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Back to Season 1 · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with i R Radio. Hello everyone, welcome to the Almost
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  Speaker 1: Nest podcast. It's great to be with you. Here recapping
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  Speaker 1: episode four of Katie season. We have a very special guest.
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  Speaker 1: Trista Sutter, is on recapping with us today to continue
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelorette recap series. But first I want to ask Ben,
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  Speaker 1: how's your week? Ben? How you doing? My friend holding
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  Speaker 1: in there? Uh? Yeah, Trista is gonna be on I
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  Speaker 1: actually at a later date here. I want to be
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  Speaker 1: on Trista's podcast. I did an interview with her earlier
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  Speaker 1: about just kind of the emotions and the mental state
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  Speaker 1: of uh you know, of my life and of Trista's
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  Speaker 1: life and so many other lives. So go listen to that.
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  Speaker 1: But actually, I have a weird thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about. Now. I'm gonna get like my
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  Speaker 1: weird motivational like speaker hat on, which I'm not good at,
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  Speaker 1: but I was watching something to it. This one might
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  Speaker 1: make sense. So if if it doesn't make sense, we
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  Speaker 1: just laugh at me. Because I'm sitting at I'm back
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  Speaker 1: in Indiana. I came to Indiana this weekend with Jessica
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  Speaker 1: She's now back in Denver to work for a few
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  Speaker 1: days before she comes back uh for the fourth of July.
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  Speaker 1: But I came here for my cousin Charles wedding. He
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  Speaker 1: got married to the love of his life. They've been
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  Speaker 1: dating for years. It was a beautiful ceremony in Indianapolis, Indiana. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Just an incredible wedding where I realized I cried multiple times,
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  Speaker 1: mostly because the father daughter dance, which I credit your
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  Speaker 1: father daughter dance. Also. Um, they get me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is, but those things really get me. Um,
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  Speaker 1: wait till November. But I'm sitting on the lake today
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  Speaker 1: doing this podcast, and there is a my parents really
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  Speaker 1: don't like it when geese get in their yard. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that they like despise because the geese poop everywhere
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  Speaker 1: they eat, you know, the grass up. And so they
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  Speaker 1: put these like streamers. It's like a very thin piece
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  Speaker 1: of rope around the sea wall. It's like so thin
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  Speaker 1: you can like if you can barely see it's like,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like colorful, and they put it around the
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  Speaker 1: whole sea wall. Uh. And they decorated like red, red, white,
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  Speaker 1: and blue. I think, yeah, Um, but the geese I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching the geese like try to come up, and they
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  Speaker 1: like come up to the edge and all they have
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  Speaker 1: to do is step over it, and they would have
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  Speaker 1: this whole yard in front of them and they would
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  Speaker 1: have like access to everything that my parents are keeping
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  Speaker 1: them out of. But yet they get up to it
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  Speaker 1: and they just get scared, like they don't step over it.
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  Speaker 1: They could, they're they're they're tall enough. It's just one string,
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  Speaker 1: and they just decided to stay on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: And as I was talking to Trista today and maybe
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  Speaker 1: somebody out there can hear this, I'm wondering in my
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  Speaker 1: own life and on all of our lives, like what
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  Speaker 1: is that thing that and that's standing in front of
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  Speaker 1: us that like we just won't step through because like
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  Speaker 1: we feel like it's thing, or we feel like it's impossible,
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  Speaker 1: we feel like it's scary. And if we did it,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe just maybe there's this whole new thing on
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  Speaker 1: the other side. Um, and maybe it's just like a
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  Speaker 1: little streamer that might not be fun to step over,
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  Speaker 1: Like it might take a little bit more work. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it might be a little more difficult, but when we
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  Speaker 1: do it, we're gonna realize it was it was worth it. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, that's on my mind right now, is the internal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that's silly at all. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's actually like a really great thing to think about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't think about what that thing would be for me,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sure there's something, and I'm sure almost everybody
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  Speaker 1: has something. It's just interesting. Yeah, So anyways, that's my uh.
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  Speaker 1: The other day on the podcast, I was asked, like,
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  Speaker 1: what's my philosophy on life? So right now, step over
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  Speaker 1: the streamer and with that, we're here at the Almost
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  Speaker 1: Same As podcast super Pumped to talk to you all.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, Trista Center is coming on the Original Bachelorette,
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  Speaker 1: the possibly the greatest of all time. Would be hard
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  Speaker 1: to argue that she's not considering she started this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing out, also one of the catalyst and lead years
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  Speaker 1: to the thing that we found out about that I
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  Speaker 1: think is still supposed to be a secret, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to allow it to be. On the Almost
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  Speaker 1: Smith podcast the text thread with all of the past
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  Speaker 1: Bachelorettes on one thread. She's coming on the Breakdown this
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  Speaker 1: week's episode, but before we do, let's take a quick break.
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  Speaker 1: We come back with the Almost Smith podcast. Hey, actually,
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  Speaker 1: there is one story I forgot to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: by my wedding weekend. You want to hear? It just
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  Speaker 1: makes me smile, Just a sweet story before we bring
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  Speaker 1: on Tris to setter about your wedding weekend. Oh this
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  Speaker 1: weekend that you went to a wedding, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful wedding. Awesome. Well, my grandmother who's eighty one years old. Um,
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  Speaker 1: who so that's pretty young for a grandmother these days.
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  Speaker 1: She is she looks good, looks good, just a beautiful human.
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  Speaker 1: And uh she is now only um surviving grandparents, which
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  Speaker 1: is super weird to say because for years of my
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  Speaker 1: life I kind of had like the lucky one where
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  Speaker 1: I was like I had all four Um, um, my
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  Speaker 1: grandmother just turned by one surviving grandmother who has been
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  Speaker 1: for a while now, uh just turned this week. Holy moly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's why I was young. Yeah. Well, um, she
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  Speaker 1: she got the dance with all of her grand sons.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the three of us that were there. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and she danced with my the one that was getting
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  Speaker 1: married to a sweet song that was her He played
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  Speaker 1: it because it was my grandmother and my grandfather's song
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  Speaker 1: when they were married. My grandfather had written her a
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  Speaker 1: letter back in the day moon River, which has been
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  Speaker 1: covered by uh Frank Ocean recently. Um, but it used
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  Speaker 1: to be singing by Andy Williams way back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And she so he knew that and he played it
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  Speaker 1: because my grandfather had written her letter and said, hey, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't heard moon River yet, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen to it because that's a song about us.
