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FlirTayshia · 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 i R Radio. Hey guys, welcome to another week
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  Speaker 1: of the Almost Famous Podcast. We are excited to break
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  Speaker 1: down Tasia's first official episode, and of course we have
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  Speaker 1: bachelor headlines including two huge engagements. But first we are
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  Speaker 1: going to have Ben Flannic come on to talk about
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  Speaker 1: our very exciting friends giving, which you can be a
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  Speaker 1: part of its next Thursday, So a week from this Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Ben, how are you doing? You want to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about our bundle and how to get
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  Speaker 1: access to this event? Yeah, definitely. So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: When Being comes on, we're gonna talk a lot about
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  Speaker 1: the bundle he's a part of. And that bundle uh
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  Speaker 1: as you hear me mentioned many times, I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: sixty dollars. That includes two bottles of two thou eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ion rose uh bye, and that's by Ben Flannic. You're
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  Speaker 1: also going to get within that bundle a personal note
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  Speaker 1: from Ashley and myself. But you can also if if
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't intrigue you, you can get a general admission
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  Speaker 1: ticket which is fifteen dollars, or you can really step
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  Speaker 1: it up and for two dollars Uh, it's a v
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  Speaker 1: I P Meet and Greet bundle. You get access to
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  Speaker 1: the Almost Famous friends Giving, an exclusive meet and greet
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  Speaker 1: with uh Ashley and myself, exclusive merch and almost Famous
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  Speaker 1: hat and topebag, a personal note from Ashley and myself. Um.
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  Speaker 1: There there's just a few of these available. Uh. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're interested in the v I P Meet and
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  Speaker 1: greet for two, go out and grab it now. If
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  Speaker 1: you want uh two bottles of wine by Ben Flannic,
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  Speaker 1: that's sixty dollars, go out and get that now. Or
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  Speaker 1: if you just want to join us for friends Giving
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate uh this holiday virtually, which we really hope
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  Speaker 1: you do, that's just fifteen dollars. Uh. And I know
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  Speaker 1: we're super pumpedous this. We're gonna have some amazing guests
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  Speaker 1: coming on. Uh some of our favorites for this friends Giving,
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  Speaker 1: let me run through them real quick. Uh, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have Chrys Soul's, Crystal Nielsen, Wells, Adams, Jared Havan, Ben Flannic,
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  Speaker 1: and many more. Tickets are available right now on location
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  Speaker 1: live dot com slash Almost Famous. All Right, so I
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  Speaker 1: want to match up with you about you know, how
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  Speaker 1: your weeks been. But first, let's get Ben on to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all things Thanksgiving, and of course a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about what you can expect next week. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a bit since we were blessed with this
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  Speaker 1: man's voice, and it's now been two times in the
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  Speaker 1: last few months. Uh. He was so great last time
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast when we did the In Depth that
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  Speaker 1: we had to bring him back. And we have a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other things that we're gonna talk about today.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Flannic, Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for having me again. I mean you took some years off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it actually was the In Depth
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  Speaker 1: the very first time you've ever been on the podcast. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and and now this is the second time. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel the first time, I'm always a little nervous. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The second time, I just I feel really comfortable talking
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  Speaker 1: to you. I just feel like we we know each
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  Speaker 1: other now. Um, we spent an hour on the podcast together,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna talk about some more time We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna spend together into a second. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: catch up with you a bit. Last time we talked
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  Speaker 1: to you in the In Depth. You're kind of a nomad.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're kind of moving around the country, spending some
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  Speaker 1: time with friends. Where are you at right now? Has
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  Speaker 1: life changed? Are you still kind of traveling around? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm currently in New York City in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: I I live at the SOHO Grant like the monopoly man.
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  Speaker 1: But it's all, it's all. It's getting closer to UM,
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  Speaker 1: to conclusion, conclusion, I should say. I. UM, I've decided
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  Speaker 1: to become bi coastal and split my time between Cinema
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  Speaker 1: and Manhattan. UM. Shortly, very very soon, I'm actually out
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  Speaker 1: here looking at that homes. So what do you mind
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  Speaker 1: sharing kind of what has caused that? What? Why is
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  Speaker 1: that the decision? UM? I think that, you know, given
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  Speaker 1: given the state and everyone's ability to to work remote
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  Speaker 1: and UM, and for me like loving both places so much,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me. It's hard for me to choose one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean almost so lovely and AWFUM, but it's it's
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  Speaker 1: slow for someone who's you know, and it's still single.
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  Speaker 1: But all my friends have started to move back there
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  Speaker 1: with their families and my families there, so those things
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  Speaker 1: are very important. UM. But then being able to to
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  Speaker 1: be in New York City, which is someplace that I've
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to live. I've talked about it forever. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a dream come true. Really. It's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how is New York doing you? You hear stories,
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  Speaker 1: um that the city is struggling right now, it's pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel that way? And um? And if so,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna be a part of bringing people back
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  Speaker 1: into that city or you have you not been there
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  Speaker 1: long enough to tell? Uh? You know, I've been here
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times during COVID and this this this time,
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  Speaker 1: this current trip is is an extended stay for you know,
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  Speaker 1: three plus weeks. Um, it feels fine to me. Ben
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I know, I know everybody like reads
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  Speaker 1: into the news and the media, but like the New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not technically a New Yorker, but I love the
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  Speaker 1: people from New York. They're all still here and they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it, and they're keeping this place alive. And um,
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  Speaker 1: people are you know, brunching and and dining and and
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  Speaker 1: doing doing their thing. Um, you know, with with caution, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like anyone's going going crazy. There's everyone's
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  Speaker 1: wearing masks and doing doing what they should be doing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a city I love. I
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  Speaker 1: love New York, um, and it's hard. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: hear when you hear the stories that it's not doing well,
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  Speaker 1: that it's quiet, that they don't know until next year
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get back. And you know, New York has
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  Speaker 1: that grit to it. The people of New York. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they fight traffic every day, they walk the
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  Speaker 1: streets of day gets cold and wendy. They have grit.
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  Speaker 1: They love the city and it's good to hear that
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  Speaker 1: people are sticking around. Um. And you know what, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you can do it, being bicoastal seems like an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing way to live life. Yeah, I'd love airplanes too,
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  Speaker 1: So like the journey back and forth is just as
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  Speaker 1: good as both destinations for me. Although you know, flying
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  Speaker 1: right now is is different and you need to be
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  Speaker 1: courteous and cordial of others. Um so, But but I
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind the flight. Have you been back home
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  Speaker 1: since the last time we talked to you? Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I actually was back in in marin and Sonoma for
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  Speaker 1: the past a few weeks. I was in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: I was in San Diego. I've been kind of kind
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  Speaker 1: of here, there and everywhere. I'm trying to figure it
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  Speaker 1: all out. It was nice being home. I actually started, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was nice. I was living with my sister, which
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  Speaker 1: was like the first time ever, and she has uh,
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  Speaker 1: I have a two and a half year old niece,
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  Speaker 1: her daughter, and we started filming these little cooking shows
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  Speaker 1: together and it was just like really nice to be
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  Speaker 1: home and connect with with her and she's a sweet
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  Speaker 1: pee Ah. Well, before we're moving to the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the not the surprise we've talked about before, but the
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  Speaker 1: thing that will be doing with the almost famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: and you, um, you know, we caught you on the
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  Speaker 1: front end of this this trip. What have you learned?
