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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: It's another episode of the Almost Famous podcast in another.

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Speaker 3: Episode that Ashley is with us. And it makes me

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Speaker 3: so happy, but it's bittersweet. You think this is your

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Speaker 3: last episode.

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Speaker 4: I think we could maybe do Monday morning, but and

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Speaker 4: that I'm going to call that my last probably episode.

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Speaker 4: But you know what's a really anxiety written is that

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Speaker 4: Jared isn't here right now in Virginia. He was here

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Speaker 4: for a week, yeah, and he is not supposed to

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Speaker 4: come back until Monday morning. And I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 4: know why I wasn't so nervous the first time. The

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Speaker 4: first time when he was going back and forth, I

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Speaker 4: just wasn't that nervous. I think it's because I think

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Speaker 4: this labor is going to go so fast that if say,

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Speaker 4: like something happens in the middle, then I don't think

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Speaker 4: he'd made it.

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Speaker 3: You know what, here's how I think in life, as

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Speaker 3: we get older, we have to look at a lot

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Speaker 3: of these things. It might not be ideal, but it

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Speaker 3: will be a story. And I know it's really would

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Speaker 3: bum him out not to be there for at least

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Speaker 3: it's the second kid, right, Yeah, it's the second kid,

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Speaker 3: what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: I'm kidding, I know what you're talking about. It would

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Speaker 4: be kind of funny because Jared staying on Sunday, well

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Speaker 4: because he has a wedding after party which goes till

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Speaker 4: one am, but also because he has softball, so like,

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Speaker 4: you know, that'll be that'll be the joke.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I love it. I actually really respect this because

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Speaker 2: that's hilarious.

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Speaker 4: Well, you'll probably get someone to cover for him at

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Speaker 4: work that night if he didn't have softball.

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Speaker 2: I really I kind of respect him for this.

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Speaker 4: It's like if you were at the Master's or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, if I I had my like member guest

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Speaker 3: golf tournament at my local club and I was like, sorry, honey,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I can be within a thousand

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Speaker 3: miles of you.

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Speaker 4: Than a thousand miles. I think it's like four fifty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's close enough. But we do have headlines.

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Speaker 3: There are some big headlines out there, especially kind of

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Speaker 3: wrapping around now Jin's season of the Bachelorette. It just

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Speaker 3: started this week. We do have our breakdown episode out

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Speaker 3: there now for you to listen to. And also Ashley

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Speaker 3: did a one on one with Jin. It's a great

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Speaker 3: conversation that you can go listen to as well.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that Jen's been talking about recently

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Speaker 3: is this, She's been discussing the pressure of being the

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Speaker 3: first Asian bachelorette and if she has any regrets so far.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So she told me that she has no regrets,

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Speaker 4: and like I told you guys in the last episode,

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Speaker 4: She's like, yeah, no regrets, Like I'm content, right, But

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Speaker 4: she didn't seem overally giddy when she said that she

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Speaker 4: had no regrets. Okay, So you know, Ben and my theory,

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Speaker 4: you can go listen to it more from you know,

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Speaker 4: the previous episode this week, but our theory is that

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Speaker 4: she doesn't end up with anyone. But then, as far

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Speaker 4: as the pressure of being the first Asian bachelorette, we

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Speaker 4: talked about this on Mike Q and A with her

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Speaker 4: and she says something along the same lines that she

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Speaker 4: told Bachelor Nation dot Com this week. She said, of

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Speaker 4: course I feel the pressure. A lot of it comes

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Speaker 4: from me wanting to be a good role model and

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Speaker 4: doing it right.

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Speaker 3: It has so far been a season where I think

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Speaker 3: you and I both would say we're very impressed.

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Speaker 2: In after episode one, right.

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Yeah, she did a great episode one, but.

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Speaker 3: We're both convinced that, yes, this season is not going

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Speaker 3: to end like the others. Speaking of Bachelor contestants, Chelsea

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Speaker 3: Vaughn shares dating update and reveals how many xes she's blocked.

