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

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. It's a big week for headlines. We've got

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Speaker 1: a couple headlines that I cannot wait to run through

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Speaker 1: with Ashley. Here. The mystery of the Trista Sutter disappearance,

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Speaker 1: along with Ali Fedotowski like disappearance from social media at least, continues.

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Speaker 1: We're getting less and less answers.

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Speaker 2: I think, no, not I have. I mean, I know,

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Speaker 2: I know what happened.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, Ashley's can you share it with us?

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Speaker 2: I think people know. I think it's I think it's

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Speaker 2: special Forces. Interesting, even press articles are saying that it's

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Speaker 2: most likely special Forces.

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Speaker 1: Well, here at the Almost Face podcast, we're gonna say

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Speaker 1: they allegedly were on special Forces. They are now back

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Speaker 1: and Trista Sutter breaks her silence about her absence and

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Speaker 1: reunites with husband Ryan and kids.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so first off, how about do you think Ali

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Speaker 2: feels that her husband didn't go on diatribe on social

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Speaker 2: media about.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, she's like coming home, She's like wait, what

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Speaker 1: you didn't miss me? Like what was going on here?

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Speaker 1: In fact, if I was her husband, I would have

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Speaker 1: seen Ryan's post and just been like well, I have.

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Speaker 2: To have You don't have to be so melodramatic something

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Speaker 2: you gotta do nothing Well, Trista was really funny. When

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Speaker 2: she got back. She said, geez, people, can a girl

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Speaker 2: have a nervous breakdown slash trial, separation slash midlife crisis

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Speaker 2: slash death slash divorce and peace around here? In all

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Speaker 2: seriousness For those concerned, I'm safe and sound, happy and

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Speaker 2: healthy and love and grateful. For those who'd rather focus

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Speaker 2: on being critical and searching way too hard for darkness,

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Speaker 2: good luck, good luck with that an opportunity for prospective

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Speaker 2: and personal growth presented itself, and the unconditional support of

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Speaker 2: my family and friends. I chose myself and betterment, knowing

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Speaker 2: that my stay at home mom job and my kid's

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Speaker 2: end of the year school needs were in the best,

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Speaker 2: most capable hands. If you guys are a little late

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Speaker 2: to this and don't know what Ben and I are

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Speaker 2: joking about, Ryan Sutter posted about I don't know the

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Speaker 2: exact number I want to say five very dramatic yet

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Speaker 2: loving and caring posts about him being out of touch

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Speaker 2: with his wife, her going through some sort of life journey,

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Speaker 2: and him just doing life without her. For two weeks

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Speaker 2: and Ryan posted something yesterday about his the fact that

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Speaker 2: he usually just posts about his dogs, and he's going

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Speaker 2: to go back to just posting about his dogs because

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Speaker 2: he can't believe that for the first time and basically

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Speaker 2: twenty years so many press outlets picked up on his

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Speaker 2: social media active that there was headlines with his name

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Speaker 2: in it. He says, uh blahlah blah, bah blah. But

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Speaker 2: twenty one years ago, I was pretty famous. I don't

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Speaker 2: have millions of followers, and I'm not influencing anyone, but

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Speaker 2: for some reason, every now and then people still pay attention.

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Speaker 2: Apparently that has recently been the case. I strayed from

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Speaker 2: the safety of my usual dog themed posts and I

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Speaker 2: post some messages to my wife for a time, which

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Speaker 2: she could eventually read them. She understood the context, so

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Speaker 2: did I. No one else did, however, and that's where

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Speaker 2: things went sideways. It was suggested that Trista had died

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Speaker 2: I don't know about, that we were in trouble, or

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Speaker 2: that it must have been a midlife crisis, amongst other

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Speaker 2: creative ideas. Some thought it was intentional, that I was

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Speaker 2: misleading people in order to somehow benefit from it. It

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Speaker 2: got picked up by entertainment news sites. I started getting

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Speaker 2: text from people concerned blah blah blah. But he said,

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Speaker 2: but to be honest, it felt good to know people

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Speaker 2: to others when they do good or when they need help. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, we were talking last week about how, like

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Speaker 2: that it only films for about ten days. Of course,

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Speaker 2: to about fourteen fifteen days. But like we were like, man,

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Speaker 2: I want to be missed like that, And I was thinking,

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Speaker 2: Like my dad legitimately like doesn't have any sort of

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Speaker 2: but like he will text her like I'm sad, I'm lonely,

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Speaker 1: It's very sweet. Yeah, I wonder if it's always been

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Speaker 1: that way. Well, I will always be team Ryan and Trista.

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Speaker 1: Love those two, like two of the coolest, best people,

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Speaker 1: they should both look at this and be like, no,

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Speaker 1: we definitely set ourselves up for this, Like one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I can see why people were like, what is happening?

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Speaker 1: Where is Trista? Where is she gone?

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Speaker 2: Especially like did the show get annoyed by this? Like

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Speaker 1: Sure, but like I know that they're both probably like, hey,

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Speaker 1: everybody overreacted this, and I'm sure we did. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: I can see why people overreacted to these posts, Like

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Speaker 2: But you don't think that knowing Ryan and Trista, but

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Speaker 2: particularly Ryan in this case, he was never asking for

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Speaker 2: doesn't search for attention whatsoever. He's the quietest and most

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Speaker 2: private amongst everyone. Every time we have like a group trip.

