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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: All Right, we watched them get engaged during the Golden

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Speaker 2: Bachelor wedding. Yes, we're gonna ask all the questions about that,

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Speaker 2: but we're also going to celebrate Braiden Christina because they're

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Speaker 2: with us today to talk about where life exists and

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Speaker 2: where it's at now. So welcome to the Almost Famous

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Speaker 2: Podcast The two of you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys, it feels good.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: Last time I was on here, I didn't get to

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Speaker 3: see you on here, so I'm stuck. I get to

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Speaker 3: chat with you.

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Speaker 5: That's right. It was a tough one on one. He

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Speaker 5: said to me at the Golden wedding that he was

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Speaker 5: like scared of my interview, and I was like no, no,

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Speaker 5: no no, But I was like such a like I

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Speaker 5: was your ultimate supporter throughout the season.

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Speaker 2: She really was. I wasn't she was, and so like

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Speaker 2: that was the balance here.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe we're.

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Speaker 2: Going to dive into it all. We have a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about today. I'm very excited to finally sit

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Speaker 2: down with you, Braden. Okay, I think we're going to

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Speaker 2: start with that exactly. So one of the things that

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Speaker 2: happens during paradise that Ashley and I absolutely love is

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Speaker 2: redemption stories or maybe getting more of the story h Braiden, I,

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Speaker 2: I always get to play golf with the Wells as

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Speaker 2: soon as he gets back from Paradise. We always have

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Speaker 2: like a golf trip set up, and we don't talk

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Speaker 2: a lot of Paradise. But usually I get to ask

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Speaker 2: two questions to him because I don't want to know

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Speaker 2: because we talk about it every well we talk about

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Speaker 2: it every week, so I don't want spoiled. But I said, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: is there who's like the top girls? And then what

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Speaker 2: guys did you like the most? Like that's it, Like

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Speaker 2: that's really all I care about. And then we'll watch

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Speaker 2: a season. Braiden, your name came up on one of

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Speaker 2: the guys he liked the most, and I said, that's

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Speaker 2: that's wild to meat intuition. She has great intuition, Braiden.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask about watching back your season of

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Speaker 2: The Bachelorette to kick it off here, because we do

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Speaker 2: have some there. There wasn't anything like, goodness, gracious, this

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Speaker 2: guy doesn't ever deserve to walk on television. And it

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Speaker 2: was confusion for me because it felt like in a

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Speaker 2: similar way, to some of the stories going on on

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Speaker 2: Joey's season. There was a lot we didn't see, a

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Speaker 2: lot that didn't make sense, but everybody was mad. And

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Speaker 2: then you left, and I was like, something had to

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Speaker 2: have happened here. Braden, watching back that season, can you

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Speaker 2: elaborate a little bit more and maybe just explain yourself

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Speaker 2: on what we did, didn't see and what changed in Paradise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I honestly think for me, when I was

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Speaker 3: on the Bachelorette, it was what you see is what

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Speaker 3: you get. Like, I didn't change myself around the guys.

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Speaker 3: I didn't change myself like what I said across the board,

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Speaker 3: and even when I was talking with Charity, it was

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Speaker 3: always the same thing. And so the guys, what I

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Speaker 3: realized is they would say stuff behind closed doors or

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Speaker 3: going and telling Charity a totally different story. And so

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Speaker 3: I think that maybe they thought I wasn't sharing those

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Speaker 3: things with Charity, but I was, and so it kind

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Speaker 3: of just kind of cause a little drama there. But

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Speaker 3: I just honestly, I really I still don't really know

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Speaker 3: what happened. Like I thought the guys were all my friends.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the way we were talking behind closed doors

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Speaker 3: was just one way, and then you know, when the

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Speaker 3: cameras came out, people just changed. And so for me,

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Speaker 3: I think I'm still confused. I'm right young with you.

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Speaker 3: I really don't know what happened. All I know is

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Speaker 3: one day was you know, sunshine and rainbows, and the

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Speaker 3: next day it was just a storm. So h Paradise though,

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Speaker 3: was very different because I think that you know, you're

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Speaker 3: around both the guys and girls, so it's you know,

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Speaker 3: you're seeing each other's connections form, you're seeing the conversations happen.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's aware of what's going on, and as long as

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Speaker 3: you're not stepping on each other's toes, it's not really

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Speaker 3: like you're going after the same person, so people aren't

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Speaker 5: M h Yeah. It's a little less secretive around there.

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Speaker 5: You can't hide very much, no.

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Speaker 3: Secrets, and less competition, I would say. I I mean,

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Speaker 3: there wasn't and even when people were pursuing the same person,

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Speaker 5: They were just like because of time, I think, because

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Speaker 5: you can always you have so much time in Paradise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you're gonna get to talk to them

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Speaker 3: at some point or versus Bachelorrette. It's like your time

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Speaker 3: is so dictated by that one moment you get with her.

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Speaker 3: So if someone impedes on your time with her, you're

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Speaker 3: just you're at each other's throat. You're angry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now that transitioned us because we're here today talk

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Speaker 2: about your relationship and the two of you together. And

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Speaker 2: so you get off of Paradise and very soon after it,

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Speaker 2: we see the you know, an announcement at some point

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Speaker 2: that the two of you are dating, that the two

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Speaker 2: of you are hanging out. Can you give us some

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Speaker 2: details on kind of how that all went about, you

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Speaker 2: know where, how serious was it right away? Just give

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Speaker 2: us an insight to what we didn't see kind of

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Speaker 2: in the limbo time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean for sure. So Paradise, we had never

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Speaker 4: your take on, you know, seeing him on Charity Season,

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, like, I hope he doesn't end

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Speaker 2: Tell me stop there, tell me more. What about his

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Speaker 2: time during Charity season? Did you say I hope he

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Speaker 2: doesn't end up with anybody.

