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Live from The Golden Wedding: Michelle Young and Jack Leius · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we are back for another almost famous podcast
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  Speaker 2: with me, Trista and I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: It's good.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: I was looking for these pictures. You know, we have
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  Speaker 5: this thing of pictures in front of us. And I
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  Speaker 5: said it last night. This is a very striking couple.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but Jack is one of those.
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  Speaker 5: Guys and I just want to see what his picture
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  Speaker 5: looked like on here. It would be hard for him
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  Speaker 5: to not look good. Like it's like you'd have to
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  Speaker 5: work at not looking good, where I would have to
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  Speaker 5: work to look good.
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  Speaker 3: That is not true. Every morning. I look, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I have to tell you a story today. First off,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for being here both of you.
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  Speaker 5: But unfortunately Jason Mesnik is no longer like here's right now.
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  Speaker 3: He had to go home early. So this is going
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  Speaker 3: to this story.
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  Speaker 5: I'm standing in line last night for my photo and
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking a picture and they're like, Jason smiled for
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  Speaker 5: the camera, and I was like, who's Jason, Like Jason's moileful?
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  Speaker 5: The camera was like you think I'm Jason Besnik, guy
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  Speaker 5: twelve years older than me and six inches shoulder shoulder,
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  Speaker 5: A guy that.
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  Speaker 3: Was The Bachelor when I was eighteen years old. Anyway, Hey, thanks,
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  Speaker 3: thanks again for coming.
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  Speaker 6: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I commented on Jack's eyelashes the first night.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, beautiful, Wow, your eyelashes here.
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  Speaker 7: And to go off what you're saying, Ben waking up
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  Speaker 7: next to him? Are you he looks like this twenty
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  Speaker 7: four to seven, Like it's like a beautiful thing, and
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  Speaker 7: it's like, goddamn, I.
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  Speaker 6: Really got to do like my skincare routine the night before.
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  Speaker 3: You know, creation.
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  Speaker 6: Michelle's the cat. Michelle is the catch, and that is
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  Speaker 6: who you meet. Love it.
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  Speaker 8: So she has a good friend and her friend has
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  Speaker 8: a little brother who I know, and her friend's little
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  Speaker 8: brother posta Michelle in his story and so I kind
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  Speaker 8: of just hit him up a couple of times, like
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  Speaker 8: hey man, when you get introduced me to Michelle and
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  Speaker 8: then so we were texting, We started texting about it,
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  Speaker 8: and then hit them up this one night and I
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  Speaker 8: was like being really serious, like man, I'm really serious,
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  Speaker 8: Like I don't think you're taking me seriously, Like I
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  Speaker 8: really want to meet Michelle, like you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 8: Like not like anything crazy, but I was like I
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  Speaker 8: was joking, and I was like, man, I really want
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  Speaker 8: to meet her, like she's beautiful, and he was like,
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  Speaker 8: you know what, Actually, I think that'd be a good thing.
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  Speaker 8: I think you guys would be like really cool and
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  Speaker 8: like vibe together. And so the next night I met her.
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  Speaker 6: But here's the catch though.
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  Speaker 7: Here's the catch is that I had no idea any
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  Speaker 7: of this was going on. And so I was with
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  Speaker 7: said little brother and my friend and we were just
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  Speaker 7: talking and we happened to like talk about being single,
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  Speaker 7: and I said, I have no idea how I'm supposed
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  Speaker 7: to meet anyone in Minnesota, Like my person is definitely
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  Speaker 7: not in Minnesota at this point, Like I gotta fly,
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  Speaker 7: I gotta start traveling more because it's they're.
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  Speaker 3: Not on the apps.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I can like apps making me feel like I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to be single forever. And so I asked, like,
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  Speaker 7: do you have any single friends, thinking that I knew
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  Speaker 7: all of his friends, and he's like, actually, have I
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  Speaker 7: ever talked you about Jack?
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  Speaker 6: I'm Acou's Jack. And so he pulled up his Instagram profile.
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  Speaker 7: Love the fact there were only five pictures, because I
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  Speaker 7: myself got on Instagram only a few years ago and
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  Speaker 7: I was he's really cute, and I actually started to blush,
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  Speaker 7: and when my other friends called me out on it,
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, I don't know why I'm bussing right now.
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  Speaker 7: So the whole table we're sitting at like a Vikings
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  Speaker 7: boot camp practice this event, and we're sitting there and
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  Speaker 7: everyone's like, ah, like all this different stuff, and I
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  Speaker 7: was like, well, he's a good person, Like he's good looking,
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  Speaker 7: but like, is he a good person?
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  Speaker 3: Let's start go, Let's go for that, right.
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  Speaker 6: What's the catch?
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  Speaker 7: What's wrong with him? I think he's what I asked.
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  Speaker 7: He's like, no, I can't believe I hadn't introduced you.
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  Speaker 7: So in my world I thought I brought it up
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  Speaker 7: to this this person, and then he also did the
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  Speaker 7: same thing.
