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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast

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Speaker 1: with our radio. Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. We

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Speaker 1: have a very special guest today, Blake and Janina. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having us. Thank you for pronouncing my

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Speaker 1: name right. I'm not does. It's been like my life's

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, my life mission to get people to pronounce

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Speaker 1: it right. Well, Okay, here's a question for you. Is

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Speaker 1: it okay if I call you g for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the podcast? Is permission? Okay? Perfect? Um? Hey, it's

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Speaker 1: a big year for you to um. You just moved

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Speaker 1: to Colorado. Gee and Blake, you've been in Colorado for

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Speaker 1: a while. We're not far from each other. I know

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Speaker 1: that you've been up to a lot and you just

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Speaker 1: made a move. How's the move to Denver being been

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Speaker 1: so far? Babe? You start been extremely stressful. Cross country

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Speaker 1: is horrible. It's a lot, and it's not easy moving

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Speaker 1: from beach side to a mountainside if you are a

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Speaker 1: beach in January. In January, well, not to board the audience,

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Speaker 1: but we did. We're sitting right now in Carmel by

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Speaker 1: the Sea in California. We all left Denver on the

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Speaker 1: same flight. It was negative ten when we left Denver. No,

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Speaker 1: nobody wants to hear about the weather. But it was cold, cold, cold,

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Speaker 1: So that's I mean, that's had to be different because

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Speaker 1: you were living in Miami before Denver. Correct. Um, I

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Speaker 1: was living with Blake for like a year unofficially, and

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Speaker 1: now I live with him officially. But yeah, I grew

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been a lot different. My wife has accepted, um,

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Speaker 1: the fact that fashion is no longer maybe an opportunity

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Speaker 1: accepted it, to accepted to accept it, Well, it's always possibility.

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Speaker 1: I really, I'm really intrigued and interested in your relationship, um,

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Speaker 1: because you've just now celebrated one year. Um, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's fairly I mean, in today's like standards, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a fairly new relationship. But you two have moved quickly.

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Speaker 1: As you said, you've been living in Denver off and

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Speaker 1: a year. So I want to start with the two

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Speaker 1: of you by asking why did you feel like this

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Speaker 1: man so quickly. Okay, so I guess I'll go. UM.

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Speaker 1: I've been in UM trying relationships with in most of

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Speaker 1: my twenties, and I felt like, after all of the

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Speaker 1: Like when there, I can't be away from him. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, there's just there's no there's no words, like

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Speaker 1: there really isn't UM, and that's what I was looking for.

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Speaker 1: I put my everything into a storage unit in Miami,

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Speaker 1: and in that time I met Blake and now I

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Speaker 1: hold your life. You didn't ruin my dreams. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: I was asking the universe, Hey, I want to find

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Speaker 1: reality TV. You know, UM, I want to just to

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Speaker 1: always wanted to be. And I and I hope that

431
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 1: we would kind of like help each other in a sense.

432
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: But if we didn't work out, then Nola of lost.

433
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: But if we end up working out it would be magical.

434
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: And that's something that you you hoped, you know, whenever

435
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: when I hope that no matter what, this was special exactly. Yeah,

436
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: the hard hitting questions are coming and no, no, we

437
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: got some fun ones coming our way, and I feel

438
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: confident enough to talk about them because we've been enjoying

439
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: ourselves tonight with some Stellar Rosa wine. Um. Stellar Rosa

440
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: is incredible wine. And Uh, as I said, we're hearing

441
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: Karmo by the sea, which I can't think of a

442
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: better place to have a glass of wine. Um. Then

443
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: this area you got the ocean, you got in an

444
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: incredible town. You've got incredible golf courses, which you know

445
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 1: we love. Um. If you've never heard of Stellar Rosa wine,

446
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: well you should. Uh. And it's incredibly good. It's semi sweet,

447
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: semi sparkling wine. It's refreshing. Um. It's best for me

448
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: when it's chilled. And another cool part about it is

449
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: it has over twenty unique fruit flavors and innovations and

450
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: it's real fruit, so it's low calorie, naturally gluten free,

451
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: which is a big part of my life now with

452
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 1: my wife because she's natural, she's healthy and she's gluten free,

453
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: so sell Rosa. Wine is a big part of our household.

454
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: It's a big part of this trip for us, and

455
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: it has also given me the confidence. I feel like

456
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 1: to ask a few more questions here to the two

457
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: of you that I think up for the last seven hours.

458
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: Here we go happily, happily, UM, you know you Gee,

459
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: I couldn't help, but hear you say something about Blake

460
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: being your person and so I just want to ask

461
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: you guys directly and you can answer it however you

462
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: want together or not? Um? Is marriage in your future?

