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Almost Famous In Depth: Cassie Randolph · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in depth
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  Speaker 1: Audrey's thank you so much for being here. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: it means the world to us. Anybody here from outside
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  Speaker 1: you're not here just for us? No they are. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's love birthday, thirtieth birthday. Happy birthday? Is it today? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, well, happy birthday. It means the world that
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  Speaker 1: you've chosen to celebrate with us. And how cool of
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  Speaker 1: a spot. How awesome is Audrey's is my first time here? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's really nice in here. Great coffee, so everybody who
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  Speaker 1: is If you don't know why Ben keeps joking about
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  Speaker 1: the coffee we serve his brand of coffee, Generous Coffee.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that a lot of our listening audience
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  Speaker 1: were very thankful for Audrey's were very thankful that Ashley
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  Speaker 1: thank you to them, Thank you this place, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for you, to you for coming in and getting coffee. So,
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  Speaker 1: in short, Generous is a for profit company. We call
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  Speaker 1: So here's what how Generous works. Everybody Uh in the
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  Speaker 1: facing human So she's right, every time you drink a
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, some percentage of that usually tend to
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  Speaker 1: fifteen percent is what we can give away. Uh, from
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  Speaker 1: each bag of coffee sold goes to nonprofits. Now you
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  Speaker 1: just to close here, you're like ten percent. That's a
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  Speaker 1: percent of profits. That's ten to fifteen percent of revenue. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: is mentioning. Our decaf is uh decaffeated through a sugarcamee process,
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  Speaker 1: so there's no chemicals at it. So if you're somebody
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  Speaker 1: who sensitive the chemicals, the decaf is really good for
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  Speaker 1: you, you you can get it here tonight. I see it
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  Speaker 1: up on there. But yeah, super pumped about it. Audreys
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  Speaker 1: has a really special place in my heart. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: thankful to be here. Been looking forward to this for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. We're gonna have a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: We have some incredible guests, as Ashley mentioned, so let's
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  Speaker 1: get started. All right, Well, let's get started with our
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  Speaker 1: interview with Cassie. Cassie, have you ever been on our podcast?
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  Speaker 1: I think a long time? Was it right after your finality?
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  Speaker 1: I think? So? Okay? Here though, and I love I
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  Speaker 1: love this place. Hi, everyone, she came far and wide
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  Speaker 1: to be here. We're so grateful. She flew from Huntington Beach,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just outside l A, to be here just
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  Speaker 1: for two nights. She loves Rhode Island, guys. I know
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  Speaker 1: everybody in Rhode Island loves to hear that somebody else
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  Speaker 1: loves to say. But it is hard not to love
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Ashley was my tour guide today. We took her.
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  Speaker 1: They got married. We took her on the Ashley Jared
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  Speaker 1: wedding tour. So she went to some of the mansions.
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  Speaker 1: We had lunch of Newports, all that real quick. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know how you know you're beautiful? Um, Cassie
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  Speaker 1: is a story from her flight yesterday. Cassie decides to
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  Speaker 1: leave her computer in her seat on the plane. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: walk off the plane. Okay, she's walking off the plane
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  Speaker 1: and she said it some angel walked up to her
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, weren't you sitting in seat? And she says,
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  Speaker 1: I was. He goes, they're calling for you left your
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  Speaker 1: computer on the plane. So if any of you ever
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  Speaker 1: have a stranger recognize what seat you're sitting on in
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  Speaker 1: a plane after you've gotten off the plane, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was an angel, you know, but you've got something
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  Speaker 1: going for you. It's never happened to me, but I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to the day Ben's humble. I'm sure something
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  Speaker 1: very similar has happened to him. Okay, So I also,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm telling everybody your truck. This
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  Speaker 1: girl came and she has two layovers tomorrow on the
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  Speaker 1: way home. Who's never had two layovers. Me, Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: because Ben travels every No one had two layovers. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember ever having two layovers. I've never had
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  Speaker 1: two layovers. Okay, okay, Well, Cassie, since you were lost
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  Speaker 1: on our show, it's a lot has happened in your life.
