could tune
22:28
Speaker 3: in fully and watch a full season without you know,
22:32
Speaker 3: having her eyes have to be closed at times, and
22:34
Speaker 3: so it was.
22:36
Speaker 4: It was great to see her.
22:37
Speaker 3: Uh, it's great to see Josh and his girlfriend. So
22:41
Speaker 3: we've gone through everye's there, We've gone through the ceremony.
22:44
Speaker 3: They had some great barbecues, some mac and cheese.
22:47
Speaker 2: This food was really good. And you guys speaking of
22:52
Speaker 2: like just moments in the past, Taylor being her, his
22:56
Speaker 2: daughter being in middle school. That reminds me of me
23:00
Speaker 2: him with his kids in Paradise during that first season.
23:02
Speaker 2: And I was still so starstruck by Chris, just being like,
23:05
Speaker 2: oh my god, I can't believe this is Chris Harrison,
23:07
Speaker 2: Like how how weird is it? That was like the
23:09
Speaker 2: moment that you realized you were on like the Bachelor,
23:11
Speaker 2: because like Chris Harrison would disappear every now and then.
23:15
Speaker 2: And that's what Wells brought up in your joint speech.
23:18
Speaker 2: How the first night he was like, not the goes, sorry, Jojo,
23:22
Speaker 2: wasn't stars start to see you, but Chris Harrison, Holy crap.
23:27
Speaker 2: So we talk about your speech and how you guys
23:29
Speaker 2: planned it because it complimented each other. You guys went
23:32
Speaker 2: back and forth and let us know when they asked
23:35
Speaker 2: you to do that, you were the only people to
23:37
Speaker 2: give a speech besides his kids. So it's really really special.
23:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bit, I mean it was. It was
23:42
Speaker 3: a big honor, which I would say, knowing that Wells
23:45
Speaker 3: and I were the two people asked to give a
23:47
Speaker 3: speech outside of his kids made Wells and I extremely nervous,
23:51
Speaker 3: like extremely.
23:52
Speaker 2: Nervous, Like Wells didn't eat before him because and he
23:55
Speaker 2: was like, you know, I just don't want to eat before.
23:56
Speaker 2: I was like, are you nervous, You're actually you are nervous,
24:00
Speaker 2: and He's like, no, no, no, I'm not nervous and just
24:01
Speaker 2: like don't want to I'm like, oh, okay, you just
24:03
Speaker 2: don't want to eat, but you're not nervous.
24:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, if we were nervous, trust me.
24:08
Speaker 3: So Lauren and Chris had reached out to us probably
24:13
Speaker 3: a month ago and had asked if we'd be okay
24:17
Speaker 3: giving a toast at their wedding, and at that point
24:22
Speaker 3: we didn't know, you know, who all was giving toasts.
24:24
Speaker 3: We later found out that it was just Wells and
24:26
Speaker 3: I and then his kids, So Wells and I started
24:29
Speaker 3: to kind of talk about it has been really a
24:31
Speaker 3: fun experience because we we did put what I would say,
24:34
Speaker 3: a lot of work into it. I'm not going to
24:36
Speaker 3: say like we sweat over this. It wasn't like a
24:38
Speaker 3: stressful thing for us. But we talked to each other
24:40
Speaker 3: quite a bit about this speech. And the fun part actually,
24:43
Speaker 3: which I think would be really fun for you, is
24:45
Speaker 3: going back through all of our memories of Chris and
24:48
Speaker 3: Lauren and pulling back like, these are the interactions that
24:51
Speaker 3: have meant something to me, these are the funny interactions
24:53
Speaker 3: that we've had, these are the memories that we have together.
24:56
Speaker 3: Here's the memories that other people have of them, Here's
24:58
Speaker 3: what other people say about them. And I think for
25:01
Speaker 3: us it was just a very it was a very
25:04
Speaker 3: exciting experience because I think it just continued to remind
25:08
Speaker 3: me how much both of these two people have met
25:10
Speaker 3: through you know, my my personal journey over the last
25:14
Speaker 3: six years, and how many how much they've meant to
25:17
Speaker 3: so many others personal journeys over the last you know,
25:20
Speaker 3: sometimes you know twenty years for Chris and then you
25:23
Speaker 3: know another seven or eight for Lauren as she's been
25:25
Speaker 3: a part of the franchise. And so we did go
25:29
Speaker 3: back and forth that we did plan it out. We
25:31
Speaker 3: had a couple of key points we wanted to really emphasize,
25:35
Speaker 3: which is obviously how great they are. But then some
25:37
Speaker 3: really funny stories about you know, when I first met
25:40
Speaker 3: Lauren Zema, it was in a bathroom because.