463
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: Is this? Is he your person? G I guess maybe

464
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 1: would be the way to answer this first. And do

465
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: you believe that this show All Star Shore in the

466
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: last year of your life have led you to somebody

467
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: that you want to spend the rest of your life with.

468
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 1: So I proposed to Blake, like seven, how do you

469
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: do that? Tell me more? Um? Every single I don't

470
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: know when I feel it. I just we're laying about

471
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: and I'm like, do you want to marry me? Or

472
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: we you know, we're having a dare and I'm like,

473
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: do you want to get married? Or as the answer

474
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: and he just goes there he's just been giggling. Yeah,

475
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: he's just giggling in the background, and he goes, I

476
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: want to ask you. So I'm like, yeah, called the

477
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: old fashioned but no, I yeah, I want to do

478
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: the proposing number one. But yeah, I mean listen, I

479
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: like I've said a thousand times, not said this publicly.

480
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: I said this. It was like the next time I'm going,

481
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really with a woman, and I tell everybody,

482
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: and I quote unquote show everybody like, yeah, like I'm

483
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: confident in this relationship and this woman and then what

484
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: we have. So I feel very confident in this relationship,

485
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 1: in this woman and what we have. So that's getting married.

486
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's my answer to that. I feel like, yes,

487
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm very excited for this year and what Yeah, relationship

488
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: does stop. You're excited for this year. I'm excited for

489
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: this year. I'm excited to watch this now this year

490
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: play out. And you both are very good at capturing

491
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: your year. In fact, as we mentioned, you just did

492
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: celebrate um a one year anniversary. You went to Buena Vista,

493
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: which is a place in Colorado to celebrate. Why did

494
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: you choose their Yeah it was so fun. So a

495
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: year's kind of a long time in my dating history,

496
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: Like this is a no pr for me. So I

497
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: was like, I need to really need I need to

498
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: really express how I feel to this woman. And it

499
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 1: was gonna be a special, special moment. So she mentioned

500
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: a bunch like we have some incredible hot springs in

501
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: Colorado and um we mentioned like she mentioned it a

502
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: couple of times, and I was like, Okay, I need

503
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: to find a private hot springs. There a lot of

504
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: public hot springs. I need to find a private hot springs. Yeah,

505
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: pretty much. Um. And I obviously like I love the mountains.

506
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: I grew up in the mountains of Colorado, So I

507
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: love the mountains. I love you know, cabin and I

508
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: love this escaping into the mountains. Um. And so yeah,

509
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: we found this amazing hot springs um in the mountains.

510
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: It was a private hot springs and it was perfect

511
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: for us, Like it was this cute little cabin that's

512
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: over a hundred years old and it was just a

513
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: really cool night for us. Like I think, honestly, I

514
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm going to beat that your anniversary.

515
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna one up this anniversary.

516
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: We made sushi together and it would like by the

517
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: fire and stayed out hours and hours in this hot

518
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: springs in the middle of winter like it was. It

519
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: was amazing, It was incredible. I don't know how I'm

520
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: gonna one up the wedding. Wedding. I got an idea.

521
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: It's a wedding I have, I have. Yeah, well, I

522
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: mean g that also then begs the question do you

523
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: want to wait another a couple of months for this

524
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: engagement to happen? Are you ready now? Question? Yeah? I mean,

525
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, next year anniversary, you could

526
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: pop a ring, but or you could do beforehand. Um whatever,

527
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: you guys are in my living room tomorrow, today, tonight.

528
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: I am an efficient, I am a legal official. Ever

529
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: we can make this happen. It's just a few words.

530
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, we I mean literally, I've I've done it before.

531
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: Um well, I mean, I think it's fun here to

532
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: close this out, and this conversation with you two has

533
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: been incredible and it's it's really interesting and fun for

534
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: me to know about your history and what's brought you

535
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: this point. Something we always like to do on the

536
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast when we get new couples. Um, we

537
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: don't want to ask you questions that will pit you

538
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: against each other. We really want to ask you questions

539
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: that will um bring the lights and maybe things that

540
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: you don't tell each other as much as you should.

541
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: And I know that my own relationship. So Ge, I'll

542
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: start with you. I'm not gonna tell you one through

543
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: five or one through three. But what is it about

544
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: Blake that you love the most? When you look at Blake?

545
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: When you think about Blake? Um, what is it that

546
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: comes to your mind that makes you say I love

547
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: this man? Mm hmmm um, So I can just first thing,

548
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: first thing, Okay, first thing, first thing, First thing, I

549
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: don't know. Your energy is just delicious, Like you're somebody

550
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: that I like, I want to be around. And then

551
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: the way that you smile at like random things just

552
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: makes me happy. So I'm just happy when I'm around you.

