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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts bring you the ultimate Summer of love Tree.

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Speaker 1: This is Famously Available. I'm your host, Ben Higgins, back

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Speaker 1: with you on Famously Available in Today is an exciting

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Speaker 1: day because we're all on the journey, listening and staying

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Speaker 1: tuned for the journey of Boston Guy Boston Man, I

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Speaker 1: think we called him at now. Hopefully we get to

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Speaker 1: be on a new journey with Mercedes, because today we

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Speaker 1: are setting Mercedes up on a date. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: it with the star herself, Mercedes Mercedes, You're in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles right now, getting ready to attend Iheart's jingle Ball.

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Speaker 2: Correct. Have you ever been to jingle Ball?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: I haven't. I'm super excited.

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Speaker 1: It is awesome. It is an incredible event. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have a blast. It is one of those moments. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you have many of these anymore. You

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Speaker 1: do a lot of cool stuff, but it's one of

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Speaker 1: those moments you're like, hey, this is really fun that

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Speaker 1: this show that I was on allows me to do

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Yeah, in my life, while others

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Speaker 1: are out there, like probably like friends of ours are

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Speaker 1: out there in the audience paying for their ticket, sitting

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Speaker 1: up in the nosebleeds.

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Speaker 2: You're going to be like a rock star.

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Speaker 3: I know. I'm so excited. I'm definitely feeling very blessed

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Speaker 3: to be in the situation that I'm in. For sure.

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Speaker 1: It's super fun and I'm pumped that you're there, and

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Speaker 1: I'm pumped that you're there with iHeart. But we do

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Speaker 1: have to talk about what's happening tonight, but before we

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Speaker 1: dig into the nitty gritty the details of jingle Ball

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Speaker 1: and you're not only going with friends, but there's other

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Speaker 1: reasons why you're there. Our listeners are curious, did you

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Speaker 1: ever hear from Boston Man again after our final kind

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Speaker 1: of conclusion interview?

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Speaker 3: Not a thing. He's in my like though, which is

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Speaker 3: like really annoying, but no likely. Yeah, I'm like, get

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Speaker 3: out if you're not talking to me, get out of.

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Speaker 1: Here, right, I mean, it's just yeah, it's like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like when I was single and

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Speaker 1: trying to do my best at flirting, I would never

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Speaker 1: claim I was great at it. That would have been

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Speaker 1: a way to like, initially flirt would have been to

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Speaker 1: just like go and like somebody's pictures, do it enough

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Speaker 1: and then send him a comment and be like, hey.

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Speaker 3: What's up. Well that's how it started, too, like because

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Speaker 3: you know it started on Instagram, so it's just like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's just still liking, which I don't know what signal

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Speaker 3: he's trying to send doing that.

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Speaker 2: But how do you feel about all this now?

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Speaker 3: I'm honestly like very over it. I feel like I'm

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Speaker 3: at peace with everything, but the there's definitely still mixed signals.

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Speaker 3: And I also it was all so confusing and didn't

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Speaker 3: make sense, and I definitely think like something happened like

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Speaker 3: I went a little FBI me and my friend, and

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Speaker 3: I think there was another girl m.

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Speaker 1: Okay, which again disappointing. Yeah, but as we've talked about,

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Speaker 1: totally fair.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, no, absolutely, it's just like if that was

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Speaker 3: the situation, like just let me know, rather than being

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Speaker 3: like making up other excuses, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I agree with that. I do think there is

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Speaker 1: a level, Mercedes, where you are an understanding human. That's

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Speaker 1: why I'm so excited for you to find somebody that

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Speaker 1: appreciates you. The word that comes to mind is like

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Speaker 1: a cool girl, but I feel like that diminishes actually

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Speaker 1: who you are a little bit, Like you're better than

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Speaker 1: just a cool girl. You could have handled it if

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Speaker 1: he would have openly communicated with you, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: think people get nervous that the person can't handle it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so you can. You wanted to open communication. You

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Speaker 1: gave him every ability to openly communicate. But I think

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Speaker 1: that's a great quality that you have, is you could

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Speaker 1: have handled it and like understood and maybe even gone

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Speaker 1: back at him a little bit and then be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure, but that's in the past. On

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Speaker 3: to better things, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of better things, we got so many better things.

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Speaker 1: You are at jingle Ball and you are going on

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Speaker 1: a date tonight.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to feel. I'm excited. It's like

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Speaker 3: a full on blind date. Like I asked for his

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Speaker 3: Instagram and they told me no, and I'm like, it's a.

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Speaker 1: Oh because I have his instagram right here. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at it to stop. Okay, you may give you a

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Speaker 1: few hints. Yeah, he is. He is very handsome, like

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Speaker 1: very handsome, and he is in good shape, like physically fit.

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Speaker 1: You can tell that man does the.

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Speaker 3: Gym, works out.

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Speaker 1: It takes care of himself, takes care of himself that

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Speaker 1: I will tell you what do you want to know

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Speaker 1: what his bio and his Instagram says. I don't think

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Speaker 1: you can search that right, No, okay. It says between

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Speaker 1: living the dream.

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Speaker 2: And chasing it?

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Speaker 3: Okay, is that it?

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Speaker 2: That's all? Well? He's also.

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Speaker 3: No, that's good. That's cute.

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Speaker 2: He also sits.

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Speaker 1: In the C suite, which means he is the COO

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Speaker 1: of a very respected company.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well good. It sounds like he has all together

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Speaker 3: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, athletic.

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Speaker 3: What's his hair color? Dark?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's dark. It's dark. It's like a dark brown.

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Speaker 1: And I will say there is not an obnoxious amount

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Speaker 1: of shirtless picks on his Instagram, which is a good sign.

