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The Fall of JPJ and the Matt Donald Tornado · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: Jeez back. I was back last week, but I wasn't
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Speaker 1: back with you. You weren't back with me. I've missed
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Speaker 1: I've missed you. Ben. It's not like pre wedding glow
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Speaker 1: to you. A pre wedding glow, not a post honeymoon glows.
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Speaker 1: Post honeymoon glow, I mean, oh thank you, it's going
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Speaker 1: to fade fast because I feel like the worst thing
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Speaker 1: I could say, um, I meant like today was like
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Speaker 1: the first official work day back from like our whole
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Speaker 1: month off pretty much. You know, I've responded to some
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Speaker 1: emails here and there, and like I've ignored a lot
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Speaker 1: of and then but today, like Jared and I were
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Speaker 1: like bombarded with the phone calls and emails and texts,
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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, we're back to work, which is
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Speaker 1: an absolute fabulous thing, but you know, it's we were
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Speaker 1: like trying to drag out that nice little honeymoon period
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Speaker 1: as far as we could, but we definitely realized, like
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Speaker 1: today we're no longer on vacation in love. Yeah, How
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Speaker 1: long does it take you to like wind down when
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Speaker 1: you're on vacation. This has been a a popular topic
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Speaker 1: over the last few years as millennials have kind of
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Speaker 1: pulled back on how many vacations they're taking. Instead they're
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Speaker 1: doing more like just adventure travel. So like when you
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Speaker 1: go on a vacation to rest, relax and get your
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Speaker 1: mind off of everything going on in your world, how
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Speaker 1: many days that take you to kind of just relax.
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Speaker 1: I think it depends on whether I wrap up everything
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Speaker 1: the days before we go away, which I really try
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Speaker 1: to do, like I'll stay up really late to just
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Speaker 1: try to get everything done and responded to. And with
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Speaker 1: Jared and I on the honeymoon, like pretty much midway
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Speaker 1: that week before the wedding, we were like okay, like
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, We're okay, we're done with everything and we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna like let loose, and so I think on
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Speaker 1: our honeymoon it was super easy. Of course, we were
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Speaker 1: in Europe for thirteen nights, so we did like have
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Speaker 1: a couple of nights where we like had to get
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Speaker 1: in the computer and respond to emails and edit some stuff,
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Speaker 1: but for the most part, we were like very We're
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Speaker 1: pretty unplowed the This is a good question for the listeners, Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Over the last few weeks we've been asking our listeners
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Speaker 1: to twitter in or email in responses to just two
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Speaker 1: questions each podcast, and they've been incredible at it and
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Speaker 1: it's super fun to read. So I'm gonna ask all
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Speaker 1: the listeners if you go on vacation and you've got
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Speaker 1: a hectic We're all busy. Everybody is busy these days.
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Speaker 1: If you're busy, you take a vacation, how many days
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Speaker 1: does it take you to wind down? And then I
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Speaker 1: had also for my own benefit, like to know what
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Speaker 1: do you do? Like Ashley said, she kind of tries
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Speaker 1: to get everything done beforehand and prep so that winding
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Speaker 1: down is easier. Also, I have to say apologize everybody
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Speaker 1: listening and to you, ash My allergies are awful right now.
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Speaker 1: So I'm stuffy. It's okay, Yeah, it's cute. I know
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Speaker 1: it is awful. Like over the last week it has
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Speaker 1: like tripled. So if I sound like melancholy and not
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Speaker 1: into this, it's not at all the case. I just
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Speaker 1: can't breathe. I want to say one thing in respond
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Speaker 1: to your question. I think what Jared and I do
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Speaker 1: as far as like like just having nights or like
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Speaker 1: blocks of time too if any work comes up to
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Speaker 1: address it is the best way. I think if you
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Speaker 1: are responding to every email in every text while they
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Speaker 1: come at you, then you never get centered on a vacation.
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Speaker 1: I think you need to be like, Okay, I will
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Speaker 1: address this tonight like and ignore it until then. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's not a bad idea. Yeah, I think so. I
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Speaker 1: was talking to Jessica about this other day because we're
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Speaker 1: gonna take a trip to a wedding in Mexico here
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Speaker 1: coming up, and we decided that I can't not do
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Speaker 1: anything all day like that. I just don't. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: help me. And so what it doesn't help you relax
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Speaker 1: if you realize how much you have. So I like
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Speaker 1: an hour and a half after my workout in the
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Speaker 1: mornings on vacation are the best. Hey, um, Ashley, We've
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Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about, but before we do,
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Speaker 1: let's take a quick break to talk about some of
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Speaker 1: our sponsors and we're gonna get back and break down
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Speaker 1: these this week's episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Jared and
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Speaker 1: I are obviously still getting some gifts in from our
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Speaker 1: Creating Barrel Registry. We have the most wonderful things, and
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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that we're working on now
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Speaker 1: now that we're home, is decorating our apartment, like putting
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Speaker 1: all of the registry items away and well not away,
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Speaker 1: but on display, and making our house our home now
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Speaker 1: and a home together, not a home that Jared moved into,
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Speaker 1: not like a girl retreat that my sister and I created.
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Speaker 1: It's now our home and we love the craning barrel
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Speaker 1: items that we've gotten. We were able to schedule a
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Speaker 1: style and what your needs are, whether or not you
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Speaker 1: feel like I should say we're back and we have
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Speaker 1: a special guest co host actually like and Nettie's because
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Speaker 1: now we're together. Sad, Ben, we've missed you Ash, it's been.
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Speaker 1: It's been sad with that. We've had a great time
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Speaker 1: and we've made it work and we've done our best,
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Speaker 1: but you were missed by so many. You had to
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Speaker 1: talk about a lot of hot topics by yourself or
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Speaker 1: with the help of Easton and Mark and Tory and
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Speaker 1: Amy I'm sure and whoever the guests were that week,
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Speaker 1: But there was some very spicy topics that you had
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Speaker 1: to address, from Demi and Christian to uh, what was
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Speaker 1: the other? Really? I guess Blake. You did Blake all alone, Dean. Wow. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's crazy. But since we've been talking so much about
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Speaker 1: my vacation and my wedding, I want to ask you
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Speaker 1: what you've done the past couple of weeks besides the
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Speaker 1: podcast alone, Ashley, this is something so cool and I'm
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Speaker 1: glad you asked at the end of this podcast. By
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Speaker 1: the way, we haven't our notes here. I really want
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about your wedding and the honeymoon
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Speaker 1: and just like go into more details. I think it's important.
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Speaker 1: So even if you feel like you've talked about it
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Speaker 1: a ton, I want you to be selfish and talk
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Speaker 1: about it more time until our honeymo video comes out.
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Speaker 1: But we'll break down the podcast first or the episodes first.
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Speaker 1: But this is what I did, Ashley. For a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks, I've been talking about almost famous podcast. I
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Speaker 1: haven't gotten into too many details about. Ten months ago,
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Speaker 1: two friends and I came up with an idea um
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Speaker 1: and I want to say I followed them. It's called
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Speaker 1: the Wedding Party. And the wedding Party was this festival
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Speaker 1: where nine couples got married at one time on a stage.
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Speaker 1: I was the officiant. And then the reception is a
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Speaker 1: joint reception where all the couple's friends and family come
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Speaker 1: together to celebrate. And then we also sold five hundred
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Speaker 1: wedding crash your tickets for random strangers that just want
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Speaker 1: to come to a massive, huge celebration. So the reception
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Speaker 1: is a food and drink festival. It happened this last Sunday.
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Speaker 1: This happened this week. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
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Speaker 1: it came in one already. This has been something thousand
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Speaker 1: people showed up. Two. How I feel about that? I mean, like,
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Speaker 1: I just want to know everybody at my wedding. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why these people would choose to, you know,
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Speaker 1: to have strangers at their wedding. But okay, so here's here.
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Speaker 1: It was our thought process. Actually, it was a magical night.
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Speaker 1: We had couples, uh, from all different backgrounds, all different
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Speaker 1: love stories. Uh. It was a very diverse group and
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Speaker 1: that made it so beautiful, and everybody was sharing love
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Speaker 1: on stage. Here's the type of people we had, right,
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Speaker 1: we had people that were going to Elope, uh, and
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Speaker 1: so they're just gonna go to the kind of the
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Speaker 1: courthouse and Elope. They were couples who maybe didn't have
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Speaker 1: the time to plan a wedding, or maybe didn't have
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Speaker 1: the finance to plan a wedding, or they just wanted
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Speaker 1: something weird. So like we had some couples that just
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Speaker 1: wanted like their wedding to be something weird, and so
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Speaker 1: all of those couples kind of matched our criteria. It
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Speaker 1: was beautiful. I'm telling you. We were all nervous. I
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Speaker 1: was so anxious for weeks now, I've been anxious about
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Speaker 1: this thing, and it happened, and every couple on the
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Speaker 1: bus home that night, I was crying. It was amazing.