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Speaker 4: It was his face, Okay, yeah, obviously look at him.

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Speaker 4: You know, also a lot like there was a lot

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Speaker 4: of similar things, like you came up with the shot drinks.

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Speaker 4: He didn't watch me on the season until you know,

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Speaker 4: like a couple of weeks ago actually, so he didn't

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Speaker 4: know this. And I actually was one of the five

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Speaker 4: on the finale of the Bachelorette the season before and

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Speaker 4: so on our like Zach and I's initial meeting, I

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Speaker 4: did the same thing with like a shot, and so

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, hey, that guy you know copied me.

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Speaker 4: I've got to talk to about that.

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Speaker 5: Good opening line, right I should it wasn't that was

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Speaker 5: that would have been good.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of lines. I actually contacted him

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Speaker 4: a couple of times via comments that you know, he

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Speaker 4: didn't respond to until DM me later.

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Speaker 2: So that's good.

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Speaker 4: I had time to spit up the line. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: so there was that moment. There was another moment that

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Speaker 4: he mentioned like Avatar and like seeing someone and that's

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Speaker 4: just like a silly little thing, but that I like

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Speaker 4: have analogy and like imprinted in my brain, like since

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Speaker 4: I watched Avatar in theaters where I like, you know,

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Speaker 4: they put the ponytail of the people, like connect it

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Speaker 4: to the person. It's you're like could like you see them,

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Speaker 4: is what they say, and like you're imprinted. And I'm

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Speaker 4: like he said that in one of the itms, and

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Speaker 4: I was like, yes, this guy gets it. So that's

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Speaker 4: just there's a many things. And yeah, so definitely like

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Speaker 4: an energy I felt just from watching it as a fan.

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Speaker 4: And then once I you know, I didn't end up

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Speaker 4: seems to be that he was still single. So that

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Speaker 4: was that, and you want to take it away on

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Speaker 4: your end, you know, we meet up. Yeah, so he

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Speaker 4: said how serious? How fast?

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Speaker 3: Because it was after that we ended up like talking

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Speaker 3: in for maybe like a week or two, a whole

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Speaker 3: the first day of us talking for the sunset, we

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Speaker 3: were already like, you know, like, hey, like I want

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Speaker 3: to pursue relationship. I like you. I like the energy

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Speaker 3: you give off. It was like we were like we

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Speaker 3: didn't want to jump into talking.

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Speaker 4: It sounded like the most like simple but like straight

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Speaker 4: coming there for a few days, like then he was

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Speaker 4: you know, respected and appreciated and saw the potential and

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Speaker 4: the relationship. And then once there was that connection like

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Speaker 4: for sure in person as well, it was like I

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Speaker 4: think we both know that things can get messed up,

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Speaker 4: like as far as the distance if you're not having

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Speaker 4: that talk at first, and like, wouldn't it be a

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Speaker 4: shame like if we you know, oh, I didn't know

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Speaker 4: you weren't dating, or I didn't, but I assumed you were,

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Speaker 4: so like what and like ah, and like no one

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Speaker 4: technically did anything wrong, but it's just like messy. So

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Speaker 4: I was just like so happy that we had that

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Speaker 4: conversation before you know, leaving. But it was still the

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Speaker 4: same day. I picked him up from the airport in

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Speaker 4: a disguise that morning. I liked what nine am or something,

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Speaker 4: and my disguis because he was under you know, Paradise

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Speaker 4: hadn't even started, yeah, and under contract, so he can't

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Speaker 4: be seen. And I'm like, it's Nashville's a small town, like,

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Speaker 4: you know, he's pretty hard. People have recognized him more

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Speaker 4: than me because of the ear rings, and then they

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Speaker 4: want me to do well.

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Speaker 2: He's just and he's big. He's tall, and he's strong

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Speaker 2: and he's big guy all his hair. I think you're strong.

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Speaker 2: I saw that shirt unbuttoned a couple of buttons at

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Speaker 2: the wedding and I was like, yeah, guy, he lifts weights,

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Speaker 2: he lifts waits.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: This makes me laugh though, because I think I don't

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Speaker 2: have anything any problem with this. In fact, I think

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Speaker 2: it's very healthy. It's similar to how my wife and

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Speaker 2: I went about our first meeting within the evening time

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Speaker 2: of our very first day. We had talked for two

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Speaker 2: weeks or three weeks before, and we said, hey, this

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Speaker 2: is either this is the real deal, like we're going

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Speaker 2: after it, but it's also a little bit I wonder,

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Speaker 2: and I want you to continue, Christina, but I wonder

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Speaker 2: if it's a little bit of the kind of coming

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Speaker 2: off of the show too, like that you both had

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Speaker 2: this apearance on The Bachelor, so acting quicker and saying

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Speaker 2: things and being more intentional with your time. I wonder

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Speaker 2: if that had anything to do with it.

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Speaker 3: I actually, I mean, I'd like to jump in there

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Speaker 3: just because I agree with that a lot. I think

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Speaker 3: that The Bachelor really taught me that, you know, if

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Speaker 3: you aren't setting your intentions, if you aren't saying what

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Speaker 3: you want right off the bat, you just like you

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Speaker 3: end up in this limbo or like you know where

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Speaker 3: you're in the talking face for so long. And I

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Speaker 3: mean nowadays, I feel like that the talking phase is

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Speaker 3: so common for everybody. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, I'm talking

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Speaker 3: to this person.