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  Speaker 1: You now have a boyfriend brighton of two years. How
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  Speaker 1: serious are things? It sounds pretty serious. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: feel like time is just flown in the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everyone through that too. But I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're serious. Do you think he's the one?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's such a big question to ask,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean I would I hope. So, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: think so. Do you think he's planning a proposal? I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you have to ask this because we were
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  Speaker 1: like on the Bachelor Life. Um, we have talked about proposals,
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  Speaker 1: We have talked about rings. Um. I don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to know, right, am I supposed to know? You
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  Speaker 1: can lots of different ways about this. I like the
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  Speaker 1: surprise proposal and not really knowing anything about the ring
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  Speaker 1: or the moment. But there's lots of couples. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know how that works. I feel like he
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  Speaker 1: wants me to be surprised. Do you want to be surprised?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about it. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of diamond do you want? A very big one? What's
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  Speaker 1: your favorite shape? See? This is what he keeps asking
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  Speaker 1: me that I don't know? Does? He asked her sister.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ben, I'm just taking over. That's fine. How
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  Speaker 1: do you decide to ring? I feel like it's such
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  Speaker 1: a big decision, you know. So he's like, what shape
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  Speaker 1: do you want? And I changed my mind? I always
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  Speaker 1: hit everybody changes her mind. Whatever you get, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: like for a bit and you'll love it for what
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  Speaker 1: it is. But then you're gonna be like, ah, I
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  Speaker 1: like that shape, like Changile. The style is always changing,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually your ring will go back into style. I'm fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know. When I was proposing to my wife, I
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  Speaker 1: asked her mom, so you just might want to give
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  Speaker 1: the hint. Like your friends and family do know, and
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  Speaker 1: they probably know you better than you know yourself. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to what you'll like, so I asked,
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  Speaker 1: term it is? It leads us to a great question.
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  Speaker 1: Though obviously we are at least two years removed from
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  Speaker 1: your time on the show, I would say and tell
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, please, But you're a more private person,
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  Speaker 1: Like you don't just love making headlines and being out
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  Speaker 1: in the spotlight. Uh, you enjoy your life in Huntington
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  Speaker 1: Beach and you enjoy the quietness of your life. Does
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  Speaker 1: the time on the show now feel like a distant
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  Speaker 1: memory to you? Do you feel like it was just
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  Speaker 1: a chapter in a season or does it still feel
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  Speaker 1: very relevant for the life you're living the day. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good question. I don't know. I feel so. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I took a step back from being like
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  Speaker 1: doing anything kind of for a while. So even being here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh the nerves being up yourself and I
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  Speaker 1: don't really leave my Huntington's bubble. I kind of just
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  Speaker 1: you know, walk everywhere I go. But I think with Bachelor,
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  Speaker 1: it'll always be a part are you know that we
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  Speaker 1: all know would always kind of be a part of
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  Speaker 1: who we are, And like I still love it, like
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  Speaker 1: I would still be associated or like go on the
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  Speaker 1: show and say hi to everyone and do little things
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  Speaker 1: here and there. For sure. I just think things that
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  Speaker 1: have happened over the last few years made me have
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  Speaker 1: to kind of take a step back from things. So
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of naturally happened. But I am a
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  Speaker 1: very private person. I never considered myself a private person
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  Speaker 1: until I see all you guys doing all these things,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, am I a private person? I guess
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  Speaker 1: I am. Well, how did a person like you, who
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit more like into being in their
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  Speaker 1: comfort zone go on The Bachelor? I don't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I did somebody sign you up? I love It's a
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  Speaker 1: really weird story and I've told it before. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But one day I woke up and I was like
