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Almost Famous OG: Bachelorette NO MORE with Jillian Harris PART TWO · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hey everybody,
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  Speaker 1: it's Trista and Bob with the almost famous OG's And
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  Speaker 1: we were having so much fun with Gillian Harris that
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to chat some more. So let's dive back in. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so tell us about the wedding. You're getting married this
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  Speaker 1: year and it's going to be in Europe. We know
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  Speaker 1: you just had your bachelorette party, beautiful pictures from that.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about it, or at least what you want
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  Speaker 1: to tell.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's actually not in Europe anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's not in Europe anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I told People Magazine it was in Europe because I
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  Speaker 2: really thought it was going to be, but we actually
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  Speaker 2: had booked everything in Italy. I was We've literally planned
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  Speaker 2: the wedding four times and we decided that we were
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  Speaker 2: this summer because we love Italy, and I really struggled
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  Speaker 2: with the guest list, and I was like, this is great,
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it in Italy. Keep it small. But my
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  Speaker 2: mom health has not been great over the years. My
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  Speaker 2: mom really struggles with bipolar. She's been really really good
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  Speaker 2: for the last year and a half or so, so like,
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  Speaker 2: thank the Lord, but if she were ever to relapse,
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  Speaker 2: then she wouldn't be able to come, and then my
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  Speaker 2: dad wouldn't come, and I just could not risk that.
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  Speaker 2: So last minute I canceled that wedding again for like
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  Speaker 2: the third or fourth time. And now our wedding is
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  Speaker 2: here in Kelowna, and actually, believe it or not, I
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  Speaker 2: was also convinced to make it. It's like a five
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  Speaker 2: day wedding. So we're actually getting married at a church first,
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  Speaker 2: which if you see news reports of a church going
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  Speaker 2: down in flames on August verbs, it will be because
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  Speaker 2: of me. Lots of candles, you guys, Okay, for anybody
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  Speaker 2: that knows me, you will be shocked. I spent the
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  Speaker 2: entire weekend going through and picking all of my prayers,
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  Speaker 2: picking all of my oh like read I have, like
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  Speaker 2: I want to customize it. So like, no, I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: this very seriously. So we're married on at our church.
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  Speaker 2: And it was the same church that Justin's parents got
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  Speaker 2: married at, so that's really beautiful. And it's the same
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  Speaker 2: church that the kids, our kids go to Catholic school.
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  Speaker 2: This is a whole other thing, but it's the same
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  Speaker 2: church that they go to for their Mass every Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: So anyways, that's happening, and then we're having a big
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  Speaker 2: Italian themed rehearsal dinner here at the house afterwards. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very excited about that, just aesthetically, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: really really fun and not like everybody expectually inherits to
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  Speaker 2: have like whites and pinks and whatnot. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be like like so much color, like your background, like
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  Speaker 2: so so much color.
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  Speaker 3: And then color.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then on the weekend we're getting married at
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  Speaker 2: our farm and it's just like it's a flower there's
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  Speaker 2: flowers everywhere, lots of color. Brides get to wear whatever
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  Speaker 2: they want, bouncy castle for the kids. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: all the good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That's so I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You and Justin have always been such a wonderful couple.
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  Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So you waited this long and you're gonna have two
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  Speaker 1: weddings not just fun too.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're having a party the next day. We're
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  Speaker 2: going a Ukrainian themed party because I'm Ukrainian and it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be on our doc and I have I hired
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  Speaker 2: this lady. She's a Ukrainian refuge refugee. She came over
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  Speaker 2: right during the war, and she has this company and
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  Speaker 2: she makes parogis in the mall, like you know when
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  Speaker 2: you go to the mall and they make like cinnamon
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  Speaker 2: buns in front of you and you can. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: like this, but pogis so so we're doing like a
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  Speaker 2: big parogy bar and Caesar's and everything like that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a it's a full on freakin' Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's so awesome. I love it. You're getting you're getting
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  Speaker 5: all those all those security deposits back from all those years.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't even know none of those
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  Speaker 2: vendors are even still in business.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to start from scratch. But that's okay whatever,
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  Speaker 2: that's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have done it on your own, even I don't
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  Speaker 1: put that past you.