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  Speaker 1: I know this was this was kind of an exploration
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  Speaker 1: your your heart was wide open to is there anything
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  Speaker 1: that you want to share that you've learned through this journey? Um?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think you you talk about this a
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  Speaker 1: lot too, And I think this is a really important
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  Speaker 1: character trait and it's something that I've always kind of
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  Speaker 1: prided myself on it and it's empathy. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that having traveled around and tried to discover what what
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  Speaker 1: what makes me happy? Professionally and personally. Like at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, all the people that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: in all the places that I've been, empathy and being
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  Speaker 1: empathetic to everyone's situation. Um, not that I you know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't before, but I'm probably even more so now.
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  Speaker 1: You never know what anyone's going through, especially this year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so you never I was never quick to past judgment
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I had done that before, but now it's
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  Speaker 1: like try to talk to as many people as you can,
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  Speaker 1: even with your mask on, and treat everyone with with
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  Speaker 1: a ton of respect because we're all going through something
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's the biggest thing. I think the biggest
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  Speaker 1: tape will take away empathy. I think travel does that, man,
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  Speaker 1: I really do. I think travel or you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're if you're able to travel, no matter where it
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  Speaker 1: is a different town, a different county, a different state,
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  Speaker 1: a different country, a different continent. Um, when you travel
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  Speaker 1: and you see the lives of others, like for example,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it here. Um, actually I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we have yet. You know, we do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work in Honduras, and Honduras was just you know,
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  Speaker 1: Honduras is I as of last year, it was the
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  Speaker 1: second poorest um country per capita in the world, I think,
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  Speaker 1: only behind Haiti. And when you hear that as a
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  Speaker 1: stat uh, it doesn't make a lot of sense, right.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear and you're like, oh, people are poor there.
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  Speaker 1: But when you go and you visit and you spend
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  Speaker 1: time with these people, and you see the way they
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  Speaker 1: have to live life, and you see the stories, and
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  Speaker 1: you hear the stories of people walking miles to get
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  Speaker 1: clean water and miles to get to school if they
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  Speaker 1: go to school, and then you see him get hit
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  Speaker 1: by a hurricane and it wipes out everything that they
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  Speaker 1: even had up to this point, which wasn't a lot.
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  Speaker 1: There's a different emotional understanding that I have for those
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  Speaker 1: people then I would if I never went to visit.
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  Speaker 1: And I think traveling does that. It brings empathy, it's
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  Speaker 1: shares the stories and so it's uh hey a story
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  Speaker 1: of travel like yours, and that take being the takeaway
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  Speaker 1: is one that I admire. So, uh, ben I do
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  Speaker 1: want to jump in. We have a cool event coming
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  Speaker 1: up here um with the almost famous podcast. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the holidays are coming up and uh. Some thing that
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  Speaker 1: it's always fun to do, uh is get together with
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  Speaker 1: people on the holidays. Well, this year looks a little different, right,
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  Speaker 1: We have to do a lot of this virtually, um,
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  Speaker 1: and so we are gonna be holding a friends Giving
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  Speaker 1: virtual event with the Almost Famous podcast and a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite friends from the podcast and have been
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  Speaker 1: guests of the podcast will be joining us that day.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be there, but you're not just gonna be there,
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  Speaker 1: You're offering a pretty cool benefit to coming as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh do you mind telling everybody what this is about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some some deep discounted rose for friends Giving. The very
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  Speaker 1: least I could could do for for everyone. UM. Rose
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  Speaker 1: is actually a pretty good Thanksgiving wine. I know most
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  Speaker 1: people I think it's like a summertime jam, but I
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  Speaker 1: like sparkling rose and and and you know red burgundy
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  Speaker 1: peanot per for Thanksgiving. The with sixty dollars, uh, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get your ticket. You also get two bottles of this
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  Speaker 1: rose of your rose. This is the rose that uh
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  Speaker 1: that you have architected and UH that includes shipping. So
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  Speaker 1: you do have to be twenty one years or older
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  Speaker 1: to purchase a ticket to this event. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: cool benefit. Come join us. It's gonna be a ton
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Ben's gonna be there. I'm gonna be there
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  Speaker 1: the other Ben, Ashley Um, Chris Souls, Krystal Nielsen, Wells Adams,
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  Speaker 1: Jared Havan uh and many more. We'll be joining us
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  Speaker 1: to stay again if you buy a ticket that includes
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  Speaker 1: two bottles of Ben's rose. Uh. Tickets are available on
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  Speaker 1: location live dot com slash almost Famous. Again. That's on
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  Speaker 1: location live dot com slash almost Famous. I hope this
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  Speaker 1: is just an event, Ben. I know you love talking
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  Speaker 1: to people. You just said it. I hope this event
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  Speaker 1: where you can just kick back, relax, have a drink, talk, share,
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  Speaker 1: bring on some really fun guests, uh, and have a
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  Speaker 1: great time doing it. Hey, Ben, we are all going
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  Speaker 1: to be sharing a recipe that maybe like has significance
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  Speaker 1: in our family. What is a recipe that you think
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  Speaker 1: you might be sharing? Uh? Specific to Thanksgiving? Oh, my
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  Speaker 1: mom's stuffing is pretty ledge, but my dad stuffing is lit. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: are we going to have a cook off? Yeah? I
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  Speaker 1: mean if your dad stuffing has like nuts are fruit
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  Speaker 1: in it, I know because that's not real stuffing. That's
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  Speaker 1: not my type of stuffing either. No, my dad has
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  Speaker 1: like sausage and potatoes and a lot of garlic. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well if you're doing that, then maybe I could Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I could teach people my mom's pie crust. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're welcome to also do stuffing. Yeah, maybe I'll do
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  Speaker 1: them both, I don't know. And then our listeners can
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  Speaker 1: make both Thanksgiving week and then they can taste us,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we'll get feedback as to which stuffing
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  Speaker 1: recipe is better. Yeah, we keep it. We keep pretty
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  Speaker 1: standard in the flantic household, with you know, just the
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  Speaker 1: standard mash taters and stuffing and burn and all the
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  Speaker 1: all the just dud. There's nothing out of the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: on our Thanksgiving table. Oddly enough, have you ever been
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  Speaker 1: to a Thanksgiving where they did have non traditional food? Um,
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  Speaker 1: not non traditional, but when someone put dried fruit and
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  Speaker 1: the stuffing and it drove me crazy. I'm like, what is?
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  Speaker 1: What is? What's wrong with you? People? So unpopular opinion?