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, and I had had this vivid dream I
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  Speaker 1: was on The Bachelor, and I was like, I had
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  Speaker 1: never really watched it before. I think your season Ben
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first Yeah, yeah, and then she's
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven now, um, but I like googled it and
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  Speaker 1: there was a casting call in my area, like ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes from my house, and I was like, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna like go, I don't know what this is about.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know how he got on the show
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  Speaker 1: how soon after the dream that day, So then I
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  Speaker 1: was what, it's really weird. But I didn't end up
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  Speaker 1: being like next season, and he was a lot older
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  Speaker 1: than me. And then it was Ari the next year
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  Speaker 1: and he was also a lot older than me. And
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  Speaker 1: then it just worked out. I don't know, I have
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  Speaker 1: to be single and went on the show. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I was very naive going into it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but so did you have a choice as to when
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  Speaker 1: you got to go on? So the first year they
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  Speaker 1: were like, we think you're too young. The second year,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, we definitely think you're too young for a
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  Speaker 1: right or ironically Nick is older than Ari, I think,
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  Speaker 1: or the exact Samey was just really young, like I
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  Speaker 1: was fresh out of college. Um. The next year when
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  Speaker 1: it was Ari, I thought it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be Dean actually, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, it's gonna be deep you um. But
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  Speaker 1: then they're like, Ari, do you want to go on?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I just feel like it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be genuine, you know. Uh So I said no.
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  Speaker 1: But then they came back. Well, one of the one
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  Speaker 1: of the things we never want to do on this
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  Speaker 1: podcast is put people a weird position. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to dance that line very carefully tonight. So if
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  Speaker 1: we can go back to then when you were told, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is the season you're going to go on, this
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  Speaker 1: is who the bachelor is going to be. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember being excited, uh, nervous. What were your emotions around it,
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  Speaker 1: and if you could even walk us into the first
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  Speaker 1: few weeks of the season, did you feel like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this could be something spectacular for me. His his name
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  Speaker 1: was Colton. That was the name of the bachelor. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say his name so she doesn't have to. Oh. No,
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  Speaker 1: I was really excited. I remember, like a week before
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  Speaker 1: I left, my brother and dad were at like this
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  Speaker 1: football game randomly, and they saw him from far away.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, my batch Cassie. Um. I was super excited.
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  Speaker 1: And the first few weeks, I mean, you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a whirlwind, Like you don't even know where
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  Speaker 1: you are half the time or what time of day
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  Speaker 1: it is. Um. But I mean I was just very hopeful.
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  Speaker 1: I think the entire time I remember your season. I
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  Speaker 1: remember watching it vividly, uh, and knowing that there. I
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  Speaker 1: guess most people in the audience probably that can remember
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  Speaker 1: that time. We're thinking Cassie is gonna be there. Towards
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  Speaker 1: the end, I remember even we're doing a podcast, and
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  Speaker 1: like she's either going to be the next Bachelor, she's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be there at the end of it. Obviously that
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  Speaker 1: relationship ended up continuing past the show, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask the question, uh, you know, then the headline started
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  Speaker 1: to come out and you found out that Colton came
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  Speaker 1: out as gay through these headlines? Correct, And I remember that, right?
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  Speaker 1: How does that make you feel at the time? Um?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a very loaded question because I
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  Speaker 1: I can't necessarily talk a lot about it. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy that he, you know, is at peace
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  Speaker 1: with himself, not carrying that burden anymore. Of course, it
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  Speaker 1: was a very just over all hard time for me.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like there's just one thing after another
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  Speaker 1: and I was just extremely overwhelmed just with everything going on.