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Speaker 1: Did you officiate just one of the ceremonies? No, all nine.
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Speaker 1: You officiated nine ceremonies. It was one massive ceremony. So
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Speaker 1: the nine couples sit up on stage that each had
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Speaker 1: individual vows, walked down the aisle, and then all nine
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Speaker 1: couples sit up on stage and I went through the
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Speaker 1: whole thing with all nine of them. That's really cool.
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Speaker 1: If you're into something that's a little bit like different,
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Speaker 1: you know, if if you don't, if you never imagined
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Speaker 1: yourself having a traditional wedding, like you said, some of
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Speaker 1: these people were going to Elope. Some of these people
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Speaker 1: didn't want to plan that. It makes a lot of
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Speaker 1: sense for you, But you know it would be I
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Speaker 1: would you know it would be. It's unconventional. It is,
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Speaker 1: it is unconventional. It has to be the right person.
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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you if you are the right couple.
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Speaker 1: It worked really well. But I just want to say
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Speaker 1: congratulations and Dining on Events, Um, that was It was
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Speaker 1: just a massive, beautiful ceremony. And the wedding planners knew
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Speaker 1: Troy from your wedding. They were good friends with them,
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Speaker 1: so that was cool. Anyways, Hey, if you're out there
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Speaker 1: listening to this and you think this is weird or
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Speaker 1: you think it's cool, uh, check out the wedding party
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Speaker 1: on Instagram, all the videos from this weekend. We're on it.
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Speaker 1: We'll do it again in a city near you, I
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Speaker 1: think really soon. Okay, Hey, that's enough about me. Actually,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about you at the end of the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump in to this week's episode of Bachelor in Paradise. Actually,
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Speaker 1: there's so much going on. There's so much, so much
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Speaker 1: to talk about. I feel like we're at a place
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Speaker 1: where every love story is kind of culminating. And now
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Speaker 1: it's the make or break week in Paradise. It's that
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Speaker 1: decision making week because we're we have two more weeks left,
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Speaker 1: which is I think two more weeks, am I wrong?
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Speaker 1: Which is the longest season of Paradise ever though that's
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Speaker 1: seven weeks and it was four hours a week, all right. Actually,
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Speaker 1: after watching this week's episodes, I think there's only one
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Speaker 1: way to really break these down fairly, and that's to
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Speaker 1: kind of do it in all in one, like not
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Speaker 1: to do episode by episode like we usually do. But
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Speaker 1: they kind of tie it all together because it feels
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Speaker 1: like during this make or Break It week, all the
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Speaker 1: storylines are so tied together. You down for that, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's do it, okay, perfect, Okay. So here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: This whole episode or these all these episodes kind of
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Speaker 1: are set up with coming off of Kris and Crystal's wedding,
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Speaker 1: which was way more dramatic than any of us preferred
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Speaker 1: or wanted or even probably they wanted, but it caused
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Speaker 1: a lot of minute They were like that was they
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Speaker 1: didn't they didn't feel happy watching this back. It seems
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Speaker 1: like all this whole episode is set up by Chris
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Speaker 1: and Crystal's wedding, which had a lot of drama there
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Speaker 1: here last week talking about that it wasn't preferred, but
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Speaker 1: it happened. I mean, it's paradise. And some of the
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Speaker 1: biggest drama leading into this week was the question over
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Speaker 1: is Clay over Angela Ashley to me, I've has been
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Speaker 1: very clear, and that's why I'm confused the whole time
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Speaker 1: that he is very over Angela. It's still weird. It's
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Speaker 1: his ex, like there's still a little bit of a pole.
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Speaker 1: It's still probably hard to see her like that. That's natural,
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Speaker 1: but he's he's very much over her. It feels like
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Speaker 1: the beach though. The people on the beach are trying
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Speaker 1: to convince him that he isn't over Isn't that so weird?
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Speaker 1: I would have never thought that he wasn't over it
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Speaker 1: until Tasia made a big deal that he wasn't and
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Speaker 1: she she said, like, you didn't mention that you had
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Speaker 1: a girlfriend to like everybody at the wedding, the newcomers
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Speaker 1: and such. Angela included in that, and I was all like,
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Speaker 1: understanding what you just said. Until Tasia brought up that
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Speaker 1: fact and I was like, wait, that is weird that
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Speaker 1: she didn't That he didn't bring up Nicole's name when
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Speaker 1: talking to Angela. That's wacky. That that's that that's proof
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Speaker 1: to me that maybe he was or Okay, maybe that
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Speaker 1: doesn't signal that he is not over Angela. Maybe it's
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Speaker 1: signals that he didn't want to hurt Angela more in
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Speaker 1: that moment, that was where I was going. I have
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Speaker 1: been around now, I was just thinking about this preparing
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Speaker 1: for the podcast. Was I been around some of my friends.
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Speaker 1: One of my my good buddies, you know, went through
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Speaker 1: a pretty bad breakup. He's now dating again. I cannot
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Speaker 1: imagine if he saw his ex and like within that conversation,
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Speaker 1: like how hard it was because they care about each
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Speaker 1: other still, like there it's a mutual breakup. They're fine,
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Speaker 1: but I think it would hurt them both if like
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Speaker 1: another name was brought up just out of nowhere. Now,
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Speaker 1: if it was asked, hey, how's your girlfriend. I think
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Speaker 1: it would be great to say she's awesome, she's great,
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Speaker 1: We're doing really well, but just says like I think
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Speaker 1: probably he felt like he was gonna just be like
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Speaker 1: rubbing it in a little bit if if he brought
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Speaker 1: up her name. Yeah, And he should have told Tisha
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Speaker 1: when she confronted him about that, that he simply didn't
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Speaker 1: want to hurt her feelings anymore, and that he probably
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Speaker 1: thought or he was probably naive to the thought that
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Speaker 1: there was a possibility of Angela coming into Paradise. He
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Speaker 1: possibly thought that he was just having a conversation with
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Speaker 1: her at the wedding and that she would find out
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Speaker 1: when he got home from Paradise that she showed up.
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Speaker 1: Is it hypocritical at all? It's a hypocrite. She's madic
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Speaker 1: Clay for coming down to Paradise and being there so soon.
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Speaker 1: Is it hypocritical at all for her to show up?
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Speaker 1: Or is it fair because since he went, it gives
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Speaker 1: her the not permission. Nobody needs permission to go to Paradise,
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Speaker 1: but does give her the right or does it make
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Speaker 1: it feel better that she came. I think I'm on
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Speaker 1: the side of it's fair that she's there, and like
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Speaker 1: she gets to do the whole thing too, especially if
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Speaker 1: he was the one who ended the relationship, then she
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Speaker 1: definitely should be allowed to go down to Paradise. I
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Speaker 1: think people in this whole like drama are probably being like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but she's just there to create drama for Clay and
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Speaker 1: prevent him from having a happy ending. Possibly, she probably
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Speaker 1: wanted to go in and ruffle little feathers. She probably
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Speaker 1: wanted to make him feel a little bit jealous by
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Speaker 1: going out with Mike. She probably or anyone for that matter,
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Speaker 1: she but like, I don't think that she I think
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Speaker 1: maybe her intention was to go in and ruffle feathers
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Speaker 1: and make him jealous. But I think that at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, she just end up going to
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Speaker 1: end up moving on. Yeah, I'm with you. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it feels like both of them
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Speaker 1: had a mutual breakup. There was pains involved, it's time
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Speaker 1: to move on. And honestly, throughout this pod or throughout
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Speaker 1: this episode, I felt like we moved on and we
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Speaker 1: moved on to a mutual though, Ben, I think that
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Speaker 1: he broke up with her and she wanted to get back.
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Speaker 1: I think what you mean is like she wasn't like
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Speaker 1: it was done. It was there was no loose ends.
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Speaker 1: But I actually think that there was a loose end,
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Speaker 1: and I think that it was because Clay was trying
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Speaker 1: to ease the blow and he probably said something along
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Speaker 1: the lines. And I'm not sure if I said this
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Speaker 1: last week in the podcast, and I apologize to listeners
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Speaker 1: if I am repeating myself, but he said I think
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Speaker 1: when he was trying to ease the blow of the breakup,
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Speaker 1: he must have said something like, you know, I'm not
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Speaker 1: in the place right now, but one day I might be,
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Speaker 1: So like maybe this isn't over, but maybe, but I
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Speaker 1: really need to take a break now. And if he
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Speaker 1: did end it like that, then I can see her
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Speaker 1: holding on hope and I can now understand why she
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Speaker 1: was so upset to see him there, because he should
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Speaker 1: have just been upfront and being like, you're not my person.
