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What Happens in Paradise… with Meghan King · 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 her radio. Hey everyone, welcome to the almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 1: First episode of Bachelor in Paradise in the first time
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks at bed and night are reunited.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Ben, how are you? Yes, I'm good. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: little tired. How are you? I can't imagine how I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like jet lagged, like just a little bit back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. You know, it's five day trip. You don't
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  Speaker 1: really get a like situated. But I got a good night,
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  Speaker 1: a good night's sleep on the plane. It was just hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us all about this wedding. It looked beautiful. We
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  Speaker 1: saw I saw the pictures on social media. Uh it
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  Speaker 1: was in Italy if I'm correct, right, Yeah, it was gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: It was my best friend's wedding. Um. It was very
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  Speaker 1: emotional and the best way, just like super sweet and
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  Speaker 1: touching and very very romantic. It was at an abbey
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  Speaker 1: about an hour and a half north of Rome. But
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  Speaker 1: it was like an old abbey. It's like not used
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  Speaker 1: for church services anymore. It's really used as like a
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  Speaker 1: wedding venue. But they have guest rooms there, so it's
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  Speaker 1: not like a full blown hotel. But it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like if you were to turn an old nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 1: abbey into an Airbnb. Basically, it was gorgeous, everything was
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  Speaker 1: candle it It's just like that super soft romance. And
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  Speaker 1: it was cool to see your best friend of about well,
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  Speaker 1: I met her when I was in sixth grade, but
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  Speaker 1: I guess we've been like best friends for fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: and she it's just cool to see, Um, your friend who,
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  Speaker 1: like you imagine your wedding with for years and years
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  Speaker 1: and like danju about the guy you're going to end
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  Speaker 1: up with, CE do that and truly end up meaning
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  Speaker 1: like the perfect person for them. So this has built
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen. No no, no no, no twelve. I thought you
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  Speaker 1: said nineteen. I've never heard of an abbey being built
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  Speaker 1: nineteen wedding venue. All right, we are. I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: where this abby was at. You want to know why
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  Speaker 1: because um, one of our producers on this show has
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  Speaker 1: Jared on Fine Friends and we are looking for you
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  Speaker 1: all and and we saw the exact location. Were like,
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  Speaker 1: h that's an interesting location. It's like, yeah, an hour
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  Speaker 1: and a half north and it looks like you're in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. That's hilarious. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: they all ended up having each other on Find My Friends,
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  Speaker 1: but it is always funny to see the destination where
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  Speaker 1: Dean's at when he's late for their podcast. It's often
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  Speaker 1: on a golf course, but you never know. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: could be Mount Everest. Yeah, this time he's on a
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  Speaker 1: in a sand trap on Whole sixteen in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: That's where this week. That's incredible. It is special to
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  Speaker 1: see your friends get married, especially to see your friends
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  Speaker 1: get married. Just grow up, because it's so weird how
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  Speaker 1: life works, isn't it. You You feel like a child
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  Speaker 1: for so long you're under the supervision of somebody, your
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  Speaker 1: your parents, or maybe it's at university, or maybe you
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  Speaker 1: get you don't go to university out of high school,
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  Speaker 1: and you're still just trying to make it work. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, life switches very fast. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like it just like turns on a dime, and
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  Speaker 1: you become a husband, you become a wife, you become
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  Speaker 1: a partner, h then a parent. Uh. You know, life
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  Speaker 1: moves quickly, and so those little moments that you can
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  Speaker 1: just take a deep breath and see people who you've
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  Speaker 1: lived with your whole life. Celebrate something special is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: So the pictures they look great, obviously they never do
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  Speaker 1: it justice. Um, but I'm happy. It was a great wedding,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And it was nice to have a few
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  Speaker 1: days for Jared and I just to eat in Rome.
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  Speaker 1: We eat, we ate, we shopped, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: a nice couple of times. Tell us your most romantic
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  Speaker 1: moment with Jared and over these five days, feel free
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  Speaker 1: to go into as much detail or as little detail
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  Speaker 1: as you would like. Um well, we had the like um,
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  Speaker 1: I just like you could like, say a nice dinner
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to get. You could say, like a
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  Speaker 1: nice bottle of wine looking at this Okay, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: was going to say, there was his dinner. We had
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  Speaker 1: the most amazing LUs audio and it was just like
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  Speaker 1: nice to take a little walk around. And actually, this
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  Speaker 1: is so strange. Is this like so Ashley and Jared
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  Speaker 1: of us. But we went to an American bar to
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  Speaker 1: watch American football on Sunday, and he and I never
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  Speaker 1: go and get beers at a bar and watch a
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  Speaker 1: full game there, and we did, and we made friends
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  Speaker 1: with other American tourists and it was really fun. I
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  Speaker 1: sell his videos too. That looked really fun. I love
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite things. When I used to live
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  Speaker 1: in Peru um in Cousco, there was a a bar
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of tourists would stop at on their
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  Speaker 1: way down the um from Machu Pichu and they'd have lunch.
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  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't go often, but I try to go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once every couple of weeks and just stop
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  Speaker 1: in there and see these tourists from all over the
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  Speaker 1: world really stop begin to like grab their first cheeseburger
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  Speaker 1: in Peru fries and watch football or watch whatever sports
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  Speaker 1: is on TV. It's just like a little like reminder
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  Speaker 1: of home. It was fun for me to see that too,
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  Speaker 1: by you know, because I was there. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's what's interesting about that is that, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, if we were going to go watch a
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  Speaker 1: football game and a bar in America, we wouldn't talk
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  Speaker 1: to people around us, right, We'd stick to our own table,
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  Speaker 1: Like we may exchange a few little mess you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little few little comments and high fives and pounds
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  Speaker 1: and all that, but we would never like talk to
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  Speaker 1: them for hours. And we did that with multiple people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just cool the way, like you get bonded
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  Speaker 1: over your own culture when you're away from it. But
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  Speaker 1: it's also of course nice to explore the other you know,
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  Speaker 1: the actual culture that you're in the midstuff. Um. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of couple time and the origin of these relationships,
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  Speaker 1: it's paradise time. It is paradise time. And hopefully, um,
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  Speaker 1: some of these couples that we saw in last night's episode,
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  Speaker 1: we'll emderge as long lasting couples as we and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm written for them. There's a couple of good little
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  Speaker 1: love stories of unfolding right now. But should we break
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  Speaker 1: down the episode after this break Yeah, But before we do,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say, hey, thanks again to my
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  Speaker 1: Heart for the I Heart Music Festival. This weekend actually
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  Speaker 1: was in Italy, so if you listen to our episodes
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  Speaker 1: that were released, we have some incredible guests, got to
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  Speaker 1: meet a lot of cool people. One of the fun
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  Speaker 1: things about I Heeart Fest is bringing so many people
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  Speaker 1: together that you typically wouldn't run into now in this
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  Speaker 1: bachelor world, and hopefully allowing them just have a little fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the hopes, right, everybody's kind of in
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  Speaker 1: it together. You can just let loose a little bit
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  Speaker 1: have a good time. Uh. And the festival itself was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely outrageously fun. I heart pulled it off once again.