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  Speaker 1: And so she bought the record. And now since he's
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  Speaker 1: passed away due to Parkinson's, um my cousin got to
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  Speaker 1: dance with her two at his wedding, which is just
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  Speaker 1: so special. And then my other cousin grabbed her for
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  Speaker 1: a slow dance. Well at that point I wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: paying attention. She comes up to me, she goes, I've
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  Speaker 1: danced with all my grandsons except you, And I was like, Grandma,
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  Speaker 1: we need to dance together. Then I said, let's dance
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  Speaker 1: to the next song. So we get on the dance
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  Speaker 1: floor when she puts her arms around my neck like
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you just the sweetest thing, and we're dancing.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting ready for the song to play. Guess what
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  Speaker 1: song comes on like something totally inappropriate, wobble wobble, like
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  Speaker 1: a wobble, you know that, like wabble song, and she
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  Speaker 1: lets lose, her arms start flailing, her knees start going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, and all of a sudden, she hugs
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  Speaker 1: me and she goes, I can't dance this fast for
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  Speaker 1: too long. So that was our dance at the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's a video of that out there, and
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  Speaker 1: I know my name whose son got married, listen to
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  Speaker 1: this podcast. So she has a video of us dancing
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  Speaker 1: the wobble that she finds, please send it along because
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  Speaker 1: that is a memory worth keeping forever. Well anyways, hey, uh,
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  Speaker 1: storytime with Ben is over. We have a bachelor breakdown
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  Speaker 1: of this week's episode to do with the one and
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  Speaker 1: only Trista Center. Let's bring her own hate Trista. Hi, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: where are you recording at now? In my bedroom? Nice
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  Speaker 1: so Colorado? I mean it's the writings on my hat. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Well, I don't want to like just like
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  Speaker 1: cut through the pleasant trees. But this is like pretty
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  Speaker 1: big news in your life. You guys recently found out
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  Speaker 1: that Ryan, your husband of oh my gosh, almost twenty
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  Speaker 1: years Huh, we're getting close. We're getting close. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: guys found out that he had lyme disease after like
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  Speaker 1: not knowing what he had for over a year that
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  Speaker 1: was causing him bad health. So how how are you
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  Speaker 1: guys dealing with us? How do you feel like? Is
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  Speaker 1: it relieving or are you guys upset? Because you know,
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  Speaker 1: lime disease is something that he'll probably always will always
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  Speaker 1: be part of his life now, you know. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of um piggybacks on my conversation that I just have
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  Speaker 1: been for my podcast, But um, I try to look
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  Speaker 1: at the positive and there there is definitely it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: a good thing to have answers. So I'm very thankful
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  Speaker 1: that we have answers because not knowing is so so
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  Speaker 1: so difficult, and through the process and kind of sharing
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  Speaker 1: that he was going through something, so many people have
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  Speaker 1: reached out to us and are in the exact same situation.
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  Speaker 1: They have no idea what's going on with them a
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  Speaker 1: loved one, you know, a friend, whatever, And it is
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  Speaker 1: it honestly is a pandemic in this country. In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: it's a huge pandemic that so many people don't know
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  Speaker 1: what's going on and then to get a diagnosis like
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  Speaker 1: lime and mold and eb V and and possibly covid
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  Speaker 1: longhauler that diagnosis, those answers actually come with so many
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  Speaker 1: more questions that even though we've found out part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, I am thankful and grateful for that, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's actually difficult. I mean, he's not feeling great today, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and he has his up days and down days. But
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  Speaker 1: lime is so like out there still Western medicine doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fully buy into it, I feel like, and there We've
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  Speaker 1: talked to some people who have experienced it for years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years, and there are so many different
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  Speaker 1: treatments for it, and not everyone has the same success
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  Speaker 1: with one certain treatment, so the treatments are different. It's
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  Speaker 1: very um unique to every person how you find relief
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  Speaker 1: from this, UM And yes it will be a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis that he'll have to UM deal with, but it
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  Speaker 1: is it is difficult, and that there's not like one
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  Speaker 1: medication that he can take. There's not surgery that he
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  Speaker 1: can do. UM. So that's hard. I thank you for asking, UM.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's been it's been hard UM to see him
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  Speaker 1: struggle because he is such a strong human in general, um,
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  Speaker 1: but he doesn't share that with everyone. And uh so
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just hard to see the person that you
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  Speaker 1: love most in the world on my crap. He Uh
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  Speaker 1: we were, Tristan, I were able to talk, and actually
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about in the podcast before because we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was important. But you know, my best friend in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: uh was diagnosed with lime seven months ago. My aunt
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  Speaker 1: was diagnosed with lime two years ago. I have a
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  Speaker 1: friend from my church that is now bedridden because of lime.
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  Speaker 1: My aunt is still struggling with it. In fact, she
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  Speaker 1: could really not have even a full glass of wine
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  Speaker 1: and her son's wedding because it causes a flare up.
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  Speaker 1: And then which is you know, a sigh, A small thing,
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  Speaker 1: but a huge thing when you think about that controlling
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  Speaker 1: your life. And then my my best friend, he's thirty
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  Speaker 1: six years old, he's a incredibly healthy guy. He's lost
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  Speaker 1: thirty pounds. He can no longer get a clear sentence spoken.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like he um, he can't process his words.
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  Speaker 1: And his fiancee has openly reached out and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she'd mind me sharing this, but she said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really struggling because we don't know when this ends. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know where this goes. Uh, and he's withering away,
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  Speaker 1: and and so I think it's a great thing to
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  Speaker 1: talk about because especially with Ryan. I mean I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I first met Ryan Trista. I came to you
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  Speaker 1: guys house in Vale, invited uh a group of us over,
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  Speaker 1: and we came up and were hanging out, and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: was getting ready for the time to run like a
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  Speaker 1: bazillion miles up a mountain. I forget what it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the stupidest amount. Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 1: hundred mile run up a mountain, down a mountain, and
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  Speaker 1: around a mountain and then back up. It was the
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  Speaker 1: most ridiculous thing. And then, um, you know he's a professional,
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  Speaker 1: former professional football player, he's a fireman. And I mean
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  Speaker 1: this is debilitating at times, like it can crush the
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  Speaker 1: best of us. Yeah, yeah, it sucks. I mean, um,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about you know, your friend, and I do
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  Speaker 1: I feel grateful that he is among kind of one
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  Speaker 1: of the lucky ones with limeseas in that he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: lost the ability to speak, he hasn't lost the ability
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  Speaker 1: to walk, he hasn't lost the ability to use his arms.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we have a friend, Um, one of my
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  Speaker 1: close friends here who got bit by by a tick
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  Speaker 1: or or it actually can be transmitted by a spider
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  Speaker 1: as well. UM, and she got bit. She saw the
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  Speaker 1: target rash and immediately UM like they were on it,
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  Speaker 1: called the doctor got her on antibiotics. But when she
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  Speaker 1: first felt or saw the rash, UM, she remembers holding
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  Speaker 1: her daughter, who I think was like a year old
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and and all of a sudden she
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  Speaker 1: was like, you have to take the baby, like to
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  Speaker 1: her husband, and he took her daughter, and like immediately
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  Speaker 1: her arms stopped working, like she couldn't use her arms.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel lucky in the fact that he it's
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  Speaker 1: it's in certain parts of his body. We know that
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  Speaker 1: probably in his ankle, like he's got a bad knee.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably residing in those but I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he has fog occasionally and the the fatigue is unbearable
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  Speaker 1: sometimes for him. But I do, truly do. I do
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  Speaker 1: feel lucky that it's not as severe as some people
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  Speaker 1: that we're hearing. And and also that you know, people
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  Speaker 1: who have been to looking for a diagnosis for fourteen ten,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years, you know, like it took us a year,
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  Speaker 1: which was a long time and it's still is something
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  Speaker 1: that he's he's dealing with. You know, once we figured
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  Speaker 1: it out, it wasn't like it automatically went away, because
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it's not like you just you take
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  Speaker 1: one med um and it's gone. So anyway, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of questions, Um, okay, So they of
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  Speaker 1: course usually come from tick bites. Does he remember ever
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  Speaker 1: having the bite? So what our doctor, his doctor thinks happened,
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  Speaker 1: was this happened a really long time ago or a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. So as you guys know, we live
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  Speaker 1: in Colorado, he does, I mean his religions, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: is the outdoors. He's always outdoors. He's always mountain biking.