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Speaker 4: Yes, too long like talking and then like okay, then

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Speaker 4: you're not talking talking, but you like like like and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't understand it. Whenever we had the

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Speaker 4: exclusive talk, I was literally like does that mean this?

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Speaker 4: Because you know, you live on the other side of

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Speaker 4: the country and I love it here, and like there's

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Speaker 4: And this hasn't been something that like I've been actively

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Speaker 3: No, that was like no. I was like, I mean

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Speaker 4: So we did have like a conversation like we're in kindergarten,

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Speaker 2: Or now that's sweet.

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Speaker 5: It's so cute, And it led you then to like

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Speaker 3: Do you accept.

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Speaker 5: That would have been hilarious?

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Speaker 5: Chris, you know, did they not cast you for Paradise?

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Speaker 4: I was planning on going and then just didn't end

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Speaker 5: So they really missed out. Well, you know, I'm getting

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Speaker 4: You can say that because you know we're where we

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Speaker 5: That was my follow up question.

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Speaker 4: We just explained how we didn't want the mess. I

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Speaker 3: I think that's part of it too. Like the show,

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Speaker 3: The show taught me that when I pursue relationships now regularly,

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Speaker 4: But also a lot of the girls don't love me either, so.

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Speaker 2: Paradise changes that though.

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Speaker 2: I believe that people see more of a complete version

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Speaker 2: the show. But I do agree with the two of

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Speaker 2: But I wonder because of maybe some of the issues

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean, and it's every time a relationship

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Speaker 2: Crazy, Actually my wrong here where they are like, let's

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Speaker 5: That's what they know.

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Speaker 4: We asked, because like they kept saying, We're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: And so they said, yeah, I don't know, you're not

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Speaker 4: I said paradise, but I you know.

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Speaker 3: And I'd like to say, I mean no.

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Speaker 4: That's why I was like, I don't agree either way.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I have to say one thing. I

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Speaker 3: One thing I noticed though, is I think she might

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Speaker 4: It was an emergency, but he's ignoring it.

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Speaker 3: But no, so she was on Bachelorette, though for the finale,

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Speaker 4: All well maybe within like a year for a rookie

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Speaker 2: That's pretty impressive. You did all right, I mean, and

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Speaker 4: But someone sent him the message or like someone was

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't, I didn't. I don't fact check that.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't sound but you know, sure, it's like, yo,

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Speaker 3: It's like, dang, you did it all, didn't.

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Speaker 4: You do well? So he had never watched he got

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Speaker 4: but I'm like, yeah, but it wasn't Bachelor pat or

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why you and I are seeing it as

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I like an umbrella couple.

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Speaker 5: An umbrella a couple.

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Speaker 2: Well was my point was you're the only two to

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Speaker 5: That's why they want to call you a paradise couple.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were like, you know it either way, let's

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Speaker 3: Exactly, I heard a rumormal that there might be other

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Speaker 5: You heard, couples that are currently working it out once

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Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. We'll dive deep on this info.

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Speaker 5: The Thanks thanks for having us look out for that.

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Speaker 5: So this is a little bit off topic, but I'm

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Speaker 3: And you know you guys, I know you guys won't

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Speaker 5: It's so sweet of you. So you were in like

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Speaker 4: I feel like be shouting with the music over then

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Speaker 5: And Christina, were you around for you to You're dating

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Speaker 5: Is this the maiden voyage? Like Titanic?

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Speaker 5: That's how I describe it, Like.

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Speaker 3: No, not the mad voyage. But we took it out.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: mean your armys like the who else?

439
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were like medical we had you know, it was.

440
00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,680
Speaker 4: Early like not drinking, like it was not.

441
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,720
Speaker 3: We were like but yeah, it wasn't like we were

442
00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,640
Speaker 3: going crazy or anything like that. We were just going

443
00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,920
Speaker 3: for a fishing trip and there made this boat just

444
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,760
Speaker 3: shot up and within like forty five seconds, I got

445
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,520
Speaker 3: launched off the boat. My uncle got the center console

446
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,119
Speaker 3: to the head. My dad was wrapped like this, like

447
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,080
Speaker 3: we were just cast into the middle of the ocean,

448
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:30,400
Speaker 3: seventeen miles off shore.

449
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,159
Speaker 5: See, that's like the most mind boggling thing about this.

450
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 5: Seventeen miles off the shore. Did you have any boats

451
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:39,040
Speaker 5: in sight? Even?

452
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,000
Speaker 3: No, it was just it was literally just open water.

453
00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 3: I mean I could you could see like the tops

454
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,240
Speaker 3: of the mountains, like the shadow of the mountains in

455
00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,760
Speaker 3: the distance of where we needed to be, but everything

456
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,160
Speaker 3: it was just it was just empty. And I've never

457
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 3: and it's such a it's such an eerie feeling when

458
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 3: you're out there. I mean, we're surrounded by things all

459
00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,639
Speaker 3: the time. We're surrounded by noise, weurrounded by people passing us,

460
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,800
Speaker 3: like even house you hear cars driving by, and you know,

461
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,560
Speaker 3: but when we were out there, it was the most

462
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,920
Speaker 3: eerie feeling because there was just this stillness and this

463
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,280
Speaker 3: calmness in this most stressful, just chaotic experience I've ever

464
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 3: had in my life and.

465
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,920
Speaker 5: You watch the boat actually go under completely.

466
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 6: Yeah.

