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Speaker 1: This has been and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Almost Famous podcast today. It's an in

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Speaker 1: depth one of our Bachelor Nation engaged couples, Kenny Brash

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Speaker 1: and Mauri Peppin. Hello, guys, welcome to the show. Hid

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Speaker 1: excited to be here. Give us a timeline here, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how long now has it been since you've gotten engaged?

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Speaker 1: It has been a year and nine ish months, almost

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Speaker 1: two years, almost two years together. It's fast, It's fast,

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Speaker 1: but slow, like when I think about it, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it has gone by fast, but also it's been almost

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Speaker 1: two years. Like how, I don't know how. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. I'm a figuring that you guys probably took

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Speaker 1: that first year to kind of date in real life

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Speaker 1: and then this year has been more of a wedding

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Speaker 1: planning year. Yeah, for sure. I think last year was Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was pretty much just me moving in. I've been Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we've lived together for the year now, getting to know

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Speaker 1: Chicago and being here together, and then yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: we started really wedding playing like end of last year,

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Speaker 1: November December. So yeah, yeah, that's so it goes. You

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Speaker 1: stay out of it, you just pull back as far

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Speaker 1: as you can until you're asked to enter in, and

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Speaker 1: then you still enter in very slowly, with very calculated opinions. Kenny,

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Speaker 1: you know we talked to you about this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's gotta been a year and a half ago now

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Speaker 1: when you first got engaged. But for you, life changed

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Speaker 1: pretty quick. Right. You had been single, you were you know,

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Speaker 1: you had your work in Chicago, you'd your place in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Then you go on the show you find love, and

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Speaker 1: you get engaged, and now you enter in this whole

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Speaker 1: new season of having a partner. How is life I

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Speaker 1: guess looked differently to you. How have you transitioned into

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Speaker 1: no longer being the single? You know, promoter I think

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Speaker 1: would be the job title that you had to now

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Speaker 1: having a relationship. Well, going back to like the whole

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Speaker 1: weird thing for me is like it all started when

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Speaker 1: casting process for Bachelorette, and then like that happened and

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Speaker 1: it went straight into paradise and then like you said

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Speaker 1: it and went paradise, Mett Maury got engaged, and now

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Speaker 1: here we are twenty twenty three. So it's been it's

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Speaker 1: been kind of pretty wild that and it all coincides

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Speaker 1: with COVID, like everything's shut down and now I feel

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Speaker 1: like twenty twenty three, at least in my world and

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Speaker 1: the band entertainment world, we're actually experiencing like twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: and stuff, and it's like it all was like a

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Speaker 1: flash and now I'm back to like normal with work,

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Speaker 1: but we're also engaged and about to get married as well,

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Speaker 1: so it's it's been kind of trippy. I guess the

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Speaker 1: but it's now we also have our thing going on

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Speaker 1: you just really weren't like a serious relationship guy. You

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Speaker 1: hadn't really had a ton in your past. Yeah, going

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Speaker 1: back to uh yeah before Bachelor read it was pretty

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Speaker 1: So it's definitely a different, a whole different way in

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Speaker 1: life at this point. So, Mari, how has he transitioned

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Speaker 1: into couple Kenny and not single guy? Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's true, he was never really a great relationship guy.

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Speaker 1: So just you fell into it. You just you know,

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Speaker 1: it's actually it's sunny today, it feels nice, but yesterday

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Speaker 1: been a good transition. Um. I visited plenty of times

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Speaker 1: I'd met his family already, seeing you know, the apartment

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Speaker 1: so it was like a nice gradual transition. But you're

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Speaker 1: absolutely right. The weather sucks in the winter. A big

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