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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: Hello, guys, welcome to an emergency episode of the Almost

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Speaker 2: Famous Podcasts.

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Speaker 3: Emergency episode. It's the big episode. A lot is going

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Speaker 3: on in Bachelor Nation. We have a lot of stuff

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Speaker 3: that we've been talking about. Obviously, Charity season of The

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Speaker 3: Bachelorette is off and going, and we're enjoying that, and

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Speaker 3: we're watching that and we're into that. If you haven't

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Speaker 3: listened to some episodes, this week, we did a crossover

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Speaker 3: episode with a Bachelor Happy Hour, breaking down who all

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Speaker 3: of us think should be in the top three or

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Speaker 3: are in the top three, Also breaking down charity season

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Speaker 3: and talking about how both of our podcasts came to be.

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Speaker 3: Jo and Serena are now the hosts of that podcast

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Speaker 3: and they are off and running, but the host is

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Speaker 3: Almost Famous podcast. Well, we're not leaving. We've been here,

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Speaker 3: We're steady. I feel like I feel like we're getting

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Speaker 3: to the place, Ashley, where it's kind of like the

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Speaker 3: Chris Harry Soon as the host of the Bachelor, where

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Speaker 3: people can tune in and listen to us just because

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Speaker 3: they can hear a familiar voice week over week over week.

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Speaker 4: Well, then that's very nice of you to think of

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Speaker 4: us like that.

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Speaker 2: Comforting. Okay, well, guess what. I'm here because we're gonna

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Speaker 2: make a petition. We're doing it now.

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Speaker 4: I'm literally on petition dot org.

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Speaker 2: Because this week we got to see something a little exclusive.

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Speaker 2: You guys won't be able to see it yet, but

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Speaker 2: that's why we wanted to come in here and p

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Speaker 2: review it for you. We saw the teaser for The

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Speaker 2: Golden Bachelor, and as you guys know, we must have

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Speaker 2: Ben Higgins host this show. It hasn't been filmed yet,

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Speaker 2: and as far as we know publicly, there is no

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Speaker 2: host attached to it. Then your thoughts, your feelings, your

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Speaker 4: Not being called to be the host yet, Well, I.

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Speaker 3: Want to make an argument that I have been right

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Speaker 3: for five years and it's not that I should be

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Speaker 3: the host, even though I'd love to be or be

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Speaker 3: a part of the show is how I'm phrasing it

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Speaker 3: and how and how I've phrased it to anybody. A

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Speaker 3: part of the show is I would just like to

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Speaker 3: want to be there. I mean, i'd like to get paid.

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Speaker 3: It'd be nice to have a job, but it's going

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Speaker 3: to be there. I said when this was first announced.

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Speaker 3: It's been the long awaited show in Bachelor Nation. This

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Speaker 3: has been one that's been teased, it's been hinted at,

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Speaker 3: We've seen tweets, we've seen rumors on rumors, and now

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Speaker 3: it's officially happening. Like you said, we saw the trailer

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Speaker 3: and I said four years ago, this show could be big,

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Speaker 3: and I meant it when I said out. I see

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Speaker 3: something in it and I feel like I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be right. Now There's been things that have happened to

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Speaker 3: make me feel like I'll be right, and that is

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Speaker 3: that now the writers and the actors are going on strike,

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Speaker 3: this could be the content that we have all the

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Speaker 3: rest of the summer into the fall. Like content is

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Speaker 4: They're only going to be picking up reality shows.

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Speaker 3: Only reality shows, and this will be the new hot

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Speaker 3: thing on ABC. I feel like many eyes are going

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Speaker 3: to be tuned into it. If the Bachelor wants to

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Speaker 2: Bachelor, and that means doing it with Ben Higgins. Okay,

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Speaker 2: now listen, our inside source gave us a quote.

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Speaker 4: So this guy is just the nicest, most wholesome person.

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Speaker 2: Legitimately in the quotations, says, remind you of an older

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Speaker 2: version of Ben Higgins.

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Speaker 4: And we do we say publicly? Can we say you're

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Speaker 4: where he's from?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've heard rumors that, I mean, the state

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Speaker 4: So he's from Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Guys, so he reminds the producers of Ben Haggens, he's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think at this point, actually, what

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Speaker 3: I'm sensing is that you and I are obviously biased

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Speaker 3: some fans say, yeah, this should be this is like

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Speaker 3: Wells should be the Bachelor and Paradise guy Ben should

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Speaker 3: I'm starting to feel like we're the only ones because

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Speaker 3: no other than that, we're not getting a lot of traction.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, Ben, people want you to do this.

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Speaker 2: But listen, I just think this is the Bachelor Producers ABC.

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Speaker 2: There is there's Alemma here as they want to have

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Speaker 2: a Harrison where like they did all the shows. And

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Speaker 2: I think that the Wells not being the Paradise host

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Speaker 3: And that's fair, and you know, that's that's a fine

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Speaker 3: you know, Wells is a great host, maybe they make

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Speaker 3: Wells the host of this show. Maybe they want to

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Speaker 3: start using Wells Moore. That's fine with me, I get it.

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Speaker 4: But no, but they're not going to make Wells the

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Speaker 3: But it would make I mean it, it'd be okay,

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Speaker 3: you know even if Jesse. They just haven't said anything.