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  Speaker 3: You could have done it on your own.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's amazing. I cannot wait to see pictures
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  Speaker 1: and video and.
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  Speaker 3: All the things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How are the kids feeling about a big wedding or two?
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  Speaker 2: They're excited. I don't think they have any idea what's
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  Speaker 2: what's going on? But Annie's got her dress is the
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  Speaker 2: exact replica of mine. But baby Blue, I love it. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so she's super excited about that there's a woman in town.
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  Speaker 2: So the dress is all like locally made, Canadian owned,
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, and Leo's they've all got
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  Speaker 2: like several outfit changes and whatnot. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of kids. Like, there's gonna be I think, like forty
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  Speaker 2: kids at the wedding.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a bit chaotic. I'm a bit concerned,
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  Speaker 2: like we have dedicated babysitters and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's gonna be crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That is so unbelievable. Yeah, wait, so can I ask
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  Speaker 4: so the kids her been like do they even know
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  Speaker 4: that you weren't married legally technically?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Annie barely calls me mom. She calls me Jillian Harris
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  Speaker 2: she does. And everything around our house has like Jillybox Jillian,
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  Speaker 2: like the Jillian are Like if we meet somebody, she'll
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  Speaker 2: be like, oh is that from the Jilly Are they
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  Speaker 2: from the Jillibox or is that Like our kids are
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  Speaker 2: really into our business.
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  Speaker 5: Like oh my gosh, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And there too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted they really want me to change my
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  Speaker 2: last name, which I said I would, but not my stage.
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  Speaker 4: Name, right, you got stage name function. Yeah, that's why
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  Speaker 4: Canyon is Canyon. She she she kept Canyon. That was
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  Speaker 4: her maiden name. I just call her Canyon. So she's
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  Speaker 4: Canyon Guiney to everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, but yeah, they know that we're not married.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's disgusted. It is.
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  Speaker 4: So I need to tell you this, Jillian, because what
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  Speaker 4: you just said made me laugh so hard. My son, Grayson,
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  Speaker 4: who's six his he will be and it interests her
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  Speaker 4: to me tell the story a million times, but it happens.
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  Speaker 5: This kind of thing happens all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Like people will come over and he'll go, oh, is
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  Speaker 4: that one of your old girl friends And I'm like, what, No,
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  Speaker 4: that's your mom's friend.
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  Speaker 5: Oh sorry, bachelor Bob.
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  Speaker 4: And like literally he'll say, we'll be like we'll be
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  Speaker 4: at McDonald's at the playland and I'll order them like
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  Speaker 4: milkshakes and French fries, and a fourteen year old girl
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  Speaker 4: will be delivering the and.
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  Speaker 5: He'll go, yep, that's him. He'll be of from the plateland. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he'll take a picture with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: You'll go ahead, bat you Bob, take a picture with him.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like she's fourteen. Bro, she doesn't know why stop?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it drives me crazy, you know, but it's
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  Speaker 4: like he does that all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: We need to get them together, they need to hang out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, the kids definitely have no problem Ris
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  Speaker 2: and me and us, and they're like, Annie will be like,
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  Speaker 2: actually in Harris, I'm the boss with everyone.
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  Speaker 5: You're like, okay, honey, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Room. You know, if you were a normal employee, you'd
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  Speaker 5: be paid.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't get paid to day, but I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 4: you have the day.
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  Speaker 3: And there for seven and nine.
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  Speaker 2: So Leo's turning nine August fifth, and Annie tre then
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  Speaker 2: at the end of September.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I just feel like Grayson and Annie.
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  Speaker 4: Grayson and Annie might be the same person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we honestly, and if we do, we should do
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  Speaker 2: a bachelor union with everybody kids while kids and you
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  Speaker 2: can have bounty castles, water slides, we could do challenges
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  Speaker 2: for the kids like we can. You'd be so wholesome,
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  Speaker 2: so much fun.