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Speaker 1: It's a weird breakup actually, because I remember when this
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Speaker 1: whole Paradise season started, we were just getting into it,
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Speaker 1: and I mean, there was a thousand rumors around why
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Speaker 1: they broke up, from cheating to yeah, like there was
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Speaker 1: all these different rumors. I don't have any clue what happened.
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Speaker 1: There was no cheating, but I don't know why that
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Speaker 1: rumor started. I think, I think honestly because of the
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Speaker 1: way she acted at the wedding. She seemed like a
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Speaker 1: woman scored. Oh she did? Holy cow? Do you that
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Speaker 1: walk was? We all were like, what the like? We
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Speaker 1: felt the power in the stride. It was something else.
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Speaker 1: So well, let's close that chapter though, because it feels
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Speaker 1: like a chapter needs to be closed. Clay is happy,
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Speaker 1: Angela is moving on, and I want to sit here
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Speaker 1: for a bit, Ashley and try to dice sect the
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Speaker 1: J p J kind of interactions that he's having on
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Speaker 1: this episode. It feels heavy, it feels odd. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to watch from a guy that we've loved for his
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Speaker 1: joy and and and peacefulness and just kind of go
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Speaker 1: with the flow attitude. Ashley. It's gonna be a lot.
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Speaker 1: But I want to ask the second question of the
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on JPJ? I don't know, you know, I
18:45
Speaker 1: want the listeners to know. I really want the listeners
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Speaker 1: to kind of we're going to talk about ours, but
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Speaker 1: I really want the listeners to kind of fill in
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Speaker 1: on their thoughts. I think everybody's confused. It feels hard
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Speaker 1: to watch, and it isn't getting any easier to watch
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Speaker 1: with that. Actually, before we talk about jp J, let's
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Speaker 1: take one more breaks Cliffhanger. All right, Ashley, one of
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Speaker 1: our favorite people to ever come onto the Bachelor franchise.
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Speaker 1: We've loved him, we've supported him, we've lifted him up,
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Speaker 1: and we put him on this prestigious pedestal, and then
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Speaker 1: this week j p J feels like falls hard. He
19:32
Speaker 1: feels like he falls hard in multiple ways. He's falling
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Speaker 1: hard for Tasia, but he's falling hard on the show
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Speaker 1: as well. Ashley, you're always an expert at this. You
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Speaker 1: break these things down better than I ever could. What
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Speaker 1: are you seeing? What are you feeling? And then leading
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Speaker 1: into even the second episode, what where? What are we
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Speaker 1: thinking about JPJ? Right now? My my thoughts on jp
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Speaker 1: J are really all over the place. I want to
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Speaker 1: say that I think that he's been one of our
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Speaker 1: favorite people to watch, but we even't really like known
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Speaker 1: his character, and now where he's kind of like showing
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Speaker 1: his character and it's like he just seems to want
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Speaker 1: to fight. I don't know, I really I wish. I
20:15
Speaker 1: wish I could articulate myself better here with JPJ. But
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Speaker 1: maybe he truly heard something. I really want to give
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Speaker 1: him a bit of the benefit of the doubt right
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Speaker 1: now and say that maybe he truly did hear something
20:29
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of Derek saying something that he really
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Speaker 1: thought symbolize a character fall on him and he was
20:37
Speaker 1: really trying to protect Asia from a bad guy. Um,
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Speaker 1: But what it appears on TV is that he's really
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Speaker 1: just jealous and coming up with anything to claim that
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Speaker 1: Derok is just a jerk who is unfit for Tasia.
20:52
Speaker 1: His behavior has been extra The way that he's dealt
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Speaker 1: with this jealousy or whatever he heard is really been
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Speaker 1: completely immature. He has very poor argumentative skills, and I
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Speaker 1: think now that Derek is gone, I I think it's
21:10
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for him to win Tasha back after
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Speaker 1: all the drama that he's created. Here's what I think.
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Speaker 1: What do you think? I think that j Pj's feeling
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Speaker 1: like he really cares for Tasha. He doesn't know how
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Speaker 1: to handle that well. I don't think his ability to
21:29
Speaker 1: debate has gone well at all. I think he gets
21:31
Speaker 1: in his own head. In his own head, he doesn't
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Speaker 1: make great points, So we're watching him just kind of
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Speaker 1: get frustrated with not only a situation but with himself
21:38
Speaker 1: because he has things he wants to say. But then
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Speaker 1: he just laughs in people's face, which is one of
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Speaker 1: the most childish, disrespectful things I could I could think of,
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Speaker 1: And I'm not okay with that. If I have an
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Speaker 1: issue with another person and actually I need to go
21:51
Speaker 1: off on a little tangent. I haven't done this in
21:53
Speaker 1: a while, but it feels kind of good if I
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Speaker 1: have an issue with a person, how Derek handled that. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what Derek said behind the scenes. I
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Speaker 1: don't know Derek really well personally, But if I have
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Speaker 1: an issue with somebody, what Derek did by going to
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Speaker 1: JPJ and saying, can we talk about this together personally
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Speaker 1: because I want to just try to get this fixed,
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Speaker 1: is the right way to handle it. But I can
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Speaker 1: see where angle anger ensues when somebody starts laughing in
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Speaker 1: your face about some of the things you're upset about.
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Speaker 1: I also now I fear that JPJ blaming this on
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Speaker 1: Derek is going to come back to Biden because I
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Speaker 1: think jpj's issues are gonna still exist even with Derek gone,
22:27
Speaker 1: which is gonna show that Derek wasn't the issue. The
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Speaker 1: issue was JPJ himself struggling with ever whatever emotion was
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Speaker 1: internally inside of him. And I'm coming to all of this,
22:38
Speaker 1: and I didn't say a lot about it last week
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Speaker 1: because I didn't know how I felt. I'm saying all
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Speaker 1: of this because for me, it was proven this week
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Speaker 1: that JPJ has something going on that is not healthy
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Speaker 1: and not good when he spoke to Haley when it
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Speaker 1: was just Derek and JPJ is like, Okay, maybe Derek
22:54
Speaker 1: did say something behind the scenes upset JPJ. Maybe Derek
22:58
Speaker 1: is like showing us side not around cameras that we
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Speaker 1: are seeing. I don't know that side of it, right,
23:01
Speaker 1: I got to just kind of watch and see. But
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Speaker 1: once JPJ sat down with Haley and the way he
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Speaker 1: handled that conversation and how much confidence he had and
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Speaker 1: that he handled it correctly, which he didn't, and how
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Speaker 1: sad and hurt she was and how bad he wasn't communicating,
23:19
Speaker 1: then I then it for for the first time, we
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Speaker 1: really started to think this is a JPJ issue only
23:25
Speaker 1: and nobody else's issue. Yeah, you're right, boom he said it.
23:29
Speaker 1: You're talking about the conversation that they had at the bar,
23:32
Speaker 1: and that was she just I was so proud of
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Speaker 1: her in that moment, and I love the way Demi
23:37
Speaker 1: was reacting to her because like she kept hitting all
23:39
Speaker 1: of his hypocritical points. Yeah, definitely. It's just it's tough,
23:43
Speaker 1: and we see it through episode two as well. Is
23:46
Speaker 1: the guys worked up, and when he works up, it
23:49
Speaker 1: feels like he does the common thing where once we
23:51
Speaker 1: get angry, we stopped listening and we start to like
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Speaker 1: get defensive and have more confidence that our anger is necessary.
23:59
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, none of us are our best
24:01
Speaker 1: selves when we're defensive. I said it last week. I'll
24:04
Speaker 1: say it again this week. None of us are our
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Speaker 1: best sellers and we're defensive. We have too in those moments,
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Speaker 1: take a step back and go what am I seeing here? What?
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Speaker 1: What is the situation? Am I wrong? Am I right? Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know there's there's a great quote that my mentor
24:19
Speaker 1: told me. And when you put yourself in a place
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Speaker 1: of leadership or you have a platform, like anybody in
24:25
Speaker 1: this show has, you give up the ability to overreact.
24:29
Speaker 1: And I think in this moment J PJ is overreacting
24:33
Speaker 1: and we're watching it live on television and we're not
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Speaker 1: seeing his best self. I don't think. And then I
24:38
Speaker 1: want to ask you and I want to ask our
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Speaker 1: listeners this, what we're seeing right now is not who
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Speaker 1: JPJ typically is. Right, It's not a microcosm of his
24:48
Speaker 1: everyday life, or do you guys believe it is? Like?