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Speaker 4: Well, the last time we heard from Chelsea's love life,

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Speaker 4: she had just broken up with Austin Tinsley, who was

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Speaker 4: actually on Katy Thurston season of the Bachelorette, and they

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Speaker 4: it was moving week something like that, and then they

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Speaker 4: broke up very abruptly. But she says that right now

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Speaker 4: she's kind of over dating apps. She's trying to get

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Speaker 4: an accidental mean mug out there walking around New York's,

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Speaker 4: trying to bring in the positive flirty energy. She also

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Speaker 4: says that when you know, when it comes to breaking

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Speaker 4: and she said she'd barely ever consider him an ex

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Speaker 4: because we weren't technically boyfriend and girlfriend. However, dated exclusively

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Speaker 4: for a few months. Do you think that? I like,

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Speaker 4: if you weren't technically boyfriend and girlfriend but you were exclusive,

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Speaker 4: isn't a boyfriend and girlfriend? Like, how other way do

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Speaker 4: you define that?

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Speaker 3: I think it's I think what she's prior referred to

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Speaker 3: is more of an emotional connection. Like when she looks bad,

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Speaker 3: does she look at it as a relationship or does

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Speaker 3: she look at it is like, yeah, that was just

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Speaker 3: like a weird fleeing thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good job, Ben, you didn't you buy it? That's

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Speaker 4: I feel that.

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Speaker 2: I get that, I understand it.

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Speaker 3: A couple headlines coming out obviously around one of the

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Speaker 3: biggest things that happened Bachelor Nations this week, and that's

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Speaker 3: the Hannah and wedding she marries Jake Funk in Italy.

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Speaker 3: It was just the two of them. That's kind of surprising, honestly,

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Speaker 3: she said. Her quote is we decided to just be us.

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Speaker 3: There's another headline out here too, actually that we can

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Speaker 3: is making headlines this week for her European honeymoon. So

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Speaker 3: they had a European honeymoon and a wedding in Italy.

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Speaker 2: Ashley tell us all about it.

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Speaker 4: I was also shocked seeing the pictures of the wedding.

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Speaker 4: I know she'd had her bridle shower, bachelorette party and stuff,

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Speaker 4: but for some reason, I was just like, there was

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Speaker 4: I was like, huh, I wonder if it was kind

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Speaker 4: of like an elopement, and it ended up being. So

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Speaker 4: she and Jake did it together, just the two of

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Speaker 4: them in Italy. They are going to have a big

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Speaker 4: party with friends and family in Florida this coming month.

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Speaker 4: He is now he's on one of the Florida NFL teams,

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Speaker 4: so he's back at practice this week and they just

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Speaker 4: said that for his football schedule, it was best for

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Speaker 4: Tuscany for the honeymoon as well as Switzerland. And Jake's

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Speaker 4: chocolate does look quite impressive. But yeah, just a quiet

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Speaker 4: wedding the two of them was very beautiful, all the

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Speaker 2: I think it's sound.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I get it right. Like you and I

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Speaker 3: have talked about this, there's a beauty to a big wedding.

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Speaker 3: Some people want it. There's also a really romantic and

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Speaker 3: a very special I think I would imagine moment around

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Speaker 3: it just being the two of you. So congratulations to

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Speaker 3: the two of them, and you know, good luck to

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Speaker 3: Jake Is in his upcoming season.

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Speaker 4: Oh and I should mention that the vows happened in

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Speaker 4: a twelfth century castle in Tuscany.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you could do worse. Yeah, you could do worse.

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Speaker 3: A bunch of Bachelor girls got together for a Bachelor

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Speaker 3: Girls trip. We got Jess, we got Kylie, we got Katie,

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Speaker 3: all across social media, mostly, if not everyone was from

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Speaker 3: Zach Shell Cross season. These girls are still hanging out,

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Speaker 3: see that, you know, kind of initial hangout, everybody's best

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Speaker 2: But these girls are staying close.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they said it's their annual get together, and there's

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Speaker 4: no awkwardness when it comes to Katie and Zach being

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Speaker 4: but including Gabby who was his runner up, and there

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Speaker 4: was so much emotion there. They all flew to Austin

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Speaker 4: and friendships are the best kind of love.