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  Speaker 1: I don't like cranberry sauce. Oh see, I like that
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  Speaker 1: ocean spray out of the can. Slice it. You have
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  Speaker 1: to turn that last piece though, so it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the cannon den so it looks look yeah, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: into it. The you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: considering a different type of cobbler or pie. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big strawberry rubarb pie fan. In fact, it's my favorite
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  Speaker 1: dessert in the world. And uh, some days, some years
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  Speaker 1: I get lucky enough where somebody from my family, because
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  Speaker 1: I typically travel in for this, will pull out a
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  Speaker 1: strawberry rubarb pie and make my Thanksgiving something special. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's something nice. Well, hey, we really want to make
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  Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving really special. We want to spend it with
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  Speaker 1: you again. The Almost Famous Podcast along with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of our friends, um are gonna be having a friends
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  Speaker 1: Giving virtual event. Uh final time, I'll say it. I've
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  Speaker 1: said a lot. Sixty dollars a ticket that includes two
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  Speaker 1: bottles of two thousand eighteen Ion Rose by Ben Flannic,
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  Speaker 1: a personal note from Ashley and I. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: just finished my notes right now, and you can get
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  Speaker 1: tickets right now at on location live dot com slash
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous again. That's on Location Live slash Almost Famous.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Flannic, thanks for coming on the podcast, man, We
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate and we'll be talking to you really soon. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for having guys. Bye, Ben, talk to you next week. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Higgins I have another unpopular opinion. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: fruit based desserts. Actually, there's not many things in life
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  Speaker 1: that I am confused by you with. Now this is
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  Speaker 1: one of them. It has to be chocolate. It's like
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  Speaker 1: there has to be a chocolate element to it, with
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  Speaker 1: the exception of maybe pumpkin pie or like a crispy pastry,
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  Speaker 1: but like never fruit involved. Ashley Ashley, Ashley, Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'll need to try this rhubarb. Yeah. Well, like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many things givings we're gonna be spending
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  Speaker 1: together in our lifetime. Actually, uh, friends giving virtually might
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  Speaker 1: be the one and only time maybe every year. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but one of these times that we're together, uh, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you visit the Midwest, Uh, we will give
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  Speaker 1: you some fruit based desserts. Will make sure that a
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  Speaker 1: nice grandma of some sort makes it for you because
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  Speaker 1: those are always the best. And uh, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: change your mind. Well, ash Hey, let's take a break here.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, Uh, we're gonna break down some
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  Speaker 1: bachelor headlines, and there's many of them. Uh, So before
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  Speaker 1: we do that, let's take a break. This has been
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  Speaker 1: the almost famest podcast. Again, I just kind of brushed
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  Speaker 1: brushed over here with Ben based on his travels. But
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  Speaker 1: if you aren't aware, UM, and and I understand, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of need in the world, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: need in your neighborhood. And UM, please never take these
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  Speaker 1: statements as something to say, hey, don't help your neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should fully help our neighbor, especially during
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  Speaker 1: the holidays. But it is true that Honduras, Central America
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  Speaker 1: was hit um with a really unfortunate hurricane. UM. Not
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  Speaker 1: that hurricanes are ever fortunate. Uh. And fore ft of
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  Speaker 1: water has wiped through Honduras, especially, that's the place I
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  Speaker 1: know best, and and everybody's lost everything they've known. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's it's different to me because I know how little
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  Speaker 1: they already had and there's no insurance. So once you
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  Speaker 1: lose your home, once it's washed away, once your electricity
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  Speaker 1: is washed away, once your crops are walk washed away,
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  Speaker 1: the hopelessness that ensues with that, and and from hearing
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  Speaker 1: from the people in Honduras right now, it's devastating. And
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  Speaker 1: so something really cool happened this week. Actually, before we
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  Speaker 1: go into headlines, I'm just gonna say this real quick, uh,
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  Speaker 1: right away, we started working UM to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: we can bring aid and care for the people of
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  Speaker 1: Honduras in Central America. And UH. It took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of phone calls, a lot of texts, a lot of emails.
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  Speaker 1: Finally I texted my buddy Juan, who owns UH some
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  Speaker 1: of the restaurants with me in Denver, and he was
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico. And so when the hurricane hit Puerto
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Rico a few years ago, he was one of the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: leaders and bringing a to Puerto Rico. And I said, hey,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I know you did this in Puerto Rico. Do you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: have any connections that I could talk to to see
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: if we can get some aid to Honduras. He said,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: let me get on it. He connects me with a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: group called the Global Empowerment Mission. The Global Empowerment Mission
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: is one of the largest UH relief warehouses in UM,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the country, maybe even the world, And so we got
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: on the phone with them. They connected us with the
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State from guadam Allah. UH. They connected us
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: with Bethany Frankel, who has a huge heart for service
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and whenever there's a massive tragedy around the world, she
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: is well. I don't know if people know this about
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: her or not, but she's one of the first to
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: respond and use horror research sources and her connections to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: help advocate and bring awareness to these locations. And so
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Humanity and Hope UN did the Global Empowerment Mission, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: then Bethany Frankel's Be Strong. Uh. So we have all
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: teamed up together, and as we speak, there is a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: corporate plane uh from Starbucks actually flying down with two
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds of aid to Honduras. UM. The Hunter and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: President signed off for us to bring a down there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start distributing. We're gonna have more planeloads of
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: stuff going down over the next uple months because it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: not ending anytime soon. Right, once you lose everything and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you don't have any money to your name, you don't
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: have any insurance back it up, like you're not getting
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: anything back soon. And so I just want to ask
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: everybody out there who's listening, especially during the holidays, UM,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: if you have extra toilet paper, if you have extra
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: t shirts, if you have extra toothbrushes, maybe even a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: generator chainsaw, anything you can think of, And there's a
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: list that I'll post here after the podcast. UM, please
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: send it to the global Empowerment Mission. Uh, it's uh.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'll I'll put the address in my in my Instagram
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: as well, and maybe we can on the almost Famous Instagram.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: But we need to get aid to Central America quickly
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: because people, I'll share this and we'll move on. UM.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: As of this week, I was hearing stories of people
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: going into his communities on boat because there's it's covered
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in water and finding people men, women, children hanging from
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: trees trying to save themselves. UM, and they've been out
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: there for days and so, like, I don't want to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: over dramatize this. I just want to give a clear
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: picture of what's going on and what happens in the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: midst of a disaster. And I think the almost Famous family,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: especially during the holiday holidays, could be a really cool story.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: If if you just had stuff that you could send
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in to donate, to send down to Honduras, or send
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: down to Guatemala, or sit down this one of these
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: places hit. Were there any areas that are like drop centers? Yeah,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: so we just started one today and so UM I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: have so the Global Empowerment Mission has a warehouse that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you can send all your stuff too. So and then
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: we'll take and we'll either do freight or air from
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: there from Miami to Honduras and then we're getting it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: into Honduras right now. That airport just opened up this
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: morning in San Pedrousula, and so we're gonna start landing
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: planes uh maybe by this evening, hopefully by this evening,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: uh and start onloading some of this aid and distributing it. Um. So, hey,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you pray to or what you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: what you find is your greater power, but any of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this is helpful right now. And um, people are really
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: cool when they step up and show some generosity. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: believe it's a good thing. And so um yeah, if
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you can help, please help people are hurting. Well, hey,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to sit in that too long. I've
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I've shared what I want to share, and we do
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: have some bachelor headlines to get into. Uh. And this
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: is the first Claire Crawley and Dale Moss and make
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: for public appearance since the bachelortte engagement. This is so
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: wild because it's been it feels like it's so soon.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's so wild. Yeah. It was like the second those two,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you know, their engagement aired, they were all over social
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: media and they were visiting each other's hometowns. So, um,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they went to Claire's Sacramento first on Friday, and you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of course she was spotted all around town wearing that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: amazing four point five Carrott dining Um diamond ring from