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Speaker 1: There's a few, but it's like they're respectable, like hey,

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Speaker 1: we're at the beach kind of thing. But like there's

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Speaker 1: no like mere selfies and his without his shirt on,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a good sign.

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Speaker 3: It's a very good sign. Green flag, green flag.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. How do you feel about tattoos?

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Speaker 3: I like tattoos?

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Speaker 2: Good, all right, that's fair, Mercedes. He nervous, Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: I mean it's like a blind date. But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, Like, I'm just really

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about that tonight at jingle Ball

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Speaker 1: with you. You have Katie and Zach. Katie is a

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Speaker 1: great friend to you. Justin Glaze, Grant Ellis, Jonathan Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Joe and Serena, Jess, Drad and Gabby l Nicky are

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Speaker 1: great friends. It's gonna be a blast. But I do think,

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Speaker 1: been this kind of balance between when you're there with friends,

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Speaker 1: with them while also giving your date attention and you know,

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Speaker 1: seeing if there's anything there.

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Speaker 2: How do you plan on doing that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I was talking to Jess about that because

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going to see you guys having fun

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Speaker 3: don't know. I hope he's like just because Zach's gonna

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Speaker 3: be like in a group setting too and like all

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Speaker 3: with my friend group and how everything works. But obviously

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Speaker 3: I'm going to like have like make sure he feels

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it is a balance, though, I think

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Speaker 1: there's nothing more attractive than a human. I remember this

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Speaker 1: when I met my wife on some of our first

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Speaker 1: initial hangouts with groups of people. One her desire to

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Speaker 1: Like I could tell she was excited to introduce me

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Speaker 1: her ability to kind of be her own solo human

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Speaker 1: there is Jess talking to one of my friends and

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Speaker 2: Like that's a big deal to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I also think like that, Yeah, I would

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Speaker 3: agree when that when someone can like go up, not

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Speaker 3: all the time, I think that's very attractive.

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Speaker 1: For sure, it's super is it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: obviously handsome. He I will say, he is very excited

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Speaker 1: He is very excited, and he hopes that you know,

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Speaker 3: No, not really, not a tough win. I feel like everyone.

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Speaker 3: I feel like maybe Jess, if I had to choose one.

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Speaker 2: She is like Puerto Rican and she's a little sassy, yes.

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Speaker 3: And she yes, she's yeah, she's sassy, but she also

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Speaker 3: like I don't know, like she's all always like telling

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Speaker 3: these things, I'm like way up here. So I feel

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Speaker 3: like if I had to choose one person, it would

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Speaker 3: be Jess would be like the hard win. But even

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Speaker 3: she's just going to be like, have a great time

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Speaker 1: We're going to set up some wing women for you,

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Speaker 1: and it's not people in your immediate friend group. We're

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Speaker 1: going to be talking to them here very soon, and

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Speaker 1: they're going to be there spying, giving me all the

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Speaker 1: insights tonight on how things are going. But also their

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Speaker 1: really only job is to accurately depict who you are,

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Speaker 1: which is somebody great, And so they're going to make

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Speaker 1: sure that everybody there knows you're great. Hopefully not to

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Speaker 1: an annoying extent, but if that's even a thing. Are

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Speaker 1: you when you go on a first date? You this

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Speaker 1: is your second first date in a few months. I

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Speaker 1: mean goodness, we've really picked up steam here. Do you

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Speaker 1: plead pre planning questions? Do you think through what kind

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Speaker 1: just going in and winging it?

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Speaker 3: I just go in and wing it. But honestly, I

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Speaker 3: feel like I should have some questions, especially if you like,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, because I feel like this is like

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Speaker 3: a different situation too, But I don't know. Usually I

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Speaker 1: So is there anything specific that you'll be paying extra

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Speaker 3: No, not really. I think the biggest especially in this

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Speaker 1: Okay, here's some more information on him. Okay, he's thirty

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Speaker 3: Age? Great? La? I mean that's fine, I'm here all

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Speaker 1: Like you, he's been on reality television before the Bachelor,

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Speaker 1: not saying what show? No? Oh, okay, if he was

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Speaker 3: No, No, it wouldn't. I want you. You can't tell

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Speaker 3: me what show? No, because then I'll look him up.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you what show.

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Speaker 1: It did feel I mean, if I'm honest, Mercedes, it

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Speaker 3: It's not a problem because I'm very open, but like,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad we just talked through that together. That was good.

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Speaker 1: He's a mortgage broker okay, and co owns a music

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Speaker 3: Okay, So maybe he visits Nashville too. He's in music.

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Speaker 2: I bet he's heard of Nashville.

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Speaker 1: He's passionate about music and makes his own plus DJs

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure. And also I think green Flag

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Speaker 1: So j my wife and I were just talking about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, end of the day.

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Speaker 1: It helps us, I think, stay very healthy as a couple.

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Speaker 1: We also can stay very curious about each other because

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Speaker 2: And let's let's say this date goes well, that.

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Speaker 3: I think just like looking back at the night and

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Speaker 2: Another date, another date. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Mercedes, I'm pumped for you. Have a blast at

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Speaker 1: jingle Ball. It's an incredible event, an incredible evening. It

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Speaker 1: have one challenge for you, Okay. My challenge is very easy.

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Speaker 1: he's familiar with people. Even though it is your first date,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely want to make sure he feels like

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Speaker 3: welcome and like safe and can talk to anyone. So

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Speaker 3: definitely we'll be doing that.

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Speaker 1: I have a blast. This has been famously available with Mercedes.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna follow this date now throughout the week. We're

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Speaker 1: then we're gonna be talking to Mercedes herself, so stay

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Speaker 1: tuned to famously available. We're getting started this holiday season

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Speaker 1: with some cheer I believe.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to catch up with you, Mercedes. Have

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Speaker 2: a blast night all right by