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  Speaker 1: Some incredible musical guests, um from all different genres and
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  Speaker 1: walks of life. Uh. We had a great, great weekend
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  Speaker 1: and um in Las Vegas. So the show itself will
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  Speaker 1: be airing on television at some point soon. We'll make
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  Speaker 1: sure to give it then announcement. But until uh here
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously our employer, my heart, we just want
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  Speaker 1: to say thinks it was a great festival, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Uh and we always enjoy being there. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be airing on television. We just got the know
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  Speaker 1: October seven and eight on the c W so I
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  Speaker 1: Heart Music Fest. You can see me present the presenter
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  Speaker 1: on national television. People. Um, I presented the presenter. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that's like UM. I actually want to
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  Speaker 1: say it's a very important job because I think it's
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  Speaker 1: cool a presenter needs to be presented um and I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want to dig into the drama or
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  Speaker 1: like the juicy scoop that was that weekend with you.
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  Speaker 1: When we have our guest of the podcast on Megan
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  Speaker 1: uh huh, so as might as well save those headlines
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  Speaker 1: for from Megan later in the show. So Megan King
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  Speaker 1: is coming later in the show to talk about those
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  Speaker 1: pictures they may have seen with her and Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 1: being all over each other. All right, but next we're
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  Speaker 1: talking Bachelor in Paradise. So stay tuned. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: It's everybody's favorite time of year. Yes, it is time
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  Speaker 1: for Bachelor in Paradise. Paradise is awaiting. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many. I think there's like always forty total by
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  Speaker 1: the end of this show, very lucky suitors on the
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  Speaker 1: beach in Mexico. We did see in the teaser that
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  Speaker 1: our very own Ashley Uh is gonna be She's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be joining Uh these these contestants in Paradise at some
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  Speaker 1: point with her husband Jared, but that wasn't happening in
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  Speaker 1: the first episode. Instead, the first episode is kind of
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  Speaker 1: our introduction to the season. We get to meet the
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  Speaker 1: initial cast, So this first episode is really where we
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  Speaker 1: get to meet the contestants, get to know their personalities,
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  Speaker 1: see what they're looking for, and hear who their first
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  Speaker 1: impressions are really leaning towards Ashley. You get jacked for
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  Speaker 1: Paradise every season. I do want to ask you a
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  Speaker 1: little behind the scenes here as a reminder, please do
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  Speaker 1: these contestants are showing up to Mexico right Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: are going to the Vedanta initially to do COVID testing
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  Speaker 1: and everything they need they need to do. How many
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  Speaker 1: days are you waiting in the hotel? When do you
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  Speaker 1: find out if you're you know, first feet on the beach,
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  Speaker 1: and then what is the drive like to this resort
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  Speaker 1: in Sallylita. So just kind of walk us through the
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes prepping for this moment that you do
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  Speaker 1: walk down the stairs. How long are the stairs? Give
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  Speaker 1: us the details. So the original cast is there for
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  Speaker 1: about four nights at a on toe, which is really
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  Speaker 1: no different than the cast for the main show Bachelor Bachelorette.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're doing photoshoots, you're during press, you're doing
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  Speaker 1: all these tests, you're doing like your psychological tests, you
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  Speaker 1: are you know, you're just getting the works done. But
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  Speaker 1: when we're in Fernanta, it's really nice because you get
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  Speaker 1: unlimited room service, or at least so that was the
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  Speaker 1: situation with us unlimited and we had unlimited drinks. Is
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  Speaker 1: back with Juring season two, Season three from me? Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think we I think we still have like do
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  Speaker 1: unlimited food. When Jared and I went there, I know
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to pay for like I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say that because that just might be for their favorites.
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  Speaker 1: They might not give that everybody. Actually, we like you,
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy you. We know, no matter what, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make great television for us. So here is just a
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  Speaker 1: wide open room service card. Spend it. Use it to
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  Speaker 1: your liking, because when you get to that B, we
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  Speaker 1: know you're going to be on sweet that it could be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to call myself a favorite, but you
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  Speaker 1: know I have been there a time or two. I
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  Speaker 1: do remember you getting free drinks with your free room
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  Speaker 1: service the first My first two seasons this year, Jared
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  Speaker 1: and I did have to pay for like cocktails. So
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  Speaker 1: if you if you want drinks, you gotta pay for
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  Speaker 1: those now. Uh yeah. So then the when do you
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  Speaker 1: know whether you're like first sand as I call it
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  Speaker 1: these days, I think pretty much because of like everybody
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  Speaker 1: talks to each other. You know that if you're flying
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  Speaker 1: on a certain date and you like figure out like
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  Speaker 1: who else is falling on that date, that your first Sandy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's Yeah, I don't think that's really
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  Speaker 1: that much of a mystery. But people who come like
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  Speaker 1: a day or two later, like I think they know
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  Speaker 1: that they're a little bit more up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: And then the drive is about an hour to sell
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  Speaker 1: Ulita to play Escondida from Dunda, and it's a bumpy,
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  Speaker 1: bumpy right for them. For half of it you're going
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  Speaker 1: through you know, highway and it's fine, and then you
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  Speaker 1: hit this spart where it's like gravel curves and massive
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  Speaker 1: bumps and like those roads that if some if you
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  Speaker 1: see somebody coming down the opposite direction, you're like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what we're gonna do. Back up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to climb a mountain. It's just new. It's nerve
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  Speaker 1: racking when you come come across another car on those roads.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want first sand? Is that something that contestants
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  Speaker 1: desire two days later? Well, if you're two days later,
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  Speaker 1: then I think that that's like that nut's pretty good
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  Speaker 1: because that kind of means like you're the ultimate temptation,
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  Speaker 1: and my point of view, like you're the one that
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  Speaker 1: you know that like you're going to shake things up,
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  Speaker 1: and not just with drama, but like you're like of
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  Speaker 1: interest to the opposite sex, right, So like Victoria Fuller,
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  Speaker 1: we saw her come down later, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: we all know, like Victoria, like, it's definitely like that
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  Speaker 1: kind of like desired person. And I think that's flattering.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that like, you don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to be like me, like week um
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  Speaker 1: in season two where you come in like the first
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  Speaker 1: week of girls entering, you know what I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: you have your girls and guys entering, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have your guys entering, and then you have your girls entering,
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  Speaker 1: and like then you just feel like you're walking into
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of couples and you're just scrounging for a date. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. Me. I feel like I would not
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  Speaker 1: want to be there first. I want to come in soon.
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  Speaker 1: I want to kind of let the first initial impressions
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  Speaker 1: settle where they may. I feel like, if you're really
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  Speaker 1: into somebody, if you're going down there saying I have
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  Speaker 1: my eyes on this person, I'm only in it for
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  Speaker 1: this person, I want to let that happen. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be around for that. I don't want it
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  Speaker 1: to be awkward or all of a sudden I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you're feeling behind the scenes, and I ask
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  Speaker 1: you want to date, and then you're like, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually really just waiting for this person to come
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  Speaker 1: down the beach. I want the dust to settle, to
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  Speaker 1: see kind of how it plays out, and then walk
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  Speaker 1: down that way. There's kind of a picture. There's more
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  Speaker 1: of a calmness to the beach. There's less of an excitement,
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  Speaker 1: and you know this, Like I get a little socially awkward,
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  Speaker 1: and so those like initial like when you're the first
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  Speaker 1: one the beach and people are coming down, like the
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  Speaker 1: hug of like hey, I'm been nice to teach you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know your name, I've never seen you before,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're about. I get really kind
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  Speaker 1: of like quiet and like drawn out in those moments.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather enter into something that's already been set, like
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  Speaker 1: the vibe has already been committed. Now that you've picked
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  Speaker 1: at this picture for me, I understand your point of
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  Speaker 1: view more. I still want to be first Sand, but
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  Speaker 1: I understand also, UM understand what you're saying about, like
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  Speaker 1: the chaos that is being first Sand. It's like everybody
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  Speaker 1: is hunting. It's like it's like it's officially hunting season.