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  Speaker 5: That would be awesome, dude, like a little bachelor pad.
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  Speaker 1: Max and Blakesley can babysit. Max Yes, turning eighteen on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, that's unbelievable. Trista, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's drinking age in Canada.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Well hopefully, well, good thing he's not in Canada. No,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding, he he. I don't think he's really
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  Speaker 3: interested in it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm his mom, so he probably hides.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's really interested in like working out and taking care
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  Speaker 1: of his body. So hopefully he's not take.
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  Speaker 2: After his parents.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah he does.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about me, but thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Meanwhile, the Guinea Boys are doing jaeger bombs.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all about bance.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, healthy balance, that's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I do have one question related to the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like in society there is definitely this like
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  Speaker 1: pressure to do things in a certain order, in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, and before maybe you're forty years old, how
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about that societal pressure? Obviously it's not
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  Speaker 1: something that you worry too much about because you know
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  Speaker 1: you're you're doing things your own way, which I think
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  Speaker 1: so many kudos to you, But how how has that
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  Speaker 1: impacted the decision to wait and how.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about that societal norm.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I I always joke that you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: like take me down to the aisle and depends like
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  Speaker 2: I've waited for it. But yeah, I mean at this rate,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Justin and I are kind of already married. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like to be honest, like, it's not that I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to marry him. I love him, work together, we're
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  Speaker 2: good partners. But I'm a little European that way. That
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  Speaker 2: I also because I'm an only child, I I'm so independent.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I don't know if I want to, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I like being my own person. Like you read the
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  Speaker 2: things that they tell you in this book here, it's
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  Speaker 2: like says like you become one flesh, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Not sure I feel about literally.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm I'm not even kidding you. There's one excerpt
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  Speaker 2: I got to bring this up and it says literally
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  Speaker 2: Lord is blessed with the Silent White or something like this,
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  Speaker 2: and I sent it to our wedding party. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: do you guys see what I'm having to deal with
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  Speaker 2: right now? So I don't really care about my age.
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  Speaker 2: I think when I started to care about my age
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  Speaker 2: is when I couldn't find that person I started that
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't going to happen for me, and I just
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  Speaker 2: even though being a parent and being in a relationship
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  Speaker 2: is the hardest thing in the whole world. It is
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  Speaker 2: so hard. I'm so happy that I'm in it. But
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  Speaker 2: at one point, right before I met Justin, I was
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  Speaker 2: really loving my life and I was like I could
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  Speaker 2: actually get used to this.
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  Speaker 5: Like I was.
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  Speaker 2: Traveling all over the world, I dated whoever I wanted,
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  Speaker 2: I did whatever I wanted. I was fit, Like I
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know what, I may not want to
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  Speaker 2: do this like relationship kid thing, but having kids was
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  Speaker 2: so important to me, and so yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 2: really really stressed about the timeline of things around the
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  Speaker 2: time I met Justin, Like I was wondering, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be thirty four. I think it was thirty
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  Speaker 2: two or thirty four, and everybody was on their second
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  Speaker 2: marriages for Pete's sakes. So but now where I'm at
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  Speaker 2: right now, I just don't feel like I'm forty five.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't feel that I'm old.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you're not.
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  Speaker 5: I feel forty five is not old. I'm at least
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  Speaker 5: compared to us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: At least compared to me. I'm the old one, twisted,
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  Speaker 5: just the I only think she's even fifty, Yet she
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  Speaker 5: keeps saying that she.
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  Speaker 3: Had her birth dap it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: I love that we are gorgeous for our a You
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  Speaker 2: too are a couple of stars.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Bob, you.
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  Speaker 3: Too were alling on you too?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't, I don't care. And also, like, I
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  Speaker 2: believe that people can get married, remarried, they can go
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  Speaker 2: on to have five marriages. I think you can have
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  Speaker 2: a marriage, you can have babies on your own, you
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  Speaker 2: can get married. Like I think that there's no rules.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's rules that get us into trouble mentally.