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Speaker 1: Is this how he interacts into his normal everyday life
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Speaker 1: and we just haven't seen it yet? No. I think
24:56
Speaker 1: that this is a case of the show and the
24:58
Speaker 1: situations that the show puts you in um putting, displaying
25:03
Speaker 1: the worst part of your personality, a part of your
25:05
Speaker 1: personality that you do yourself, don't even see very often,
25:08
Speaker 1: but like it comes out in this very weird culture
25:12
Speaker 1: that is Bachelor in Paradise. I think that remember before
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Speaker 1: the wedding, the first half of the wedding, it was
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Speaker 1: so funny that during the during like the pre cocktail party,
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Speaker 1: everyone was talking about JPJ and like how surprised they
25:26
Speaker 1: were by him, and how wonderful he was and the
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Speaker 1: best listener and communicator and all this stuff, and like
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Speaker 1: people said that they felt so deeply connected to him.
25:35
Speaker 1: And then the second half of the wedding, during the
25:38
Speaker 1: actual you know, like the cocktail party before the reception,
25:42
Speaker 1: everybody was like that was so out of character, and everybodydy,
25:46
Speaker 1: everybody's felt so thrown off by him. So I think
25:48
Speaker 1: what his normal personality is is what they described. But
25:52
Speaker 1: then I think the situation that he was part of
25:54
Speaker 1: just made the worst of himself come out well, and
25:57
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to throw it of Tassia too much,
26:01
Speaker 1: super confused because like you'd think that it would, but
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Speaker 1: maybe and like you know what she's like at the wedding.
26:08
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this. At the wedding, she told
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Speaker 1: me that both JPJ and Derek were interested in her,
26:16
Speaker 1: but she said that her heart was really pulling her
26:19
Speaker 1: in the JPJ such um side of things. But on
26:23
Speaker 1: the show, I've seen her more torn than anything, and
26:27
Speaker 1: I don't see any of these strong emotions that she
26:30
Speaker 1: told me about. I think she just seems confused. And
26:34
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, doesn't she just seem confused to me.
26:37
Speaker 1: Like when she dumped Derek, it was because she clearly
26:40
Speaker 1: didn't really have feelings for Derek. But with jp J,
26:43
Speaker 1: I don't really feel anything for her either. It's it's
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Speaker 1: almost like maybe we didn't see all of it, but
26:49
Speaker 1: it's almost like jp if she was so unattracted to
26:52
Speaker 1: the arguments, it felt like I'm I'm not. It felt
26:57
Speaker 1: like JPJ almost was leading these arguments. So if she
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Speaker 1: was unattracted to Derek because he was argumentative, then wouldn't
27:05
Speaker 1: she just be unattracted to Jpj's well, But she chooses,
27:08
Speaker 1: so I don't think she wasn't She wasn't unattracted to
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Speaker 1: Derek because of like any argument. She just like truly
27:14
Speaker 1: felt more of a intellectual, emotional, I don't know, physical
27:18
Speaker 1: attraction to JPJ over Derek. And this was before the
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Speaker 1: fight even happened, that I was having this conversation with her.
27:26
Speaker 1: But I wonder why she felt that she why she
27:29
Speaker 1: would even entertain the idea of Derek there. Yeah, I
27:33
Speaker 1: think I haven't. I have a theory. Her brain was
27:37
Speaker 1: saying JPJ makes no sense with you. You have no
27:41
Speaker 1: future with a guy like that. He's never what you
27:43
Speaker 1: pictured yourself with. But there was some pull in her
27:46
Speaker 1: heart that said, like, you should give this a try. Yeah,
27:50
Speaker 1: And it's almost like that you hear it every once
27:52
Speaker 1: in a while kind of whispered into bachelination is like
27:54
Speaker 1: the Bachelor's the one time you can date somebody that
27:56
Speaker 1: you're not typically used to dating. And it feels like
28:00
Speaker 1: Sha isn't used to dating like the jpg's of the world,
28:02
Speaker 1: and it scares her. And then and then when she
28:05
Speaker 1: starts to like tip her you know, toe in the water,
28:08
Speaker 1: the JPJ water, She's like, oh, I kind of like it,
28:10
Speaker 1: but yeah, it feels weird and it's like a little
28:12
Speaker 1: bit off. I think that this whole situation is going
28:17
Speaker 1: to be an interesting one to watch. I mean obviously
28:20
Speaker 1: Tasia hasn't given up on them yet. It feels it
28:24
Speaker 1: feels like hopefully JPJ can start to get his stuff together.
28:26
Speaker 1: I still feel bad, honestly for Haley. I don't love
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Speaker 1: how this played out for her. Um it isn't great.
28:34
Speaker 1: She's a great girl. Um. I've gotten to know them personally,
28:37
Speaker 1: obviously they're on my season. Uh and Haley for the
28:41
Speaker 1: first time, you know, a long time time to through
28:42
Speaker 1: a risk and came there without her sister. It feels
28:45
Speaker 1: like this isn't gonna end well for Haley, and unfortunately
28:48
Speaker 1: JPJ is the cause of it. And we should also
28:51
Speaker 1: say that Haley ends up getting given her rose to to.
28:58
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Nick, which is really it's not Nick,
29:01
Speaker 1: it's Luke s and I don't understand these comparisons. There's
29:05
Speaker 1: a similarity, but they're not the same. People think they're
29:12
Speaker 1: very similar looking, not like the same person said yes
29:16
Speaker 1: and no, like yes and no. I mean okay, it's
29:19
Speaker 1: it's if you set them side by side, you'd be like, okay,
29:22
Speaker 1: they look similar. Now Now Nick is like, it's the face,
29:27
Speaker 1: it's just all the hair textures and it's the hair.
29:30
Speaker 1: I mean, Nick's Nick's a Division one athlete. Like there's
29:34
Speaker 1: a different like body structure that exists with Nick than
29:38
Speaker 1: than Lucas. Uh well, hey, we brought up blue cast,
29:41
Speaker 1: so let's talk about it. Not nothing crazy going on here.
29:44
Speaker 1: But Lucas shows up to the beach along with Mr
29:47
Speaker 1: McDonald um, and they are I mean, McDonald's the hot
29:53
Speaker 1: commodity in Paradise. Lucas doesn't get a lot of attention.
29:56
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of like takes Christina out by
29:58
Speaker 1: default or Christina goes out with him by the fall.
30:00
Speaker 1: But McDonald, now, yeah, women are like super into him
30:06
Speaker 1: and it's funny. I don't. I don't. I think he's
30:11
Speaker 1: a good looking guy. I don't like to understand why
30:13
Speaker 1: the women are just funny. He seems very sweet. He
30:17
Speaker 1: comes from apparently a very wholesome household because he's very
30:22
Speaker 1: concerned about his mom seeing him kiss on the show.
30:25
Speaker 1: He's not used to the whole Bachelor format, considering he
30:28
Speaker 1: was eliminated on night one of Hannah's season, so he's
30:32
Speaker 1: very slow to kiss Sydney, which he does before the
30:35
Speaker 1: rose ceremony in which she gives him her rose, but
30:41
Speaker 1: then he ends up going out on a date with Bree,
30:44
Speaker 1: who is super beautiful and from Arisri season. Wait, no,
30:50
Speaker 1: she's from she's from Colton season. Why would I think
30:52
Speaker 1: she's from c Coulton season? Totally under the radar. She
30:56
Speaker 1: comes in and Matt McDonald goes on a date with
30:59
Speaker 1: her and they kiss there too. It's Donald, by the way,
31:01
Speaker 1: I said McDonald, But it's Donald. I just looked it up.
31:05
Speaker 1: It is Donald, looked McDonald. You know. He was being
31:11
Speaker 1: kind of hyped up as the next grocery store Joe.
31:14
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's got that swagger. Actually, I'm
31:18
Speaker 1: all for wholesomeness. I really am. Like it's nice. It'sespecially
31:22
Speaker 1: good to see on this show, but it feels weird
31:26
Speaker 1: to me. And I love my mom and I don't
31:29
Speaker 1: want her to see me doing weird stuff on TV.
31:31
Speaker 1: That's not good for anybody. But it felt like almost
31:34
Speaker 1: awkward for me to watch him say I can't do
31:36
Speaker 1: this because my mom wouldn't like it. It was super weird.