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  Speaker 1: Go find a mate. It's just a little bit more stressful.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like than if you were to walk in
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  Speaker 1: and then be like, I have my eyes on this person,
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  Speaker 1: I have a I have an initial charge to this one.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to take them on a date. Your
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  Speaker 1: problem is that person could be taken and you just
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  Speaker 1: never got your chance. Yeah, that's a good point. What
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  Speaker 1: is That's a great point. There's there's pros and cons
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  Speaker 1: to both. I also think that you have you ever
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  Speaker 1: been on like a big friends trip. That first night
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  Speaker 1: is wild and exciting. Everybody so anxious and anticipating like
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  Speaker 1: the days ahead, and so they end up partying more
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  Speaker 1: than they typically would, and they end up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just get they kind of have like the anxious energy
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  Speaker 1: about them. I get that way with guys golf trips. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I get very anxious and excited, and so I show
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  Speaker 1: up to that first night and I'm like ready to
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  Speaker 1: go so excited for that first tea time, and I
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  Speaker 1: wear myself out. I end up going too hard, too fast,
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  Speaker 1: too soon. And so if I I just feel like
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  Speaker 1: I want to like peacefully interim and I want to
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  Speaker 1: calmly walk down. What's going on, guys, It's good to
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  Speaker 1: be here. How are you doing. How's your experience been?
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  Speaker 1: You're still sweating. That looks like you're hot and tired.
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  Speaker 1: We actually, Ashley before we break down this episode, we
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  Speaker 1: had Genevieve in Victoria Fuller in Las Vegas with us.
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  Speaker 1: We do have interviews with both of them. They're both great.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna make insanely good television between the
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  Speaker 1: two of them. I also really just enjoy them. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the cool part, Ashley. I've never met them before
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  Speaker 1: this trip. Just sitting with them having lunch one day,
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  Speaker 1: Rachel the pass Bachelorette, I guess the most recent bachelor um. Victoria,
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  Speaker 1: Genevieve and I had lunch together. We talked for probably
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  Speaker 1: an hour and a half, just to four of us,
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  Speaker 1: and I sat there and I told Genevieve at the
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  Speaker 1: end of this, I said, Genevieve, because she's kind of nervous, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how is this going to be portrayed and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff? And I asked her she was worried
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  Speaker 1: about anything. She's not that pops in my head. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just worried people won't like me. I'm like, Okay, Genevia,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you this. You are, Ashley, like you
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  Speaker 1: are your emotional You're just hopeless romantic. You love being
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  Speaker 1: around people, you love hard, you love well. You you
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  Speaker 1: set your eyes on something, you want it. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be insanely good television. Not because you are an actress,
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  Speaker 1: just because of who you are. She is hilarious, a blast,
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  Speaker 1: and and like just the stuff she was willing to
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  Speaker 1: tell me, the stuff that I feel like you would
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  Speaker 1: have been willing to tell me back then about you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: sweating and sleeping and the bathroom arrangements and the bed
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: arrangements and what's crawling into the bed and what's not
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It's It was amazing. I just loved listening to Victoria
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and Genevieve and Rachel talk amongst each other. Ashley, UM,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: let's just run through. I'm gonna do a few of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: them here, then you can pick up from there. Uh.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Of the people that's coming to the beaches to give
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: people a reminder, Uh, the first one is one that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: people you know, didn't haven't seen a lot of before. Actually,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: some of these contestants people haven't seen a lot of before,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: which I think is fun. But here you go. We
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: have Hunter from Clayton season. We have Johnny from Gabby
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and Rachel's season, Serene from Clayton season, Brandon from Michelle's season,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Kira from Clayton season. Now, I will say, and I
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: don't want this to come off bad. It will probably
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't recognize Hunter or Kira. I didn't. I did
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: not recognize who they were. I I was had to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: look them up and say, were they really on this
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: season or not? Okay, I have two more here, Jacob
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: from Rachel and Gabby season and then Genevieve from Clayton season.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: You want to finish the list, sure, Then we have
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: from Clayton season, Justin from Katie season, Jill from Clayton season,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and Michael A from Katie season. So we don't have
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: many guys from or any Yeah, we don't have any
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: guys from the most recent season. We don't. It's weird,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: isn't it. Well Logan was also there, but he wasn't
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: in the packages beforehand. Okay, huh yeah, it felt like
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: these like they did pull back a little bit on
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: some seasons here, right, because then we have Andrew and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: those guys showing up here later on. Uh. Well, Serene
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: shows up to the beach. First, we see her package
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and we see her have walked down the beach. I
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: have a feeling Serene is going to be kind of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: one of those like I think she'll settle down early.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You know, we might get a hint of that already,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: but I think she's gonna have at some point somebody
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: come down to the beach that she's kind of interested
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in and that's very interested in her, and she's gonna
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: be that storyline of she goes on a date, comes
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: back and it's like, Nope, well we saw that it's
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: already happening. It's Brandon. You know. What's what I'm saying,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: she'll come back to Brandon at some point, she'll come
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: back to Brandon. You think that, like, oh, because it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: not like it's not sent and Stone, but it's the ye.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It's that this is the first week. We haven't moved
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to the point where we're like, yes, that's a couple,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you know, like the most couply couple. Definitely, definitely you
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: should go look at Bachelor Data's recent posts. She talks
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: about like this trend about how the first guy in
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the first girl down on the beach is usually the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: two to end up in serious relationships, not necessarily together,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: but like those two people lead roman romantic storylines for
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the entire season. So then Michael A is the first
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: guy to the beach, right, yes, sir, And that makes sense? Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: its sense. I mean Michael A. Um, I feel like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I can do no wrong because I think he's a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know him. He is a good dude.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He is, he is what he shows on television, right, Um,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: he's good looking. Kind of went out of the radar.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I think after Katie season people still of him, but
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: kind of forgot about him a little bit. I think
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the Beach was a great decision for him. I think
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: going on Paradise and then just the way that the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: girls were talking about him is the Michael A that
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I've known him personally, where they're like, I'm into him.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: He's he's good looking. He is, and he's gotten better looking. Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I would think he's always been handsome, but like he's
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like hot. He had the Bachelor blow up yeah and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: uh he uh. And he he took time to talk
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to each person, even if it wasn't like a romantic interest.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, that could be seen as as
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a negative in some eyes. But Michael A I think
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: did it with the intention of just like, hey, welcome
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to the beach. I'm the first person here. I want
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to make you feel welcome. Let's call the nerves, let's
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: have a drink, let's hang out, and I think it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: gonna I mean, I just feel like that's the type
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of guy he is. I would be shocked if if
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the show especially doesn't kind of find him his match.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: For sure. He's the most rootable character and I just
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: have to reiterate all your sentiments there. He's just so sweet,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: so easy to talk to, just like you just want
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to be around him. He makes every social situation enhanced.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: He does. He's going to thrive here. And then we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: have Andrew that walks down the beach, the second guy
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to the beach. I mean, that's a two pretty power
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: packed punch, right He's probably sitting there being like, all right,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: we're off to a good start. We've got this might