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  Speaker 2: I think that ultimately you need to be happy and
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  Speaker 2: do what makes you happy and sets you free, and
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  Speaker 2: that is so important. I think you still have to
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  Speaker 2: work in a relationship. I think there are still challenges
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  Speaker 2: in relationship, but life just doesn't always Who made up
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  Speaker 2: the rules that it had to go that way anyways?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was this. I think I think I
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  Speaker 2: might have been this.
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  Speaker 5: I think I might have been this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I think so, maybe, I think so.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think it has to be that way,
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  Speaker 2: and our father, father Maurice. I've had quite a few
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  Speaker 2: conversations with him and he gets a kick out of
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  Speaker 2: me because we have to do this course right, and
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  Speaker 2: then you have to do reflections in the course, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, how did you feel? I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this for thirteen years. Like they ask like,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to take care of the children, Who's going
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  Speaker 2: to take out the trash? I'm like, Justin and I
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  Speaker 2: have already thought about this extensively for the last thirteen years,
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  Speaker 2: which is why after thirteen years we are now getting married,
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  Speaker 2: because we've actually worked all this stuff out right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got there.
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  Speaker 2: We're We're good now.
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  Speaker 4: I love seeing videos of Justin, like you know, back there,
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  Speaker 4: like surfing with the kids on the water and doing
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  Speaker 4: all the fun stuff. And he's such a great athlete,
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  Speaker 4: man is he is? He still do all that cool stuff,
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  Speaker 4: all the all the sponsored stuff he used to do.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: He so he his main job is still Instagram and
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  Speaker 2: he has a pretty good going at that. He's very
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  Speaker 2: lucrative with with his partnerships and whatnot, which is awesome
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  Speaker 2: and he loves it. So his main things are like golf,
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  Speaker 2: the farm, anything, yard, travel, and then the kids and
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  Speaker 2: he actually like quite a bit of stuff in the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen and whatnot in some fashion, So like don't like
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  Speaker 2: totally lifestyle like dad dad lifestyle. Sure, yeah, but it
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  Speaker 2: keeps them mostly busy. Is our farm. Our fam is
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  Speaker 2: like a full time job. So we have eleven acres
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  Speaker 2: and right now it's a flower farm, but we ordered
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  Speaker 2: five hundred oak trees and when those go in, next
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  Speaker 2: string will be we'll have a trouble farm.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: And then we I think are going to rent out
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  Speaker 2: our property for weddings.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, that kind of shocked you haven't done that
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  Speaker 4: already with the weddings.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because we are fire here, so farm right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the farm burnt down, the barn burnt down, and then
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  Speaker 2: it's taken us a long time to like rebuild and
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  Speaker 2: replant and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: are you in.
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  Speaker 5: La Bomberno, No, I'm in Michigan. Are you to move
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  Speaker 5: back home? No?
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  Speaker 4: No, we got lucky from that perspective, but yeah, there's
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  Speaker 4: but we've often talked about the Canyon's dream is to
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  Speaker 4: have a farm and make it like a wedding farm
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  Speaker 4: because there was a couple in Seattle that we loved
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  Speaker 4: when we lived there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so the parks, I'm super busy. It's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a money taker from us, not really a money maker.
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  Speaker 2: But he loves he loves his Instagram. He does these
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  Speaker 2: like sandwich reviews and like he just loves being on there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's his thing. But sports wise, right at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of COVID, he we went to the island and
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  Speaker 2: he was showing teaching Leo how to skateboard and he
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  Speaker 2: shattered his ankle. Oh no, because it was COVID. They
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  Speaker 2: did job putting it back together. Yeah, reoperated on twice.
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  Speaker 2: And he has like chronic chronic pain, like to the
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  Speaker 2: point that it's I can see that it's it's really
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  Speaker 2: affecting his his space as a person. Like, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: such chronic pain, and he's like he's all about like
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  Speaker 2: no GMOs, no advil, no no pills, no like no medicine,
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  Speaker 2: and so like he just he just lives with this pain.
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  Speaker 2: But November fourth, he's getting a full ankle replacement.