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  Speaker 1: We camp a lot, um, he goes um backpacking with
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  Speaker 1: the kids a lot. And he does remember a couple
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  Speaker 1: instances in his life being bitten by a tick. So
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  Speaker 1: it's happened before. But like I said, the doctor has said,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know that this is like common knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I didn't know it. Um, but you can
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  Speaker 1: get infected by a spider as well. And we live
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  Speaker 1: in even though there are some doctors who don't think
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  Speaker 1: that the ticks in Colorado carry line disease. Um, we
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  Speaker 1: have deer roaming our neighborhood. I mean they're they're always
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  Speaker 1: in our backyard and they carry the ticks. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how you can say that, you know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: well ticks aren't in Colorado, Like what does it cut
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  Speaker 1: off right at the state line? You know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any sense to me, So yes, answer to answer
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  Speaker 1: your question. He has been bitten before, but never seem
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  Speaker 1: like there's a target rash or bulls eye rash that
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  Speaker 1: appears um with lime disease. So if you're one of
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  Speaker 1: the lucky ones and you actually see that bulls eye
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  Speaker 1: rash like our friend, like I just said, that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing because then you can immediately go and get antibiotics.
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  Speaker 1: But for him, we don't know when that that happened.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it weird that like we go out in the
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  Speaker 1: summer and we put bugs bray on to not get
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  Speaker 1: mosquito bites, but we don't think about like ticks bray
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, and that we can really cause lifelong.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's really interesting and I really hope there
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  Speaker 1: have been quite a few, uh pretty prominent names like
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  Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, Alec Baldwin who have recently come out and
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  Speaker 1: said that they have lime disease as well. And so
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  Speaker 1: the hope is and we want to do anything we
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  Speaker 1: can to spread the word about it that it it
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  Speaker 1: is a true illness, you know, it's not something that
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  Speaker 1: Western medicine can just brush under the rug. It is
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  Speaker 1: something that people struggle with daily in this country, in
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  Speaker 1: this world, and so we want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: spread the word. But yeah, you're right, maybe hopefully soon, UM.
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  Speaker 1: I know that it's all about research, and so we're
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  Speaker 1: our hope is that we can get involved UM in
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  Speaker 1: that way to help raise funds for research so that
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  Speaker 1: more people can find UM really from their symptoms. Well, Trista, UM,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing all this, and I hope that
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  Speaker 1: when you do find the avenues to donate and that
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  Speaker 1: we can support that the whole almost Famous Listener group
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  Speaker 1: would love to get behind you. UM. But there's always
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  Speaker 1: something within this and then I'm learning a lot more
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  Speaker 1: recently when a spouse or of loved one is going
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  Speaker 1: through this, we focus on them, UM, But we're here
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  Speaker 1: to focus on you today and the question is how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing and how are you holding up? You
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  Speaker 1: are awesome for asking that question. Um. When we found
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  Speaker 1: out that he had lime, we were talking to a
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  Speaker 1: friend who has a wife with lime, and he mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: you know how it's always about her and she's been
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  Speaker 1: struggling with it for a long time, and and we
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  Speaker 1: so we work with an organization called First Assance. They
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  Speaker 1: do UM outdoor adventure therapy for young adults with cancer,
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  Speaker 1: and they actually started doing camps for UM, the caretakers
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  Speaker 1: for the people who have cancer, and and I always
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  Speaker 1: loved that. I loved that they that they focus their
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  Speaker 1: energies as well on the people who UM who struggle.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I I it's been hard, UM, sorry, UM, And not
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: because I want any attention on me, because I want
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: him to be better. I want him to wake up
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: feeling great. I want him to be able to UM
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: spend time with our family and and make memories. And
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: when you don't feel good, it just takes away from life,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you know. And and so I'm not doing great and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: not just about him. You know. We talked a lot
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: about it on my podcast. Been UM. I I've been
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: struggling for sure, and I don't know if it was
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: if it's been covid or UM all that Ryan has
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: been dealing with and dealing with insurance companies and doctors
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and and then just life and trying to be happy
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: for my kids, you know, twelve and thirteen, and they're
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: relatively independent, but I want them to have a great
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: summer and for them to have a great school year,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: so my focus has to be on them. Um, but
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it's been a really weird year, you know, I know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: for pretty much the whole planet. But um, it's it's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's been hard. Um. Sorry, thank you for being so vulnerable.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The podcast episode, and now's a great time to talk
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: about it. I don't know when it's gonna come out, Tristy,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you know better in April. It will come out next
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: week actually Tuesday, So Tuesday, yeah, yeah, So Tris and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I got to talk a lot about where we're at
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in life, and actually knows a lot about where I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: at in life. Actually I were able to speak just
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: through the phone, I don't know, two weeks ago kind
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of about um, my transitions in life and things I'm
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: experiencing and feeling. And then it was you know, trist
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: had reached out, uh maybe a month ago and said, hey,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: would you want to come on my podcast? And I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: said yeah, let's do it, and then it finally just
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: worked out where this week was the week that we
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: were able to make it happen. And it was in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: my opinion as I sat here for the last hour
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: since we recorded it, it was an incredible time because
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you and I were able to just speak to each
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: other from a place of both just right now like
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: disorientation and confusion and a little um feel a little
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: sad and uh and and so I just recommend anybody
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: listening to it that just wants to maybe feel like
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they're less alone, um during this season. So yeah, please
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: go listen to Trist's podcast next Tuesday. They'll be out
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: everywhere you listen to podcast and trust in. One little
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: moment of light is that Ryan did graduate from the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Fire Academy this week. Yeah, did well, it's actually it happened,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I want to say, in April. It's been a while,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: but as of COVID, they weren't able to you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: really celebrate it, so so they waited. But it was
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: still great to have a really a formal ceremony. They
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: got dressed up in their class a's as they're called,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: um and they had the chief of the department speaking
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and it was just really special. I mean, I love
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a celebration. I'm all about birthdays and anniversaries and and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I I'm so happy that we finally got to celebrate
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: him in his class. I mean, obviously he's been a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: firefighter for he was a firefighter for seventeen years with
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: BAIL and then took a year break and then went
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: back to BAIL and then got the chance to go
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: UM work with the Denver Fire Department, and he just
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: wanted more of a challenge. UM, And I'm really really
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: proud of him. So how does that work? You have
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to get like re licensed and go through the courses
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: all over again. If you're going to a new city.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: It depends on where you're going. So for him, he
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: just missed a ladder, a lateral transfer, which would have
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: meant like he was a lieutenant with the Veil Fire Department.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: He just missed it by I think like a month,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: so he could have laterally transferred and then a lieutenant
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: with the Denver Fire Department, But because of timing UM
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and his certifications, he had to start over. So he
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was basically in an academy with twenty thirty year olds. UM.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: There were a couple older people. But one big reason
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that I'm really proud of him is he finished second
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: in his class, which he's forty six years old, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it it is really grueling. I talked to somebody who
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: said that the Denver Fire Department is um like harder
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: than the FBI or something like something crazy like that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And I believe it because of, you know, the things
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that he told me while he was going through it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he had to start over again, but he
