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

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: This is a very special episode of the Almost Famous podcast.

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Speaker 2: We've got the Guy that makes the sauce Joe and Serena,

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Speaker 2: who are now the new hosts of an official Bachelor podcast. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they are hosting Bachelor Happy Ara. It's a crossover episode.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna do part one here It's Almost Famous podcast.

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Speaker 2: We'll do part two over on their line. So if

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Speaker 2: you want to tune into the whole thing, listen here,

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Speaker 2: skip on over. Listen there. Joe and Serena welcome.

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Speaker 3: Hi guys.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks. I like that the guy what'd you say?

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Speaker 4: The guy that makes the sauce or the guy with

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Speaker 4: the sauce?

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Speaker 3: You can do be whatever you want.

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Speaker 4: I love it, Thank you, Thanks, thanks for that plug

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Speaker 4: some days with Joe. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Benee, you know how my jars of sauce I have

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Speaker 5: in my basement of yours like we are, so we

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Speaker 5: sell them like crazy at Audrey's. But we did to

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Speaker 5: buy two thousand jars right when we decided to have

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Speaker 5: you guys salad Audrey's, and sometimes I steal them if

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Speaker 5: I need extra processauce downstairs it's so good.

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Speaker 4: How are we doing on those?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I did.

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Speaker 4: I sent over a full palate that was about twenty

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Speaker 4: something hundred. There was almost three thousand, I think.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so it was twenty seven hundred. Okay, Yeah, well

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Speaker 5: we're probably have one third left, which is still really

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Speaker 5: good for not even a year. It's been about ten months.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 5: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Coffee shop is keeping both Generous Coffee and Yeah alive.

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Speaker 2: But yes, those are side projects. But obviously your guys'

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Speaker 2: biggest passion. The thing that you care the most about

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Speaker 2: is the Bachelor franchise and you are now hosting Bachelor

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Speaker 2: Happy Hour.

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Speaker 3: How does it feel to be the host of this

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Speaker 3: iconic and massive show.

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Speaker 6: And when you said the thing you care most about,

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Speaker 6: I totally thought you're gonna be like your relationship, your marriage,

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Speaker 6: Bachelor Happy Hour, the franchise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to make sure you're listening. How

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Speaker 3: does it feel?

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Speaker 4: No, if I honestly, it's it's it's an honor. It's

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Speaker 4: an honor to you know what I've been I've been

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Speaker 4: in this franchise now for almost five years, and you

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Speaker 4: guys might.

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Speaker 5: Have feels like you've been with us for longer.

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Speaker 4: Well, you you two may have been the first interview

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Speaker 4: I think I ever did was the almost famous podcast.

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Speaker 5: And you weren't warmed up yet. You weren't ready for interviews.

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Speaker 5: I was not a moment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I remember doing that and thinking like I

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Speaker 4: will like I will never be good at any of this.

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Speaker 4: So to be hosting the official Bachelor podcast, it feels

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Speaker 4: really great and we love watching the show. It's something

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Speaker 4: we do together and it just it makes it makes

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Speaker 4: our job the podcast just that much easy.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is obviously a big deal to be announced

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Speaker 2: to the host. We're going to get into that in

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Speaker 2: just a second. But first, as I jokingly expressed earlier,

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Speaker 2: you guys do care about your relationship a lot. In fact,

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Speaker 2: you're planning a wedding in Charleston. Are the two of

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Speaker 2: you ready for this? How long has the planning process been?

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Speaker 2: And is it going to feel weird to be married?

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Speaker 5: No, they're married?

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Speaker 6: Well, well we are already married.

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Speaker 2: Celebration, I guess to have a celebration now, Yeah, yes.

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Speaker 6: No, I know what you mean. Yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 6: it's going to feel weird necessarily. We're definitely excited we

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Speaker 6: started planning. I want to say it was end of September,

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Speaker 6: beginning of October of last year. So it's been going

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Speaker 6: on for a very long time. As both of you know,

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Speaker 6: wedding planning is a strenuous, never ending process, or at

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Speaker 6: least it feels that way right now. But we're coming

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Speaker 6: We still have some things on the list of to do's,

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Speaker 6: but yeah, we're like a month a month and a

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we're almost like.

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Speaker 4: We're because I mean we're getting married like South Carolina,

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Speaker 4: the South, Where did you get married?

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Speaker 2: Nashville kind of the South. It's like nobody knows what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I guess it's yeah, I guess it

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Speaker 4: borders like Midwest South. I just I'm the only thing

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Speaker 4: I'm worried about is just the weather. I just hope

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Speaker 4: it's not too humid, you know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we're in the middle of hurricane season when

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Speaker 6: we're getting married in the South, so we're outside we

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Speaker 6: have so the welcome parties outside. Now we have like

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Speaker 6: obviously Plan b's if it rains, and then our cocktail

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Speaker 6: hour of the wedding is outside.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, fingers crossed.

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Speaker 6: We just need to make it through two day and

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Speaker 6: obviously we want everyone that's traveling in to Charleston to

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Speaker 6: have good weather for the weekends so they can really

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Speaker 6: enjoy the getaway. But nothing you can do about the weather.