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: not be my romantic interest, but at least we're stack
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in the deck. At the beginning. Andrew and Michael Ay,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: two of the most rutable people right now kind of
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: coming into paradise, are at the beach. First, that's awesome.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Two major Bachelor contenders, two guys that I would have
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: rather seen as the Bachelor. In both cases, when when
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I referred to Zach and when I referred to Clayton Love,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Andrew and Michael, I now know them personally. Um, but
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: even and if I didn't, I'd still find that they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: were more compelling people that I've watched on TV. But yeah, again,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to read right what you said, if if I were Serena,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, feeling good about these two people.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Are really invested in both their storylines. And I like
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the fact that we have like Katie's major like Big
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: three besides you know her final pick with um justin,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Michael and Andrew all there. So we just saved the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: goodies for this season. So maybe we'll do some of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that with Rachel and Gabby season as well next year. Yeah.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I would also say that Rachel and Gabby, to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: go back a little bit, they really carried their seasons,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like the seasons were interesting or enjoyable or controversial because
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of Rachel and Gabby, their contestants I didn't think stood
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: up to the challenge like there was you know, there's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: maybe I can't remember anyone. Okay, my point exactly. Now,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Katie with the Michael A and the Justin and Andrews,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: they're big personalities. They're nice guys, they're good looking guys.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They've you know, they've came off the show and we
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: still remember them like I, you know, I I remember
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: their storylines. I remember Justin having the facial expressions. I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: remember some dance video that Andrew did at some point
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that I enjoyed. I've been able to talk to Michael
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: A a a lot over the phone, and so I don't know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's hard to say, and we're focused
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: on this season, but I feel like these guys really
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: stood up to the challenge when it came to kind
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of showing who they were as people. And I don't
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: know if Katie and Rachel are if Gabby and Rachel
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: had enough contestants that really did that. So we also
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: have Michelle season in the mix, so we've totally forgotten
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: about again her season. Not like a whole ton of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: memorable guys, but Brandon was probably the one that we
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: would most want to see find love in that group.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And then there is Rodney, and I think Rodney's in
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the scenes for the next episode or the future episodes. Okay,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: So right now, if we break down this by season Ashley,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: from Gabby and Rachel season, we have Johnny Logan Logan,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and then um silly Man perfect Tarzan okay, And then
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: from Katie season we have Michael a Andrew Justin Andrew Justin. Well,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: those are the three. That's the three, yeah, okay. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: then from Michelle season is only Brandon Oh my goodness,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: gracious yeah, wow wow. And then where is Casey from
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Casey Oh he's from Michelle season. Okay, So was he
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: let go early on? Yeah? He was like the middle
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of the line. Okay. I kind of liked his Like
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: he shined in Paradise a little bit this episode, just
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: like this commentary and like sitting at breakfast after you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: who knows what happened that night, But I just enjoyed.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed that interaction. I felt like it was really funny. Uh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And I'm excited to see kind of him shine hopefully
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: for a few weeks on Paradises. Okay. So then let's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: go to the women Better at the Beach from the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: most current season, Clayton season of The Bachelor. Who do
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we have all all of them except for Victoria. Laces
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: down there and she was she was on the power
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: packed Bachelor's season. I mean that Bachelor that season. That
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Lace was on that power packed one that was called
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Ben Higgins season. Yeah, that Laces down there. That's shocking
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and surprising and I did not expect to see her.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I hope finds love. Sorry. We also have Brittany and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Brittany's from Matt season, but Bertie flew under the radar
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: in last night's episode, and I hate that because I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: love Britney. Is Brittany the one that back during Matt season,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I was like, that girl is beautiful, She's going to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: be right. So studying when we were in Paradise, well,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I can't say anything. I can't won't say anything, but anyone,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'll talk. I'll talk next week when I'm allowed to talk.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: What season was Jill on? Jill was on Cleaning season? Ji, Yes,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and even like backstories, I know, not just from being
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: down there in Paradise, but through Jill, Like I knew
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that she and Kira had drama surrounding Romeo before they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: even left for Paradise. Like Jill would tell me, she
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, they're gonna put Kira there,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and they're good about Romeo there, and it's like I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: liked Romo, but you know, I got the whole scope
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: before she went down. Well, they rose to the occasion
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: on night one. Yes, so Romeo is down there as well.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: If you remember Romeo, Romeo was on this past season
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: of The Bachelorette. Correct Romeo was on Oh Michelle season
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: or we're just like doing a really bad job about
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you know, fig ring out was who's from here? But yes, Romeo,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Michelle Susan along with Um Brandon and so the beach
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: is packed, things are flowing. Wells is at the bar
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: making drinks. It's good to see Wells back. It is.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I think he brings an element to this show that's important.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And from what I understand from talking to Victorian Genevieve,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: like they just really enjoy hanging out the bar with
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Wells on the beach, and so I think it helps
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: always nice to have that third element of human, not
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a cast member, not a production member. Yeah, he's and
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: he's bar tender and he's not trying to sway you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: any direction. He's not telling you what you should do next.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He's just listening. He's a good listener, grace storyteller. Uh
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and uh, and I'm happy to see Wells back. I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: happy to see him behind the bar. Ashley a little
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: bit of drama on week one. Obviously, you just talked
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: about Jill, Kira and Romeo. Uh. From what you saw
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and what you understand, how did you feel about that interaction.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: This is what I understand from the situation. I think
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he was kind of flirtatious with both off camera, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: then I think he had visited, like Jill and Romeo
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: were truly just friends. I think that was their first
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: kiss off camera, but there was like a there was
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a flirtation. And then with Kira, it seems obvious on
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the show that they had kissed before off camera. Um,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but then it looks like he's not apparently that into
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it because he flat out tells Kira, please give me
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the space to pursue Jill, and I thought he did.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That's such a such a nice way, let's just but then,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: but then Kira just seems to not really want to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: abide by that wish, and she's being really a aggressive
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and she's making it seem to Jill, like said, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: don't know why you're annoyed at me. It's like maybe
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: because you're being super aggressive and he told you to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: like let him pursue this um. But Jill is hilarious
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and this will be this will be continuing. No, I'll
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: just say that as something continuing. Kira moved on quickly.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: She rubbing cases nipples by the end of the night.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: So she's a slop show. A slop show, right, I mean,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know her. I just saw
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: her rubbing nipples and I was like, hey, I'm sure
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that feels great on the beach, a little wind in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: your hair. It seems like a very romantic evening. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm excited to watch this play out. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: do imagine that, Kira. I mean, anybody that has the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: title looking for a Threesome is obviously going to create
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: some storylines during this season. If they want to give
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you that title, you're not lying under the radar. Uh.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And now I'm wondering where and how how is this
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: going to play out? This cannot end well, But I'm