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: was willing to do that just because he he wanted
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: more challenge. He wants to continuously, um, improve and better
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: himself and that happens through challenge. And so anyway, we're
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: really proud of him. So and I'm gonna miss this.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Are you guys moving? Yeah, I know you are going
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to live in the same town. Yeah. So, UM, well,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: now is kind of an exception. Um, he is battling
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: an injury on his ankle that happened at the department. Um.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But before he was battling this injury. So now he's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: on light duty, which means that he's working um in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Denver during the week, which is hard to because I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like a single parent again. Um, but if if it
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: was like a month ago, he would be working at
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: one of the stations in Denver and he works out
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a trade situation with one of the guys there, so
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: he ends up only working like seven days of month,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: which is great. I mean they're twenty four hour days.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But Tris, so we'd love to have you in Denver.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Then verse calling your name. I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We've been looking at houses, so I hear, I hear,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Golden is a terrific place, and there's free babysitting available
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and Golden it's this really weird versa. So when the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: babies come for you and then I'll have the babysitters
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for you. Say at twelve and thirteen, do you have
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: babysitters anymore? It's like that weird time. Yeah. I mean,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like I think we started staying home alone around twelve
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: for parents, I think around ten or eleven we started
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it just like short periods of time. But now they
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: can stay home alone and they're good. I mean they're
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: just like good kids, like you know, they're they're good kids. Well, uh, Trista,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: before we dive into breaking down um this week's episode, Um,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what big projects do you have going on in your
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: life that you want to talk about here, I would
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: love for you to give one more shout out about
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: your podcast, because I do think it is something special.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Um. Well, obviously the podcast is called Better etcetera.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And I wanted to do something you know, good, UM,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: put out some positive energy into the world and also
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: into my life because of course, while I'm doing the interviews,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I get to learn lots and lots from my guests,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: so Better etcetera. It's been really fun. As I shared
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: with Ben, I'm I don't know if this first season
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is going to continue into a second. I'm going to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: take the rest of the summer. After next week, I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: going to actually interview Ryan for a little update on
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: his health, UM, and that will be in two weeks
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: on the podcast. So after that, I'm going to take
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a little break. That will be the end of the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: first season, and then, UM, I'm gonna just have a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: little come to Jesus and see if if it's something
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that I really want to dedicate my time to be.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: As I know you guys know, it's a lot of work, UM,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and I just need to really figure out if I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: want to continue it. I really have loved it and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I hope that people who listen have loved it, but um,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: we'll see um. And that's really all I mean. I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: on Instagram at Trista Center and I have oh like you, Ashley.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you do them then, but I've
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: been doing the Amazon live streams, which I'm loving. They're
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: so fun. I love. I mean, I am an Amazon
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: freak because when you live where I live, you don't
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: have like a Target or a Macy's or whatever to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: go to. You have Amazon. So I literally we buy
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: everything on Amazon. So I've been doing you know, the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: live streams, so I have a storefront on Amazon. Is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: there a a theme that you like talking about the most?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Do you know? I haven't done that many. The first
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: one I did was for Father's Day and that is
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: awesome of course. Um, I'm doing a beauty like skincare.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I get lots of questions, as I know you do too,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: um your highs and lows with skincare, Ashley, but so
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: but beauty and skincare, and then like kids gifts, like
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I always want to know what to get different ages
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and between age is where I'm at with Blakesley especially
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and Max. So I'm really enjoying just kind of researching
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: all of that stuff and giving people tips on you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: what they can get for these different categories. I'm all
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: about organizations, so the organization part of it really is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: fun for me, like just on the storefront itself. Yeah,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's been really fun. So tween gifts are hard,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: right because it's so easier to shop for kids, but
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: then they get to be that age and you're like,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: what are they into anymore? Laying with things? I know?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And I give gift gift cards to everybody because I
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: don't know and I don't want to get something that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: they already have. So UM, this has been really fun
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: because I can kind of organize and research on Amazon
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: what you know, because they always do the like people
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: by this with this, you know, the recommended purchases you
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: know with UM. So that's been it's it's that's a
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: really fun little UM project for me. Trista, You're somebody special.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We cannot wait to break down this week's episode with you.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be fantastic. We're going to dive into
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: all the hard questions like this, Trista, like Katie, does
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: she ever talk to Katie? Has she ever talked to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Katie and what does she think of this week's episode?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Right after the break? Do you love what a sarcasm?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And talking fast? And are you longing to return to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Stars Hall of for one more trip to can antiques?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Are just to pick up a few things at Dosie's Market?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Is an overnight stay? It's a dragon flame on your
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: list of plans for a getaway? Is a burger from
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Luke's Diner on the menu for tonight? This is Scott Patterson.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I was Luke Danes for onifty three episodes and in
• 30:12
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• 30:15
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• 30:18
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• 30:21
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• 30:24
  Speaker 1: to I Am all In wherever you listen to podcasts. Well,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: let's start with one of Ben's questions. Have you spoken
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to Katie outside of the Bachelor at group chat? I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was just gonna say that was gonna be my go to. UM, So, yes,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: we have our Bachelor at group chat, and yes, you know,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: as a group we've talked to each other, which I love.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: By the way, Um, part of my struggle is kind
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of feeling, uh, trying to deal with the fact that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like an old, washed up bachelorette, so nobody
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: ever thinks about you that way. Oh you're I mean,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: thank you. But um so the bachelotte group chext you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: kind of gives me life and I love I love
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: being able to add the you know anybody knew who
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: comes along, which we do every time, and it will
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: be exciting to be able to add Michelle, isn't Michelle? Yeah? Yeah,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: um coming here up here soon? Um? I did. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: d m her. We haven't talked after outside of all
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of this and my d M s, but I d
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: m her when everything went down on the last season
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of The Bachelor when she stood up for Sarah, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I just felt like, thank you for putting yourself thought
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: there and standing up for the person that you felt
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: like was being treated unfairly. I just I thought that
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: was really awesome of her to do and and and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I like supporting, you know, those kind of people. Um,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but that's the only connection that I've had to her.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: That's far. What's your overall vibe of this season? Ben?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And I really like it. I do too, I do too. Um.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I love that she's kind of like the girl next door, Um,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the uh real raw person who who ended up I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: mean share the part where she shared about her sexual assault. Um.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like so many people can relate to her,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: including me, And that's why I'm really loving her. She's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: she's been incredibly You're right, like the girl next door
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: in the best of ways to like, she's she's like relatable.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: You watch her and you're like, Okay, if my best
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: girlfriend who I know, goes on the show, like I
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: believe she would handle stuff this way. Um, she's and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: she's allowing us into the relationships, like she's asking the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: right questions. Um, she's digging in a bit with these guys,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: which I think has allowed us to get to know