31:39
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're an adult, You're on the Bachelor. Your
31:41
Speaker 1: mom I'm sure condones you being on the Bachelor because
31:45
Speaker 1: this is your second time around. It's okay. It was
31:49
Speaker 1: super awkward because she said, I'm sorry, I keep saying
31:51
Speaker 1: super awk, but she said, um that thing like how
31:56
Speaker 1: do you say kiss? And then he was like, I
31:58
Speaker 1: don't think I can do that. I mean, so we agree,
32:02
Speaker 1: Like Matt Donald seems like a nice dude, Like he
32:04
Speaker 1: seems like his intentions are good. He you know, the
32:08
Speaker 1: women are saying that he's super attractive. They're into it.
32:11
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Matt Donald here. I mean, I know,
32:15
Speaker 1: his like whole hey, i'm not gonna kiss you thing
32:17
Speaker 1: because my mom's watching feels weird. But then he ends
32:19
Speaker 1: up kissing her. You know, he doesn't hold back from
32:23
Speaker 1: the kissing after he gets comfortable with the cameras. I
32:26
Speaker 1: I get it, Like when you show I mean, he
32:28
Speaker 1: was only we forget this. He was only there for
32:31
Speaker 1: a few hours during his time on the Bachelorette. He
32:34
Speaker 1: isn't used to the cameras at all. The rest of
32:36
Speaker 1: these people are. He shows up now for the first
32:39
Speaker 1: time ever, he's in front of cameras and he's dating
32:41
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be kissing. It is a hard transition.
32:46
Speaker 1: So that's all we can't forget here. I think for me,
32:49
Speaker 1: I got like right away, I was like, well, that's weird.
32:50
Speaker 1: He's just being weird. And then I was like, no,
32:52
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, this dude's in front of
32:54
Speaker 1: cameras and he's being pursued for the first time ever.
32:57
Speaker 1: Like he got thrown in fast to this whole thing
33:03
Speaker 1: he did. He's not used to it, and like that
33:05
Speaker 1: always happens with the night winners that end up in paradise.
33:09
Speaker 1: But he's gonna thrive. It kind of already feels like it, right,
33:14
Speaker 1: I mean, did we see it with with Bree, who
33:18
Speaker 1: is a beautiful person. We've met Brie and she's into him.
33:23
Speaker 1: So now Matt Donald has his his hands full, and
33:26
Speaker 1: I wonder how I want Haley to do well. I
33:30
Speaker 1: want Haley to do well. Why can't Haley and Matt
33:33
Speaker 1: be okay? Why can't they be dating? It just feels
33:36
Speaker 1: like I think that Haley. I honestly thought Haley and
33:40
Speaker 1: JPJ were the couple that could make it work. Remember
33:43
Speaker 1: when we said, like going into Paradise. I think before
33:46
Speaker 1: it's shot that we were like the JPJ and Haley
33:50
Speaker 1: makes so much sense together. Um, she like she said
33:53
Speaker 1: that he's playful and funny and smart, and they could
33:57
Speaker 1: you know that she could be a really good match
33:59
Speaker 1: with APJ, but we obviously see that she had no
34:02
Speaker 1: longer felt that way eventually. But we still want happiness
34:05
Speaker 1: for Haley, but I guess we want happiness for everyone. Yeah,
34:09
Speaker 1: I mean we do, but at the same time, we
34:11
Speaker 1: want good matches, and it feels like the JPJ Haley
34:14
Speaker 1: match worked. It also feels like Matt Donald is compatible
34:17
Speaker 1: here with a lot of the women left in Paradise.
34:20
Speaker 1: I mean, we see Sydney still in tow him by
34:21
Speaker 1: giving him her rose, and then we see, you know,
34:24
Speaker 1: the brief situation kind of come to ahead with her
34:27
Speaker 1: asking Matt on the date Matt, Matt might be kind
34:30
Speaker 1: of that like last couple of weeks person to step
34:34
Speaker 1: into Paradise and cause a WorldWind, a whirlwind or you know,
34:39
Speaker 1: a big mess for the couple of sitting there tornado.
34:45
Speaker 1: It always is weird, though, with these late entrances, because
34:49
Speaker 1: it's often encouraged to leave Paradise engaged or you know,
34:54
Speaker 1: or then you can just like, you know, kind of
34:56
Speaker 1: flirt in real life. So it's always like, well, if
34:59
Speaker 1: they're going to come in this late, they're obviously not
35:01
Speaker 1: going to get engaged. So these people are just going
35:04
Speaker 1: to have to be okay with dating in real life
35:06
Speaker 1: and leaving the show before it's really like the show
35:09
Speaker 1: is done filming. Yeah right, it's like, what's the point.
35:14
Speaker 1: I think that there should be a season, And this
35:16
Speaker 1: is a great question for the audience. I think there
35:18
Speaker 1: should be a season where people stop coming in at
35:22
Speaker 1: a certain point and if you don't like anyone, if
35:26
Speaker 1: there's you're not hitting it off with anybody there and
35:29
Speaker 1: you're not like going to get to an engagement point,
35:33
Speaker 1: then you go and we watch people who are in relationships,
35:38
Speaker 1: serious relationships grow and we get to know their relationship more.
35:43
Speaker 1: Because I do think that there there there's a problem
35:47
Speaker 1: with Paradise because sometimes when you couple up and get
35:50
Speaker 1: into a serious relationship, that's when we stop seeing anything
35:53
Speaker 1: from you. Like we've seen so little Hannah g and
35:57
Speaker 1: Dylan the past couple of weeks because they're just happy
36:00
Speaker 1: and there's no drama with them anymore. But then we're
36:02
Speaker 1: not really getting to know what they have. The same thing,
36:05
Speaker 1: I mean, the same thing could be argued with Chris
36:07
Speaker 1: and Katie. We haven't seen any of Chris Bukowski and
36:09
Speaker 1: Katie because you know, like we saw this week he
36:11
Speaker 1: asked her to be his girlfriend, which means they've been
36:13
Speaker 1: doing great with little drama, so we don't see them
36:16
Speaker 1: like we we lose the love aspect of the show
36:22
Speaker 1: because they aren't creating any of the stories. Yes, so
36:25
Speaker 1: I think, like you know, maybe Bachelor producers, next season
36:29
Speaker 1: you cut people coming in off at a certain point
36:32
Speaker 1: and then we just get to see what's flourishing in
36:34
Speaker 1: paradise more. Let me know, audience, if you think that
36:38
Speaker 1: this is something that they should explore for a future season.
36:42
Speaker 1: That's a good question, and I mean it really comes
36:43
Speaker 1: out of this Ashley. Are people we're talking about this
36:47
Speaker 1: right now with the Bachelor Live Show where we're doing
36:49
Speaker 1: the tour around the United States? Is are people more
36:52
Speaker 1: interested in watching the drama or watching the love? We
36:55
Speaker 1: don't know yet. That's a question that everybody's been asking
36:57
Speaker 1: about The Bachelor since the beginning of time. Do you
36:59
Speaker 1: watch it for the drama or do you watch it
37:02
Speaker 1: for the love? If it was just a love show,
37:05
Speaker 1: would you still be as interested? I would argue you
37:08
Speaker 1: wouldn't be. I think we like watching the drama. I
37:10
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think there's a balance to be had,
37:13
Speaker 1: and I think maybe the quota for love is a
37:16
Speaker 1: little low right now, maybe a little bit more more
37:20
Speaker 1: just some funny moments between Katie and Chris or Hannah
37:26
Speaker 1: and Dylan. We did see some pretty intense uh Dylan
37:30
Speaker 1: boom boom room action. Yeah, I mean okay, so speaking
37:34
Speaker 1: of boom boom room, Yeah, let's move on. Yeah, we
37:37
Speaker 1: have a few more stories that we need to break down.
37:40
Speaker 1: We have Blake and Christina starting their little love triangle.
37:43
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37:46
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37:49
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37:51
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37:53
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37:59
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40:51
Speaker 1: few of the things that discussed. We have a big
40:53
Speaker 1: engagement in Batination. We also have your wedding to chat about.
40:57
Speaker 1: In addition to all that, we need to finish breaking
40:59
Speaker 1: that down this week's episodes of Bachelor in Paradise. There's
41:03
Speaker 1: really two main storylines that I think we need to
41:07
Speaker 1: talk about that are currently existing in Paradise. One is
41:12
Speaker 1: that you know, obviously we see Mike go home. Um,
41:17
Speaker 1: that's sad. And then you know, we don't know what
41:20
Speaker 1: his future entails, but we were hopeful that we'll see
41:24
Speaker 1: more of Mike. But outside of his departure, which is
41:28
Speaker 1: obviously a big departure from Paradise, we have the biggest
41:32
Speaker 1: story of the week, which is my in my opinion,
41:34
Speaker 1: the Dean scenario. And so let's start with a huge story,
41:38
Speaker 1: but not as impactful of story. It's the Blake and
41:42
Speaker 1: Christina situation. Here. Let's lay it down for a second.