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: excited to watch it on national television. I'll have to say.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I have to say that so we all know that
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Kira is a doctor. I believe she is an internist.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: How would you feel seeing just your doctor rubbing nipples?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I feel, you know, let it fly? Just do you?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Just do you you're on paradise. I mean, we've had
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of people with a lot of different professions, attorneys, doctors, uh,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of workout trainers, um. All of them just
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: seem to go to paradise and let loose. I mean,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it's kind of why I watch it. I watch it
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to see them let loose and to see their real like,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to see their personalities let go. Well. One of the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: cool things to actually during this episode is the date
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: between Queen Andrew and Teddy. I mean, if I remember right,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I think we covered this way back in the day,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But when Teddy was on television, Andrew was like kind
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of tweeting at her right or like messaging her. I'm
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: sure they've had to have spoken. There's no way they
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: haven't spoken, because I thought he was kind of sending
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you know, his his you know bat was a back call. No,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: what what am I looking for? Bat signal? Like he
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was sending his signal up in the air towards Teddy.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they've talked, for sure. For sure. I loved
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: this day to this whole moment, this whole flirtation and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: all that, because it's so authentic, so real feeling. Andrew
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: is obviously like straight up giddy, so nervous, can't hide it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's all shown. It's so real life. Love it, love
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: love love it. I love that he admits that he's nervous.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: It's just all over adorable. This is why we love
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Paradise because it's people like of looking forward to maybe
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: getting to be with their Christ from TV and then
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: seeing them do it and how they navigate it. Yeah,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: it's great to watch it is. There was some very
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: sweet moments in this episode. Brandon and uh Serene stand
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: out to me obviously, Andrew and Teddy, Genevieve and Justin
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: also standing out to me as a very kind of,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: like I want to say, relaxed couple. They feel very
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: normal around each other. They feel like they're just connecting
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on a really good level, not only physically. Who shouldn't
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: even Justin? Yeah, okay, so I don't feel genev even
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Justin yet. Interesting. Well, I guess the I guess I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: see something you don't. I guess you do I see
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: all over Brandon and Serene. I mean that interaction was
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a future bachelor couple. I feel like he he pulled
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: her over. Yeah, he pulled her over, and she was like,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna kiss anybody for like a while, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: then here I am like wanting to kiss Like she
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: basically said, you're giving me I want to kiss fibes
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and then she giggled at it and he went right
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: in and it was like, whoa, this is amazing. I
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I think we saw two connections during this episode that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I would bet money on could last through it, and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and Teddy Serene and Brandon. I would put Genevieve and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Justin kind of in that third spot, but not like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna make it the whole time. Is
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: there any other couples after a week one that you're saying, no, this,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this is going to be the real deal for the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: rest of the show. Um, maybe not for the rest
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of the show. But there were a few more flirtations
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: we should mention. There was Sierra and Michael, and they
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: had a really good conversation because Michael opened up about
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: a very detailed part of being a single parent. He
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't get to share these memories of someone,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: so like, when somebody hopefully does come into my life,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I can't look back on these times with them and
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: have that like nostalgic feeling something I never really would
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: have thought of. But I think that's why I FaceTime
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: dared and sent so many videos and pictures and face
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: time my parents so much, because I'm constantly trying to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: like share what's going on Dawson's day to day life,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and it's just like crazy to not have a go
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to person for that. Yeah, well what do you think
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: about Lace? Lace becomes a big storyline during this episode,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: as well as her thirty second birthday. Happy Birthday, Lace,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: It's not really what do you mean that was her
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: fake birthday? Her fake birthday? Okay, well still happy fake birthday, Lace, Um,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: loose loose. So that's what I was just going to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: bring into. Obviously Lace's story here so far, I don't
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: feel like he's off to a a great start. Not
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that she's messed anything up, it just feels a little rough. Um.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Lace hasn't been on the show in a while. Uh,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the show has always been difficult for her. If you
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: remember when she was on the Bachelor, Um, she left
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: because it was hard on her to be around all
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: these people and to have this attention and to kind
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: of be searching and fighting for for something, which is
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: why I'm surprisedly showed back up to Paradise. I don't
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: know why, I don't know how it happened, but episode
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: one I felt like we saw the lace that we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: have missed, but also saw years ago on the beach
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: in Paradise when she was last there. It was the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: lace that we've missed, that the show has missed. These
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are the characters that people feel are missing from these
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: current seasons. She says these things, which makes us be like, yes,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: bringing back the o G feeling. He She goes, my
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: season was so much better than this season. In reference
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: to Paradise season three, she goes, this is the most
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: boring season, and I feel the prettiest I've ever been.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: She also says when she's being forced to sort of
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: go downstairs and mingle with everybody when she's lying in bed,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: she was fine. I guess I also start being fakest.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: It's like, yes, thank you for saying everything that people
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: at home would feel in that situation, just being straight
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: up on us. She's the greatest she is. She is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the greatest, and she lives here in Denver, so I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: get to see see her around. Um, she is funny. Uh.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: She does say what's on her mind, which is something
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: we missed. She doesn't have anything to hold back on anymore.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, it kind of happens when
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: this is your second and third go around you kind
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of say, I'm just done pretending here. I'm just gonna
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: dive into it. I do have a question about and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: if Logan was on the podcast, I'd have to ask
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: him when the world was Logan thinking like if he
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: didn't know her name, his guests was loose, like like Lucy,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: like Ellie. You see he didn't did I didn't hear
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: e at the end of it. I just heard loose, Yeah, loose,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: which you know that was his guest. Like that's what
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: That's the best he had. Yeah, Logan just just continues
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: to be like the blank paper. I don't get it.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is. You know he's down here. The show
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: obviously wanted him from this past season above other people.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: That was just a weird interaction. But I can't wait.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to kind of see Uh, I don't know,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I just I like the old school vibe that Lace springs.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You're right, it does bring back unfiltered. I also enjoy
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that Lace is referencing season three as her season of
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor in Paradise, unlike that she's back on the beach, Like,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: why is this not her season? I like that she goes,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that's my season. I'm just here for a good time.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Now they see your season, I'm here to ruin it.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I love that's so much. There's always
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: like my season, beven year season. Yeah, you're right, this
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: isn't her season. This is She's right back on the beach.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing as before. Amazing. And then it
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was also funny when she was like cupping Casey's breasts
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and she was and then they were like she and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Wells are talking about how like that's a full beat cup.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: It really was. I was like, he's got more of
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a handful than me. Yeah, good for him on the beach. Yes,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I enjoy that. Anything else from episode one standing out