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the guys better. She and I think that's also a
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: sign that she's ready for a relationship. Like for years,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you know, even on The Bachelor, we had like leads
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: who are like, you really ready for a relationship, Like
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: this is really something that you're into because you're not
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Like you're not asking any questions and you're
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: not digging in, and you're not even like entering into
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the hard stuff. You're just kind of like there and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: with her, you're just kissing, and like with Katie, it's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: like no, you you we can tell, but you're into this,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: like this is this, You're committed this, which which I've enjoyed.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: There's a there's a lot of substance, you know, there's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of emotion and we're only four weeks in.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I will say that this episode is probably my least
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: favorite of the eisodes, but that's just because I felt
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: like there was so much unnecessarily unnecessary, overblown drama with Thomas.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But let's let's get to that after because I want
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to go in chronological order, even though there's not much
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: besides the like finished the episode and I'm like, wait
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a second, what happened? There was one group date and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: then Thomas drama. There wasn't a one on one, there
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't a second group date. So group date real fun,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a continuation of like the theme that I think that
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: they've been doing such a good job with this season,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and that is group dates that tell us about the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: guy's personality. It's like silly, you know, scat whatever you
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: wanna call a scavenger hunt or like truth or dare,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and they're they're just getting along really well, the guys
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: are like paired off, but to see them eat speak
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: little dirty nothings to that big ear with the speaker attached,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it's just fun. We're getting to know them. Anything that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: stood out to you there, because the only thing that's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: standing out to me here is that, like I'm I'm
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: a little bizarred out as to why Andrew keeps speaking
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: in the British accent. It's like, it sounds great, it
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: sounds really good, but like I'm like, wait a second,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: is it real? Oh no, it's not real. And he's
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: used it twice already in the scene. I literally did
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I was like, wait, who's that guy?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Is there another guy? Like? Is that a true or
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: is that another guy? And I'm forgetting about him? Um?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I I thought it was. It's really fun. I love
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the the depth of the conversations that have been in
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the past, and you know, especially the in the scene
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: with Nick, the group date with Nick. Um, I really
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: loved the depth. I do like that this season. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: What stood out about this episode to me, even though
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think this spent well, they didn't spend a
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: lot of time on it, is Blake coming back and
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and I really like him. I agree with you wholeheartedly
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: about the Thomas drama. I just it just drives me
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: crazy when they focus on that kind of drama, because
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I really do want to see the development of the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: relationships over every over anything. I know that they have
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to we all know this from being on the show.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: They have to input the drama and continue to ride
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that wave. But I just I just can't stand it
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: in some instances, and this is one of them. This
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: is one of them, because it just see, it's so forced.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: There was no other drama apparently going on, so they
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: just really clung onto this. So it's so it gets
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: brought up again at the group date the cocktail party. Um,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and that was the argument between Trey and Andrew and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I honest I saw both sides of this. I wanted
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to just be on Andrew's side. Andrew was like, you guys,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: like focus on your own relationship, let her figure everything out.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: And then Trey was like, are you kidding? I have
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to protect her from like bad people, And when he
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: said that, I was like, I was like yes, and no.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I was like, I guess, but I but I want
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to be fully on Andrew's side here. And then Trey
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: was like, what if she found out that you knew
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and you didn't say anything? And I'm like, Andrew just
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: seems like the kind of person who's seen this show
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: before and knows that tattling doesn't always go over well
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: or doesn't benefit your own relationship. Um, but then look
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: at look at Trey got the rose for for talking
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: about it. Um. Katie seems to be a bachelorette that
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: really does appreciate being told about what's going on in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the house. But I think just we talked about this
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a lot last week. These guys like really think it's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Survivor or something and they can vote, they vote the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: guy they don't like out every week, no kiding, Like
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: where did that ever come from? And the whole like
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: game mentality with Carl and I'm just okay, I'm in
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the game or whatever. I'm like, No, Like, I get
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: it that people we have called it a game, you know,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: over the years, but to me, it really isn't a game.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I want them to be able to, like, you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: fight hard for love. But that really turned me off.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And I have to say, actually, I totally agree with you.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I was drawn between both of them because I do
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I do think that telling I've all whenever I watched
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the show, I'm like, just tell her. But in the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: same regard, I think Andrew has a great point that
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: if you tell her, something's going to happen and time
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: is going to be taken away from us. And it
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: was like at the Rose ceremony, he was like, this
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: is exactly what I was worried about. I didn't want
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to miss out on time with her, and that's exactly
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: what's happening because of all this drama with Thomas. You
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: guys are right, like there's very little amount of strategy
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: involved in this show. Like you can't go into it
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: going this is my strategy to win one that's manipulative.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: It's weird, it's awkward, Like, yes, you can have strategy
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: and when you talk and what you say and don't
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: say and how you present, like that's fine, you know,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: but ultimately, like if you're gonna win this thing based
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: on how you've planned to win it, that's messed up
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: from a lot of different reasons. I I want to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: ask the question to the listeners in this moment because
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: we're going to share our opinions, but your opinion always
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: matters to us. And always gives us a different perspective,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: like were you angry at Thomas here? Did you find
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: what he did to be incredibly wrong? Or was this
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: an overplayed dramatic event that was just the highlight of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the episode and they needed, like everybody wanted to make
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: it something because all the contestants, they were like, hey,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: everybody here gets along and these guys are great, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: we need to figure out which one can go. I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: have I I don't love that he was pushed aside
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: because he had thoughts of being the Bachelor. I think,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you know, all three of us have done this show.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: If I would say when I went on the Bachelor
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: at not only was I just excited for the opportunity,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I was excited for what it was gonna mean for
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: my life, like that I had a story to tell
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: that I had maybe love and was involved in that
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't, And if it wasn't, then like maybe
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna meet cool people and you know, tell
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: my friends and family house on the show at one
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: point in my life. Um and and I wonder I
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: just think also though, to give a little criticism Thomas,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I think it was really bad at explaining himself I
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: think his biggest mistake here was that he continued to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: fall back into this sales pitchy like response to things,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and it never came off genuine when all he had
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to say was like something authentic. It just never felt
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: like he was really explain himself. It felt like he
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: was just missing the mark there, which might be the
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: reason I finally just kind of blew up in his face. Yeah,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I think you're totally dead on with that, and that
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: she would they would ask him a question where whether
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it was the guys or Katie. I mean, she at