41:46
Speaker 1: Blake and Christina, it's been public that they've dated before Paradise.
41:50
Speaker 1: They had something that was good, they had ended it mutually.
41:53
Speaker 1: But then also Christina was involved in the stagecoach coach scenario,
41:57
Speaker 1: so we saw her show up to Paradise take Blake
41:59
Speaker 1: on a date. Uh, she wasn't very happy with him.
42:03
Speaker 1: She had no intention of any romantic relationship with him,
42:06
Speaker 1: and then as this season has continued, she's been very
42:09
Speaker 1: supportive of Blake and kind of kept him around because
42:12
Speaker 1: she believes he is a good man that deserves love.
42:17
Speaker 1: We have Blake then, and we see him alone often sad.
42:21
Speaker 1: He always has a football in his hand. He's sometimes
42:23
Speaker 1: sitting off the side, he's stubbing his toe. His whole
42:25
Speaker 1: time on Paradise right, it's been awful. His whole time
42:29
Speaker 1: in Paradise has been painful at best, and it has
42:33
Speaker 1: not been good for him. I think it has caused
42:36
Speaker 1: obviously saw the public things that he's done on social media,
42:39
Speaker 1: he's gone out and said, hey, I this Kalin situation.
42:42
Speaker 1: It's not what it's looked like. There was a mutual thing.
42:44
Speaker 1: All this stuff has led up to this point. I
42:46
Speaker 1: told him to go to Europe, and I will clarify.
42:49
Speaker 1: I told him to go to Europe just for the
42:50
Speaker 1: Paradise airing, not to live forever, just to ignore things
42:57
Speaker 1: and ignore things. He probably should up the first few weeks,
43:01
Speaker 1: but he obviously didn't. Leading up to this moment, when
43:05
Speaker 1: Blake started saying all the characteristics he wants in a woman.
43:09
Speaker 1: He starts claiming all these things that he sees, and
43:11
Speaker 1: then he goes, holy cow, this woman is right in
43:14
Speaker 1: front of me and it's Christina Ashley. Just without let
43:21
Speaker 1: Stephen take the show out of play here. For if
43:25
Speaker 1: somebody were to tell you this story without you having
43:27
Speaker 1: any context, your first reaction would be what would be
43:33
Speaker 1: he does? He says he doesn't want to do friendship
43:35
Speaker 1: roses anymore, so he's going to up the antie with
43:38
Speaker 1: Christina just for Paradise. I mean, sorry, but they already
43:44
Speaker 1: did that whole relationship in real life thing and it
43:47
Speaker 1: didn't work out. I guess I can't speak though, because
43:53
Speaker 1: Jared and I did very similar things where it was
43:56
Speaker 1: like we're kind of together in Paradise, and then it's
43:58
Speaker 1: like we're kind of together camera, and then we're very
44:01
Speaker 1: much not together off camera, and then we're very off
44:04
Speaker 1: camera we're very not on in paradise. So feelings can
44:08
Speaker 1: change and evolve, and friendships can definitely turn into more
44:12
Speaker 1: even if they started romantic in the first place. So
44:16
Speaker 1: I can't completely crap on this, but I think it
44:19
Speaker 1: is a little bit hard for the audience to believe
44:22
Speaker 1: that at this moment, all the sudden, his eyes open
44:26
Speaker 1: to this girl who's been there all along, and it's
44:29
Speaker 1: supposed to be romantic, but it's just a little bit
44:33
Speaker 1: hard to buy. But sometimes things that are real are
44:37
Speaker 1: also hard to buy. Definitely, I just and I think
44:41
Speaker 1: she's skeptical too. I think that's maybe how you sum
44:43
Speaker 1: this up is we just don't know yet, but she's
44:45
Speaker 1: obviously skeptical. This whole scenario is a little skeptical. But
44:49
Speaker 1: we're also coming in this and I want to give
44:51
Speaker 1: Blake the benefit of the doubt. We're coming into into
44:53
Speaker 1: this whole thing with a frame of how this season's
44:56
Speaker 1: gone for him so far, and so you know, Blake
44:59
Speaker 1: hasn't been and uh maybe beloved or rooted for as
45:02
Speaker 1: much as maybe some of the people in Paradise are
45:04
Speaker 1: kind of routed for him. We don't know. But all this,
45:07
Speaker 1: you know, if this was if this same scenario was
45:09
Speaker 1: reversed and it was somebody like a let's say Clay,
45:12
Speaker 1: who we won't know, has wanted love, maybe he hasn't
45:15
Speaker 1: messed up like Blake did a couple of times, we
45:17
Speaker 1: would be saying this is maybe sweet, this is maybe nice,
45:21
Speaker 1: this is awesome, that he's still this woman that has
45:23
Speaker 1: been in front of the whole time. He's actually into Yeah,
45:27
Speaker 1: it definitely, definitely, You're right. It depends. It's because Blake
45:30
Speaker 1: started out with such a bad taste in people's mouths.
45:32
Speaker 1: But I do want to say that Blake has come
45:34
Speaker 1: across over the past two weeks now, like really sweet.
45:37
Speaker 1: He seems like a good listener. He's there having heart
45:40
Speaker 1: to heart with everybody, and I'm I'm feeling better about Blake,
45:44
Speaker 1: and I'm sure a lot of our listeners aren't too.
45:47
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be routed fourth. Then that's
45:49
Speaker 1: my that's my thing, is I think on the live
45:52
Speaker 1: show and then here I think we'll be rooting for Blake.
45:54
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would just imagine just knowing his
45:57
Speaker 1: intentions this whole thing. Maybe just like we Blake, you
46:00
Speaker 1: messed up. It wasn't good, But like, let's move on
46:05
Speaker 1: from it, truly, let's learn from it. The Kalin and
46:08
Speaker 1: Blake drama that happened with the text messages. It was
46:12
Speaker 1: it was about four weeks ago today, and it's like
46:15
Speaker 1: it feels like it was forever ago. People move on
46:18
Speaker 1: quick in Paradise. Well, speaking of moving on, quick. Does
46:22
Speaker 1: it feel like Dean moved on quick? Actually he need it.
46:25
Speaker 1: He he came back to America and within literally I
46:31
Speaker 1: feel like twenty four to four d eight hours, he
46:33
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to go back for her. I
46:35
Speaker 1: miss her. And if you guys really want to know
46:38
Speaker 1: what Dean did, I'm sure he'll talk more about it
46:40
Speaker 1: on the help of Second Dating podcast. But he went
46:44
Speaker 1: to the Grand Canyon by himself. He must have landed
46:48
Speaker 1: back at l a X, took his van to the
46:51
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon, which is like what eight to ten hours
46:55
Speaker 1: away or something, and then he like sat there looking
46:59
Speaker 1: at all the majestic beauty that is Mother Nature, and
47:02
Speaker 1: he thought, I want Calin besides me for this moment.
47:07
Speaker 1: And then he turned around and I don't know, I
47:10
Speaker 1: don't know how this man doesn't get tired of driving,
47:13
Speaker 1: but he like turns right around and goes back to
47:15
Speaker 1: l A Records a help I suck at Dating podcast,
47:19
Speaker 1: And then he got back on a plane to Mexico
47:23
Speaker 1: to go after Calin. And I think it's super romantic
47:27
Speaker 1: and I wish they had documented. Oh, I guess they
47:29
Speaker 1: didn't know this was going to happen. They didn't know
47:31
Speaker 1: that his feelings were just not going to disappear, and
47:33
Speaker 1: that he was going to have so much regret. But
47:35
Speaker 1: it would be super It would have been nice to see,
47:38
Speaker 1: like all the emotional turmoil he was going through for
47:41
Speaker 1: those forty eight hours and the decision to go back
47:44
Speaker 1: and try to get her well, I mean, let's you
47:48
Speaker 1: explain it perfectly. So he went through Terminili, came back,
47:51
Speaker 1: did a little work here in studio, said oh, I
47:54
Speaker 1: like this girl. Flew back, shaved his mustache, but she
47:57
Speaker 1: didn't pause her time in paradise. She is a good
48:01
Speaker 1: thing going. What we see at least with Connor, I mean,
48:03
Speaker 1: they're hot and heavy. They seem to be into each other.
48:06
Speaker 1: They're kind of those cup that couple that we haven't
48:08
Speaker 1: seen a lot from, probably because they're not causing a
48:09
Speaker 1: lot of drama. They're doing a lot of kissing. It
48:12
Speaker 1: feels very uh physical, It feels like they're very attracted
48:15
Speaker 1: to each other. And she also says I'm gonna go
48:17
Speaker 1: to the boom boom room with Connor. All of this
48:20
Speaker 1: leading up to Dean coming back, and we're kind of
48:23
Speaker 1: on this cliffhanger right now. The idea is that people
48:26
Speaker 1: believe Dean and Kylin had a stronger kind of connection. Also,
48:30
Speaker 1: Klin was pretty beat, just like very sad about you know,
48:36
Speaker 1: Dean leaving. What happens does she leave? I don't know.