25:44
Speaker 2: I such a good story.
25:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, I my.
25:46
Speaker 3: Pants were too tight, so I had to drop my
25:48
Speaker 3: pants down to my ankle to go to the bathroom.
25:50
Speaker 3: And I was going to the bathroom on my very
25:52
Speaker 3: first day of being the Bachelor during a studio shoot,
25:55
Speaker 3: and I forgot to lock the door, and she comes
25:58
Speaker 3: into the bathroom and there I am stand staring at her,
26:00
Speaker 3: you know, full frontal. And that was the first day
26:03
Speaker 3: I've ever met Lauren Zima. And it, you know, to
26:06
Speaker 3: think now that I'm standing on stage at her wedding
26:08
Speaker 3: as a very funny idea. And then with Chris, there's
26:14
Speaker 3: a thousand you know, Chris stories that we could go through. So, yes,
26:18
Speaker 3: it meant a lot to us. We were very nervous,
26:20
Speaker 3: both of us.
26:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys are just pros at public speaking,
26:24
Speaker 2: like there are not besides Jared, there are not two
26:28
Speaker 2: older people in the world that I can think like, oh,
26:30
Speaker 2: they can get up there and rocket with even out
26:33
Speaker 2: without planning.
26:34
Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
26:35
Speaker 2: In storytelling too, like not just public speaking, and like
26:39
Speaker 2: in the way that you have to deal with generous.
26:41
Speaker 3: I think actually, to summarize the speech topic, we were
26:46
Speaker 3: very nervous for one reason because when you are asked
26:49
Speaker 3: to do anything at somebody's wedding, you know this is
26:53
Speaker 3: going to be, you know, one of the biggest days
26:55
Speaker 3: of their life, and you don't want to be remembered
26:58
Speaker 3: as the person that really screwed up. Like after we
27:01
Speaker 3: gave the speech, people were coming up to me and
27:03
Speaker 3: being like, hey, you know, good job, or hey waited
27:07
Speaker 3: to go whatever, And then they'd be like, I remember
27:09
Speaker 3: at my wedding, my best man flopped.
27:11
Speaker 4: He said this and this and this. It was so awkward,
27:14
Speaker 4: it was so weird.
27:16
Speaker 3: So I do think there's the ability to really screw
27:18
Speaker 3: it up and be remembered as a friend that really
27:20
Speaker 3: screwed up your that wedding, not the whole wedding.
27:22
Speaker 2: Only been to one wedding where I remember somebody just
27:26
Speaker 2: being like, oh my, but you remember, I don't believe
27:29
Speaker 2: he's saying this, Yes, of course, yeah, I remember. It.
27:32
Speaker 2: It wasn't even somebody I was really close to. It
27:35
Speaker 2: was more of like a friend of a friend's wedding,
27:36
Speaker 2: but she was having such a gigantic wedding. She's like, yeah,
27:39
Speaker 2: you and Jered should come, and like, yes, I do
27:40
Speaker 2: really enjoy being around her, but like I couldn't believe
27:45
Speaker 2: the stories this man was saying, and just the roasting
27:47
Speaker 2: that was happening. A little roast here or there is fun.
27:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, you remember it and it stands out to you.
27:53
Speaker 3: So you don't want to be those guys. You don't
27:55
Speaker 3: want to be that. But we did it. I hope
27:58
Speaker 3: that everybody got out of it, you know. I hope
28:02
Speaker 3: what everybody got out of it was that.
28:03
Speaker 4: They really.
28:05
Speaker 3: Know and understand just how incredible Chris and Lorenard to
28:08
Speaker 3: so many of us, and how they should be known
28:11
Speaker 3: and seen as two people who have given up big
28:14
Speaker 3: pieces of their lives to cater and care for and
28:17
Speaker 3: also guide and direct, but also just make ridiculous TV
28:22
Speaker 3: for many years, and this should be a celebration of
28:25
Speaker 3: two of them.