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: one point said, Um, I need an answer, you know.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Didn't she say, like, no, that's not what I asked you. Um, like,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: give me clarification. I'm asking you, did you want to
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: be the Bachelor? And I get it in in terms
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: of like the mentality, Like it seems like she's saying,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: if you aren't coming here for love and that's it,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: then you can leave. Um. What I think is what
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: what I think I would love to have kind of
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: counseled her on is there are going to be people here.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Let's be realistic that come here and think, yeah, I
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: would love to fall in love, but if that doesn't
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: happen and I have this platform that I can use
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: for good or you know whatever that can be a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: good thing. I don't personally like the people who go
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: on the show just to be famous, you know, like
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: you can smell that, um, and I don't like it.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: But let's be honest, Like there are people who come
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: on the show and they're like, I'm gonna have this
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: platform and I want to be able to use it
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and if it's for something good, great, Um, if they
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: want to just you know, become more famous, I just
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I don't like it, and I think that Katie doesn't.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: She thought it's like a black and white thing. If
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: if he's coming on the show thinking that he wants
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: to be the next Bachelor, then that's telling me that
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: he is not here for love. But I think that
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: there can be both. You know, you can come on
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the show and be realistic and think, you know, if
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen for us, then it would be fun
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor. I'm going to be honest, But um,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I think she was thinking very black and white about it,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and I think the guys were too. I think that
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: was so perfectly put You took the words out of
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: my mouth. Uh. Like I say all the time, broken
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: record here, you should always you shouldn't be signing up
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: for the show unless like your marriage oriented, relationship ready
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and wanting to find it fall in love, But that
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be the only reason you signed up
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: for the show. Um. And I just think it's so
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: crazy to think that this guy last week, in a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: moment in which he was supposed to be vulnerable and
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: talk about his own red flags, he admitted that he
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: was there. He signed up initially for like a platform,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and he was being super honest, and then he's totally
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: plummeted because of that honesty. And it's just like everyone
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: who's been on the show before you me been, We're thinking,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: like these thoughts have crossed everyone's mind. So that's why
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: it's super infuriating. Okay, fine, maybe I'm a little bit
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: too heated over it, but I think it's it's very
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: frustrating to watch these guys gang up on Thomas for
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: something that you just know has been in their head
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: as well. And it's I almost wish that like Caitlin
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and Tatia would have like made a joke about it,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: because I could see Caitlin making a joke about it
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: right about like she was like, well, there was a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: certain point where I started to think, you know, I mean,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and also like just going on the show to have fun,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: because that's what I feel like a lot of people do.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: They think this is a cool experience. It's a once
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: in a lifetime thing. And if I fall in love bonus,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: you know, Um, I don't know. I think there's something
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: to be said for just looking at it realistically instead
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: of you know, coming after him. If that was his
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: m O and that's the only reason he came on
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the show and he's not open to love, then that's
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: one thing. But I think that he's open to he
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: just like you said, Ben, he had a horrible way
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: of expressing that. I wonder if there's more behind the
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: scenes to like there, because a lot of the guys
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: when he would talk or saying things like oh, you know,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: of course, this is what Thomas would say, and oh yeah,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: here here, here he goes again. Like I just wonder
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: if they knew more than what we are seeing. And
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: that's why they were also up in arms about it,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: because I would have a hard time believing that if
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: all of them are honest with themselves, and not one
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: other person in that room would have set up and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: been like, yeah, you know what, Like I thought that too,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Like I was like feeling the same way, So like
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: maybe we should be like there had to be more
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and if so, we just never saw it because he
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: obviously got let go it can in the midst of
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: all of this, I need to bring out, um, somebody
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: that is now going to take the trophy as the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: best of something of all time on this show. And
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it out and
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna agree with me because they have to. And
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I hold the mike. We have a name. I don't
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: know his name. We have a guy this season who
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: makes the best facial expressions of all time on the franchise.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know his name. He does the guy with
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the guy that opens up his eyes, who rolls his
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: eyes justin yeah, okay, it's good, justin his facial expressions.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: It just watch and I'm sure memes are going to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be put out. Like that guy he my dad does
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: this thing where like when he like wants to be funny,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: he opens his eyes real big and it's just like
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: it doesn't fit. It's just like a little awkward and
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you're like, why your eyes so like, why your eyes
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: open so big? Justin does the same thing, like the
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: exact same thing, and uh, and I'm gonna give him
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the reward award. I know we've had some little ones,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna give it to him. Okay, I have
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: a more thing to say about Thomas before we move on. Okay,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: actually have a couple more things. One, all the guys
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: kept saying he was like manipulative, and I'm like, was
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: he manipulative or he's is he a sweet talking guy
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: who's like a little too suave for his own good
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and he like he speaks like a lot of both.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's like a lot of the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: flowery talk. Yeah, politician right, who also said he wanted
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor because I didn't see anything where
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: he was like trying to manipulate. The other men they
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: were like he manipulated me, and like, yeah, it's a
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: it's a fine line because you sit down with a
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: guy and he's like honest with you, and you feel
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: like you have a good connection with him, and you
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: feel like you can be vulnerable around him and all
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: this stuff and then maybe. I mean, like I said,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: maybe there's more than we're not seeing here, because he
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: obviously burned some bridges, and like he had a whole
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: group of good dudes like angry at him. Like not
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: one dude in that house stood up for him, not
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: one other than other, you know, other than kind of
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: saying hey, like why are you telling Katie this is
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: just gonna take time away from me? It wasn't really
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: standing up for for him at all. So there had
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: to be more to it. That's my assumption at this point,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: um that we just didn't see. Yeah, I think you
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: can always assume that because you know that the show
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is, ends up on the cutting room floor.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's more to it. And then going off
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: that the way that Katie dumps him at the end
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: during the rose ceremony, thinking that he's getting the vinal
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: rose and then she's just like, you're disgusting leave and
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I feel bad for this guy.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this is happening. That was a big moment,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that moment. Can I ask you a question, though she
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: had that final rose, she never gave it out. I
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: wanted it to go to Christian. I think Christians so cute.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know where he's been. I don't know why
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: she didn't like him. How can we give you to Thomas?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: But what the hell give it to somebody? I think
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: she figuratively gives it to Blake, which is why she
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: goes to his room afterwards. Yeah, yeah, Ashley, you're so
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: good at this show. Wow at this that makes sense?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Well the funny not not the funny part. I don't
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: know if this sad or funny. The show ends after
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the final rows and the guys get released. There's two
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: dudes there I had never seen before. Is that just me?