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to you, actually, any takeaways, anything that we want to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: bring up before we move on. I'm not trying to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: like to Jill's horn because she's my actual friend in
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: real life. But she feels like a modern Lace, do
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. She's pretty unfiltered. She's screaming,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: she she just is raw emotion and I'm liking it. Yeah,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching her. I don't. I didn't know much
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: about her going into the season. I enjoyed watching her
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: in Paradise. Just her reactions, They're real. They weren't like
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: tamed down, they weren't um. They didn't feel like she
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: was trying to impress anybody. You know. She just let loose,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: uh and had a good time with it. And I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: think we're gonna enjoy that. I think Paradise works really
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: well for that. She'll shine during this thing. I think
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: shine her and Genevieve, I think so far like the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: ones that I'm saying in Lace, I'm saying I can't.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I just like it when they're on our screens, like
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I enjoy watching whatever they're gonna say and do. Uh
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: from that's on the girl's side on the guy said,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I have that person yet. I
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: don't have somebody that's really when they're on it makes
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: me laugh. Casey didn't make me laugh a few times.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I I like that I liked watching him, and I'm like,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I like what Andrew. I mean, Michael a is just
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: like as are studfast like Romcom lead right, and then
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: then Andrew he makes me smile. That guy is always smiling.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He has a glow around him. Love watching him, and
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I do think that Justin is really funny, and I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: hope we get to see more Justin's humor. I agree.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I also just love the guys. When they sit in
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the palapa uh and are talking in Tarzan is saying
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff like I'm really into that girl, you know,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the one girl. They're like, what's her name? He's like,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and Andrew and Justin's reaction to that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: is so good because he's like, this is the funniest,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Like this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever been
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: a part of UM and I love every second of Okay.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: So next week we have Victoria Fuller showing up to
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the beach. Uh. She's walking down kind of in the
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: previews while Genevieve and Justin are sitting by the pool.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: It's kind of hinted that Victoria is into Justin uh,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm assuming that will be a storyline that plays
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: out next week. So far, Ashley, do you feel like
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: this is a good start to Paradise. Do you feel
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: like this is what you needed, wanted, we're expecting, or
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: do you feel like it fell short and is disappointing?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: There could have been a little bit more humor hits.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I knew just being down there during week two and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: getting to hear about what happened during week one. I
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: was like, ah, you guys are gonna be off to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a slow start, that that first episode may not be
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: representative of what is to come. And I think like
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: it was good. It was fun, Like Paradise is always fun,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: even on its most mediocre episodes. It's fun. It's it's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: good TV. It will get juicier, guys. It's just this
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: is gonna be like a little bit of a slow
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: burn in the first one or two episodes. How many
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: episodes do we get, like, what like twelve twelve episodes?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's twelve, my goodness. Yeah, jeez, this show
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: just keeps us busy. You know who we didn't talk about.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: We didn't talk about Johnny at all. Johnny has nothing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: that's it. That's what I say. Nothing nothing about Johnny okay, alright,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: well next week than Jared and I were on one
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: nights episodes. Let's go all right, everybody coming up next,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: we have Megan King and then we're in with bachelor
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: headlines as we always do, so we're not done. Grab
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a glass water, come back join us for Megan King
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and hearing everything that happened in Vegas. All right, we're
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: back and we're joined by Megan King. You guys may
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: know Megan from the Housewives of Orange County. She's had
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of profile, high profile relationships. She was a
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: she's a model, and she is a family She's one
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: of our podcast family friends here because she's had a
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: podcast on I Heart before, which is called Intimate Knowledge.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: But now it's kind of relaunching in a different way.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: So Megan, welcome to the show and let us know
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: how how is Intimate Knowledge different now than it used
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to be? And like and why the break well I
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: wanted to, I mean COVID made us take a break
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: more or less. And um, so this relaunch is really
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: more about my dating life than anything else with all
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the juicy details. So before when it was just about
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: kind of exploring different sex and intimacy, scenario, situations, and
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: from a woman's perspective, this is a little bit light,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: more lighthearted, a little bit funnier, and a lot more personal. Okay,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: but you just said on Instagram or you said on
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: social media that you're like over talking about your personal
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: life on social media. But now you're just gonna move
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: it to no no, no, no, no no no. I'm
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: not talking about I'll talk about my personal life. I'm
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: not talking about my relationships. So okay, that's okay. I'm
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: not talking about the individuals. They will be they will
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: remain nameless unless okay, yeah, So what happens if you
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: get into another prof high profile relationship. First off, you guys,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: she you probably got on the Housewives because you were
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: married to baseball player Jim Edmonds. Um, that's what I said.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Andy's insists that that's not the case. But really, seriously,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: like what does he Why does he say you got
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: on the Housewives? He said that I got on because
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I'm me and I have had an interesting life, and
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I I was like, okay, okay. And then and then
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: over the fall, you married Kuff biden Owens and that
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: was Um, that's the nephew of the president and yes,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: you guys are married for a month, so maybe too,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: maybe too? And is it officially an old chip? Oh yeah, Okay,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: how did you get it annulled? Because that's a little
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: a challenging. I don't know, you just like so you
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: just call a lawyer and you say I want to
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: annull this, and then a judge signs it. I don't know.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a catholic churn. Pay your bill
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and then you know, so you can get it legally
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: annulled as well. And I think all that really means
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: in terms of the law is that there's no property
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: to be split up kind of thing. Okay, it's just
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: as if it never existed. So my bottom line here is, Megan,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: how are you going to keep the men that you're
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: in these relationships with anonymous? If they're all high profile?
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: They're not all high profiles. I really I haven't. I've
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: tried to not date anyone who's high profile because I
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: think because I was with a professional baseball player who
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is a celebrity in his own right, I um, I
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: saw him not feel comfortable with the sharing of the
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: spotlight in that way, and so I think there's something
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: kind of deeply like subconscious happening here where I out
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: to people who aren't in the spotlight but still sort
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of high profile where they can understand my life a
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: little bit, but they're very private, like the best, Like
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the smaller social media presence the better in my opinion.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: But after having gone on this date with Mike Johnson,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: oh wait a minute, I start so far as time
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I went on date like that with anybody who's in
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the public eye. You have wanted to be set up
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: by somebody through the I Heart team for a while now,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and then they chose Mike for you personally, and they
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: kind of set up for you guys to meet at
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the I Heart Awards, which if we're going to be
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: open and honest about all things for relationship with you,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate it because that's far you have. It
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: happened to be on like the weekend in which your
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: ex husband got married. Was there some timing to this? No?