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  Speaker 5: My brother in law just got that.
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  Speaker 2: What.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have.
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  Speaker 2: To tak out to Justin and let him know because
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  Speaker 2: he's nervous.
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  Speaker 4: I will, Yeah, you know what, I'll connect them and
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  Speaker 4: they can talk about it. Because my brother in law,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Jad just did one and he's getting ready to do
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: the other one next year.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Why why did he have to get his ankles replaced?
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Well, he so he just had this kind of weird
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: degenerative bone condition that started coming on. But he was
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: he played sports in college and stuff and had blown
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: out his ankle like twenty times, and then all of
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: a sudden it became a thing where like we'd be
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: playing golf and we'd look I'd look over at him
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: and it was like he had like a weird appendage
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: where his foot should be, and like, what is going
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: on with you?
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: He couldn't climb out of bunkers?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: She like yes, Like sometimes Justin will get out of
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: bed and he's literally limping like he's been shot, like
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and tell him angle gets warmed up. It's so sad.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what my brother went through too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I broke my ankle during COVID.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Do you remember when we did that like the Roses,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Like we passed the Roses and did that little video
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And I was in a boot during then and had
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: my ankle worked on and.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I have this. I don't.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it chronic pain, but you're right, like
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: when I get out of bed, I have to limp
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: to the bathroom in the mornings, and it is and
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I still don't have feeling. Tell us about the children's book,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: like a cute little children's book.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: This was Justin's idea, and how it actually started was
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: we wanted to write a book. I think there should
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: be a movie about Nacho, but anyways, we wanted to
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: about Nacho from like Reichs to Riches, how he like
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: came from Mexico and he just about died and then
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: he liked, do you know that Nacho had his own
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: like billboard in Times Square? He was, Yes, he was
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: featured on the Ellen Show like this dog went viral
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: on Instagram all the time, and so we wanted to
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: write a book about him. But for some reason our
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: public didn't like that idea. I don't know why, but
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to continue to hit them up for it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So then they were like, well, we do want to
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: do a children's book with you though, but not that,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, that was our idea, Like I
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: don't know, like so then then Justin and I chatted
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and we're like, you know, what would be interesting is
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: like people look at our life and like, yes, you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I still acknowledge the amount of privilege that we have
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: in our life. We're both mostly able bodied. We live
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: in such a safe place, like there are so many great,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: great things that we have to be grateful for. But
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: but even if you could took somebody else like exactly
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: like us, people look at us and think like, oh,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: they're so perfect their Instagram life and all this stuff,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: But behind the scenes, it's chill, like like like on Friday,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I just bo called off the whole wedding because Justin
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: put its fucking dirty tuna dish in with my clean
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: dishes at six in the morning when I'm trying to
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: we're trying to get we're leaving this condo that we rented,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to leave it in decent shape. It's
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: six in the morning. I'm trying to get out of there.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I have wedding meetings back in Colonna, have like an
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: hour and a half drive. There's a clearly a dirty
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: side and a clean side. And he was just speaking
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: dirty tunic, and so all I said was all I said,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: was all I said was okay, and I took the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: dirty tunis and he's you don't have to be so rude,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm not being rude, it's just don't
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: put your thty tunics and thing. He's like, oh, well,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you don't have to be accountable for anything.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Like you're the one that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I like.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Anyways, So then then at this point, at this point,
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: like I'm talking like like this, like like not fist,
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: like not fisical, but look like we're like job and
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: this job, and that Leo comes downstairs.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: He's like, are you guys breaking up? I'm like, yes,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: we are again, we're breaking up. I'm like, no, we're
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: not breaking up, Jillian, You're gonna scar this poor kid.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Like it's like, hey, no, we're not breaking up, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I want to. But anyways, behind the scene was like
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it's chaotic. We just got a new kiddie, got a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: new puppy. I'm the worst driver ever. Like all of
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: our seat, all of our bushes are all trash because
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I run over everything, and so like our days are
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: just absolute chaotic. And it isn't until bedtime that we're
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: all like, oh, holy right, okay, let's do this. And
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: every day is the same, and so I just wanted
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to write a book kind of about that for kids