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  Speaker 2: It was like within like forty stars, I thought you
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  Speaker 2: were saying that someone said to you he's interested.
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  Speaker 6: In I happened to ask.
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  Speaker 7: I happened to ask, and he slid it in so smoothly.
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  Speaker 7: And I didn't know until we had been dating for
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  Speaker 7: like two three weeks when we actually figured out that
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  Speaker 7: we had asked about each other within like forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 6: However it happened, it was really weird.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, So the day that she saw my like my
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  Speaker 8: profile when she was at the Vikings practice. We met
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  Speaker 8: that night and so yeah, correct, then I think we
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  Speaker 8: spent the next four days together and then we were
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  Speaker 8: just done.
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  Speaker 6: We were dating by Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Do you live near each other? Like, could you have
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  Speaker 2: ever crossed paths?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 7: Have you heard about this the whole like invisible string
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  Speaker 7: theory where a lot of times you're soulmate or the
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  Speaker 7: person you end up with, you've been in the same
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  Speaker 7: room multiple times, like you never but you have never
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  Speaker 7: met up to that point. So we went through breakups
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  Speaker 7: at the exact same time, like we both are going
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  Speaker 7: through devastating breakups. We were both in the same stage
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  Speaker 7: of our breakups as we were going through, like not
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  Speaker 7: ready to meet somebody, thinking we're ready to meet somebody,
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  Speaker 7: and then those few steps back and we had gone
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  Speaker 7: like we go to all the same bars. Minnesota's not
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  Speaker 7: that big.
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  Speaker 3: The lake he grew up on.
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  Speaker 7: My family fishes on that lake twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 7: So we're just in all these different areas. I went
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  Speaker 7: to a football game that he was playing at and
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  Speaker 7: hadn't even known back when I was like a teacher.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, so all these weird situations.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I didn't grow up on a lake. The
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  Speaker 6: lake was like down the street.
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  Speaker 4: From friends were up playing there.
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  Speaker 6: We played there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't have a boat. No, but yeah, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 8: crazy that is. That's a beautiful story of the two
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  Speaker 8: of you together. It's been really fun to watch the
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  Speaker 8: two of you. And obviously Jack, I was telling you
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  Speaker 8: last night. You know my wife came to a bachelor event.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh jeez. It was Paradise wedding years ago for
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  Speaker 3: my first time. And she has a lot of fun
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  Speaker 3: at this stuff. She's got to know some of the
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  Speaker 3: girls and really enjoys that part. But this isn't her thing.
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  Speaker 5: Like she just kind of comes in, feels a little
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  Speaker 5: intimidated at times, getting better at that, and sits back
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  Speaker 5: and watches this whole madness go down. Uh, this was
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  Speaker 5: your first like bachelor of.
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  Speaker 3: Would you what did you think? Like, what's your takeaway?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 5: When you guys wake up or when you start traveling
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  Speaker 5: back home, you can be like, this was great, this
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  Speaker 5: was awful. I never want to do this again, all
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  Speaker 5: these things alone from the rest of your life. Just
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  Speaker 5: break it down kind of your experience.
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  Speaker 8: Last, absolutely, I think well, for I think Michelle kind
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  Speaker 8: of prepared me pretty well for this. But like overall,
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  Speaker 8: I think it was like it went really smooth. I
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  Speaker 8: mean I didn't have any like it was really fun
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  Speaker 8: you know, and it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good vibe.
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  Speaker 8: It was definitely different, like being around all the cameras
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  Speaker 8: and like you know, like the TV commercial processes like
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  Speaker 8: during the I was like very unnatural. But overall, no
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  Speaker 8: great experience. Would would definitely do it again as long
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  Speaker 8: as I'm with her. I don't think I could do
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  Speaker 8: this by myself. You know, I'd be a little I'd
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  Speaker 8: be a little overwhelmed. Man, I'm sure you're a little overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 8: Uh but yeah, no, it was it was great. She's
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  Speaker 8: of me the ropes and yeah it was. It was
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  Speaker 8: a good time.
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  Speaker 6: I met a lot of great people and I had
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  Speaker 6: some good conversations.
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  Speaker 4: So was it what you expected or was it different?
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  Speaker 8: I think it was a little different. I was thinking
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  Speaker 8: more like I felt like more was gonna like, man,
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  Speaker 8: this was gonna go down. I don't know, I feel it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I felt, But yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I do understand that though it was like control chaos.
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  Speaker 5: Christian and I were just talking this morning. You kind
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  Speaker 5: of get used to the control chaos, like somebody got
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  Speaker 5: engaged at a wedding last night, and like that's crazy,
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  Speaker 5: you know that's crazy. Yeah, beautiful for them. We hope
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  Speaker 5: they're so happy, Like that doesn't happen anywhere else.
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  Speaker 7: And it's also there's so many different parts of the
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  Speaker 7: wedding so be like we were at the Golden Wedding lesson.
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  Speaker 7: We were literally physically in that space and we heard
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  Speaker 7: everybody cheer.
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  Speaker 6: We were over here doing press, so we.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't find out even they got engaged on the internet.