28:26
Speaker 2: It was just great, Like everything was great. Your speech
28:28
Speaker 2: was wonderful. It was heartfelt and hilarious, and then so
28:31
Speaker 2: were the vows and that's exactly what you want. You want,
28:35
Speaker 2: like to break up the tears with a couple laughs.
28:39
Speaker 2: Did you cry at all.
28:40
Speaker 4: I did cry.
28:41
Speaker 2: I did, I cried, got welld up and I got welly.
28:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, I cried when I, like I said, the moment
28:48
Speaker 3: hit me. I was like, this is a very sacred night.
28:50
Speaker 3: We're outside at a wedding. Everybody's looking so good. There's
28:54
Speaker 3: so I mean, I always get emotional when my wife
28:57
Speaker 3: is with me at these bachelor events because I'm just like,
29:01
Speaker 3: I don't and then she's like getting along with people
29:03
Speaker 3: and talking to people because I'm just like, how how
29:06
Speaker 3: have I been so lucky? Like how do I get
29:08
Speaker 3: to a place where these two worlds can collide and
29:10
Speaker 3: they can collide in a way that I'm not threatened
29:13
Speaker 3: by or nervous about, but I can see as but
29:15
Speaker 3: that are fun for me and beautiful to me. I
29:18
Speaker 3: get very emotional at the people that were a part
29:20
Speaker 3: of the Bachelor you included, who kind of like have
29:23
Speaker 3: helped her enter in and like be when she goes
29:27
Speaker 3: to these she's excited because she believes and knows that
29:29
Speaker 3: she has friends there. So I get emotional over that.
29:32
Speaker 3: And then so then you look around the room and
29:34
Speaker 3: you're like, you know, there's Colton, who obviously has has
29:37
Speaker 3: been through it, from the show, and yeah, he's still here.
29:40
Speaker 3: And there's there's Ari who has been through it from
29:42
Speaker 3: the show, yet he's still here. There's Jojo who has
29:45
Speaker 3: been through it, you know, as she mentioned with Jordan,
29:47
Speaker 3: but then they get married. Like there's Kaitlin and Jason
29:50
Speaker 3: standing next to each other, Like, it's just cool, I
29:53
Speaker 3: think to see this in person and be reminded that
29:57
Speaker 3: there are really cool, really heartfelt people that come from
30:02
Speaker 3: this franchise. They're just doing their best after getting thrown
30:04
Speaker 3: into this crazy world.
30:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm just so grateful for this crew, and
30:10
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for the show. And I just have
30:13
Speaker 2: these moments during moments of like watching them exchange their vows,
30:17
Speaker 2: being like, how am I here? How am I here?
30:21
Speaker 2: And it's the coolest And I never go a day
30:25
Speaker 2: without appreciating what the show has brought into my life.
30:29
Speaker 4: That's right.
30:29
Speaker 3: Well, that's kind of the summary of the wedding. After
30:32
Speaker 3: the wedding, everybody went home because we were exhausted. I
30:36
Speaker 3: was exhausted at an early flight the next day. And
30:40
Speaker 3: it was a massive success from all accounts, right, no drama,
30:46
Speaker 3: no awkwardness, a ton of love being shared, a ton
30:48
Speaker 3: of love being given great times, catching up with friends
30:52
Speaker 3: that maybe you don't see as often as you would like,
30:54
Speaker 3: or friends that you haven't seen in years, or maybe
30:56
Speaker 3: friends that you see all the time.
30:58
Speaker 4: But just you get to enjoyed this together. It was
31:02
Speaker 4: a beautiful wedding.
31:03
Speaker 3: Wishing Chris and Lauren then absolute dream. You can listen
31:07
Speaker 3: to probably more details of the planning and of the
31:11
Speaker 3: whole evening and why they did the things they did
31:14
Speaker 3: on the most dramatic pod ever. It is a Chris
31:19
Speaker 3: Harrison and Laurenzima special. They have obviously talked about it
31:22
Speaker 3: and you should go over and listen to that as well.
31:24
Speaker 3: But until next time, Ashley, until the next wedding, until
31:27
Speaker 3: the next show airs, I haven't been.
31:30
Speaker 2: I've been Ashley, See you guys.
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