467
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,840
Speaker 3: And at the time too, like we started panicking, so

468
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 3: like the nose of the boat like like you know,

469
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,160
Speaker 3: hung out for a second, as like water was filling

470
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,920
Speaker 3: the hole. I'm sure, but you know, we were trying

471
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 3: to see if we could like pull the boat out

472
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 3: of the water. For some like I don't know if

473
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 3: I thought I was working out on the gym enough

474
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 3: like Ben was sinn and I was like, oh, pull

475
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 3: this thing out, great, you know, my muscle was finally

476
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 3: coming handy. But no, no, there's no pull on that

477
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 3: boat out though. And in fact, like when I did that,

478
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 3: I actually got wrapped in the fishing line, you know,

479
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,679
Speaker 3: when we decided to try to do that, and as

480
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,880
Speaker 3: the boat kept going down, I started getting pulled down

481
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 3: with the boat. And by the great like my dad

482
00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,280
Speaker 3: he actually bought like a pocket knife. I still have

483
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 3: the pocket knife I carry with me everywhere now. He

484
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 3: had this pocket knife. He literally bought the knight before

485
00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 3: just in case he had to cut line or anything

486
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,200
Speaker 3: like that. And so when I'm getting tangled in line,

487
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 3: it was like a movie situation, you know, where like

488
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 3: you're going underwater, you're bobbing up. You're like, you know,

489
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 3: and yeah, he actually was able to cut me free.

490
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 3: And uh, I mean you can kind of see the

491
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 3: scar on my arm a little bit like goes down

492
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,840
Speaker 3: like that. But he actually cut me while he was

493
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 3: cutting the line off me. But still it was like,

494
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 3: you know, saved my life. So I was bleeding. Now

495
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 3: I'm in the open water boats underwater.

496
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 5: No short attack.

497
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm bleeding in open water. And now we're like,

498
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 3: now stop.

499
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 4: There because there's a lot of activity on the fish finders.

500
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so and that was the thing too, like

501
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 3: we stopped at this spot because we were looking for

502
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 3: fish and the fish finder was going off like there

503
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: was a big fish that underneath the door. We're like, oh,

504
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 3: this is a great spot to stop. And uh, now

505
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 3: I'm bleeding and we have to paddle back to shore.

506
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 3: And so we just started kicking. And it was my

507
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 3: dad and my uncle and me. We locked arms and

508
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 3: we were kicking, and then Aaron was using one of

509
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 3: the one of the ice chests we had as like

510
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 3: a kicking board, and then my buddy Gavin was using

511
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 3: the other ice chests we had as a kicking board.

512
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 3: And so now we're just We're just like moving as

513
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 3: a group, moving towards the shore. And as we're going,

514
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 3: it was just I mean, you have so many thoughts

515
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 3: in that time. You're in the water for three and

516
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 3: a half hours. It was just I thought I was

517
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 3: dead for three and a.

518
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 5: Half hours excess, No, three and a half hours. Yeah

519
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 5: to the coast guard. How did you how did you

520
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,120
Speaker 5: even like contact the coast guard?

521
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 3: Like what what?

522
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 5: Howd that go down?

523
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 3: Coast guard wasn't even coming, Like there was no there

524
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 3: was no contacting anybody. I mean, no distress. And we

525
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 3: all got out. There was we were we were just

526
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 3: out of luck. I mean, it was it was one

527
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 3: of the crazy And that was the reason I knew

528
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: I was going to die. Like if we got a

529
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 3: coast guard out, like a call out or something like that,

530
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 3: it might have given me like a sense of hope.

531
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 3: But there was none of that. Like we we weren't

532
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 3: able to get to the radio. And I mean I

533
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 3: still hear the sound of the boat because the boat

534
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 3: the once the boat started taking on water, it started

535
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 3: letting out like a like a like a uh sound,

536
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 3: And I was in my head, I'm like, oh, is

537
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 3: that a distress? A mole, but I knew it wasn't

538
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 3: a distress because the boat didn't have that, and so

539
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 3: it was just the sound of the boat, like the

540
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 3: computer failing and stuff like that. And so it was

541
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 3: the it was the most bizarre our experience ever. And

542
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 3: so now we're kicking towards shore, no distress, no no

543
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 3: one's coming for us, nobody around. And I start seeing

544
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 3: Aaron start shaking because he's cold. Gavin starts shaking because

545
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 3: he's cold. I'm locked arms with my dad and my uncle,

546
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 3: so I'm like keeping a little bit of warmth with me.

547
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm in just my underwear because I

548
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 3: like just dropped all my clothes off because my clothes

549
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 3: were just dragging me down. And so now we're kicking

550
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 3: toward shore and the Pacific Ocean is not warm like

551
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,600
Speaker 3: it's it's pretty chilly. It was like it was probably

552
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 3: around like sixty five that day in the water, which

553
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 3: is not how the coldest it is, but it's like,

554
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 3: you know, it was it was a decently warm day

555
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 3: at least with sixty five.

556
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 4: And they're that long on your body temperature.

557
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 3: Your body temperatures is like it's being pulled from you

558
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 3: because the water is so cold, and so we saw

559
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 3: like a couple shadows of sailboats in the distance, but

560
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 3: like they would just come into view and then they

561
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 3: would just disappear again. And so we're like, we're not

562
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 3: no one's seeing us, Like we're gonna die. And then

563
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, like I'm you know, we're kicking,

564
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: and my buddy Gavin like gets shot up above like

565
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 3: one of the waves because we're in like a four

566
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 3: foot win swell. So we're going up, down, up, down uptown.

567
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 5: This is the ultimate nightmare.

568
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 3: And he was like, he's like, guys, I think I

569
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,360
Speaker 3: see a boat, And I'm like, at this point, we'd

570
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 3: already seen like the shadows of boat's passing.

571
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 4: My mic heard a helicopters.