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Speaker 2: The absolute best kind.

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Speaker 3: Well, speaking of love, we do have a little baby

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Speaker 3: section coming up. Christina Mandrel and Brayden Bowers, along with

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Speaker 3: Bennett Jordan and Romeo, both appearing on The Patcherrette. Romeo

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Speaker 3: was season eighteen and Bennett was season sixteen. It looks

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Speaker 3: like they both welcome little girls to the world this week.

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Speaker 4: Now, we were expecting Bennett's daughter to arrive. He's been

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Speaker 4: Their baby arrived at forty one weeks on June twenty fifth.

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Speaker 4: Her name is Harper Lily Jordan. His wife held on

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Speaker 4: and the baby for forty one weeks. He said that

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Speaker 4: she's the most magical, on inspiring, precious and perfect little

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Speaker 4: way more of a surprise for me seeing that Romeo Alexander,

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Speaker 4: who you remember having like some complications with romance in

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Speaker 4: Bachelor in Paradise, not this past season, but the season before.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, so he actually got married in March. They

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Speaker 4: hard launched in September, They got engaged in December, and

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Speaker 4: then they had this little baby just a couple days ago.

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Speaker 4: Her name is Josephine Simone Marie Alexander. Oh and yes

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Speaker 4: this the babies were born one day apart on She

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Speaker 2: That's really exciting.

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Speaker 3: Well, speaking of babies, Emily Ferguson Carlson brainstorms baby names

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so she reached out to you know, everybody on

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Speaker 4: Instagram for baby boy name ideas. So they're really struggling

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Speaker 4: with the baby boy number two names, as Jared and

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Speaker 4: I have been very much. This is my word of

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Speaker 4: advice to everybody out there who plans on having two

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Speaker 4: or more children. Do not name your child your first

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Speaker 4: child's middle name your second favorite name. It should be

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Speaker 4: your third or fourth favorite name. Because Jared and I

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Speaker 4: really are are feeling the middle Dawson's middle name as

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Speaker 4: possibly being an option for our second son's first name.

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Speaker 4: And I think that not that Emily is having those contemplations,

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Speaker 4: then this really fun Instagram baby naming consultant named Naming

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Speaker 4: bb B E b E came up with some baby

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Speaker 4: ideas for Beckham's little brother. Some of the recommendations include Brooks, Brigg, Bowen, Body,

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Speaker 4: and Beale if they want to have another B name

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Speaker 4: alongside alongside Beckham and if Emily doesn't want another B name,

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Speaker 4: this consultant is recommending Camden, Hayes, Caylin, Grady, Lennox, Dyer, Stockton, Axel,

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Speaker 4: and Steele as all names that would work for Emily

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Speaker 4: and her husband William Carlson, as they are kind of

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Speaker 2: I had no clue there is baby named consultants out there.

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Speaker 4: She did one for Jared and I and she of

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Speaker 3: So shocking headline that might shock others that it's not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she definitely doesn't like the show.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they like denied her her Bachelorette role.

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Speaker 3: So I don't really know, but it definitely got awkward Jin,

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Speaker 4: Yes, she fought back a little bit. Now it's all playful,

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Speaker 4: So what happens is Kelly says, why why would you?

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Speaker 4: Why would you go on this show? You're so beautiful,

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Speaker 4: And they met on All My Children? And then she

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Speaker 4: quick to shut down the comparison, being like, those are

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Speaker 3: You go, I actually should go on there and tell

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Speaker 4: I've been Ashley. Next time, if I'm here, I well,

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Speaker 4: So I'm really excited about that.

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Speaker 3: As always, we're going to sign off until well, you

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