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  Speaker 7: Like I'm literally texted Rachel'm like look or I showed her.
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, look at this rumor and She's like that happened, Michelle,
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  Speaker 7: And I'm like when she's like, everyone's cheering, we had
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  Speaker 7: just stepped away to do pressure to talk to somebody.
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  Speaker 7: So there's this whole so yeah, congratulations.
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  Speaker 6: I had no idea. I learned from the internet. I
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  Speaker 6: was at the wedding.
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  Speaker 8: We were just laying down last night and I was
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  Speaker 8: on like the Golden Bash for like Instagram page.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, man, somebody got engaged.
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  Speaker 4: Last night, Like why didn't they say anything?
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  Speaker 6: Because we just like we just hugged the bat them
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  Speaker 6: like they didn't say anything. Maybe they just assumed that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Congratulation.
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  Speaker 4: What was your favorite moment, Oh, the favorite moment is
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  Speaker 4: probably watching just Gary responded to Teresa walked on the aisle,
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  Speaker 4: and just like the family aspect of the stories being
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  Speaker 4: told to like the small moments, you know, right after
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  Speaker 4: the vows, just because you could really feel.
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  Speaker 7: The connection between them two and you could really feel
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  Speaker 7: the connection between the family and what they've seen and
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  Speaker 7: how they've watched the love grows, and so I felt
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  Speaker 7: like that was like the really human part of it,
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  Speaker 7: Like it was all human.
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  Speaker 4: It's all so many beautiful feelings.
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  Speaker 6: But it was really cool and I got a little emotional. No,
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  Speaker 6: it was it was.
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  Speaker 8: It was definitely authentic, Like you could see it in
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  Speaker 8: like Gary Intese's eyes.
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  Speaker 6: So you can't fake it.
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  Speaker 8: You can't fake it, all right, you can't fake it.
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  Speaker 8: You can't fake it. So it was definitely fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: I really liked.
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  Speaker 6: I enjoyed. I enjoyed the wedding.
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  Speaker 3: So I get emotional. You always to give.
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  Speaker 2: Me saying right behind me and he's like I heard
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  Speaker 2: him go, wells that got me.
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  Speaker 3: Will's brought me a hanky. He did, so I said
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  Speaker 3: that to you give me his hanky. It was when.
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  Speaker 5: I was just like sitting there looking at Gary and thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: what a crazy situation. He's just been in for last
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  Speaker 5: year his life. He's in his seventies, he's now national television.
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  Speaker 5: His picture has been everywhere. He's been celebrated, he's been criticized,
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  Speaker 5: which you know, we can all relate with that process
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  Speaker 5: of like feeling hate and then feeling love and feeling
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  Speaker 5: hate again.
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  Speaker 3: It's very weird.
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  Speaker 5: And it was when his daughter stood up and said, like,
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  Speaker 5: people know you as like the Golden Batch, but we
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  Speaker 5: call you dad. And you can see this like, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a parent, right I don't you have kids, Trista,
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  Speaker 5: Like those moments where your kids validate who you are
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  Speaker 5: to them. I can't imagine that feeling, especially after the pressures.
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  Speaker 3: I know that he is just experienced.
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  Speaker 6: True story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I just shared with you earlier that
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  Speaker 2: so Blakesley, who you met last night or this weekend
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. She's fourteen and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago, were hanging out in her room and she
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  Speaker 2: turned to me and she said, Mom, you're my favorite
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  Speaker 2: of all of my friends, and I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my heart, I don't need any more in life.
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  Speaker 6: Like literally watch kicking.
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  Speaker 8: Its just.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, you know, seeing the daughters. Yes, I get
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  Speaker 2: choked up with that kind of stuff. It is.
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  Speaker 3: It was so special. Well the two of you, thanks
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  Speaker 3: so much for stopping him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great to see both, absolutely stunning, beautiful a
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  Speaker 5: being great to meet you this weekend. I hope it
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  Speaker 5: was super fun. That if you you know, when you
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  Speaker 5: come back to these events that maybe it's just like
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  Speaker 5: less you know, confusing. You're just like know, these people
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  Speaker 5: are just normal people trying their best to to do
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  Speaker 5: weird stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I kind of hope that you feel welcome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I want to make sure that any
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  Speaker 2: spouses or people who aren't connected to the show always
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  Speaker 2: feel like we are welcoming, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 8: No, that's one thing I actually told the Michelle when
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  Speaker 8: we got back last night, Like I was just like
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  Speaker 8: everybody was so nice and like it took the time
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  Speaker 8: to have a conversation with me, so it was super nice.
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  Speaker 6: It is like such a big yeah. Then really you
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  Speaker 6: know between between.
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  Speaker 8: Between me, like how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I was feeling I was feeling that floor last night.
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  Speaker 3: The band was so good.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like my knees this morning.
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  Speaker 2: My life, my head due.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, we'll be back. Some other great interviews
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  Speaker 5: to come. But seriously, Jack and Michelle, thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, I appreciate you. Guys.
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