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Speaker 3: And I know we've talked about it many many times

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Speaker 3: now and we've kind of ran it into the ground.

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Speaker 3: But I just want to be involved, Like, I just

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Speaker 3: want to be there. If any if they probably to

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Speaker 3: mind and said, hey, Ben, you know what, we have

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Speaker 3: no role for you on this show. We don't want

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Speaker 3: you on the show. It's okay. But they say I'm

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Speaker 3: going to give you two free tickets to watch night one,

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Speaker 3: I'd say, deal. I just want to be there.

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Speaker 2: You're very sweet, You're very sweet. You deserve more than that.

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Speaker 2: And let's let the audience know that on Monday they'll

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Speaker 2: be announcing this person and not the host presumably, but

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Speaker 2: which I think is assumed. I think that we saw

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Speaker 2: It's very much like you know, when Bella turns into

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Speaker 3: We do have a quote Rob Mills, who recently spoke

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Speaker 3: Rob Mills, an executive of the in the Unscripted Space

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Speaker 3: Rob says some of the casting interviews we got they

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Speaker 3: were just so touching. It's such a different way of

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Speaker 3: doing The Bachelor because these people are just at a

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Speaker 3: totally different place in their lives. There is an interesting

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Speaker 3: some have been widowed or divorced, and maybe some have

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be so much sadder and more emotions.

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Speaker 3: It's yeah, I have something to say that, but he

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Speaker 3: an interesting dynamic through the Bachelor prism. I do think

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Speaker 3: it's going to be sadder, Ashley. But here's how I

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Speaker 3: think the show is going to go. It's it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be realer, it's gonna feel We're gonna feel it again

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Speaker 3: you're saying, I just want to root for you, and

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Speaker 3: I don't want you to go home, even though I

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Speaker 3: know you're gonna go home, but I just want to

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Speaker 3: want you to find that happiness. And it's gonna be realer,

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Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna feel it. But you know what

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Speaker 3: happens in life when we experience.

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Speaker 4: Pain, like we grow and.

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Speaker 3: We're a lot more grateful for the really good times too.

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Speaker 3: And when you feel when you feel the pain, even

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Speaker 3: if somebody else, right, when you feel that empathy.

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Speaker 4: For somebody, topciate your own life so much more you do.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what the show is going to

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Speaker 3: be so powerful. And then can you imagine the stories

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Speaker 3: But then when we see that those connections made and

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Speaker 3: feeling from this show. Can you imagine the celebration that all,

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Speaker 4: They don't need it at all.

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Speaker 3: They don't need to know. You can have some drama,

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Speaker 3: you can have some you know, real housewives type like,

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Speaker 3: That's fine. But I think the show would do itself

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Speaker 3: that was a cool thing to do in this season

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Speaker 3: now I feel support I've never felt before. And I

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Speaker 2: That's such a good point, and if done correctly, I

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Speaker 4: It needs to kind of like light a flame.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a whole new demographic. It's pulling

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Speaker 3: wish my grandparent or I wish my parent would go

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Speaker 3: on this show. It's wrapping up a whole group of

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Speaker 3: the social media stuff. They don't get the drama that

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Speaker 4: I think you're saying all the right thing. I think

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Speaker 2: I also think that it could go viral in so

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Speaker 3: I know it's a weird thing to think about, but

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Speaker 2: Wildly they make out, though, Ben, I know this is

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Speaker 3: Oh, Ashley, if you knew the statistics of people still

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Speaker 4: How do you know this?

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Speaker 3: You can probably look it up. I don't know, guys.

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Speaker 2: He truly is the host of the show, and I

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Speaker 4: Fits your petition? Are you ready for this? Ben?

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Speaker 2: Animals, criminal justice, disability, education, oh, entertainments, There we go,

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Speaker 4: Petition title Ben Higgins.

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Speaker 2: As Golden as the Golden Bachelor, host the Golden Bachelor.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I can help filling out my own petition.

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Speaker 2: No, this is like, you know, applying for yourself to

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Speaker 2: You can always edit your petition. Okay, so I'll tell

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Speaker 3: Well, Ashley, as you do this, we do want to

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Speaker 3: give some details. The new Bachelor, the Golden Bachelor, is

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Speaker 2: Goodness when that doesn't make any sense for the audience

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Speaker 4: You're gonna be obsessed with Oh.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be amazed. They're gonna be so into there.

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Speaker 3: Mean he's gonna be He's gonna be a stud no

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Speaker 2: Before we do wrap up, I do think we should

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Speaker 3: Well I got so yes. I texted you about this

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Speaker 4: It would not make a lot of sense. Doesn't need

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Speaker 3: No, it would make a lot of sense for her

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Speaker 4: She was paid for this moment, as are the commercial.

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Speaker 2: Chloe would be the best bachelorrette ever. She'd be so entertaining.

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Speaker 2: At goodness, I have such a clear image of what

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Speaker 3: All right, here's what we need to do Ashley today.

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Speaker 3: week breaking down more of the Bachelorette, also starting to

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Speaker 3: Until then, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 4: I've been Ben, I've been Ashley so Yah.

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