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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 the Almost Famous podcast. We're here in San Francisco. Yes,

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Speaker 2: this is the weekend of the Almost Famous golf tournament,

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Speaker 2: which will be an annual thing probably for the next

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Speaker 2: thirty years. Because I'll be working for Almost Famous for

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Speaker 2: the next thirty years. I'll be sixty years old talking

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Speaker 2: about the Bachelor. That's cool, right, right, It's very cool. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a really cool place to be. But this is

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Speaker 2: the first year of it. The reason we're doing it

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Speaker 2: is to bring people together because in this bachelor world,

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Speaker 2: it's a little chaotic. It's not a lot of time

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Speaker 2: just to sit back and hang out and just be

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Speaker 2: together with people outside of your season. Today, we have

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Speaker 2: somebody I've always been super intrigued by for multiple reasons.

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Speaker 2: One of those is because the girls in the Almost

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Speaker 2: Famous podcasts really love Greg Grippo.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's sweet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they really do.

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Speaker 2: In fact, one of the girls that work for the

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Speaker 2: Almost Fans podcast said, all of her friends are super

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Speaker 2: excited to meet Greg Gripple.

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Speaker 3: That's sweet. I feel like I haven't met any of them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're nervous.

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Speaker 2: I'm nervous come on this gracious, Greg, welcome, I'm glad

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Speaker 2: to be here.

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Speaker 4: You're sporting our brand already, I am. I have had

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Speaker 4: this for years. What is the true story of why

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Speaker 4: you're wearing our T shirt?

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Speaker 3: Andrew and I were playing. It was a little bowling

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Speaker 3: ball game outside in the yard, and then he whipped

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Speaker 3: the ball at me. Wind hit my chest. Shirt gone.

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Speaker 3: I said, you know what, I'm gonna rock the almost

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Speaker 3: famous scare for the rest of night.

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Speaker 2: It's a good workout shirt. You can cut the sleeves

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Speaker 2: out of it if you like a little tight, a

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Speaker 2: little snug, but I'll take it. It's it's one that

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Speaker 2: I don't even own. I saw you, I said, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna get one. That'd be nice. It probably is my

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Speaker 2: face in the back, doesn't it. Actually no, it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Wild Greg, you have had a wild ride through this franchise. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: tell me if I'm wrong. My assumption of you has

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Speaker 2: always been this show is not something that you were

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Speaker 2: seeking after.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't think it's I wasn't. To

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Speaker 3: be honest with you, I mean I got called uh

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Speaker 3: three times for the show. Twice I turned it down

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Speaker 3: third time. I said it before and I'll say it again.

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Speaker 3: It was on my dad's anniversary. Uh. I was during COVID.

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Speaker 3: I was living in New York City working a job

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Speaker 3: I didn't love, and I was just like, screw it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know what bachelor has some sick dates. Let me

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Speaker 3: travel a little bit. I mean it was a bubble season,

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Speaker 3: but we went to New Mexico, and I mean I

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Speaker 3: was single at the time, and I just it was

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Speaker 3: a shot in the dark. My sister ended up submitting

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Speaker 3: me years prior. They called me for Becca kuferin season.

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Speaker 3: I was way too young for that, and then Claire's

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Speaker 3: and I was also not ready enough for that, and

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Speaker 3: then uh, Katie's. It was just right timing.

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Speaker 4: So like when it comes to you and Katie, let's

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Speaker 4: start there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get on this show that you weren't you

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Speaker 2: know they said no to multiple times? Yeah, like why

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Speaker 2: was Katie as the bachelorrette something that you were like,

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Speaker 2: this is the one I would go for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I you never Also, I feel like

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Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but for me, I was

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Speaker 3: I mean we were hearing groomors and I was like,

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Speaker 3: all right, it's definitely gonna probably be Katie. I was

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Speaker 3: hoping it was gonna be Katie. But I think it

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Speaker 3: was just the place that at least I thought I

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Speaker 3: that's also okay, and like I was fine with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with you because my season of

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Speaker 2: The Bachelor, at I didn't know who the bachelottes were

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Speaker 2: going to be and it was two, so they too.

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Speaker 2: I had two that season and that was a wild

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Speaker 2: ride because then they made you choose on night one

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Speaker 4: That's interesting.

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Speaker 2: That's so the complaint that like you were never there

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Speaker 2: for the right reasons is one that like, not that

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Speaker 2: you have that complaint, I'm saying in general, like anybody

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Speaker 2: gets the complaint like you weren't there for the bachelorrette,

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Speaker 2: It's like, well, no, you didn't really know who it was, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Like of course I wasn't maybe there for the bachelors exactly.

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Speaker 2: You know, no until you show up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you have no idea. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 2: And then you went through it and things started to

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Speaker 2: to come out, you went through this whole thing. We

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Speaker 2: obviously know how your season the Bachelorette ended, but your

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Speaker 2: story really started post Bachelorette, like where you were a

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Speaker 2: fan favorite, like you.

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Speaker 3: Really it depends on who you're asking, I think.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you listen to the critics more

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Speaker 2: than you hear the like compliments. But I think in general,

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Speaker 2: from my perspective as an outsider, like people loved you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's it's nice to know that that you

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Speaker 3: at least took it like that. I mean I felt

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Speaker 3: was just like a humbling experience, and I I felt

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Speaker 3: during it all, it was rough.