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I thought I've watched every episode, But the one guy
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: says goodbye to us, like I have not seen your
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: face one time in four episodes. That happens to me
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: all the time. And then I have to say, as
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: you get older, it will happen to you more and
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: more that I'm aging good. Well that's cool, Okay, I
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: guess let's talk about Blake now before we let Trista go.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: After she's been on with us for so long and
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: we are so grateful for you, how do we feel
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Blake's getting? Like? How far is he going? Is this
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: connection real. I think that possibly because I think if
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: you had asked me a couple of weeks ago, I
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: would have thought that Thomas is gonna get far. And
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: now I'm like having to fill in a blank where
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Thomas stood and could be blake. I think he gets far. Actually, um,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you know, of course in all the previews, I'm always
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: kind of um investigative in terms of the previews when
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: the part you know, such the best part, so you know,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: we haven't been able to see him because of course
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: they're not going to put him in previews because they
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: didn't want to give up the secret beforehand. But I
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: would think he goes far. I mean they seem like
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: they have a lot of things in common, just off
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: off that um in terms of humor and I think humility,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and I really like them together. I don't know. I'm
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I'm bad at choosing though, so I'm probably wrong. I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: feel him, I feel him. I think it was far.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I will say this, Uh, the worst thing these dudes
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: can do is be super against him coming into the
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: house now, because I was on a season with Caitlin
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: when Nick came back, and like half the guys kind
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of put their foot down, like we're going to be
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: against this for a really good reason, like that they
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: didn't really affect that much, right, Like they still were
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: able to date Caitlin, they were still able to go
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: like on one on ones, they were still to get
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: to know where, But instead they change their focus to
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: being like anti Nick, which totally destroyed They're a lot
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: of them. So like, at this point, is it ideal
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: that another guy's joining? No, can you be a little
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: upset about and be like that's that kind of bums
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: me out because that kind of sends the message that
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: she's not sold yet on you. Maybe a little bit
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: like I can see where you take a little personal
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: offense that, but then just like be okay with it
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: because it's not worth your time and it's gonna end
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: out how you want to end out anyways. Um, but
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Blake's coming on. I think he's around a while, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I think the guys from what we see, get really
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: upset and I bet they ruined themselves in the process.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: They need somebody new because we had Cody Carl and
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: then we had Thomas and now they're looking for the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: next guy to vote off what they call it and
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: what they call it the Island you don't get you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: don't get the little peace pipe or whatever thing is.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I have a more thing to say. I know, I know,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I'm so horrible. One more thing. You guys, how cute
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: is Michael great? Oh? I love him? A lot of masterpieces.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: He's like, he got so emotional talking to her. He's
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: such a cutey pets. Now he should be the next bachelor.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I think he is. If he's not with her, I
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: think it's a shoe in I think, and I think
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: it's like a massive home run for the show if
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: they make him. Yeah, right, he's the bachelor we need. Oh,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I love him. He has to bring his kid on
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the show, although like logistically I'm like, I don't see
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: that happening with a child, but um, yeah he is.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I love him. We've never had a widowed or widower.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Believe you're right. I thought we did. Jason Mesnick had
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: brought right on it. But he wasn't a widow. I guess, Emily,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah they weren't married. But yes, very sweet you girls,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: But we haven't had a widow. Yeah, we got a
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: guy in there. I think he's great. I think I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a huge Michael fan. If he becomes the Bachelor, Michael,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast or if it gets
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: passed on to you, there's only one request I have selfishly.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you. I want to meet you.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I want you to give me all of your life wisdom. Uh.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Speaking of life wisdom again, trist Iss Sutter is the
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: very first bachelor at uh, the the goat, the O
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: G uh the O G in the best of ways. Uh.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: We have a podcast coming out next week to everybody
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: listening here should go over and tune into. It was
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: just something incredible for me to be able to talk
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: to Trista for so long about something so personal. Tristas Sutter,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the Almost Famous podcast. Thank
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you for being ridiculous with us and breaking down this
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: week's episode. You are incredible. Thank you. I love it
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: with you guys. Any time I've loved my time with
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: you always, always, so thank you so much for having
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: so fun. Thank you this week. We're very thankful for
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Trisia Center for joining us for the breakdown of the episode.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: But now it's time for one of your favorites. Uh.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: It's Bachelor headlines and we're gonna run through these quickly.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of them. Ashley is prepared and ready
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: to go with him. The first one is Bachelor. Katie
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Thurston likes shady meme about front runner Greg Grippo. This
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: according to us uh Now, Ashley, this is a big,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: big article because this is my favorite hot topic this week. Yeah, so,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: like it's hinting at a bunch of things. What do
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: we know? What do you think? Like we have to
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: make some assumptions here. Okay, so we know that Greg, Well,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in the headline it states he's a front runner. I
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: would say he's the number one front runner right now,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: right Well. Becka Martinez, she shared a she shared a
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: meme of Greg from I guess it was last week
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: and it says, when the guy next to you is
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: getting interrograded about wanting to be the Bachelor aka Thomas,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and you've got to pretend to be disgusted while hiding
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: your acting career aspirations. And that's in reference to Greg
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: having acting career aspirations. Now, what's juicy about this is
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: that Katie liked this, like the meme on Instagram on
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I think on Instagram social media, and then she unliked it. Oh,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: like she was like, oh can't be too obvious, can't
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: have fancy this unlike so to me, that means that
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Greg doesn't win. This is a big deal and big
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: deal you don't like a meme of somebody you care about,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: especially a one like this. So what it's hinting at,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: we don't know. I'm assuming we'll find out as the