48:40
Speaker 1: We don't know. We're going to find out next week.
48:42
Speaker 1: They've really been teasing this. It's been to cliffhangers. Really.
48:46
Speaker 1: They showed us a preview last week and then we
48:48
Speaker 1: really didn't get any answers, and we're getting the same
48:51
Speaker 1: preview for next week. I obviously, you know, love Dean.
48:56
Speaker 1: Dean is a very close friend of both of ours.
48:58
Speaker 1: I think we're rooting for Dean and k them to
49:00
Speaker 1: get back together. In this situation, I personally, I don't,
49:04
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not there, but I feel like there
49:07
Speaker 1: was a more There was a more depth to Dean
49:10
Speaker 1: and Kaylin's relationship, and then with her relationship with Connor,
49:13
Speaker 1: it seems to be a little bit more just physical.
49:16
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe I don't know the whole scenario.
49:19
Speaker 1: And I know that Dean is perhaps not the most
49:23
Speaker 1: trustworthy person in relationships. And I don't mean that as
49:25
Speaker 1: far as like his fidelity goes. I mean that as
49:29
Speaker 1: far as like just like if he's in the right
49:31
Speaker 1: spot in his life to have a real relationship. We
49:35
Speaker 1: talked about this last week and how he needs to
49:38
Speaker 1: find someone who's totally okay with him going all over
49:41
Speaker 1: the country in a van and maybe not being with
49:43
Speaker 1: her on even a weekly basis and living this lifestyle
49:47
Speaker 1: that's not going to be compatible to most. But I
49:50
Speaker 1: am rooting for them because I just like them both individually,
49:54
Speaker 1: and I liked the connection that they had together and
49:56
Speaker 1: seeing her so sad over Dean the day of the wedding,
50:00
Speaker 1: it just made me feel like I want them to
50:02
Speaker 1: give another goal and there's always somebody here in the process.
50:05
Speaker 1: And we all like Connor and let's see how he
50:09
Speaker 1: handles this if that were to happen, and if not,
50:11
Speaker 1: how Dean's gonna handle possible rejection. That will be coming
50:14
Speaker 1: up next week. But that was this week's episodes of
50:19
Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise. It was wild. It was crazy. To
50:22
Speaker 1: summarize it all, I just want to run through the
50:25
Speaker 1: roses that we're getting handed out so everybody knows listening
50:27
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at. Nicole picks, Clay Christian picks, Demi,
50:30
Speaker 1: Hannah Gy picks, Dylan, Katie Picks, Chris Haley picks Luke
50:34
Speaker 1: s and probably the most surprising UH Rose hand out
50:37
Speaker 1: this week. Kalin picks Connor, Sydney picks Matt, Tasha picks JPJ,
50:42
Speaker 1: and Christina picks Blake And it's not a friendship Rose
50:45
Speaker 1: this time. Actually, that's this week's episodes of Bachelor in Paradise.
50:49
Speaker 1: We have two things to talk about to finish out
50:50
Speaker 1: the episode. One is Astron and Kevin are now engaged.
50:54
Speaker 1: It was announced on social media UH this week that
50:57
Speaker 1: Kevin and Astrid are engaged. We're happy for him, we
50:59
Speaker 1: still rate them. Everybody is finding love and bat nation
51:02
Speaker 1: and we couldn't be more excited for it. Speaking of love,
51:05
Speaker 1: love blossoms here on the Almost Fromous podcast and Ashley
51:09
Speaker 1: I Ken Eddie was celebrating her love with her lover
51:12
Speaker 1: in a Lover's Week and I have together. Hey, Ashley,
51:18
Speaker 1: our listeners have been asking, I've been wondering. I'm just
51:22
Speaker 1: gonna let you have the floor here kind of question time.
51:25
Speaker 1: Give me questions, Ashley. Um, your wedding was beautiful. I've
51:30
Speaker 1: summarized a bit of it. The ceremony was a beautiful
51:33
Speaker 1: ceremony led by Along Gale. The reception was something that
51:36
Speaker 1: was magical. What was it about your reception that you
51:40
Speaker 1: really really wanted that you got maybe as a surprise
51:46
Speaker 1: and you walked in. Can you at least give our
51:48
Speaker 1: listeners a picture of what your reception looked like because
51:51
Speaker 1: it was something to be seen. Well, I guess they
51:54
Speaker 1: can see all the pictures on social media and there
51:56
Speaker 1: is a couple of links that we've put out there
51:58
Speaker 1: with like hundreds of pictures, and we've already put out
52:02
Speaker 1: the surprise day of video that I know that Ben
52:06
Speaker 1: had spoken about what that are Our videographers REV put
52:10
Speaker 1: together which was really really cool because they put together
52:14
Speaker 1: a video like all of our reception and we watched
52:17
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52:21
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52:25
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52:38
Speaker 1: the thing that that was our reception. People made fun
52:41
Speaker 1: of us for saying that we wanted our wedding day
52:43
Speaker 1: to be a romantic experience and not just like a
52:47
Speaker 1: party in which Bruno Mars like uptown funk you up
52:50
Speaker 1: plays and like the most standard wedding music, I'm sorry.
52:53
Speaker 1: So we kind of created a musical journey, and I
52:57
Speaker 1: think one of the most special things about our reception
53:00
Speaker 1: was that we handpicked every single song that was played.
53:04
Speaker 1: I just my wedding planner thought I was nuts, like
53:08
Speaker 1: he loved it, but he also was like all these
53:11
Speaker 1: music cues where it was the hardest part of the
53:13
Speaker 1: day for him. So we had one of Jared's best friend,
53:17
Speaker 1: but also shout out to Troy Williams. If you need
53:19
Speaker 1: a wedding planner, Troy Williams of simply Troy. It's very
53:22
Speaker 1: easy to find his info. Um. So we had Jared's
53:26
Speaker 1: good friend Frank. He played are the song that I
53:31
Speaker 1: walked on the aisle too, which was Hansen's for Your Love.
53:35
Speaker 1: So our romantic experience, and it's no different than Catherine
53:39
Speaker 1: Low saying that she wanted a grown sexy theme, like
53:42
Speaker 1: what the hell I remember watching their wedding and mean, like,
53:46
Speaker 1: what is grown sexy? Anyway, it made sense when we
53:49
Speaker 1: all saw put together. So first we had Frank heard
53:54
Speaker 1: sing for Your Love and I walked down the aisle
53:56
Speaker 1: to that, and I had to have the doors opened.
53:58
Speaker 1: The church doors had to open out a specific note,
54:01
Speaker 1: and it was right before Frank said, like is the
54:03
Speaker 1: modulation of the song. When our video comes out, the
54:08
Speaker 1: extended video, you guys will be able to see that
54:11
Speaker 1: whole moment. And that was just the coolest thing ever.
54:14
Speaker 1: But walking down the aisle was definitely the biggest blur
54:17
Speaker 1: of the night. People say, your wedding day is such
54:19
Speaker 1: a blur, you know, try to be in the moment,
54:22
Speaker 1: but I truly, I really feel like I I lived
54:26
Speaker 1: in the moment a lot, and Jared and I got
54:28
Speaker 1: more time together than I ever imagined. We didn't even
54:30
Speaker 1: have to take those five minute breaks to be together.
54:33
Speaker 1: We really we sacrifice some conversation with some guests. You know,
54:37
Speaker 1: we definitely said hi to everyone that we invited, and
54:39
Speaker 1: we had like, you know, a thirty second banter. But
54:41
Speaker 1: if a song came on that was like super meaningful
54:44
Speaker 1: for me to dance with Jared, I was like, I'm
54:46
Speaker 1: so sorry I have to go um, but yeah, let
54:50
Speaker 1: me go through the day and like in songs in music.