572
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean your brain starts playing games with

573
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 3: you do you think every sound is something and you

574
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 3: look around hopeful, and then it's just like it's three

575
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 3: hours of that where it's like you're like paddling your

576
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 3: heads in the water and then all of a sudden,

577
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 3: you think you hear something, you look up and there's nothing,

578
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 3: and it's like and now all of a sudden, Gavin

579
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 3: is going He's like, guys, I see a boat. I'm like,

580
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 3: shut And I remember I just told him. I was like, bro,

581
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 3: shut the hell, like I mean, you know, I don't

582
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 3: want to say thing on podcast, but I basically told

583
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 3: him shut up because I was like, dude, like stop

584
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 3: telling me that something's there, because nothing's there. And then

585
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 3: Aaron goes He's like no, I see it too. And

586
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 3: then like like my dad and my uncle and I

587
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 3: we were just like we just kept kicking and they're like, wait, know,

588
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 3: I think it's coming towards us, and we just kept

589
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 3: kicking because we're like no, like they're they're hallucinating, like

590
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 3: this can't be real. And then all of a sudden,

591
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 3: I just heard like the sound of like the boat

592
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 3: moving in the water, like because my head was on

593
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 3: the water, so I could hear like the sound of

594
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 3: the engine like going, and like I finally looked up

595
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 3: and I just see the boat coming and it was

596
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 3: just like I just started crying. I was just like

597
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 3: kind of like I'm not going to die. I was like,

598
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: you know, And and so the boat finally came up.

599
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 3: We climbed in and it's funny, the ice chest starts

600
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 3: drifting off and my my uncle's like Yeah, there was

601
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 3: like an igloo ice chest and my uncle climbs to

602
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 3: the top of the boat like Wilson No.

603
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 5: Like you know, like cast the fact that he had

604
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 5: a sense of humor too.

605
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 3: I was just like I just told him. I was like,

606
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 3: f you, bro, we saw us dyed and you want

607
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 3: to crack jokes right away. But yeah, so we ended

608
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 3: up these guys ended up finding us.

609
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 4: They rolled up and they're like, we were looking for

610
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 4: a school fish and we found a school man. Look

611
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:34,959
Speaker 4: at them.

612
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they were I mean, they were crack ups too,

613
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 3: but it was it was wild their story of how

614
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 3: they ended up there, Like they were running late that day.

615
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 3: They weren't sure if they were going to come out

616
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 3: at all. They but they ended up running a dropping

617
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: the kids off at school and then they're like, oh,

618
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 3: we'll just go out for like thirty forty five minutes

619
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 3: just to go on a ride. And when they came out,

620
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 3: they just saw the reflection of like the igloo in

621
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 3: the water and for his earrings, yeah.

622
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 2: No, and then I hope it was the ear rings.

623
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 2: It all makes sense now.

624
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 3: And then they decided to check it out and they

625
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 3: saw us in there, and there was like hey, can

626
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: we riding and like yeah, And the thing was crazy about.

627
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 4: It then like a long time to get there sing

628
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 4: it right?

629
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I mean the thing that was the

630
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 3: most bizarre about is once we got on the boat,

631
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: it was still like over an hour and a half

632
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 3: boat ride back to shore. So I mean there was

633
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 3: and you're going on, you're going fasten the water, so

634
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: I mean we wouldn't we wouldn't have a mile, right,

635
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 3: we made it three quarters of a mile. We looked

636
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 3: at it, so by the by the time that we

637
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 3: were in the water in three and a half hours,

638
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 3: made it three quarters of a long miles. Because it

639
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 3: was like we're fighting against we're fighting against the current,

640
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: we're fighting against windswell, like it was just like it was.

641
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 3: It was insane. And so when they picked us up,

642
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 3: they called the coast guard and they're like, hey, we

643
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 3: found some people. Are you guys looking for anyone? And

644
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: they're like no, what do you mean? And then I go, well,

645
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: we found five guys in the water, And so as

646
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 3: we were pulling into the harbor, they just pulled up

647
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 3: on us and like, hey, you guys, okay, and then

648
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 3: they're like, wait, you're the guys in The Bachelor, aren't

649
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 3: you And I'm like, bro, shut up man, and so

650
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: uh that was airing, yeah, and so yeah, we were saying,

651
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 3: I mean it was crazy.

652
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 5: I mean I that day.

653
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 3: It's still it's it's still hard because it's like it's

654
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 3: still messes with my head a little bit. I mean you,

655
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 3: I mean it was only what like four months ago now,

656
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 3: but yeah, so I mean it's still like it's still different.

657
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 3: Like when you're talking about this whole like social Anxiety band,

658
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 3: It's like it's bizarre. I now have like a sense

659
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 3: of social anxiety and I don't know where. I don't know.

660
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: I mean I know where it comes from. But he tsd.

661
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, that distress call like on the movie the

662
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 4: other day.

663
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I heard there was a distress call in

664
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 3: the movie The Today sent me in like a spin.

665
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 3: I was just like I just start panicing. My body

666
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 3: just start and it's so weird. Panic attacks are weird.

667
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 5: But yeah, Christina, he told he asked you to be

668
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 5: his girlfriend that day.

669
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 3: As soon as he got back to all that happens.

670
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 4: You know, we were exclusive very much, but like you know,

671
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 4: I didn't have his location, so I didn't know you know.

672
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 5: Now you're like, yeah, we're finding my friends on you.

673
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:52,479
Speaker 3: Oh we are.

674
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 4: That was immediately I'm like, yes, I love your girlfriend,

675
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 4: but I need you just him the location right now.

676
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 4: It's not for why you think no, But yeah, so

677
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 4: he didn't have a phone. You know, they vote and everything,

678
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 4: and all of everything they had is down at the

679
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 4: bottom of the ocean.