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  Speaker 1: Um so, yeah, it was really hard. You were with
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  Speaker 1: your boyfriend at that time for over a year a
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  Speaker 1: year ish, right, Yeah? How did he support you through that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you try to not bring it up just because
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  Speaker 1: it was a past relationship we had been so me
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  Speaker 1: and Brian have been friends for like seven years now,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is the way to start a relationship. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: um so yeah, we were friends for a long time
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  Speaker 1: before we started dating like that last summer, um, kind
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  Speaker 1: of unofficially, but we still count it as like we
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  Speaker 1: were dating then. Um. And now he was very very
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  Speaker 1: supportive just through everything. He's never been weird. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he I think he's just very defensive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or protective or kind of makes me talk
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  Speaker 1: it out with him more than I would like to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Um, not in a bad way, in a
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  Speaker 1: good way. Um. But it's just it's been really helpful
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  Speaker 1: to have. I feel very lucky to have a good
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  Speaker 1: support system for sure. That's I mean, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: that's something to take note of too. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: when you're on this show, public things happen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: public breakups, uh, public marriages. Um, It's it's difficult, and
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the things that just to say
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  Speaker 1: there is kudos to him for being that strong support
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  Speaker 1: to you, because sometimes it does feel very lonely and
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  Speaker 1: it's confusing. And there's a thousand messages I remember talking
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  Speaker 1: about on the podcast as well. But when when Laura
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  Speaker 1: and I broke up, there was like a team Laura
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  Speaker 1: and a team then, and nobody knows the real story
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  Speaker 1: except us. That's the most annoying part. Yeah. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's all out there and you're reading stuff and people
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  Speaker 1: are publicizing stuff, but you're like, wait, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: anybody to hate her. I don't want anybody to hate me.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on, and so to have
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  Speaker 1: that is very special. Yeah, when a Colton did come
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  Speaker 1: out last year, did you did you hear rumblings that
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  Speaker 1: it was going to happen? Did it completely catch you
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  Speaker 1: off guard? Because I think even bet and I heard
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  Speaker 1: rumblings that it was about to happen a day or
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  Speaker 1: two before. I feel like people didn't talk to me
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  Speaker 1: about things because I was so in a sensitive, like
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  Speaker 1: fragile staying that I didn't hear anything. So I was
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  Speaker 1: just completely caught off guard. Well, and that brings us
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  Speaker 1: to today, obvious. So you're sitting here, You're back in public.
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  Speaker 1: You've been in public if you you know, people can
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  Speaker 1: see you in Huntington's Beach and wherever else you're traveling to.
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  Speaker 1: How are you holding up today today? I'm doing great,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine. She's Grid Payball Um, Well, like, tell us
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  Speaker 1: about your life today because you live with your boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: hunting beach and you're like nice little safe space with
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  Speaker 1: your cats, and um, we all knew that you were
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  Speaker 1: studying speech pathology when you were on the Bachelor and
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  Speaker 1: you graduated, and now how does how do you work
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  Speaker 1: with that in your day to day life? Yeah? So,
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  Speaker 1: I I don't know. Life is weird. Life just changes
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I feel like I've been in this zone.
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  Speaker 1: So I moved into my house like a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago, and I feel like ever since then,
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  Speaker 1: I've been like so settled, you know. So even coming here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, how I'm really out of my comfort zone again.
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  Speaker 1: But it's fun, Like I love doing these kind of things,
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  Speaker 1: but I also love being feeling so stable and settled
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  Speaker 1: at home, you know. Um. But back to speech therapy.
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  Speaker 1: So I do speech therapy part time in a clinic.