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Speaker 1: Ryan, there's zero thought in my mind that Ryan at

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Speaker 1: did this for a lack of attention, not knowing what

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Speaker 2: He just thought he was sending messages to Trista and

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Speaker 1: I bet that. Honestly, I don't think it's probably far

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Speaker 1: He is not like most of us. He's a very

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Speaker 1: And I do probably think he was writing these as

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Speaker 1: I doubt Ryan even knew that these things caught fire

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Speaker 1: bit more well, kind of in concert here, Ali Fitatowski

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Speaker 1: discusses crazy emotions after her mysterious trip, and she says

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Speaker 1: she doesn't quite feel like herself. Just give a timeline

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Speaker 1: her kind of as I said, disappearance, I don't know

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Speaker 1: the same time Tristas did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah okay, so she said, hey everyone, I'm back. I've

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Speaker 2: I have so many feelings around it, crazy emotions around it,

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Speaker 2: and I honestly mentally don't feel quite like myself right

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Speaker 2: now because of it. I promise as soon as I

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Speaker 2: can share with you, I will. I just can't now, said.

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Speaker 2: It feels good to interact with her followers again and again.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to share everything she can when she can.

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Speaker 1: I think both of them. It's interesting to me, Ashley,

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Speaker 1: if it was Special Forces and we are allegedly saying

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Speaker 1: that is the best, you know, point to where we

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Speaker 1: think they went. It's interesting they're both kind of going

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Speaker 1: bettering themselves. I wonder if Special Forces is kind of

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Speaker 1: marketed to contestants as this place to believe in yourself

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Speaker 1: again and to do something powerful and to show your strength.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised because I do think the show

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Speaker 1: and it does kind of catapult you back out into

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Speaker 1: the spotlight for a period of time and people watch

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Speaker 1: you go through these grueling tasks. But both Ali and

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Speaker 1: Trista kind of have similar language on what they were

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Speaker 2: Totally, You're right, And the show did have Nick and

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Speaker 2: Tyler on last season from Bachelor, so then it would

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Speaker 2: just make sense for them to have two females from Bachelor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting choices, I would say, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want no offense to Ali, but

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Speaker 2: a random choice. Tristia makes a lot of sense. She's

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Speaker 2: the mother of the franchise. She will always be a name. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and to me Ali, while of course, like we know

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Speaker 2: like a mommy blogger these days because she's done a

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Speaker 2: lot since the show. She did E she did some

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Speaker 1: You don't think of her as the Bachelor anymore. You

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Speaker 1: think of her as, yes, something different. If they both

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Speaker 2: Am I? Like? We don't even know how powerful we are.

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Speaker 1: Bridge, yeah, so strong and all I do is talk

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Speaker 1: for a living. Susan Lucci claims she was called about

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Speaker 1: leading the Golden Bachelor. Said it wasn't for me, was

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Speaker 1: multiple people are called about leading the franchise each season.

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Speaker 1: This isn't something new or abnormal. It doesn't mean that

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Speaker 1: Joan wasn't their first choice. It doesn't mean that she

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Speaker 1: I was The Bachelor. They bring them in a room,

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Speaker 1: You sit down, you talk about what you're all about,

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Speaker 1: and then you know you really don't know you're going

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Speaker 1: to be the lead until they announce it. So not shocking,

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Speaker 1: but Susan Lucci, big name getting the call. They're obviously

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing out of this is they

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Speaker 1: are considering when it comes at least to Golden to

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Speaker 1: go outside the franchise.

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Speaker 2: It feels like every year we get a headline of

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Speaker 2: a celebrity saying, like I was asked by production to

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Speaker 2: be the lead. They obviously are really and they never

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Speaker 2: say yes. They're really trying for this and one day

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Speaker 2: I really want it to happen for us. It would

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Speaker 2: be really fun. And with Susan Lucci, Holy moly, does

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Speaker 2: that really make a lot of sense for them to

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Speaker 2: get an audience that they don't currently have, Because yes,

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Speaker 2: did The Golden Bachelor bring in a lot of older audience,

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Speaker 1: Give it a shot. Tin Lee Mulsanne welcomes baby number

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Speaker 1: Really cool. We'll be bringing her on to get more

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Speaker 1: of the Bachelorette. We believe that filming has now concluded,

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Speaker 1: Shocking that she did that. Honestly, most of the time

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Speaker 1: be honest, Ashley. Every once in a while, I'll get

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Speaker 1: a spoiler, like, just come across my page. I've got nothing.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've got nothing. I'm coming into this thing

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Speaker 2: It's more, you were pretty attached to Joey's season, you

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Speaker 1: Good Advice coming out this week. We'll have some more

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Speaker 1: we're here at the Almost Famous Podcast very excited for

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Speaker 1: this season. A lot of unanswered questions because we don't

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Speaker 1: the Almost Famous Podcast can go into this season as

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Speaker 1: excited as we are. But until next time, I've been Ben,

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Speaker 1: I've been Ashley.

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Speaker 2: See you guys. Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost

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