680
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,239
Speaker 3: So they, you know, he got back and it's six

681
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 3: thousand dollars worth a camera equipment because I had like

682
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 3: my nice camera out there, my drone, my GoPro, like

683
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 3: my camera back.

684
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 4: I had everything out there, but it's way how deep

685
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 4: was it?

686
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:20,719
Speaker 3: It was three and seventy three.

687
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 4: We're not gonna find.

688
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 3: We're not finding because they went back out and checked

689
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 3: how deep it was.

690
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 4: But yeah, gosh, okay, that's terrific. But yeah, so I

691
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 4: get a phone call. Well, I get a message from

692
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 4: his dad on Instagram and like just like a request.

693
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: So I happened to have seen it, and like he

694
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 4: was like, hey, you know, it's Braden's dad, which we had,

695
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 4: you know, met on you know, you have FaceTime and

696
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 4: stuff already, but like a selfie of the two of

697
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 4: them in the car and they're both like just like

698
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 4: looking at like they didn't look happi or sad, and

699
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 4: I was just like okay, Like he was like, you know,

700
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 4: call call me the number and so or yeah this

701
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 4: or what's mineup or whatever? Yeah, you know, he was like,

702
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 4: you're dumber. So I sent the number and then got

703
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 4: a phone call. And that's when you were outside out

704
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 4: of like what the team over or wherever it was.

705
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 4: You're like, I don't have a phone. The first call

706
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 4: you make he found like a random phone to call

707
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 4: me off of and then is telling me real quick like.

708
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 4: And I was like working out in my like garage,

709
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 4: and I had Blake Lee, my daughter like with me

710
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 4: around and she was in there and like she's went

711
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 4: back and forth asking me things like just hold everybody,

712
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 4: what's going on? What's happening? Because he was telling me,

713
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 4: I guess your dad kind of gave me a little

714
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 4: spark notes. But then you grab the phone and I

715
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 4: was like wait, what, like what do you mean? And

716
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 4: then you were telling me everything and you babbled out

717
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 4: kind of not all the details, but like the boa

718
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 4: sick and I was here and all that and did

719
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 4: you get you sent me an edible arrangement day he's.

720
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 3: Like, but how was that? How was your teacher?

721
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, that's all all

722
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 4: were talking about.

723
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 5: And you're like, oh yeah.

724
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 4: And also, you know the thing like he had said, yeah,

725
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 4: that's weird for me to say about myself.

726
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 5: And he loved me.

727
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 3: I just to her, I was like, I was in there.

728
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: I was in the water for three and a half hours,

729
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 3: like I thought I was going to die. I really

730
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: put a lot of things in perspective for me, and

731
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 3: I just one thing I regret it is not telling

732
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: you that I loved you when I was there, and

733
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 3: I know I'm fast and I hope it might be rushing.

734
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 4: And then I kind of them off there and I

735
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: was like, no, I love you too, And so I

736
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 4: feel like, you know, we were both thinking that, but

737
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 4: it I mean, I feel like we were still sticking

738
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 4: to like the you know, back of their kind of timeline,

739
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 4: like it wasn't really like that we had waited all

740
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 4: that long, but we you know, it's long distance, so

741
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 4: that's something you probably want to say in person, and

742
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 4: so you know.

743
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: I uh, and I was planning on like I was

744
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 3: planning on like doing the whole Oh, it'd be my

745
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 3: girlfriend thing because I was supposed to gout there like

746
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 3: the following week for her birthday or something in two

747
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 3: weeks for your birthday. Yeah, and so it was like

748
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I was That's what I was

749
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 3: planning on doing it.

750
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 4: I want to do something cute, but I was gonna bet.

751
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 4: I mean we were like, well, we haven't planned anything certain,

752
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 4: but like, yeah, no, I ended up being like I'm

753
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 4: gonna I'm coming there right now. Like you know, obviously

754
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: I don't care like you get a chance to see

755
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 4: me for a second, that's fine, I'll drive wherever, but

756
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 4: like I'm going there.

757
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: This is Yeah, somehow you found a way, even without

758
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 2: being on Paradise and not being on television, to be

759
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 2: to have the most dramatic I first love view scenario

760
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: that I've ever heard. Yeah, I mean that is that

761
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: is a story to share forever you keep the drama alive. Well,

762
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: that is the most one of the most incredible stories

763
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 2: I've ever heard. And I think there is first off,

764
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 2: Branden like, uh, there's so many people listening, and Ashley

765
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: and myself include to understand kind of where this like

766
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: the panic and anxiety we don't understand, but we we

767
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: hear you and we hope that that Maybe I don't

768
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 2: know if it gets better. I don't know enough to say,

769
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: hey that that will go away, or time will heal all,

770
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: or if that's going to.

771
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 5: Have to go on a cruise again.

772
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, off boat.

773
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 3: Since I ended up going, I did go on a

774
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 3: boat again with her and Blakely, our launch that.

775
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 4: We made like are announcing our relationship. We were on

776
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 4: a boat. But you know, my best friend had planned

777
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 4: it for my birthday that me and Blakely went out

778
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 4: there to see him in San Diego. And it was like,

779
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 4: what's it called? The boat called like the kind where

780
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 4: it's a tour, it's like cadam Ran And she would

781
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 4: like like asked him, called him and asked, was like

782
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 4: is that gonna be okay? And had I was so

783
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 4: sweet of her to like think of that and you're like, no, no, no,

784
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 4: it's fine, I can do this. But you had been

785
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 4: like surfing and stuff.

786
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 3: And so like, I mean, it's not even boats that

787
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 3: scared me. It's just like there's it's the concept.