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  Speaker 1: I work from home. I do all my jobs from home,
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  Speaker 1: so I literally don't have to leave or like in
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  Speaker 1: an office at home via zoom. I have my own
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  Speaker 1: little office space at home. Um, and that I have
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  Speaker 1: been doing for a little over a year now. So
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  Speaker 1: it's very It's a lot of commitment. I've feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's only a few days a week, but it ends
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  Speaker 1: up taking over. I have a great story about this,
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  Speaker 1: and so I don't know if you remember this. My
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  Speaker 1: wife is a massive fan of Cassie. She just really
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  Speaker 1: enjoys her. And she's been able to be around just
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a few people from the Bachelor franchise since we've gotten married. Um,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of people that she's been able
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to meet. But we went to the same golf tournament together,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and uh, Jessica and Cassie were kind of it was
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: raining outside, I think that day, and so you're both like,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna stay in the clubhouse and hang out.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And my wife at that time was starting her business
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: as an esthetician, and so she was very nervous too
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to take too much time away from that. And you
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: were also in school at the time, and I remember
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: we walked into the clubhouse and both of you are
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: sitting in the corner on your computers, typing away. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: remember the conversation my wife and I had on the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: way home is how impressive it was that you were
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: going through school studying getting your masters, your master's in
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: speech pathology, while at the same time at the peak
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is during the peak of all the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: attention and all the Craze from the show. I think
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I remember again, I could be dreaming stuff. It's been
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a wild week that you've recently came out and said, hey,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that was a really hard time. Maybe you wouldn't have
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: gone and gotten your masters during that season of life.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Is that true? Yeah? I mean I stuck with it
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: because I had been pursuing it for so long, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it was this thing that I just had to You know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: once you have it, you have it and no one
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: can take it away from you. So I knew, no
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: matter what I would that would be something I could
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: always rely on. But at the same time, you know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: when you I had no idea what Bachelor was gonna bring.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: And it's crazy the opportunities that it does. Um. I mean,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like now everyone kind of expects that go
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: into it, but I had. I mean, I went so naive.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: But looking back sometimes I wonder should I have just
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: like taken hold of every opportunity instead of you know,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: sitting on my computer through at home and doing school work. Um.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you can't ever go back and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: do things differently, but it's just I question it sometimes.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But I love it as well, Like I would have
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: always finished it eventually. So I'm happy now looking back
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that it's that I didn't suck with it, because I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: find it very impressive, like incredibly impressive. And I only
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: meant to tell that story to show that you were
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: dedicated to this, you care about it, that yes, the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: show was swirling around you and and you still said, no,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this is my dream. I'm really weirdly enjoy it though.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: That's great. Like school though, like I enjoyed school have
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in common. I remember we were at like a makeup
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: event for like channel or something, and she was like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I have to go home because I have like homework
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that needs to be submitted by midnight. Yeah, it was
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: so awesome. I love that it was always my excuse
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to like stay home with a homebody. I like that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: as well. Mm hmm. Okay, So speech pathology, I like,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. Can you explain
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: what speech to pathology is? Yes? Okay? Now in this okay,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: so yes, man, I'm embarrassed now question. We have some
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: speech pathologists in the room. I'm like, do you guys
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: want to explain it? It's so hard. There's so many
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: things you can do with it, but essentially what it
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: is is just providing communication therapy in all different aspects
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of communication to any kind of person. So like you
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: can work with little kids, you can work with adults, Um,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you can work with like autism, you can work with
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: people who have dementia or have had a stroke. Um,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you can even I know there's speech therapists out there
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: who give voice lessons or um, like accent work in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the accent field, whatever you call it. But there's just
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: so much it's fun. Okay, So if a kid had
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a lisp, they would go to you too. Okay, all right,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that's that's a great clarification. I want to close out here, Cassie.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: We do love having you up here with us. We
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: have a big night in front of us. Um, there's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: obviously some contestants or one contestant I guess that's on
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Bachelor Paradise right now that we're gonna talk to in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: just a bit. Which leads me to my final question
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for you actually might have more. I don't know, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: if you didn't meet your boyfriend, if you never met
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: him then you were single. Would have Paradise ever been