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Neil Lane. It's so big, it's got to be the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: biggest of all the Bachelor at rings. I'm going to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: have to do a little research on that, or just
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: not ask Neil Lane himself because I've never seen one.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: My sister goes, why don't Claire get the biggest ring
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of all Bachelor time? And I was like, I don't know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: five seasons, and then you become the lead at fifth.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: At your fifth season, it's best ratings of all time.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, she's good ratings. It could be that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And then yesterday they were seen, you know, they were
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: documenting it everywhere on their social media that they were
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: visiting South Dakota. Uh. And then she was missing visiting
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: his family for the first time. Yeah. So the p
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: d A is everywhere and and they look happy. There
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: is one little thing I want to mention from their
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: segment from last night's episode. Yeah, go ahead, do you
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: want to get into it? Do you want to get
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: into that sex section or should we address it later
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in the episode. We address it now. I think it's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: fine because you know this this at some point. Actually,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: we just gotta make this statious season because if not,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it's gonna we're always gonna be bouncing back and forth.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And so I think this is a good moment. Hey,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: tons of happiness for for Claire and Dale. But I
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: think this is a good moment during headlines to kind
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of close that chapter and move into tap Okay, sounds good.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So it was just kind of funny when Chris Harrison's like,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: what's the next step for you guys, and Claire was like,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: babies and then he got and then he think he goes,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so let's marriage or babies first, and she's like, I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: don't care, it doesn't matter there and then and then
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Dale was like, and we're gonna get married first. Yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I mean that's a little aggressive. I was like, I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: was watching it and I felt like that, uh, you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: like you find somebody you love and they get super
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: excited and they say something like and you're like, just
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: not prepared for it yet. And I mean this has
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: moved so fast the way it is that I think
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like you saw a real life example of Dale being like, uh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: we haven't talked about this yet, Like I know, I know.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, we've talked about marriage, and yeah
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: we've talked about kids, but we haven't talked about like
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: reversing in order. So that was good. I think that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: was a really like real moment, a real moment where
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you just saw him like dead
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Simon just like, uh, so good. Well, we did get
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to see him on their episode last night. It was
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: nice to catch up with him. It felt act what
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: do you think before we get into some more clear topics,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: It felt like the show was trying to move on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: from that as quickly as possible. It was weird that
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it was in the middle of the episode. Even Chris
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Harrison addressed it. He's like, I know, this is the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: time where you're expecting to see Tashaw on her first dates,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: but we're going to stop. It was really weird that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it was at the beginning. It was in the middle
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of the episode. Why not put it in the beginning
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and then just close the chapter and move on. Do
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you think, uh, if you had to take a guess,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: are we like, are we done with the Claire and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Dale story from here on out, or if like they
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: do do a tell all or whatever kind of like
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: conclusion to the season, will we see them again? Or
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: is they're done? This is there that we will they're done.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think that if there's a tell all that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: there will be any mention of like Claire stuff. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: think like it'll be tacious tell all. I also have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to address that I think that that Dale is feeling
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a little overwhelmed, is can I feel kind of honest
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and say that, like, maybe part of him is like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: wait a second, I'm too much in a WorldWind right now.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of stressed out. I would be stressed out
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: even if you like and that like probably comes from
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a bunch of love too. So even if your love
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you love somebody like this is the right thing, all
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're engaged. After that, you're thrown into
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the spotlight. After that, you find yourself being critiqued, criticized,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: celebrated by millions of people, and now your relationship is
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: at the is the focus point to millions, and so like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to be overwhelmed, And I don't
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: think that has to hint to the fact that he's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: still not super into it and she's not into it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I just think it's like, how do I process so
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: many emotions so quickly in such a short amount of time. Yeah,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I completely agree with that. It's wild. Well. Uh, Claire's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: headlines though, uh and at least Alama was famous. Podcasts
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: have not ended Want Pablo uh shade Claire Crawley after
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Dale Moss bachelorette drama. This according to Cosmo, Okay, so,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Juan Pablo tweeted last week that he was in Mexico
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and he couldn't watch the show, and he's like, can
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: somebody keep me posted? It's like, also sounds like he's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: being a little bit sarcastic because we know that he's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: not on the greatest terms with Claire. And then he
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: liked a fan's response to this tweet and the response said,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you know, one, we all thought she dodged a bullet
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: with you, but I think you dodged a bullet with her,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and then he liked, Yeah, he liked that. So I
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: just don't think these are good moves on anybody's part,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Like you're I don't know if this is a good
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: move for anybody, no matter what your situation is, if
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you're on the reality televin show, or if you're somebody
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that had a high school breakup or a college breakup
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: or a divorce later in life, Like, I don't think
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: this behavior is something any of us should be entering into.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: You don't, don't add to the pain that has already
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: obviously there, Like, what are you trying to prove? What
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: are you hoping for by liking like a mean tweet?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Do you hope like all of a sudden, the world
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: is healed? No, this just adds more pain to the situation.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: We should stop this. And hey, Juan Pablo, he can
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: do what he wants. I mean, it's it's crazy that
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: people have even uh paid attention to how he's been
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: following this, and Claire has moved on, like you know
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: what Claire and was is done moved on with Dale. Uh.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: In fact, just a little headline they you know, as
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Ashley mentioned, they went and visited uh Dale's hometown, which
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: is really cool and UH and Chris Harrison has been
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the first now to defend the couple, saying, you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: according to people, uh and saying that this is something
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that we should really get behind that this is a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: love story. I think that's really all there is to say. Um,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: people who are not vibing Clarien Dale, it's like there,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you can't win. You can't win with everyone. I can't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: apologize for you don't apologize for love, my apologizing for love.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And I feel like there's skepticism every time there is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: an engagement on the show, no matter no matter what
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: people are gonna say it was like two too quick
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: or like I don't feel this, I don't find that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Just time will tell whether your little opinion that the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: lead doesn't care about or I hope doesn't care about,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it's true. I think the lead oftentimes does care though. Uh,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: we're we're seeing that as really clear became more open
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: about how much the public opinion affected her and uh
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and so just be careful. Well, hey, uh, a little
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: bit of clear news here. But really about Becka Koufern Uh,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: she says publicly she's jealous of Claire Crawley and Dale
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Moss after Garrett moves on, and she quotes, I miss
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: having that partnership this. According to US Weekly, Becca said
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: this on her podcast this week hat the Hour that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: she and Rachel had Claire and Dale on and she said,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I'm low key a little bit jealous. I miss having
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that partnership, but I'm incredibly happy for you guys. Um,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that's it, you know, just it is sad. Of course,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just glad that she kind of admitted that jealousy. Like,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I feel like people hate to admit jealousy and try
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to work their way around like wording it so that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it's not jealousy, but just say it how it is. Yeah,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Beca has been pretty vulnerable and honest about this, how
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: hard this has been for her. And she hasn't doesn't
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: feel like she's like brought Garrett down, She hasn't been
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: mean to Garrett. I think that. I think she's just
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: been pretty honest about how hurt she's been. Um, just
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: not just like it's sad, it's hard, it's weird and
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: uh and it's moving fast. Um. Obviously Becca is in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: l A now starting life there. Uh and I bet
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: due to COVID, like it's a little bit lonely. I'm