788
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 4: It's yeah, I think it's just the boat saying not float.

789
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: It's not even that. Yeah, the like the normalcy bias

790
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 3: of what it means to like think that something's gonna

791
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: be fine and it's like totally not fine. And I've

792
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: always been like laid back guy when it comes to

793
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: like going to situations like oh, it'll all work out,

794
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 3: and now it's like I feel like it's I'm a

795
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 3: little hesitant to they're going to work out. So I

796
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 3: need to be like prepared. I need to know what's

797
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 3: going to happen or it's like you know. And so

798
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 3: that's why I think social settings mess me up because

799
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: like anything.

800
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: Could happen or like yeah, I hear you. I mean

801
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 2: and like I said, we that's it's totally fair. And

802
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: that is a wild story that we didn't get the

803
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: full version of because I remember watching like a news

804
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 2: clip from it. Yeah, and that's kind of where I

805
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: heard of about it for the first time, and there

806
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: it really didn't give a lot of detail to what

807
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 2: happened and why it happened.

808
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 4: Mentioned it on the side, yes, and Brand's in a

809
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 4: relationship and everyone's like what what Yeah.

810
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it needs more weight and I'm glad

811
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: you shared that story because it needed it needs to

812
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: hold its space. Like that is a very important story

813
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: in your life, and then also leading to this incredible

814
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 2: moment where you're on the water for three and a

815
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 2: half hours and you maybe not realized it then, but

816
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: you got the confidence or you felt the urgency to

817
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: tell Christina you loved her.

818
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 4: Well.

819
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 2: That transitions us, though, into a moment that a lot

820
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: of people watched. I think eleven million people in fact

821
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: watched it. You got engaged at the Golden Wedding, which

822
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: was uh, the special for the two of you, but

823
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: controversial in a lot of ways too. I'm sure you're

824
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: not a you weren't you were aware I guess of

825
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 2: this people saying, hey, you're taking the moment from Gary

826
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 2: and Teresa, and how would you do that there? I

827
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 2: want to give you two especially you Braden, because you

828
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: knew about it. I'm hoping before that day happened, kind

829
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: of why you chose that moment, Ashlely and I did

830
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: stick up for you here and say, hey, there's a

831
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 2: lot of reasons why you would do it here. And yes,

832
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: this whole world is weird and this whole world never

833
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 2: makes sense, but this makes sense when you talk about

834
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 2: the Bachelor. But I want you to tell us how

835
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 2: you decided that moment was the right moment, and then

836
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 2: also maybe respond to some of the critics that say, hey,

837
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 2: you took the moment from Gary and Teresa.

838
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, everyone's

839
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 3: going to have an opinion. I mean, it's just it's

840
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 3: the way the world works. And a lot of times

841
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 3: people like to have more of the negative opinions than

842
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 3: positive opinions because they're more fun. But I, for me,

843
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 3: the biggest reason why I ended up deciding that that

844
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 3: was the moment in which I wanted to do it

845
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 3: in is I mean, first I did talk to Gary

846
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 3: and Teresa. I mean I would like to put that

847
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 3: out there. I called Gary and talked to him on

848
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: the phone. I got permission from him. He talked to Teresa.

849
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 3: Teresa loved the.

850
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 4: Idea of it, and like people probably don't know what

851
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 4: you and Gary are friends and like text.

852
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 3: Solid and like they actually talking. He was the first.

853
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was one of the first people. He told

854
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 4: like that we were together. Yeah.

855
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 3: So at the premiere at the premiere of Golden Golden

856
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise. At that premiere party, me

857
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 3: and Gary like we were talking in like just about

858
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 3: this and that and he's like, oh, like, you know,

859
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 3: how was dating outside of it? And I'm like, well, actually,

860
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 3: like I'm actually dating someone from a previous show. And

861
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 3: I was like and I showed him a picture of

862
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 3: Christina and I was like, yeah, me and her understanding. Yeah,

863
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 3: And so I mean the thing was is it? Like

864
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: I mean Gary, Gary was a part of it. I

865
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 3: mean the thing what Bachelor and Nation Bachelor is a

866
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 3: part of me and Christina being together too. I mean

867
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: I would have never met her without being on the show.

868
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: And so with those factors, like you know, with those

869
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: factors considered, it's like, I mean, why why would if

870
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 3: I was if I had the opportunity to, if everyone

871
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: was okay with it, why wouldn't I want to use

872
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 3: something that was so monumental in me and her getting

873
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 3: to know each other and getting to meet as an

874
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 3: opportunity to go and do it. And I mean that's like,

875
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: that's honestly, at the end of the day, why I

876
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 3: did it. I mean, Bachelor it was a big thing

877
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: for her. My experience on The Bachelor was a big

878
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 3: thing for me. I think it both you know, changed

879
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 3: us in certain ways and has played a big role.

880
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: Like I said, and just you know, growing in our

881
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 3: relationship and you know, going about it the way we have.

882
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 3: And so that's that's honestly why I did it. I mean,

883
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 3: and it was. I don't regret it. I'm so grateful

884
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 3: that I did it, and I'm living I'm living happy now,

885
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 3: and I mean, I'm blessed to be able to have it.

886
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: And so people get to hate on it, that's their right.

887
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: I mean, they could be upset about it, but I'm

888
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 3: not upset about it, and it doesn't really.

889
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 5: Bother So it didn't feel weird to me whatsoever watching it.

890
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 5: I didn't even think twice until people brought it up

891
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 5: that it was in opportune moment. Bachelor World is so

892
00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 5: much different and free ring, free ring if it's awful.