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Also, it was my birthday weekend, so if
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about stealing spotlights, talk about who got
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: married on my birthday? Okay, this good stuff. I'm enjoying
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: this interview. I'm just gonna sit back and watch this.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I did not married. I did not know it was
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: your birth we did, we did take a shot. Um,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I wish i'd known your birthday. We could have saying
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to you, but I'm glad we didn't. Well, there's time
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: to make up for that. Okay, But let's go back
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: to Mike Johnson. Now, so you're saying the timing was coincidental,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: but you guys did have your first real date in Vegas.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: What would you do? Um? We said a lot of things.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: We um we I don't know. It was so awkward,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you guys, I felt like, honestly, I felt like what
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: it might feel like to be on the Bachelor, because
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: it was like a forced date in a really cool
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: environment with high intense and energy, and like it was
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: just a lot of fun. But then we're also trying
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to get to know each other in this kind of
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: fantasy land, you know, type of um evening, and then
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: we end up at a strip club, which is not
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you're not going to find on the Bachelor. So we
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: had to mix it up for intimate knowledge my podcast
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: in that way. And I didn't know that Mike is
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: a sex coach, so I thought that may be going
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and we all didn't know Mike was a sex guy.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I did. When I did an interview with him, he
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: told me he was a sex coach. I said, explain yourself.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but I'm interested in
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: learning more. It's like an intimacy coach. So it's I
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: think it's a therapist, but for intimacy. So what did
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: he teach you anything specifically at the strip club or
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: or throughout the whole weekend? Oh my god, what did
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: he teach you? Is the question actually asked. I mean,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: there was moments of fogginess in that long weekend. I
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: think I slept like two hours. But I mean, you know,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: we this was kind of an experiment, experimental setup, and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: it turned out to be something more than that. And
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: we really get into it on intimate knowledge on the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: podcast because the day after our first date, the two
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: of us sat down and we downloaded on our first date,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: which is not something that happens. I mean downloaded. We discussed, okay,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: an episode, you record an episode, right, Yeah, we we
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: recording an episode of instant knowledge. But it was weird
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: to kind of like sit there with this guy they
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: went on a first date with and be like, well,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: we kissed and like talk about that in front of him.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: It was so awkward, but that's what we did, so
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: all of those details came out. That took We did
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: that episode with Champagne because we needed some liquid courage.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Did do you feel like it was I mean, obviously
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: it was an uncomfortable exercise. Do you feel like it
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: was at all healthy to sit down the day after
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: a set up blind day? Obviously the date went well.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I will say, as a by standard, I did not
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: know you guys were on a set up date, but
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I did recognize it. As soon as you walked into
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the room, Mike head turned focused on you, and then
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: you two were together all evening, talking, laughing. You know,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like, all right, we have this date to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: go on now, like you enjoyed each other's company. It
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: looked like, yeah, I am going to ask you about that. Actually,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna ask. I was gonna ask, you know,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: as a bystandard, what did you think? Like? What was
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: our body language saying? Because I felt really comfortable. Well,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: initially I leaned over at Bob Guinea, Chris Harrison and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Jason and I said, wow, Mike is really into Megan.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: That was my first comment about the evening because I
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: saw you guys in the corner at our little cocktail party.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: You guys are just kind of chilling together. And then
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I think at some point somebody on the team goes, yeah,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: this is a set up blind date for them. They're
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: going on a blind date. And I said, oh, okay,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: so this isn't like just a first interaction. I think
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: you're attractive, you think I'm attractive. Um, that's go on
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: a date. No, you guys are set up. But it
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: looked like that there was chemistry. There was, Yeah, it did.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I mean we hung out all weekend. We'd up hanging
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: out all weekend. There was definite chemistry. We um. I
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: mean we got a long grade and it was really
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: fun to be on the red carpet with a date.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Who is in that world? I mean, you guys both know,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: but I don't. I've never done that before, and um,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: it was just a lot more fun. It just made
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the whole experience less worky and more like just enjoyable.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: That's great. Well, I did bring me to my question, though,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I do want to ask this, Ashley, is um recording
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: the episode the next day then, um, twenty four hours
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming after meeting him or a little last probably
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: already in the tabloids at that point. Yeah, I know,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I saw I woke up in the morning. I saw
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: you guys downstairs at breakfast. I said, I did reading
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: on you this morning. Yeah, it was nice, guys, just
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: see some interesting videos. It was a good way to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: wake up. Um and uh, do you feel like it
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: was a healthy exercise to break down the date the
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: way you did? Do you recommend it to people? Was
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: it awkward? Did it feel like it added tension? Or
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: was it like good to say, hey, we want a
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: date last night. Let's talk about the good, the bad,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the ugly, what we enjoyed, what we didn't. Did you
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: enjoy that exercise? I mean that's a great question. I
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: would say, oh, are all I think it was a
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: good idea, just because community communication direct communication is never
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a bad idea. But like the timing of it, less
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: than twelve hours later, it was little soon, A little soon.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like, get a few dates under
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: your under your bell and then maybe talk about it
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: in the ways that we did. But at the same time,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, we're both grown ups. What happened happened,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: And like let's get on the same page. But so
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: we're being clear right now, it's basically, um like a
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: publicity stunt for the podcast, or at least it was.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: It was set up together for this weekend so that
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you would have content to talk about on your on
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the launch of the podcast BINGO. That's exactly what it was. However,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: it didn't end up that way, and I was hoping
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: that it wouldn't end up that way. I was hoping
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: that it would finally be this the setup that I've
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: been begging, aiming and Danielle to set me up with
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: somebody for years and finally, you know, here's Mike. But
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: um so I was hoping that there would be good connection.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: But um yeah, more than anything, it was like, let's
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: just see you know what happens with the podcast. But
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: I mean I talked to him this morning. He's in
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: l A. He's he's working in l A today, Like
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: we're hanging out, we're talking. I was gonna say, I
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: saw that you both came out, or maybe you came
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: out publicly and said hey, um we're friends, which could
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: be true, but I I was going to argue with
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: you where I didn't see something spark there. I was there.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: I saw the sparks, I saw the glitter, I saw
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the shimmer in the eyes. Um. And so I was
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: gonna say you could be friends now, but like, are
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you giving up on the idea of going on another date? No,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: not at all. And I'm actually he lives in Austin.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be going I'm going to Austin for something
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: else in a couple of weeks. So I hope to
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: see him. Um, yeah, I don't. I mean there was
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: there was definitely a great connection there. And um, I
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: mean when something you know, there's a good connection like that,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: you just don't let it pass by when you're single woman,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: did you did you have a say and who that
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: they were going to set you up with? Like did
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: you give them your type? Um? Did you are you
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a Bachelor fan? Did you want somebody from the franchise?
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: I wanted somebody who I was interested in, somebody who
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: was known. Um, but that's that's it. So it's not
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: it's not a bacheloring. I really don't even watch TV
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: and so, um, yeah, it wasn't about that. It was
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And then we were kind of brainstorming for a minute, Well,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: who's who should we ask and then um, Danielle said, well,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: what about Mike Johnson. And I was like, oh, my gosh,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: he's good looking. So he's a big dude. He's like,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: he's huge, He's huge. I'm a tall guy. I told
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: him that when he walked down, and was like, you
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: just make me feel tiny, like because he's like, he's
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: like big, muscular and tall. Yeah, the biceps of the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: size of my quads. We were walking when we were
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: walking together, everybody's like looking straight up because I'm five eleven.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, he's this tall. And I wearing heels too,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: So I was like amazony, uh, Well, to finish out
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: this this interview here one, it was great to be
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: with you in Vegas. It was great to see and
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: and be with you off and on. You were working
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: hard and you were busy, um, and so we didn't
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: get the necessarily time I wanted to ask you about
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: this project. We talked a little bit at the beginning
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: of this interview about the Intimate Knowledge podcast, Um, the
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: relaunch of this for fans out there listening. Now, Okay,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: give you a little bit of I'm probably sharing too
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: much personally. My wife, right, not a secret was a
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: virgin when we got married, UM listened to a lot
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: of like podcast and listen to a lot of things
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: to like, you know, understand and to learn, you know,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: before we got married, and those tools were very helpful
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: in our marriage. They still are to this day. Hearing
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: from other people, hearing about other married couples, hearing how
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: they you know, they work through life. Once you get
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: a year in the marriage, and maybe it's not as
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: exciting as it was the first couple of weeks, and so, UM,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I'm really appreciative for for projects like yours, But for
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: fans that they're listening, Uh, can you give them a
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: sales pitch? Like what why would they want to listen
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: to it? What are they going to learn from it?