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: that it's okay if it's a show, like as long
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: as you have each other, everything is going to be okay.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And so there's gonna be a series. Now we're working
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on just another perfect Christmas, and then it'll be just
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: another perfect vacation. But this one is just like everyday life,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: like just another perfect day, and just how like the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: day starts off perfect, but then how it just like
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: spirals out of control.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I love it, and I need I need I need
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: that book because I'm listening right now.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Do I show it downstairs?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: I love it, just screaming on going, oh my god.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. That is so cute. Such a good idea.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I always wanted to write a children's book,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and my literary agent was like, Okay, what's your idea.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't have one. Like, tell me an
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: idea and then I'll write it. But I don't know
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: that's a perfect idea.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you could write something about like finding
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: love or about the show. But that's good for.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Kids, Yeah, I mean for sure we could.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I that's so true.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, like chat GPT, so Max is obviously eighteen,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He's going to be applying to colleges real soon. They
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: open up like August first, which stresses me out to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: no end. But I literally put in chat GBT, this
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: is my son, this is who he is, this is
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: his personality, this is his family life, blah blah blah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Give me ten college essay topics that he can write about.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And it was like, I'm like, okay, people pay tens
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of thousands.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Of dollars for this, and literally it was.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Like, that's awesome, crazy, it's it's it is, you know.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Some of it scares me, but at first stamps I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: person really scared me. But then I was like, this
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: is actually like for so long, I feel like we
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: were doing things the hard way, so hard and the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: way the world has gone with how hard families have
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: to work in order to maintain their life, like the
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: cost of living and everything. Make it for some of us,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: make it us. I'm good, I'm easy for make it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Somebody helped, Somebody helps each other out, Like I think
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: this yeah could be maybe yeah, take a little break people.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like you, Jillian, like I don't like I
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: don't like that Alexa listens in, and I don't like
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Siri knowing what's up and Canyon loves it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Can you'll be like.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I was talking about how much I wanted a new
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: pair of boots, and sirih said, these are the four
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: that my phone just recently popped up and told me
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: these four boots are for sale.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like, well, it's going on my Head's Siri.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Gonna pay for those boots?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: No, I have no problem. I used to bug me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I used to bugg me. But if somebody on the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: internet could be listening to everything I say and they
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: can make my life easier because of it, listen, yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: like help me with my relationship, my kids, the puppy training,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: pee training, I don't know, my my incontinence, Like, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: don't know, give me help me? Why why do I
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: pee when I walk? When I fart? Like, help me?
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's so funny. Oh, we gotta do
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: this more often, Jillian Harris.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I mean for real, but before we go, if Justin
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: comes in, awesome, But I want you to tell everybody
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: about the Jillybocks.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay, so before in right, like in twenty sixteen,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: when I first started on Instagram, like a lot of
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: other influencers, I would get sent all these all this
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: gifting right from all different people. And when I shared
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it on my socials, Let's say I got sent something
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: from like Eve Saint Laurent or something, and I shared,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: like I got some new lipstick or perfume or whatever.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You know, people are like, oh cool, Jill's really lucky,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: like whatever, but like you think Eve San Laurent really gives.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't use them as an example because they still
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: send me stuff and I really like them. But anyways,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: but when I would get stuff gifted from small brands,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: women own brands, Canadian own brands, brands that have you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: historically been marginalized, and I would share, they would lose
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: their They would be like, you change my life, And
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that feeling was so addictive. Like to know that I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: could help other families and I could help other small businesses.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I just love that so much. So that became something
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that I really love to do. But I couldn't monetize
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: on that. And not to say you have to monetize
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: on everything, but my platform is worth something and my
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: time is worth something. And if I kept on doing that,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I would just be like a billboard. So I was like,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and a lot of these brands wanted to collaborate. They
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: wanted me to do my own custom products. So I
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: was like, what if we picked a handful of small
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: brands and I either picked their favorite product or we
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: designed an exclusive product and we curated a box and
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the box was a surprise and we sold that tour