54:53
Speaker 1: So then during our reception, during the cocktail party, we
54:57
Speaker 1: had a local band called the Timeless Band. They're from Providence,
55:00
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, and all the kids are or nineteen years
55:04
Speaker 1: old and they play hits from the fifties to the
55:07
Speaker 1: eighties and they play um great. I forget the spot
55:12
Speaker 1: in Providence, but it's like the row of all the
55:13
Speaker 1: Italian restaurants, so during the summer they play out there
55:18
Speaker 1: and it's just the cutest thing ever. And when we
55:20
Speaker 1: were first starting to a wedding plan last September, we
55:24
Speaker 1: were at a restaurant and they were playing and we're
55:27
Speaker 1: with our wedding planner and he was like, Jared, go
55:30
Speaker 1: dance with Ashley. So in Jared's head, Jared was like,
55:33
Speaker 1: the only song I'll get up to was Earth Angel,
55:35
Speaker 1: but he didn't say it that out loud to anyone,
55:37
Speaker 1: not even Troy, and I'm not even kidding you. Twenty
55:41
Speaker 1: seconds later, they started to play earth Angel, which I
55:44
Speaker 1: had never even heard before, and he was like, well,
55:46
Speaker 1: that's the song. So we had to have them perform.
55:49
Speaker 1: I just want to show how like every little moment
55:51
Speaker 1: was like so personalized and just described Jared and my
55:55
Speaker 1: story unbelievably, so we had them play. Unfortunately, like most
55:59
Speaker 1: bride and grooms don't get to really experience the cocktail hour,
56:02
Speaker 1: so we didn't even get to see them play, but
56:04
Speaker 1: everybody thought they were the cutest fit for the venue. Ben,
56:08
Speaker 1: did you get to see them play the Timeless Band?
56:11
Speaker 1: I definitely did? You very great. I actually I went
56:16
Speaker 1: up to him and I said, you're like I did
56:17
Speaker 1: in the Tailor Paste band and one of the best
56:19
Speaker 1: wedding bands I've ever heard. That's so awesome. Thank you. Yeah,
56:24
Speaker 1: they were awesome. Um. So then for our first dance
56:28
Speaker 1: for um the mother daughter, the Mother Son Dance, the
56:32
Speaker 1: Dad and Daughter Dance, and um, just like the introduction
56:38
Speaker 1: of the bridal party, we had David Cook perform, who
56:40
Speaker 1: was my favorite American idol? Did I mention this last week?
56:43
Speaker 1: So that was like really freaking cool. It was wacky,
56:46
Speaker 1: but he was my favorite American idol, one of my
56:48
Speaker 1: favorite musicians and one of like the only musicians that
56:50
Speaker 1: I've really converted Jared to like loving as well. And
56:55
Speaker 1: we just when the idea popped in our head to
56:57
Speaker 1: possibly ask him to perform read our wedding, we were like,
57:00
Speaker 1: could you imagine the warmth of his voice filling that venue?
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Speaker 1: And then once it was in our head, we couldn't
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Speaker 1: let it go. And we emailed his amazing tour manager
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Speaker 1: and he happened to be a Bachelor fan, so it
57:14
Speaker 1: worked out well for us. And then but he wasn't free. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I'm not saying it worked out
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Speaker 1: well for us and it was free. It certainly wasn't.
57:26
Speaker 1: And then after that we had the Oh my god,
57:30
Speaker 1: we're so wacky. We had strings play. We had a
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Speaker 1: quartet of strings. It was piano too, violins and um
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Speaker 1: uh cello, and they played some of our favorite romantic
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Speaker 1: movie scores during dinner, like during um, you know, salad
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Speaker 1: and stuff, and then we did some speeches and then
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Speaker 1: after that we had the band come on. And the
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Speaker 1: band was a Jordan Cohen band and we hand selected
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Speaker 1: every They were amazing. They were like right, they're like
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Speaker 1: rated one of the top like wedding bands in the country.
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Speaker 1: And they played Beauty and the Beast. They played The
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Speaker 1: Lion King, Titanic, Aladdin like again, more more movie scores
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Speaker 1: that we wanted to have vocals towards. It was really
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Speaker 1: really cool. And then m after the music, after that band,
58:24
Speaker 1: we cut the cake and then we started more of
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Speaker 1: the party and my sister's boyfriend, Jack Ford. He he
58:32
Speaker 1: went up and he DJed for about forty five minutes
58:34
Speaker 1: to like all the songs that were like party songs
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Speaker 1: that I definitely wanted to play. Yeah, it was the best. Okay,
58:40
Speaker 1: So that was our reception. I'm telling you, it was
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Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful place I've ever been. I
58:47
Speaker 1: took pictures and texted my family and friends and said,
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Speaker 1: look at this place. It's beyond what I even could
58:53
Speaker 1: have imagined. We had a great week with you, Ashley.
58:55
Speaker 1: It was so fun, so rating you and Jared. It
58:58
Speaker 1: was special to all everybody that was there is extremely
59:00
Speaker 1: special to me. I realized in that moment, really standing
59:04
Speaker 1: at your rehearsal dinner. Uh, I've always loved Jared. Um.
59:09
Speaker 1: I think I'd take him for granted. I think I
59:13
Speaker 1: have always just viewed him as one of those people
59:15
Speaker 1: that I know will always be there, that I can
59:17
Speaker 1: always trust. He's a good friend, a great friend, a
59:20
Speaker 1: great human. Um. And then for you, I felt in
59:25
Speaker 1: that moment, this just deep appreciation for who you are,
59:28
Speaker 1: who you've been to. So many people that sit up
59:30
Speaker 1: that night, uh and said so many great things about
59:32
Speaker 1: you that were real and powerful, and how you've lay
59:36
Speaker 1: next to your friends and they're sick, and you lay
59:38
Speaker 1: next to your friends through breakups and you're the friend
59:39
Speaker 1: that they all call it they're hurting, And and I
59:42
Speaker 1: felt in that moment just a really deep appreciation for
59:45
Speaker 1: both of you because you're both Um, I don't want
59:47
Speaker 1: to say great people. I think that I think that
59:50
Speaker 1: diminishes a little bit of what I'm trying to get
59:52
Speaker 1: to is that, Uh, this celebration of you, guys was
59:55
Speaker 1: well deserved. It was an honor to be there. Um,
59:59
Speaker 1: the two of you as a couple is in the
1:00:01
Speaker 1: best sense, a power couple. And UM, it was a
1:00:05
Speaker 1: beautiful wedding. And I'm just I hope Ashley, and I
1:00:08
Speaker 1: hope that you told you this. I woke up the
1:00:13
Speaker 1: morning after the wedding and Jessica and I were talking
1:00:16
Speaker 1: and we just both hope that you felt as celebrated
1:00:20
Speaker 1: as all of us felt for you. Um were you
1:00:24
Speaker 1: and jess being there? It was so sweet and I
1:00:26
Speaker 1: love seeing you two together. You were freaking adorable. My
1:00:29
Speaker 1: mom still is talking about the chemistry that you guys
1:00:32
Speaker 1: have and how adorable you are together. Um, she's your
1:00:36
Speaker 1: perfect fit. She really, you guys make so much sense
1:00:40
Speaker 1: and she fits in with a friend group and it's
1:00:42
Speaker 1: really really nice to see that. And the speech that
1:00:45
Speaker 1: you gave it the rehearsal dinner was you know, blew
1:00:47
Speaker 1: us away. Everybody's speeches at the rehearsal dinner. I told
1:00:50
Speaker 1: my wedding planner, I was like, good luck tomorrow because
1:00:53
Speaker 1: I don't know how the rehearsal dinner could be beat.
1:00:56
Speaker 1: Ten speeches from you know, half of each vital party
1:01:00
Speaker 1: and it was just like wow, I was sopping, but
1:01:04
Speaker 1: it was great and I'm so glad we did the
1:01:06
Speaker 1: rehearsal dinner the way we did, and thank you for
1:01:09
Speaker 1: being there and thank you for all the kind words
1:01:11
Speaker 1: that you said to so it was just it was
1:01:14
Speaker 1: the most heartwarming thing. And that's total understatement. There isn't
1:01:17
Speaker 1: really words. I've got an idea for everybody. Um, if
1:01:20
Speaker 1: you have any other questions about Ashley and Jared's wedding reception,
1:01:24
Speaker 1: rehearsal anything, Honestly, I know this has been a hot topic.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: Email usaid actually I heard media dot com. We'll read
1:01:30
Speaker 1: through those emails and if we have enough emails, we'll
1:01:32
Speaker 1: do a special episode where Ashley can just answer some
1:01:34
Speaker 1: of your questions about the process. But until then, we're
1:01:38
Speaker 1: gonna move on from her wedding because we have more
1:01:41
Speaker 1: Paradise to talk about in the upcoming weeks. Ashley, it's
1:01:44
Speaker 1: great to have you back. It's amazing to be able
1:01:47
Speaker 1: to sit with you and just discuss life again. Let's
1:01:50
Speaker 1: keep this thing rolling, uh, for another couple episodes of Paradise, Ashley,
1:01:55
Speaker 1: I've Been Been, I've Been Ashley. We'll talk to you everybody.
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