553
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: Where Um, when I'm sad, you make me happy. John,

554
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna say smile you always talk about Blake? What

555
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: about for you? You're stupid? You're stupid? Um? What was like?

556
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: What was the actual question? But I just thought of

557
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: a bunch of cute chip But I wanted to answer

558
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: the act. When you think of g and if you

559
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: think of the reasons that you love her, like the

560
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: reasons that when you think about her as a person,

561
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: what makes you love her. So for me, and this

562
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: was pretty immediate for me, Um, I agree with the

563
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: energy thing, Like I was drawn to her like energy

564
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: kind of you know, like attracts good energy with attracts

565
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: good energy. Um. But for me, I mean it's I

566
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: mean it's got to be You're like confident, Like you're

567
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: wildly confident, and I'm attracted to confident and strong women.

568
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: And so right off the bat, I was like there

569
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,959
Speaker 1: was just some this aura about her that was just

570
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: like I don't need you, but like I want you.

571
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: And I loved that. It was one of those things

572
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: where like I don't think I need a man, like

573
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: I don't think I need you, but I want you.

574
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: And I was very attracted to that. So I loved

575
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: her like badass, boss bitch energy that she gives off. Yeah,

576
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: she's some big dick energy. So I love that about her.

577
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: Good for you, Gi, Yeah, I don't know, but like

578
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: at the same time, super attractive. I don't know about

579
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: you might be the only one in the room with that.

580
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Umint the gallery the uh again, this is um it's

581
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: special to talk to the two of you. Um uh

582
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: again as somebody that has senior relationships at the beginning. Um,

583
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: is it exciting for the year ahead and what comes

584
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,239
Speaker 1: for the two of you? And I'm glad we get

585
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: to celebrate this weekend here um in such a beautiful area.

586
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: And it has been an incredible weekend so far. We've

587
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: gotten to do a lot, and we've gotten to share,

588
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, some incredible wine. And thanks to

589
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: Cellarissa Wines for helping us put this weekend on and

590
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: giving us so much incredible uh sweet beautiful nectar um

591
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: to enjoy uh this weekend. Uh. If you're somebody out

592
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: there that's a wine fan, um, Silarisa wine is semi sweet,

593
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: it's semi spark clean wine. So it has a little

594
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: nice little effervescent to it. Uh, unique fruit flavors and innovations.

595
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: It's real fruit, low calorie, naturally gluten free. Um. It's

596
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: not your typical wine brand. Cillarosa breaks wine stereotypes. UM,

597
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: like you can have red wine with chicken because it

598
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: has that little um sparkle and and that's something we

599
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: enjoy in our own household. So uh, Blake and g

600
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: will end with this with a year ahead. Um, with

601
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: things happening, Blake, I know you're busy, uh djaying, Um,

602
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: what are YouTube? What's your plans? What are you looking

603
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: forward to here in the next few months? What can

604
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: people maybe follow you on to to stay in contact

605
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: with the two of you as a couple and then

606
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: the you know you two as individuals. Okay, Um, No,

607
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 1: I mean we have a big year, a big here

608
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: for us. You know, it's weird to think that a

609
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: year ago, Uh, we met and so we're a year

610
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: in our relationship. But weirdly enough, like we've only been

611
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: quote unquote public for about six months. It's really not

612
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: been very long. So we're excited for the year to come.

613
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: We got some amazing trips plan We're going to Hampsterday

614
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: and Portugal for a birthday, going to Visa. Um, We're

615
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: doing a lot of really fun things this year. Um.

616
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be It's gonna

617
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: be a fun year for the for the two of us.

618
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: We have some some fun things. I have a lot

619
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: of things that are gonna pose some competition for you.

620
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, it's a coffee I can tell you

621
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: all about how to do it and how much work

622
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: it actually takes. Good. I'm just's listening to it. But yeah,

623
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of fun like development just

624
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: um personal and and you have some fun opportunities. I

625
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: can't say too much that I think we're gonna come

626
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: this year that we're kind of in discussions about which

627
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: might be back on your TV again. But we'll see,

628
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. So, um, you can follow us. Um,

629
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: I'm block A dot h on Instagram, and you are

630
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: Giannina Jibelli, g I A and and I and I know,

631
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: but it tastes good in your mouth, just like silarus

632
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: of wine. Hey, thank you too for joining us, Thank

633
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: you for catching us up on everything going on. Um,

634
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: we have a lot more fun to have and so

635
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: we're going to bounce out of here. Um. And again,

636
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: if people want to follow you, you just gave them

637
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: your Instagram handles to do that. We look forward um

638
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: to continuing to follow you in the future. Thanks for

639
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: joining the Almost Famous podcast. Thanks Ben, love you, thank

640
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: you You're amazing. Follow the Benn and Ashley I Almost

641
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