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Speaker 4: You felt like the world was like coming at you

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Speaker 4: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say coming at me. It just felt like

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Speaker 4: Did it affect your personal life.

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Speaker 4: How did you deal with that?

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Speaker 3: Gosh went back to therapy. I mean, I discovered that

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Speaker 3: you know, my own grief towards him and and you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, leaving my mom by herself was just a

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if this question will come off

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Speaker 2: It will probably come off a little intrusive. But without

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Speaker 2: the show, m how would you have confronted those things

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Speaker 2: that obviously were needing to be confronted at some point?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, just not knowing when they would have been.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's tough to say, you know, because in

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Speaker 3: I think it's like three years at this point, and uh,

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Speaker 3: I finally feel like I'm in like the healthiest spot since,

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Speaker 2: But obviously that's I mean, to the viewers who don't

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Speaker 2: don't know where I think they're going to hear that

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Speaker 2: and be like that's interesting because you obviously are now

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Speaker 2: still single, right, and so you come off a very

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Speaker 2: public breakup, so at some point in this whole thing,

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Speaker 2: you decide to come back on national television and announce

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Speaker 2: how did that even get to the point where you

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Speaker 2: even like ideally, but just I'm going to go back

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Speaker 3: I mean I was in I was head over eels

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Speaker 3: about to walk into at that reunion, I mean her

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Speaker 3: and I were having discussions. I really didn't want to

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Speaker 4: So you went back on television.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like the response was similar to your

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Speaker 2: time in the show or did you, like, were you

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Speaker 2: in a different place coming off of that.

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Speaker 3: No, I feel like I was in a better spot

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Speaker 3: because I feel like I was. I think that her

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Speaker 3: I think my toughest during that time. You know, I

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Speaker 3: said this on Jason's that like it was the toughest

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Speaker 3: bar about it always seeing how it affected her. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was, Uh, the world was really hurtful towards her,

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Speaker 3: which sucked in it, and it was it was hard

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Speaker 2: I didn't feel and it's been a bit since I

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Speaker 2: saw that interview. I didn't feel like you had a

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Speaker 2: this is where we're at.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was so content and happy. I

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Speaker 3: mean contense probably, I mean I think intense a good word. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I think that her and I both knew that

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Speaker 3: the way we started off, and whether people believed it

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Speaker 3: it all and we felt certain about it. And that's

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Speaker 3: why I was out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it wasn't as a viewer, I

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Speaker 2: don't think as a for me, as a negative. It

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Speaker 2: is like, no, there's no like defensiveness. Like you're not

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Speaker 2: like reacting to the comments and the questions. You're you're

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Speaker 2: just answering them. Yeah, because it's where you're at in life. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna move forward absolutely.

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Speaker 4: How long ago was that?

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Speaker 3: Uh? What was that?

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Speaker 1: Was that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, where are you at today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that's like the biggest thing is that

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 3: And it's felt like this has been needed and I

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Speaker 2: Is there anything else you'd like to say about that,

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Speaker 2: Like just that relationship ending because the public. I mean,

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Speaker 2: and then you're entitled to that. Yeah, I don't need

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Speaker 3: No, I get it, I get it. I mean I

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Speaker 3: and there's nothing bad to say. There's nothing bad about

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: One of the things to transition here that I've always

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they they've got your back. What caused that?

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Speaker 2: Was it just right timing, right place, or what kind

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Speaker 3: Like one season, man, I I really just got lucky

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Speaker 4: I feel it, man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know you probably don't actively listening to

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Speaker 3: Listened to a few episodes.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy. Yeah, it means a lot to me.

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Speaker 2: You know, wear you're wearing our brand new issue.

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Speaker 4: Listen to some.

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Speaker 2: But I would say interviewing those guys, especially a few

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Speaker 4: Fight for you.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: They've got every like every word they say, has your bag?

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Speaker 4: So you're now single?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to be one of the most eligible

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Speaker 2: bachelors in New York City. That sweet, You haven't dated

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Speaker 2: in seven months? What is outside of romance or even

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 4: What is life? What are you hopeful for moving forward?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think family is the most important thing

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Speaker 2: Final question, you've gone through the Bachelor world, You've gone

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Speaker 2: of in it. Like, what are you looking for in

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Speaker 2: I'll give you a little buffer here, Like I learned

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Speaker 2: It was just because we're different.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But what do you now, like what characteristics stand out

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Speaker 3: Hm hmm, characteristics of my next partner? I you know,

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Speaker 3: I think, and this is not a knock on any

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Speaker 3: I think. You know, what's important to me is that

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be changes in life no matter what. You know,

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Speaker 3: Seeing like how my brother is with his wife, and

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Speaker 2: It's incredible when you find it, man, Yeah it is.

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Speaker 2: It's a whole different world. Yeah, it changes everything.

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Speaker 4: Great.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for sitting down, Thanks for being the hot seat.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we really appreciate it. Thanks for being here.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to golf with the Mark. I can't wait

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Speaker 2: to hang outside for Its great to meet you in

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Speaker 2: person yep. Likewise, cheers, Buddy, Cheers.

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