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: assuming there's not a lot going on in so uh. Yeah, again,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool to see Becca be vulnerable, but it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: also hard, um to hear those words come from her.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I know she she's hurting. Uh. Matt James Season of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor sets January premier date. This, according to People,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Matt James is coming up in front of her eyes, Ashley.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: He will be our bachelor officially on January four. Very excited.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: That's like right around the corner. That's gonna be here
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: before you know it. Yeah, it really is. Um. You
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: guys don't have no downtime in between seasons. I'm sure
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you love it. Yeah, neither will we um, which is good. Uh. Well,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: right now we are watching now Tasia Adams season of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Bachelorette, and she does have an X that we've
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: all got to watch their relationship on Paradise John Paul
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Jones and he reacts to her debut as the Bachelorette
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and Cosmo calls it wholesome, very it was very sweet.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: He got on his Instagram posted a story of her
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: exit on the limo you know, her official Hi, I'm
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the bad New Bachelor rotte tation moment and he says,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: yea go tete, and I have no doubt that there's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: actually like he genuinely means it. It's uh, you know
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: what it's it's awesome to see that support, but uh,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it's hard not to support Tasia. I mean, the America
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: was supporting her of her this week, and I think
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that they had good reason why. We'll get into the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: tatious season in just a second, but before we do,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: we have a couple more headlines to break down, some
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: really exciting ones, but one here that's a little bit funny.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I think Chris Hemsworth is coming up in Bachelor talk.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Chris Hemsworth threatened to fire his trainer after he was
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: asked to join The Bachelor. This according to e Online. Okay,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: this sounds as if Chris Hemsworth was asked to be
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor but no, no, no, So his trainer was
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: asked to be part of the Australian version of the show,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and when the trainer asked Chris for approval to go
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: on the show, he said no. He said, if you
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: go on The Bachelor, I will fire you. Oh man,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that's that's sad. Chris Hemsworth not a fan. Well, no, no, no,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: you know what I bet this is coming from. I
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: bet Chris Hemsworth knows that the storyline would be that
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: this guy was Chris hemsworth trainer and Chris's name would
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: be brought up, brought up on The Bachelor one too
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: many times for his comfort and liking. Okay, I would
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: think so, I don't know, probably be used too much.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hemsworth trainer. I'm Chris Hemsworth trainer. Yeah, it'd
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: just be too much. So it's kind of funny though,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And uh, and I'm glad that that story got brought out.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm really excited about these next two stories. This
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: is things that are just really cool to see and
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: to celebrate. And so if you've been kind of like
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: snoozing during the first part of Bachelor Headlines, I'm asking
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you right now to wake up a bit because we
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: have some really exciting things to talk about. Bachelor Nations.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Derek Path and Gauge to model Saffron Veder so excited this.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: According to people, it is awesome. Derek's a great friend
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of the podcast. It came on our live shows before,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: been very open with us about a lot of things,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and this is something to celebrate. Yeah, they got they
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: got Instagram official back in June. And you know, he
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: posted on Sunday night that the two of them got engaged.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So I wonder how long they've been together. Do you
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: remember if he was single? In January moved first saw him.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like he was this is a quick engagement,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it was. I actually was with him on a second
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: date with her. I was sitting in a bar, really
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: then give us the deeds. Yeah, So I was sitting
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: at a bar with him and Wells in New York
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: City back during the last no right before the live
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: show hit. So we're doing press actually, so this was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in February and we're sitting at this bar and we're
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: talking about life and catching up and he's like, hey,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I just had this date with this girl that I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: like that I like, I really kind of like like
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and we're like, how many times you date her? I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: remember this? And he's like, Oh, we just want on
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: one date. Like you're you're crazy, come on and he's like, well,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: she's gonna come here tonight if that's cool and meet us.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that's fine, and she did
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and the two of them sat at the corner of
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the bar and talked to each other the whole time,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: like you know, I don't get And that's when you know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: like when you see a good friend and you haven't
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: seen him in a while, and you plan this night
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: out and then all he wants to do is have
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: her in and he doesn't even like he introduced her
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and was like kind of cordial, but then they just
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: went away and talked the whole time. You knew something
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: special is going on. Did you feel the fireworks? I did,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: because I've texted him often since then and said hey, like, um,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: how's it going with her? Especially right away, like are
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you still seeing her? And he was like yes, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: then and then it turned into I think we're gonna
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: quarantine together. And then it was, uh, you know, we're
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: gonna start like finding a place together, and I was
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like this seems serious. Um, so yeah, I think that
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: night I could see fireworks. She was awesome. She's beautiful.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: He's a great dude. Again, a good friend of the podcast,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: good friend to me, and uh, and we'll celebrate them now.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: One person we haven't had on the podcast in a
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: long time. I think we only had on once, like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: right after the season. Uh, John Graham. If you remember
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: John Graham, he was beloved uh during his time on
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: on The Bachelor at and uh John Graham gets engaged
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to girlfriend Brittany Noel by popping the question at the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Sonoma Coast. This, according to Daily Mail, this is Venmo John. Guys,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I had no idea his last Amazagram. Yeah, Venmo John's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: like what we referred to him as, right, what season was? Actually?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I think it was last season of Paradise. He just
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: had gone on like five dates. You know, every girl
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: kept asking him out. But now he's engaged. Uh. We
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: don't know much more about this engagement except it happened
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: this weekend and you can go to their instagram to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: see the pics. It's really something special. Uh. John Graham
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and Dark Paith finding loved during COVID. Uh we'll celebrate
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: it no matter what, and both to loved figures in
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the bachelor world. The one crazy part is it wasn't
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: that long ago that Derek Paith was being talked about
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to be the dex Bachelor based on his run in Paradise. Uh,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: he will be the Bachelor. Uh, he will be in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Bachelor talks no more. And and I think Vin Moo
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: John actually uh had had some talks as well. He
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: was loved. Um. Well, ash, that's been Bachelor headlines. Uh,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: there's more headlines to come. But that's just during tatious
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: season of the Bachelorrette that just began. Let's take a break.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're to break down Tatia's very
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: first episode as the bachelor at tatious season of the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Bachelorette began. We're gonna start referring to ng it reform
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: tatious season of the bachelortt just began. We're gonna start
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: referring to it as tatious season. If not, just just
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: gets confusing. Ashley, Um, I think the best way to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: do this is your initial thoughts, your excitement, your concerns,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: your questions, take it away. Well. I was just very
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: excited to see the guy's reaction to Tasia when she
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: walked in. Of course, she just looked so stunning. I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: find her to be very approachable, Like she's the kind
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: of girl that you look at her and you're like, okay,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I'm intimidated, right, But the second you sit down and
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: talk to her, all that goes away. And I love
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that the guys really felt that. They said that they
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: were connecting with her very easily, and there were some
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: men who I thought would have a heart. Well, I
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: guess there's really just one specifically Blake I thought was
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: going to keep his feelings for Claire a little bit longer.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: You know, they had that special connection. One night one
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: he said that she, um, you know that he did
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: research on Alzheimer's for her mom, and she kissed him.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And I feel like Claire barely kissed anyone. But he
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: seemed very receptive of Tasia. Were you surprised by that
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: or did you Were you much expecting the reaction from him? Uh,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm probably expecting it. I mean, yeah, I mean, as
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: you said, though, like Tassia like Tassia stunning, Like when
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: she walks in the room, like I think everybody's gonna
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: seem a little thrown off just because she like she's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: like glows, like she really does, like she lights up
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the room and um, and she did that. She had
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: that Bachelor at glow we talked about more than want
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: anyone I've seen in a long time. It was actually