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: What are they going to gain? Who do you hope
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: listens take it away? I think it's kind of like
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: what you were saying about with your wife. You know,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: it's a way, It's a good way to gather information.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm a woman who's been married. I know what
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: it's like to work through a marriage, to then go
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: through divorce, to have children and date while having children,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: to date without having children before I had kids too,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm no expert on dating and
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: sex and intimacy, but I do have a lot of
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: experience in it, and as you know, a mom from
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: the middle of America who's thirty eight years old and
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: in the dating world. Again, I don't think that I'm
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: alone in that, you know description, but I do think
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I'm alone in the way that we just don't speak
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: about it openly enough. And so when people come to
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: my podcast, they're going to laugh, and they're gonna they're
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, my gosh, I can't believe she just
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: said that. They're going to put their kids to bed,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: and then they're gonna listen. And I think that what
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: I want is to just keep an open dialogue about
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: being comfortable within our sexuality, laughing at our sexuality and
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: sex and intimacy when it's appropriate, like making light of it,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: but also finding the how the sanctity in sex and
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: intimacy as well, and knowing that you can have all
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: of it. It's kind of just what are you looking
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: for and and um, how do you achieve that? So
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lot of fun guests on and
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of crazy dating stories, and if you listen
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to this episode out right now you're gonna find out
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: literally the dirty details about Mike and I. Yes, well
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: that's the best tease ever. All right, guys, to go
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and listen to it. It's intimate Knowledge. It's a new
• 58:56
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• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I can't thank you for doing this project. I have
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: listened to an episode yet I don't know where it's
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: gonna go, but I will say this here almost famous.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: We celebrate anybody that's willing to be vulnerable, authentic and
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: maybe cross the line a little bit to help other
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: people feel less alone. And no matter what, I bet
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: somebody's gonna listen to your podcast and say, hey, maybe
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not crazy, Maybe I'm not alone in this. Maybe
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: my desires or my ideas for marriage and sex and
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: intimacy have made me feel weird my whole life. And
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Megan's helping me feel less alone and that matters. Go
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: listen to it now, It Knowledge with Mean King. Thanks guys, Hey,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: shake shack, thank you. You're always coming through in the clutch.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: No matter where I'm at in live, no matter what
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I'm doing, it's all He's always filling me up, tasting
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: good and giving me the energy I need well at
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: festival this last weekend, shake check Fetis and I just
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: want to say personally, thank you for doing that. You
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: made so many people smile. It's time for bachelor headlines.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: First headline. We've been teasing it, well, you've been talking
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: about it. Bachelor's Peter Webber and Kelly Flannagan are full
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: on back together after sparking romance rumors. They're both happy this.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: According to US Weekly, still can't get over this. I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: still think it's hilariously awesome. I still think they have
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the most fiery, passionate relationship. But I can't believe. I
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: can't imagine what it's like buying closed doors and how
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: anybody can get back together after all the things they
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: study each other about each other in the public. But
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: it is Kelly and Peter, and they are back together fully.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: According to an insider, said that they were kindled the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: romance this summer and haven't spending a lot of time
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: together since they us been planning fun dates and they
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun together. Peter wants to be
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: in a serious, committed relationship and his feelings for Kelly
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: never went away. The source says they're both happy and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: looking forward to where things go this time around. I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: want to know what's going on with all this stuff
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: that was said after they broke up, Like what how
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: do you how do you get over that? I mean,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can, right course, nothing was like brutal,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: but like they know, like there was that insinuation that
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't a real man. Yeah, I wouldn't enjoy
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: being was crazy. But I wonder if they were always
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: in touch a little bit where it was like, really,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: did you really just say that? You know? I wonder
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: if I was ever like playful when they were saying
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: things like that to each other. I don't think so.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I think they really disliked each other because they loved
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: each other so much. SA fiery passion read like this
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: is a quick little headline here, uh that we don't
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: have to cover a lot of I just think it's
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: great lace. Morris wonders why she's not being pursued as
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: she fakes birthday attention on Paradise. This according to People, Well,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: so people got this exclusive clip, and now if you
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: want to talk more about what you know, how they
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: handled last night is basically these are just some funny
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: quotes from her because I feel hopeless in Paradise. Right now,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: I'm the prettiest I've ever been, Like, how am I
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: not being pursued? It blows my mind. I love what
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: I wish I had that confidence, Like you know, I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: guess nowadays it wouldn't do me much good. But back
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: in the day, when I was single in England, I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: wish I could walk into a bar and be like,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: how how is everybody in here not focused on me?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Like I'm feeling good? But I will admit that in
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: my stints in Paradise I have thought similar things. I'd
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: be like, I'm so confused. I'm fun, I feel really pretty,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: I look great. I don't know why nobody wants to
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: date me. I'm so confused. So this is just Lace
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: saying it, and I love her for saying it over too,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: for saying it is one of my favorites. I love
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: watching her. Uh. Jesse Palmer reveals which celebs he wants
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: to see on Bachelor. He wants to see Drake, which
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: is a total long shot, and then he says, Lindsey
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Vaughn is newly single. She heard that she was dating
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: p K seven, who don't do know who that is yeah. Um,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: but apparently it's just kind of like casual. He's met
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: her before. I thinks she's lovely, so he's like, yeah,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I have nothing serious with Lindsey von And that would
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: be a cool choice. It would be Lindsey Vonn will
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: be great. That girl, she's my She's my hero. How
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: many a c l surges she had? I only have three.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: I bet she has like five. That and she's still
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: functioning at a high level. Nutty, nutty, but awesome. That'd
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: be cool. Bachelor's Clayton Eckert and Susie Evans. This was
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: surprising to me split. It was when they came on
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: our podcast. I left it and I said, I feel
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: like she is such an important person in his life,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: like the way that he talked about her, Like Susie's
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: there to support me when I was done. I mean,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: maybe that's not a great signs. That felt kind of
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: one sided when they were on. But I'm surprised that
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: they split now. There was obviously some hints that things
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: were not going well in Paradise. You know, they were
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: moving separately after living together. Um yeah, I did did
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: post an ad like two days before the announcement of
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: the breakup, so somehow they were still working together get
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the money in. We'll post this first and then we
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: will split. I just knew that they had to work
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: too hard at that relationship too early on. Of course,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: they had big hurdles, you know, coming off this season. Uh,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: but I do believe that, like so many Batchelor couples
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: have overcome hurdles, and those are very overcome herble. But
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: I just want to I just like when they you're
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: interviewing them, but I'm not sure if you're here. The
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: second time we had them, but I was like, oh,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: these two, like everything is a struggle, like everyday, serious conversations,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: and when you're six months and you should just be
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: having a blast. Yeah, you should be having fun show.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: You should be having serious conversations, but you should also
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: be having a blast. It shouldn't be about the show
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: brings a different element, right it does, But they just
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: had to work so hard. Maybe this will be a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Peter and Kelly reunion at some point, wouldn't that be
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: fancy and fun? We can cover it right here on
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: almost Famous. But for right now, Clayton and Susie are done.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: They're moving forward, uh, in their own separate directions. Well, uh,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: let's I think it's gonna be be the final headline
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: maybe one or two here, but Haley reveals she lied
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: to Becca Tilly about her Bachelor Nation fandom. At first.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: This is so good, so cute. Okay, So Haley was
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: a huge Bachelor fan, but when she met Becca for
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the first time, she was like, oh, yeah, what season
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: are you from? And she very much knew what season's
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Becca was from, said that she was one of her
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: favorites all the year season and on Christmas season, but
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: she just tried to play cool like she wasn't a
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: big fan, and then later had to admit like, I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: totally lied to you and knew exactly wh were and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: I was always having fun watching you. Uh so they were.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: They were in Vegas as well. Very cute couple love
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: Becca Tilly. Haley is very sweet. Um, It's just a
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: cool little story to in in the day. On Well Ashley.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: We're back next week with another episode of the Almost
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Famous podcast, breaking down episode two of Bachelor in Paradise.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: But until then, I've been Ashley. See you guys. Followed
• 1:07:04
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