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to the customer. Well, what happened was we were like
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: so excited about this project, we actually like leaked the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: whole idea. We shared the whole idea. We brought our
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: customer along that. When the box launched, we had five
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: thousand boxes to sell, but we had a wait list
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of over one hundred thousand people. Our websites black, everything crashed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: People waited online to get a box for like twelve hours,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Like people were crying, people finding my phone number, calling
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: me like like trying to give me money, like thousands
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of dollars to get this box. I'm like, what the Like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I actually didn't realize like how good of an idea
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: this was. So that was five years ago. We're well
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: on to our over our fifth year. Now we sell
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand boxes in one day we do this, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: we do this four times a year, and we completely
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: sell it one day and we have like donated well
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: over a million dollars like back into the community, Jill,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: and we try to partner with mostly small brands, women
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: own brands, like brands that like have a good give
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: back component, be corporate certified, that kind of stuff. So
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the thing. And now we're just expanding
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: our marketplace so that some of these brands can't do
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand units. It's just too many units for a
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: small brand. So we're bringing their product into our marketplace.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: So people who want to shop with values, if they
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: want to support a small brand, or if they like
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you can actually shop buy your values. If you want
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: like indigenous owned or black owned or vegan, you can
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: actually shop buy values. And so we're going to expand
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: that's our big goal this year is to expand in marketplace.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: So that's my big baby. I'm super passionate about it
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: because I don't get to just succeed other people in
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: my cirket to succeed. And you know right now with
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Amazon and Shean and t Moon all that, like a
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: lot of these small businesses are really really hanging on
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and by a thread. And these businesses are the backbone
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of our economy. They're the back They're the ones stone
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: eating to have the hockey teams. They're the ones that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: are paying the taxes to clean up the streets. Like,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it's so important to support these small businesses. So that's
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: my baby, and that's mostly what I do. But then
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I do Instagram stuff too.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Love it. I love it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I love that your your your passion turned into this
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: thing that's actually helping so many people too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I love it. It's so funny. That's awesome, like curating
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the boxes and designing the items and the photo shoots
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: and like, oh just it's so so much fun.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I love it so fun.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: We love you, Jilly, we do.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: We love you me and my multiple personalities.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I love you guys, and you guys love no. It
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: is great, though, isn't it nice when we get to
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: connect like this? And that's what's so great about the
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Almost Famous OG podcast. We bring back superstars like Jillian Harris,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: and you guys get to see that she's just as
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: beautiful and lovely as you thought she would be.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Right, Trista so.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Much for having right Oh my gosh, thank you so
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: much for comingming on, especially leading up to your wedding.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I am so happy for you, guys, and not that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you needed the wedding to make me happy for you
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: guys and make the rest of the world happy for you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I'm happy for us too. It's about it's gonna.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Be Yeah, Yeah, you're going to have a great time. Okay,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Well tell Justin. We're sad we didn't get to stay high, but.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: We're both putting fires today. But we're good. We're good,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: he says. Hi, and you guys can connect over Instagram.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me know if you if you can. If
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I think, if you still me number, send me his
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: number and I'll connect him with my brother in law
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: for the ankle talk.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Sound good?
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: All right bye, guys. Thank you so much.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: That was amazing.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: She's so dang funny. I mean, honestly, guys.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I know it's so funny.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: And she's going to.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Put our editors to work. They're going to have a
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: tough time with this one. There's some salting in there,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: which I love.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, no kidding, so true. I was like bombs
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: and the Yeah, I love it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, as always, so great seeing you. Trista awesome talking
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: to Alian Harris, one of my favorite people from the franchise,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: and like you said, definitely someone that we shall look
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: up to. And I mean the fact that she's doing
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: that jillybox and has taken care.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Of so many people that I love it. Yeah, I
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: absolutely love it. That's the good of what can come
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: from this kind of stuff, right.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for real, for real. Well, thanks everybody for listening.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: We will talk to you soon.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast on
• 29:40
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