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: like there was like coming off of her. She's just
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: as beautiful on the inside as she's on the outside.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And then when we so we see her shouting with
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the guys, and then of course Chris Harrison comes. He
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: interrupts Brendan's time by saying that you know, he has
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: something surprise, and then one limo shows up with four guys,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: four new guys, and of course the men back in
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the Rose ceremony room or whatnot, are all
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and bothered about it. But it's like, guys, I know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: this is like kind of threatening, but the same at
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the same time, it's the bachelorette that we're here to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: hope find love. You know, this is about her, not
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: so much you guys. So sorry that you're having this realization,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: but it would be kind of rude for them to be, like, Okay,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: j you are replacement bachelorette, and you have a lot
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: of lute, a lot of sixteen men to choose from.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Most bachelor bachelorettes will have thirty, but you're gonna have sixteen.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: So in my opinion, they should have added even more
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: guys in. But I understand the time restrictions that they
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: had on them. I don't think they should have been
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: shocked at all. If you've watched it before, somebody in
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that room had to assumed that more guys were coming in,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: like one of Like, so, I remember Tanner was always
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: this guy for us. Tanner was always a dude, to
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, this is what's probably gonna happen next,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Like it feels like Chris is going to walk in
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and drop a bomb on us, like, um, like you
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: had to have expected it. I think this would go easier,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Ashley if the first guy wasn't Spencer and the first guys, like,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the guys are probably a little upset with like whatever,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: let it happen. And then the first guy walks in
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and he and he starts like kind of mouthing the
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: way he did, and I think that's when the guys
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: are like, oh, this is getting that. Yeah. Yeah, they
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: were like, okay, so they're bringing in villains. We got
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: rid of Joseph and now they're going to bring another
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: villain in. And because he is he obviously he's very attractive.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: But Tasia specifically, I think was learned by his appearance
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: a bit. And I also think that there is something
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: too the fact that they're both new Okay, it was like, oh,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you're the new kid, I'm the new kid. We're both
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: on the even playing field. And Tassia could feel as
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: if he was there for her and not for Claire,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and that's probably that was a comforting feeling for her,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and I think that's why he got the first impression Rose. Yeah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I mean he he's a smooth talker, Like he's obviously
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: not afraid to talk. Very first thing he does when
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: he walks in, he says, so, which one of you
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: guys scared Claire away? Like without any background of what
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: had happened. That's his first comment. So he's obviously not
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: afraid to voice his mind, voice his opinion. Now, that
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: could end up really good for Tasia, or it could backfire.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: But right now, I cannot I maybe I'm in a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: league of my own here. I cannot say that Spencer
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: is a villain yet. I think he is showing signs
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: of being uh like getting underneath the guy's skin. Uh.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: But I can't say that he is necessarily a villain
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: yet because he really hasn't done anything to hurt anybody else,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: or he hasn't said anything that mean, he just is
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: like kind of just like picking a fight everywhere. Turn No,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: but he has dick vibes. Yeah, I mean you're yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: he definitely puts your on edge. I mean, looking at
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: him in the pool, he's fighting hard. He's like grabbing
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Riley all over the place, and like tackling him, which
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I mean I was thinking about it was like if
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I was playing pool basketball, you'd probably see a different
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: side of me come out, like that's that's my game,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and so you'd see me like, you know, ripping the ball,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: will trying to rip the ball away from those dudes.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: They're a little bit bigger than me, but like trying
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: to rip the ball away really going harder than paint. Um.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: We also have a few more guys come in. We'll
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just run through these real quick. Montell uh the gym owner.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: But he did. He did say nice to meet you
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a zillion times. It's basically all he said. It was
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: like he was walking nice to meet you. Hey, I'm Montel.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's so nice, like he said at least three times.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: So nervous It's okay. Everybody gets a pass in that moment. Yeah,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: it's kind of endearing in a sense, right, Peter thirty two,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: he's a real estate agent. Truly, don't remember what he
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: looks like, do you, No, I don't. I do remember. Noah.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Noah is a registered travel nurse. Uh. The sixteen guys
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: uh in the house obviously have to welcome these four
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: guys into the house and and there's like, I mean,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: all four of those dudes, uh, good looking, confident. Uh.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: It felt like they really brought out like an a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: team to uh to join this group. Yeah. But at
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the same time, I'm like not feeling this group of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: mann right now. But I've been trying to like mathematically
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: figure out why. Logically it's because, well, one, the focus
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: was so much on day of the first four episodes.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: But I think back on like episode five and how
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: well you know characters by episode five, and we know
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: so little. But I almost wonder if it was made
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to be that way so that we would feel like
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: we were starting this season off clean slate right now,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: because I feel like I can't pair Tasia with any
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: of these guys because I don't know them enough right now.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm struggling and playing matchmaker for her. I
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: know that some guys are glimmering. I think we mentioned
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: them last week. Riley Ben Bennett Ivan Ivan was uh,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: he really felt great about Tasia's arrival. He was like,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: she's more of my type. I'm feeling her already. He
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: was very excited. And then the other guy who I
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: think really gleamed to me, if not shined was the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: sweet and humble, total dark horse of it all. Brendan
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: mm hmmm interesting, yeah, adorable during their one on one. Yeah,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: you're right, Yeah he stood up. I mean, it's cool
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: to see these guys really for the first time, you know,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: we've like it's like it's it's such a weird dynamic
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: where we know of these guys. We've kind of watched
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: these guys complain mostly like hey, we don't see our Bachelor,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: and that's why I don't love them right now, because
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I feel like all they've been doing is complaining and
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, there's something there, there's something about me
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that's like pushing these guys away, and it must because
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of that. Well, so we have this group of guys now,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: we have them locked in at twenty. The four new
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: guys obviously, uh show up big time on night one. Now, actually,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: let's pause here, step away from the talk about the guys.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Tasha for a second. We've got to
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: see her now through night one through uh super rand
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: you know, super I should say, unexpected uh switch of
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: events for her to become the Bachelor. How would you
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: grade tastious performance or like not any other way other
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: than getting to know these guys. On Night one, I
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: can genuinely give her a ten, and I feel like
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I've given I feel like I've given grades before where
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I bump them up a little bit because like I'm
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: trying to be nice, but I'm I truly give Tasha
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: at ten. She's so easy for me to watch, like
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: she is herself with these guys as the same as
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: she is with me. If we're like sitting around having
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: a line. She was insanely relaxed, Like the way she
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: had she was laughing, she was like flitting around. She
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: was talking to these guys. She was commenting on you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: the way they looked and the way they talked like
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: she It's weird. It was like she was made for
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: this moment. I completely agree. I've never been able to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like I've never seen a lead that comfortable
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: in that in that in their shoes. No, I mean,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Night one is intimidating. And then given this scenario where
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: she walks into a house that she does she knows nobody,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: but these guys already know each other. She I mean,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: if if you really want to get critical, she's like
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the replacement Batchelor at um, and yet she walks in
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and says, no, this is this is my opportunity now
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna shine And she shined fantastic. I think
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: most people feel that way too. I did too. I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: can't wait. I know that you guys, we record this
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: a couple of hours before it airs, and I'm really
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: excited to see the social media feedback that we get
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: from the fans tonight. It's gonna be positive. Well, um,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: we obviously just talked about the Claire and Dale sit
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: down that was next in the episode. Um. But then
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: we move into Tassia's first date and uh, it is