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Speaker 6: You know, what about you guys, did you have outdoor

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Speaker 2: He's fifty to fifty we had backup plans. I'm wondering

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Speaker 2: because part of that. I mean, you guys have been

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Speaker 3: Be over a year, does it. Like one of the

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Speaker 2: Weird about a wedding for me was this person that

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Speaker 2: I love, who I'm most comfortable with in the world.

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Speaker 2: I'm also the most nervous to see for like eight hours, right,

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Speaker 2: Like there's like this period of time where you're like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like why am I so nervous to

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Speaker 3: Do you think the thing is so interesting?

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Speaker 2: Feeling is going to happen for the two of you

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Speaker 4: I think so, I'm already like, when I think about it,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, like first, I'm definitely gonna have that feeling

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Speaker 4: when we did that, it was extremely intense, more intense

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Speaker 5: It was more intense going to the courthouse than you imagined.

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Speaker 6: We really downplayed to ourselves the courthouse wedding. And I

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Speaker 6: you've been thinking about and talking about. Like some people

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Speaker 6: up to the courthouse wedding, and we were just like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 6: to do. We went at like nine thirty, I'm on

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Speaker 4: Really, we really downplayed it. And then when the woman

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like we weren't saying our vows, but she gave

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Speaker 5: Have the whole traditional yeah, and Serena like I just

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Speaker 6: And yeah, we were like, oh my god. Like, I

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Speaker 6: we were standing in like a pink room with like

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Speaker 5: That's amazing. I want to talk to you guys about

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Speaker 5: Happy Hour for a second. There's a little drama over

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Speaker 5: the fact that Michelle and Becca weren't exactly like they

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Speaker 5: They didn't like the way that it was handled where

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Speaker 5: they were kind of pushed aside and you guys were

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Speaker 5: brought and as hosts. Can you tell us behind the

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Speaker 5: scenes how that all went down.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I don't know exactly how it went down as

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Speaker 4: far as the show and them as far Like I

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Speaker 4: when we got offered the job, I called Becca and

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Speaker 4: let her know because we were both kind of under

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Speaker 4: the impression that all the podcasts were done. I was

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Speaker 4: part of Clickbait for almost three years. Yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 4: I just kind of like let her know, and she

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Speaker 4: was honestly, she said nothing but nice thing. She was like,

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Speaker 4: I'm very happy for you. Like, if I was in

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Speaker 5: Okay, Serena, you're now a host and you get to

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Speaker 5: makes it all easier because you guys just probably chat

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Speaker 5: about this in your regular life. Now you're just doing

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No, it's been good. Definitely, like nice to have a

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it's been fun so far. I'm glad that

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Speaker 2: You know, it is a This is a show that

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Speaker 2: obviously Michelle and Becka both cared about because they were

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Speaker 2: having to say goodbye to it, which would be weird.

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Speaker 2: Ashley and I actually talked in the phone after this

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be weird if one day we got the

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Speaker 2: Almost famous was like and hand it off to somebody

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Speaker 2: change the logo.

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Speaker 3: So I think we're in a purpose, that's all. Yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 2: But it's really great to hear that Becca was so

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Speaker 2: supportive Joe. You know, I'm sure there was still some

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Speaker 2: like you know, hard feelings a little bit, but towards

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Speaker 2: you and Serena that she wanted to see success. That's

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Speaker 2: not the case always in this franchise. As you guys

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Speaker 2: have probably seen, there's unique examples that I'm sure all

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Speaker 2: And so with this new opportunity, one that the former

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Speaker 2: do you guys want to do with it? Like, what

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the thing I'm most excited about truly

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Speaker 4: Maybe one day we could do the red carpet like

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Speaker 5: But today we did first look together as well. That

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Speaker 5: Games together. Accounts Okay, so Joe. Funny situation with Joe.

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Speaker 5: The other day, we look up it's like a multiple

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Speaker 5: You let that out. Joe. If you're with Serena, I

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Speaker 2: Well Tom Cruise is now entered into three of our

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Speaker 2: I never worry about the drama between the two of us,

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Speaker 2: We've never really had it. But we don't agree on everything.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we have some passionate opinions towards certain things,

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Speaker 2: realize you're not going to agree about this, and how

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Speaker 3: How do you do that in a healthy way or

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Speaker 4: I think yeah, I mean we just in life in general,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I I truly enjoy it about you, Serena.

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Speaker 1: I like this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, that's great, that's great. No, I do think

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Speaker 6: disagreeing about that it would result in any sort of argument.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we're recapping The Bachelor, like it's just meant

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Speaker 5: Like the franchise, Yeah, no.

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Speaker 3: That would that would not be a good move. Well,

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Speaker 3: we're super happ to have you.

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Speaker 2: We've always had a great relationship at Bachelor Happy Hour,

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Speaker 2: we look forward to what content you're putting out there,

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Speaker 2: uh and for the future of the podcast. Congratulations on

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Speaker 2: the job again. Part two of this is going to

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Speaker 2: be over on Bachelor Happy Hours, so make sure you

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Speaker 2: just switch on over. If you're an Almost Famous loyalist.

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Speaker 3: Don't leave us. It'll be crazy, but hey, doesn't hurt,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: Put your toes in the water a little bit and

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Speaker 2: listen uh to Bachelor Happy Hours.

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Speaker 3: So going over to listen to part two. Until next time,

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Speaker 3: I've been been.

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