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

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today's the

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Speaker 2: day we have Jen Trenon. Hello, Jen the Bachelorette.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I'm very excited.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you must be doing so many of these interviews.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to make it as fun as we can.

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Speaker 2: So off off the top. You just got lip filler

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Speaker 2: for the first time, and you said it's the first

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Speaker 2: thing that you've ever gotten done. You've never you never

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Speaker 2: had botox.

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Speaker 3: Yet, never never had botoks yet. I never had any

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Speaker 3: other fillers or anything. My boobs are real, So yeah,

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Speaker 3: my hair is real.

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Speaker 2: But did you have hair reel the whole time on

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is real.

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Speaker 3: There's just maybe like a lot of hairspray in it,

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Speaker 3: but it is very much my own.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, your hair is amazing. I thought that

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Speaker 2: it was definitely there was definitely extensions in there.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: I think I saw so many comments. I was like, no,

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Speaker 3: it's mine. I grew I need credit for it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we have to give you credit here. I'm glad

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Speaker 2: that I'm bringing this up because it deserves all the

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Speaker 2: credit in the world. No.

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Speaker 3: I mean I've just never gotten any work done, but

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted to just like just like a little tweaks.

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Speaker 3: Like I feel like people are so against it sometimes,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, if it's out there and I

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Speaker 3: can like tweak something that I'm looking at in the

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Speaker 3: mirror every day that I really don't like, then I

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Speaker 3: might as well give myself a little boost of confidence.

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Speaker 2: Well, you look amazing and you look great in all

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Speaker 2: the promos. Are you going with your PA school? I

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Speaker 2: know that this is like probably like the boring stuff

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Speaker 2: to talk about a career, but with PA school, what

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Speaker 2: do you want to do with it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So is it a sthetics?

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Speaker 3: No, well, I don't know yet. I'm not totally sure yet.

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Speaker 3: I really really like working in the emergency room. So

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Speaker 3: I had a rotation that's before I left. You know,

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Speaker 3: you're helping somebody feel better in some kind of way,

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Speaker 3: you know, whether that's emotional or physical. But I really

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Speaker 3: the kind of person that gets bored really easily. So

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Speaker 3: I like having like different cases all the time. So

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Speaker 3: I want to start in that. I mean, I do

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Speaker 3: maybe want to like work part time in aesthetics at

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Speaker 3: some point, I think it's fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh, it's so fun. I was going to say,

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Speaker 2: if you're going into esthetics, I've always been like the

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Speaker 2: career that I could have taken had I not gone

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Speaker 2: in this pop cultury route would have been like kind

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Speaker 2: of opening my own being a PA and opening a medspa.

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Speaker 2: So hey, we'll see, maybe the roads will lead us

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Speaker 3: I kind of like, retire and open up a medical spa,

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Speaker 3: Like that's definitely in the works for later later on.

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Speaker 3: I guess retire and opening up a business, Joe makes sense,

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Speaker 3: but like, retire from like the er and then open

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Speaker 2: I like, your all your goals, all your goals are great.

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Speaker 2: We see that there's a couple doctors, nurses pas in

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Speaker 2: your cast list. Was that something that got guys possibly

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Speaker 2: like further because you had that in common.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it definitely made me. It definitely made them hotter

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Speaker 3: to me, because I think it's really like when you

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Speaker 3: understand what your day to day life is, it just

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Speaker 2: What's your normal physical type?

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Speaker 3: Normal physical type? I usually go for like tall, dark

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Speaker 2: When you saw the guys come out of the limo,

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Speaker 3: So the thing is I think that with like there's

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Speaker 3: is more emotional attraction. So, yes, there were a lot

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Speaker 2: Okay, So was there anybody that you after going through

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Speaker 2: the whole season, have been like, oh, I love that

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Speaker 2: I let that one go. So you've arked too early.

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Speaker 3: God, No, I don't have regrets about anything. I'm just

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Speaker 3: like not that kind of person. I think everything happens

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Speaker 3: of my decisions while I was in the process.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, amazing. Well you are the first Asian American bachelorette,

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Speaker 2: and congratulations and thank you for bringing the diversity to

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just been really surreal. I feel so honored

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Speaker 3: and so grateful a lot to be in this role.