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: a group date where it's called they're calling it a
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: second shot at love. Uh. They're playing splash ball and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I want to pause here and say this the date
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: team given one location, giving like the unexed, like they're
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: doing all right, Like this is kind of a fun
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: date to watch. I enjoyed watching them play splash ball
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't boring for me, and it was good
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: to see their personality. Shine. I thought this date worked.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: It was fine. It was cute. Competition dates, as you
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: guys know, don't usually thrill me. I just really like
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to watch the one on one sit downtime, I can't
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: believe how great Tastia's hair looks straightened, curly and natural.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: That I was most blown away by how beautiful she
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: looked even when she was wet, And uh yeah, that's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: pretty much all I have to say about that in
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: between oh yeah, and then so at the night portion,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I guess the most. The thing the most stands out
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: is Zach talks about being single at thirty six, she
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: kisses him. I don't feel Zack like I don't. He's
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: not like my favorit right now, but she's vibing it.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Do you are you? How are you vibing Zach right now?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: It's just hard to say. I mean, there's nobody I'm
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: with you, Like there's nobody right now that I am
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: extremely into when it comes to somebody for Tasha, just
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know these guys yet, like like I haven't
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: heard their stories. I don't know how they interact and
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: have fun. I don't know how they make her feel.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And first impressions are always so hard to judge because
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: everybody can put on their best face and put on
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: put their best foot forward for a few days and
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: then the clause come out. Every time, and so I
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: want to talk to you, like in two weeks and
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: tell you who I'm vibe and who I'm feeling. Right now,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I can't even give you an honest answer because I
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: just I just don't know easy it was trying to
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: so make a Dale and Claire move. When he says,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: when you came out and I met you night one,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I felt like I just met my wife. Is he
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: not trying to pull like A did? Did we also
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: experience love at first sight? Move? I mean, the funny
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: part is like he's probably the back of his mind thinking, Okay,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I've already been here a few weeks. This has been exhausting.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: If I can, like Tastia's a dream like she she's great,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: if I can somehow convince her to leave this thing
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: with me in the next two weeks. And I've only
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: been here seven weeks. I found my girl, Claire has
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: found her a guy. Everybody's happy, and I don't have
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: to be here any longer. So yes, I definitely felt
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: like that was all. These dudes are just gonna be
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: the most hopeless romantics right now. They're gonna they're gonna
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: believe that this can like happen just like that every time. Now. Yeah.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Another funny thing that happened on the nighttime portion of
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: this date was when Riley starts calling Spencer lunch meat
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you you make the bologna sandwich.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: You put some mail on it. It's like, I don't
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: know why you're talking about, but it's hilarious. Yeah. This, uh,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: this dynamic is gonna be really fun to watch because
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: some of these guys are already so comfortable, uh that
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you know, they've they've really sat in to the experience
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that there's no whole bar. They don't recognize the cameras anymore,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: so they're saying what they want when they want to
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: say it. These other four guys are new. Um, everybody's
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a little intimidated by them just because of their new
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: It's like the new kids moving into the high school.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about it, and um, it's gonna be really
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: fun to see how this place because you already see
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the small gentle jabs that I think over time, well
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I'm predicting will not be so gentle. Yeah yeah, but
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: they will be full blow and villain either. I don't
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: think nobody's could be a full blow and villain yeah, no,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: it's probably true. Well, Ashley, Uh, the next day is
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Brendon goes uh horseback riding with Tasia. You're a fan
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: of Brendan, you think he's been super sweet. What stands
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: out to you about this date? And uh? And why?
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I also want to know why do you think he
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: gets this date? Well, to be honest, I felt like
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: they I don't know why he got this date. Maybe
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: he got the date because Chris Harrison interrupted him on
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: night one and she liked the conversation and she wanted
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: to continue with him something like that. Um, but I
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: felt like the beginning of the day on the horseback
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: with Chris Harrison trying to be funny and interrupt and
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: all that, I thought that was kind of awkward. I
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I don't know that they're getting like
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: their jive on. He keeps talking about kissing her and like,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like that kisses anywhere in the near future.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But then they sit there in the pool and she's
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: like totally down for it, and the nighttime portion was fantastic.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Obviously they were they really bonded over the similarities in
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: their background, or they both got married young and they
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: got divorced, and it was just very endearing the way
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: he was nervous about talking about that and he realizes
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: that she went through a similar situation. I just felt
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: like he has very much hopeless romantic vibes. I mean
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: he was a young guy who you know, got married
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: so says he was commitment or he's commitment oriented and
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: maybe a hopeless romantic. And I just you think you
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: look at him and you're like, um, you're like a
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: sweet guy. Like I don't know that you'll like it's
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: kind of like Jack and Rose. I knew she's like
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: this powerful, assy, gorgeous, stunning, confident woman, and then he's
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: just kind of like a sweet regular dude. And you
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: don't really put them together naturally, but when they sit
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: and have a conversation, it makes a lot of sense.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: You know, you're right, actually, I mean he is. He's
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the dark horse, and there's something there that's special, There's
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: something that's standing out above the rest. Ashley, you had
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: some strong feelings though, for Jason, because obviously he was
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the one that was probably the most Him and Blake,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: we're the most focused on Claire, but Blake kind of
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: sold sold his clear Yeah, as soon as station walking
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: in the room, that guy got like nervous. He starts
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: like his bride eyed. He's saying some like non smooth stuff.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: He's so excited for Tastia to be there, but Jason
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: still holding onto it. And I know you have certain
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: feelings about this. Yeah, I mean I know that so
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: many fans were very into Jason. I like Jason, wanted
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: him to have more of a chance. But I really
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: really like Jason. In this episode when he's telling Tasha
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: that his feelings are too wrong for Claire to stick around.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: He gave her the shot on night one, but just said,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't feel like it's right for me
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: to be here because my you know, my thoughts are
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: still as somebody else. It was so respectable, which made
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: me like him even more. He just seems like a catch.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: And Tasia, from the little that she knows of him,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: could sense that. And I think she was uh disappointed
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to stick around any bit longer.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: And I could see getting discouraged about that, Like I
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: can see that getting her down um and her wondering
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: if there's any other guys in the you know it
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: left in the bunch that are still thinking about Claire,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: but like, as a viewer, I can securely say he
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: was the only one that we were thinking could have
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: lingering feelings. Everybody else has very much moved on. It's
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: still shocking to me that he felt that strongly for Claire,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: given the fact that she really didn't let anybody else in. Like,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if if Jason stuck around, or I hope
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: when he starts dating again, there's somebody in his life
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: that will like pursue him and make him know that
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a good relationship is one where like you are supported,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: you're cared for, you can open up, and you're protected
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: within that vulnerability. And I think Claire gave him that
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: option to be vulnerable. He did, and I think his heart,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't, I don't want to speak for him,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: but I imagine it hasn't happened many times his life,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: and his heart was pulled towards her, and now and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: now he's leaving, and that's tough. That's sad because like
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: he he obviously is feeling this experience deeply, and because
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: there's no change of environment, you know what I mean, Like,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: maybe if you like took even simply a week and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: changed resorts. But his location is going to remind him
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of those feelings for Claire, and I understand it. It's
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: kind of it's remind me. Did he ever Did he
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: ever tell Claire just how strongly he was feeling for her? Not?