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  Speaker 1: season progresses. And uh huh, a little frustrating because I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Greg seemed it seems perfect in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways, right, they seemed like that bachelor. Like
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, Greg and Katie they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be They're a good one thing Katie. Well, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if it happens. Uh. Speaking of past bachelor's though, this
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  Speaker 1: is I thought this was hilarious. I'm gonna share this
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  Speaker 1: headline just because I watched it, and I hope Claire
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  Speaker 1: doesn't take offense to because I don't think it was
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  Speaker 1: meant in this. It was just kind of funny. Wan
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Uh and daughter Camilla Uh re enact his Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: breakup with Claire Crawley. Watch this, Yeah, it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: it's I thought it was cute. Yeah, I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: totally that's nothing. You know, that's I hope she's not
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  Speaker 1: annoyed by that either. It's funny. It's like father daughter playtime. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: super cute. Anyways, go out and check it out. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty funny. Well. Uh, big headline this week is, according
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  Speaker 1: to Okay, which you know, give her take a little bit. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: newly out bachelor Colton Underwood spotted cozing up to I
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  Speaker 1: don't is this posse pose pose star Johnny uh Sibilly
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  Speaker 1: on vacation in Mexico, so Colton. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: from this article it seems like he's moving on in
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  Speaker 1: out there dating. That's what they're trying to make it
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  Speaker 1: seem like. But I'm not really sure that there's anything here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is truly on Instagram post guys, um
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  Speaker 1: from I think Johnny did Johnny even post one? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so Johnny posted a picture, take Colton post a picture.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they did. They're on vacation in Mexico, so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But like they're in a big group. Oh no, uh yeah,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: but like it's a big group and he's like next
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  Speaker 1: to another reality star. So they're trying to make something
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  Speaker 1: out of it. We have nothing beyond that. They like
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  Speaker 1: they said they're close in the photo, they're like not kissing.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like have any romantic body language. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently they also are snapping picks of them sipping Bargarita's
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  Speaker 1: and enjoying some chicken nuggets. So if you want to
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  Speaker 1: call that romance, I mean I do find chicken nuggets
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  Speaker 1: to be something in a way in my heart, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But Johnny, you guys, is from Yeah Pose and he
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  Speaker 1: has a close to two Instagram followers. Hey, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: He's out there. They're out there there in Mexico obviously
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  Speaker 1: having a good time. Well. Final headline. Oh, he's in Hacks. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So he's an actor. He's in that new show Hacks
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  Speaker 1: on HBO Max. It's actually really cute. I like that show,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: and he he plays um. I think he's the water guy.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have to watch the show. But it's cute. Well,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: final headline. I bet it's cute. I bet it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Go watch it. Who knows what's happening in Mexico. We
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  Speaker 1: can't really make assumptions, but it's nice to him having
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  Speaker 1: a good time. Well. Final headline this week is Shan
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  Speaker 1: low is boycotting the franchise over Chris Harrison's exit, wife
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Catherine reveals this. According to us, she just says that, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching the show. My husband is kind of boycotting
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  Speaker 1: it because of Chris Harrison stuff, but I'm watching it
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: to support the girls. It's been interesting. It's been interesting season.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the beginning. I'm excited for Katie h Not
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: much there. It's not like Shawn's commenting on it. But
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: he's stepping away. I can you know, I can see
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  Speaker 1: him being doing Yeah, I can I can see I
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  Speaker 1: can see him making this decision. Yeah. Well he's stepping
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: away for a bit. Well, that's all the headlines we
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: got this week. Quiet week in Bachelor Nation, which is
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: always something we should celebrate because it means that all
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: of us Wholigans aren't doing anything too crazy. Well, before
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: we say goodbye to you this week, we do have
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  Speaker 1: a really special guest. One of our interns, Lauren, is
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  Speaker 1: on the line right now to tell us about her
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  Speaker 1: connection with one of the current cast members on this
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: season of The Bachelorette. Lauren, you with us. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am hello, Lauren. So we heard that Andrew, who
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I would say as a front runner one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Was an instructor of yours. What did he teach you?
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and was my water polo coach when I was twelve? Well, wait,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: how old are you now? Now? I'm nineteen almost twenty. Okay,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: so wait, what is water polo? What is water pool?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Actually it's only really a big thing in California. So. Um,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: but it's a water sport with the ball where you
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: just like swim and you score goals into a net. Okay,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: so what do you know about Andrew? Um? So, Andrew. Actually,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: we didn't know who our coach was going to be
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  Speaker 1: when we were twelve. Uh, and then when we found
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  Speaker 1: out that it was him, we were all super excited
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  Speaker 1: because we thought that he was so cute and he
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  Speaker 1: was so nice. One of the things that I remember
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  Speaker 1: about him is after our first practice, he knew every
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: single girl on my team's name, so he was like,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: very caring, very sweet. Um. We had the Junior Olympics
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: also we call it j O's And after j O's
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  Speaker 1: he had all of the players and our parents over
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: to his house and he, um, yeah, he said nice
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: things about all of us. Uh. He was just such
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: a great guy. I really love him, so definitely reading
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: for him on the Bachelor head Do you feel like
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: he is husband material? I do. He was always so
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: good to um, all the kids on the team. He
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: we even like since we were so young. After every
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: game we came up with cheers and chants and dances,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: and he would get in the middle of the cheer
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: with us, dance with us. He was so funny. I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: loved him so sweet. Yeah, he's such a sweet guy.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: So we're shipping Andrew and Katie, or we're shipping Andrew
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: with somebody at some point in this franchise, we're on
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: his team. Okay. I like that. It doesn't change doesn't
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: change my perspective the guy. I kind of liked him already,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: but now now I'm all in. Well. Hey, Lauren, thank
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: you for joining us on your first appearance in the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast. I know this is such a nerve
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: racking experience to come on here and have to talk
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: to Ashley. I do it every day, I get it,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: but we're thankful for you. Uh. Well, with all of that,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: we want to thank you once again to Trista Sutter,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Lauren for joining us, uh and as always,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: thank you Ashley for jumping on Oh that's sweet. Hey.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back next week to break down another episode
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: of Katie season of the Bachelor. We'll be back right here,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: same time, same place. But before we do, I've been
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