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Speaker 3: And it's like, it's kind of funny because growing up,

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Speaker 3: and be a main character is huge. It's kind of

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Speaker 3: know that it's going to inspire so many other Asian

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Speaker 3: It's so important to be exposed to things that are

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Speaker 3: different than yourself will also alike to yourself, so that

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Speaker 2: I remember you telling Joey that you were almost concerned

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Speaker 2: about hometowns because you didn't think that your parents were

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Speaker 2: going to be super receptive to this whole process of

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Speaker 2: finding love in this obscure type of way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, total, How did they play a role in this season?

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Speaker 2: And how did they react when it was like not

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Speaker 3: Uh. They reacted the exact way that I thought that

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Speaker 3: to hire a fake mom. She was like okay, So

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Speaker 3: she was still like I'm not doing it, so it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: But now she's obviously been so so supportive and like

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Speaker 3: like I like my thought process on everything, and like

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. So does she end up making her

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, she definitely makes her TV debut

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Speaker 3: and she does not hold back.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to see the hometowns. Then, is that

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Speaker 2: when we're going to meet.

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Speaker 3: Her during Meet the Family? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, oh yeah, that's right. Not yeah, that's further along. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So Ben and I play this game where we go

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Speaker 2: There is this one like a monumental moment for me

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Speaker 2: because everybody always makes fun of the cast photos, right,

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Speaker 2: So I said, there was this guy at the end

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Speaker 2: of the cast list, Tomas, and I was like, this

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Speaker 2: at his Instagram and I was like, absolutely not. This

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, totally. It's funny how these photos

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Speaker 3: like I sparely get the worst angles because I didn't

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Speaker 3: even like my photo and I was like, I feel

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Speaker 3: like I looked completely different. It's it's crazy, I know.

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Speaker 2: So I was gonna say, did you when you saw

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Speaker 2: the cast list when they came out, where you're like,

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Speaker 3: Oh like when the photos came out, yeah, a few

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Speaker 3: weeks ago. Yeah, I I don't know. I think I

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Speaker 2: Always you're already yeah.

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Speaker 3: Credit, So for me, I was like, yeah, this looks

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Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm excited to like kind of meet them.

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Speaker 2: Let's go through a few right now. Aaron is already

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Speaker 2: getting a lot of buzz they have. They have like

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Speaker 2: a commercial with him in it because he's well it

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Speaker 2: helps that he's Noah's brother. What can we can you

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Speaker 2: tease anything about your relationship with him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean he was always very intentional since the beginning,

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Speaker 3: and he came in on a motorcycle. So yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was definitely a really good connection.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Sam n reminds us of like, well some sort

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Speaker 2: of like country bad boy. Is that what he's like?

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Speaker 3: I would say you're pretty accurate in that. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: So, okay, can you give us a And then Matt?

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Speaker 2: We were like, Matt has such an interesting look. How

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Speaker 3: I feel like he really gave off so much like

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Speaker 3: sweet boy energy, you know, so I think it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a lot of like you're just gonna be really

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Speaker 3: surprised by his personality for sure.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Grant, Grant looks like he might be too good

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I would say that. I think Grant, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's very good looking. He played basketball. I'm

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Speaker 3: a sucker for athletes.

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Speaker 2: So all right, can you give us like five guys

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Speaker 2: that we should be on the lookout for? Are you

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Speaker 2: allowed to?

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Speaker 3: Am I allowed to? I don't think so? Sadly, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: I think that that would be giving away way too much.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Okay, fine, then I would love to. Like

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Speaker 2: later in the season, we do this thing where we

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Speaker 2: ask we like narrow down to the names and then

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Speaker 2: we say which guy. Basically, can't you keep a straight

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Speaker 2: that's telling. But I can't I go through thirty names

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Speaker 3: To way too money. Thank God, I'm gonna practice my

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Speaker 3: Okay, so funny enough. No, I my friends and stuff

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Speaker 2: What that is so crazy? You watched it without having

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so then after I went thank you. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 3: it was like it was a really beautiful interview. And

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Speaker 2: That's I'm so kind. All right. So I was going

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was like, I'm a chaotic mess, Like

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry that you had to see it, ever,

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah, I mean what really here? For me

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they will. Yeah, what are your other? What

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Speaker 2: Did I saw a TikTok that you were able to

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Speaker 3: Yes, I definitely did. Well. That Star was the one

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. I got one more question for you, what

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. Yeah, I can't wait to talk

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