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say not. I wouldn't say he was super
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: obvious about it. I probably think that he probably didn't
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: want to get discouraged because he just saw what she
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: had with Dale, And yeah, I don't know one day.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: It's sad. It's sad because it's not as if Claire's
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: was just like Jason, I'm not really into you. It
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: was I'm moving on with Dale. So you'd think that
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: he'd have more closure. Uh, it's not as if he
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: could ever get her back. He wasn't going to win
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: her back. So that's why it seems sadder to me
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that he won't open up to Tasia. Yeah, it's tough,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: but well, there's a bright spot in this episode. You
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: and Jared make an appearance. I know, tell us about it.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: How long were you down there for? It? Was this
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a cool thing to do? Are you mad you did it?
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Tell us all about it? Oh my gosh, I'm so
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: excited for this episode air. It was a really fun date.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Jared and I host the Grown ass Man Challenge, So
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the guys are going to I'll just tease what you've
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: already seen, make breakfast for her in bed. There might
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: be some basic elementary school math that they have to
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: do a tug of war. It's really fun. It was
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: one of those dates where while it was a competition
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: and an activity date, through the activity you really got
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: to tell about their personality and how they would treat
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: a lady in a relationship versus what you would get
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: from splashball. And we loved it down there. It was
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: brutally hot. I cannot believe. Literally a fifteen every day. Um.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: It was a gorgeous resort and the quarantine, honestly was
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: very relaxing. Got to just chill in a nice sweet
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: and there was a hot tub outside. It's a pretty
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: good time hanging out with hanging out with your boy
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: down in uh palm springs do in your thing? Yeah? Yeah,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: why not? Well? Hey, uh Tasias season kicks off to
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a great start. Tasha is going to be an incredible bachelorte.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: We also seen the teaser that emotions will be shown
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: that this gets uh this If you ever thought this
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: was gonna kind of be smooth sailing for Tasia from
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: here and now it's not. It doesn't look like it
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: from the teaser um And I think when you have
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: somebody like Tasha, who is such an incredible person, and
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: some and hopefully these guys step up to the plate,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: you're always gonna see emotions. You're always gonna see drama
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: because people put their heart into it. So we're excited
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: for another week of Tasious season. Next week will be
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• 58:55
  Speaker 1: and I. Hey, Ben, you said that in this episode
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: you're gonna tell us the last story that you didn't
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: tell in the book. Oh yeah, I didn't, the very
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: most embarrassing story so much so I wasn't. I I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: took it off my list because I thought you weren't
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: going to you should see my d M s this week.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, people are like, hey, I was just cruising
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: them to work. Listen to my favorite bachelor podcast, and
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I hear you're talking about fish
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: silas Like, ah, man, okay, well here's my last story.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Uh So the story I told last week happened um
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: in my in my senior year of high school. Okay,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: this story happens in my junior, no, sophomore year of
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: high school. So the last last was senior, today is sophomore. Yeah.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: And so my better sport was basketball, um, especially when
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I was younger, and so I was as a sophomore. UM,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: just got out of football season and I had um
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: like a pain. And I'm telling this story because I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: think some people out there will relate. I had a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: pain in like my testicles that hurt really bad and
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: it was like super sensitive. So I went long story
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: short and gut it checked out and I found out
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: that I had a Verico seal. A very co seal
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: is something that's a common in one in four men.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: It's like a lot of men have this, but like
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: very few men have it to where they need to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: get removed. The reason you have to get removed is
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: a very co seal. Is just an extra vein or
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: an inflame vein um in the scrowtum and it overheats everything. Yeah,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: and uh, I'm not I don't do well with veins.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Something about veins and arteries. It really make me weak.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: And now you're gonna put that there um And so
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: you had. I had to get removed because it was
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: putting too much blood and it was overheating things in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: a like long term could have caused some spurn sperm damage.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: So I go on to get it removed and uh,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I get it cut out and they just caught orize it.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: It's super easy surgery. They just go clip clip both
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: sides out, remove the vein, caught it. Yeah. Yeah, you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: go to sleep for it, but it's not hard. And
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: like I said, one in four men have it, so
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: there's nothing to be ashamed of. Um. Well, I get
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: home that night and I'm laying there in bed and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, like this hurts so bad,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Like this hurts so bad that I can't even like function.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't think it was supposed
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: to hurt so bad like this surgery wasn't supposed to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: cause as much pain. Nobody warned me that it was
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: gonna hurt this bad. It feels like I'm gonna explode,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Like it feels like everything is getting so tight that
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: it's gonna explode. So I call my dad. Remember I'm
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a sophomore in high school, like my dad. My dad
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't know this side of me anymore. And he had
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: to have known enough, being that you like had the surgery.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Oh he knew, but he, like you said, like a
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: mom and dad, like this hurts. Man, he hadn't seen it,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: and so I called him in. I was a dad,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: this is post surgery. I'm hurting really bad, and I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: need you to look at it and tell me if
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: you think something's going on. And he looks and he goes,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my gosh. I was like, what
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: tell me more like what's going on? So he's like,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: we need to go to the doctor. So we go
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: to the hospital. Walking to the hospital, Uh, tell them
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: what's up, and they rushed me back from emergency surgery.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: On my way back to emergency surgery, they actually take
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: a needle and they stick it inside of my scored
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: him and dry drain, not the blood. What happened is
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: they didn't caught her eyes the vein enough and blood
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: was just pumping into it like there was no vein
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: transferring it through. So blood was just pumping into the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: sack and making it get the size of like maybe
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: like a great fruit, maybe a little bigger. Oh my god,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: how did you sit? So this is where it gets better.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: So I tell all this to lead up to this point.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: So this is again my sophomore year of high school.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: I am an athlete. UM. I played all three seasons,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: so there's always a sporting event going on. UM. And
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: so once I get out of the hospital, I get home,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: everything is still super swollen. It's gonna be for weeks.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I have to I have to sit out of the
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: first couple of basketball games. So I showed my buddies obviously,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: because that's what you do when something weird is going
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: on with your body, and they're like they get to
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: see the grapefruit sized like sacking it off me. And
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: then I have to walk around school sitting on a
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: pea like frozen peas or frozen ice. And I had
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: to sit on a donut, so like I had to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: sit with I had to like walk around with a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: donut and frozen peas and then sit in high school
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: with this and so again, just because my luck, everybody
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: in high school knew what happened, Like, everybody in high
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: school knew that I had like and and everybody wanted
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: to see it, right, Like everybody was like, let me
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: see this massive thing that you have going on down
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Like it literally became like a joke from my sophomore
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: year on still to this day. Uh. And so I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: start telling the story to the producers on The Bachelor,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: and uh, their nickname for me was hot nuts. Um
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, how long did it take to go down?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: I would think that I've looked down. Oh my god,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: I thought that they would have just like popped it. No, no, no, no,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: that's actually I'd been too easy. So that's my last story,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: and it hopefully gives you a little bit better insight
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: into when you wonder, like, uh, if your high school
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: experiences weird and you go, well, yeah they were weird,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: but Ben's was weird too. I tell these only to
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: make you everybody feel a little more human and know that, hey,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: sometimes in life things pop up that you just can't control.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: And uh, and it's it's embarrassing sometimes, but then if
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: you own it, it ain't that embarrassing. We're all fine,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: We're all gonna be okay, so funny. All right, Well,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a lot more d M s now
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: about this story. And I'm glad we ended with this story.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: It truly was the well it's grapefruit on top of
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: a ridiculous al Right, guys, well, thank you so much
• 1:04:40
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• 1:04:51
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