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: something you considered to do? Well? Obviously I'm with Brian
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and I'm very happy. I feel like I was so awkward.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Are we gonna get married? I know, I like to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: come out with rapid fire, um and just let you know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: If you're dating for two weeks with him asked, you
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: would have asked you, are you guys gonna get married?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Like that's not like he's very excited about marriage. She
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: loves sharing a lot. Um. Yeah. I mean if we
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: weren't together, I of course would have been like, oh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that's fun. But you know, the contracts really heavy, so
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that would have scared me away for sure. Contracts. But wait,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I have one more question that I know it's like
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: maybe boring to like the masses, but I find it
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: very interesting. You basically flipped your house. Yeah, it's so
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: isn't the biggest job ever. It has been. It's been
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: so much more work than I thought. Like when I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: originally I bought my house, I was like, I'm gonna
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: d I y everything, I'm gonna do it in six months,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: three months, and then you know, you start doing that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and it just does not work out how you had planned.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: We moved. It's been so fun. Yeah, we've moved into
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: our house three months ago. I haven't even finished decorating.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: It's so exhausting. Yeah, it is, and I feel like
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I can't do anything else until the house is done,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: so I could never do a flip job. This is
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: where I thank you Brighton, thank you my dad, thank
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you my brother, because thankfully my family lives close so
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they can help. But I definitely will like invite, you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: my dad in landing over and be like, hey, are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you all three gonna be here at the same time,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: might as well get this project done. And they're like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: never go to Cassie's house again. Yep. Fred my father
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: in law, he's around here somewhere and he knows that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I do that to him all the time. So it's like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: why don't you get a reugh a game down here
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: because I could really use the help with like rugs. Anyway,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I just want to end with one question with you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of your entire past. I guess it's been four years,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: right since the beginning of your bachelor journey, doesn't what
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: has been the highlight? And I like one one specific moment,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: if like a growing learning about yourself thing? Um? Oh sorry,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's so hard. Sorry, I hate these questions. Um, guys,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I guess just the whole thing.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Is that a horrible answer, But I think it's just
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: been a really growing experience. Like you know, you're forced
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to come out of your comfort zone and do things
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you didn't ever realize it would be placed in front
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of you. Um. I feel like I've grown into myself
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a lot. I think if Bachelor never happened, I would
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: never be the person I am today. But it sounds corny,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but it's just so so true if you've been through
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and I guess that's the same for everyone going through anything.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But um, I feel like it's made me more decisive,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: more know what I want, and I think that's really
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: important because I struggled with that before a lot. That's beautiful. Well,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: two last things before we send Cassie off here, just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to give a little praise to your sister. Um, we
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: saw some headlines. She landed a massive role. Do we
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: have any Yellowstone fans in here? Where's your hand? Wow?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: You want me to say it? Okay? Um, okay, Yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of her. She got she booked nineteen three,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: which is the pre quill yellow Stone, which is that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you call it company, it's the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: next show after that. Yeah, yeah, so very excited for her.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: And if I if I'm not wrong, I'm a massive
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: fan of Yellowstone Harrison Ford, isn't that right? Yeah? And
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Mirn Yeah, Helen Mirren, isn't it Well, she's gone. I'm
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: so happy for like she's she deserves it. She's been
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: working so hard for like I don't know, five years,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: pursuing this every single day, So she deserves it more
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: than anyone I know. Um, but Montana did steal her
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: from me for like a year. She's filming right now,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so make sure you check out the next sequel to three,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: which Cassie's sister is gonna be in. We're telling the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: story last night, and it sounds like she's just worked
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: very hard for this opportunity, and so we want to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: celebrate her. Also, you're gonna meet Cassie and just a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: little bit, she's gonna be out there hanging out, wandering around.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Cassie is one of the sweetest, kindest souls you're ever
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: gonna meet. This took a lot for her to come
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: out here and sit with us. Uh, so hang out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great night. We still have Jill
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: coming up as she's not gonna be up here just
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: talking your heads off for a bit. You can hear
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: from us all night long. Um, but be very sweet
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to Cassie because she is one of the most special
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: people from this franchise. So thank you all. Cassie, thanks
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: for coming out. Followed the Benn and Ashley I Almost
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• 28:06
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