893
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about it before and I was like, hey,

894
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 4: like I'm not at all like don't like if if

895
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 4: you ever want to, like you know, maybe do that,

896
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 4: like propose or something like, don't worry about like a

897
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: ring everything. I was like, I always thought it would

898
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 4: be cool to like go on a hike or like

899
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 4: somewhere and find a really cool stone and make a

900
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 4: ring together. And like we talked about that and so yeah,

901
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 4: and that was a part of it too, Like I

902
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: I mean, like, don't I don't go.

903
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 3: And be like like the whole way came the whole

904
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 3: way it came about, was I mean me and the produce,

905
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,720
Speaker 3: Like the producers came and they were coming and chatting

906
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 3: with me in the room because they were like, I

907
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 3: just showed up to the hotel and Christina was when

908
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 3: at the Golden Wedding.

909
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 5: So I wait a second, now, yeah, very basically, you're

910
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 5: telling me that you decided the day of the wedding.

911
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 3: No, no, not the day that. Okay, we were there,

912
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 3: we got there before. But I was sitting there and

913
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 3: I was just chatting with was chatting with Jason, one

914
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 3: of the guys, and I was just like, yeah, like

915
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna propose the Christina this year. And

916
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 3: I have like this whole I originally I had another

917
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 3: plan on how I wanted to do it, and I

918
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I'm gonna be proposing her this year,

919
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 3: saving up for a ring, saving up for a trip

920
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 3: to Italy, because I originally I wanted to do it,

921
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 3: and like she like.

922
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 4: Going to make people mad everyone, Yeah, this is gonna

923
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 4: make a more of a different.

924
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 3: One of our first FaceTime college she said she wants

925
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 3: to go to Italy to go put pineapple on.

926
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 4: Pizza, like a can of pineapple, like to a really

927
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 4: nice or like you know, just a pizza place and

928
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 4: then ask or you know, just have them watch me

929
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 4: just pour it on the pizza. Very funny, very funny,

930
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you. So I was saying everyone, I

931
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 4: tell her, like, that's you're gonna get picked out of

932
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 4: the country.

933
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 3: And so I told her. I was like, my original

934
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 3: plan was down. Then I was like, yeah, like I'm

935
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 3: gonna put a ring in the pineapple can, so when

936
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 3: she goes to shout to dump the pineapples out, the

937
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 3: ring is gonna fall instead. And then there So that

938
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 3: was my original idea. And they're like, wow, that's so cute.

939
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 3: They're like, you're really serious about this, Hun, I'm like, honestly, yeah,

940
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 3: Like after after a big like after the boating incident,

941
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 3: I was like I understand that time, like you know,

942
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: I I don't want to live my life, you know,

943
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 3: waiting for something that you know is that I know

944
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: already you know what I mean? When when you know

945
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, were moving, you had.

946
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 4: All your stuff packed up. We were driving from the

947
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: wedding to make the move to Nashville.

948
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: Say and that was that was one thing that was

949
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: crazy is I was literally talking to my sister on

950
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 3: the way to the Golden wedding where I was like,

951
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 3: you know, one of my things that I felt, you know,

952
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: I wish I could have done and the only reason

953
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 3: I hadn't done it yet is because again I was

954
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 3: saving money and wanting to be able to buy the

955
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 3: ring and buy the trip and do it this way.

956
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 3: And I was telling her, I was like, yeah, I

957
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 3: was like, you know, I want to do this, and

958
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 3: I feel like this is right. I don't I feel

959
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: bad about moving in with like, you know, Blakely and

960
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 3: her seeing that, because I would love it for her

961
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 3: to see that, like, you know, I'm very committed to

962
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 3: her mom and it's not just like some new boyfriend

963
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 3: moving in and you know, I want to be able

964
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 3: to have that, you know, make that impression on her

965
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 3: because kids are so impressionable and they looked at their

966
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 3: parents and see how their parents' relationships are. And I

967
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 3: don't want her to think that I'm just you know,

968
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 3: some dude that's just coming out there just to date

969
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: her mom, that's not And so I was talking to

970
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 3: my sister about that and I was like, and I

971
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 3: just and I feel guilty because I was like, I

972
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: wish I could propose to her right now, Like I

973
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 3: wish I could do that right now, and it's so

974
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 3: and I was like, but I'm limited. You know, I

975
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 3: had to just bought in the truck. I like, you know,

976
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 3: my car broke down, so I just bought a truck.

977
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: So the money I did have went to the truck.

978
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, so I can't do

979
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 3: it right now, and yeah, moves between two nursing contracts

980
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 3: and so I was like, you know, I have to wait.

981
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 3: That's like the smart thing to do. And I was like,

982
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: just pray it for me and I And then literally

983
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 3: that night, when I was talking to the producers, they're like, well,

984
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 3: how about we do this right now?

985
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 5: So you're telling me you did make that. This isn't

986
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 5: that day like you you knew you were going to propose,

987
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 5: but like they said, we could.

988
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 4: Do it, and you said, yeah, day before you.

989
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, gracious, that is so cute and cool.

990
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 5: I love it. You guys are so in love. It's

991
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 5: so cute.

992
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: And also to like explain this a little bit, like

993
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: how many times do people get engaged randomly? Like very often?

994
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 2: Like I have friends who've been on like a mountain hike,

995
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: right and it's a beautiful moment and like everything looks perfect,

996
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 2: and they get engaged in that moment kind of unexpectedly.

997
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 2: They both knew, you know, knew it was coming, knew

998
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: they both wanted it, but it was kind of unplanned

999
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 2: and like out of nowhere. And so it makes sense

1000
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: on how you were like, hey, we're already going to

1001
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: be doing this. Everything's aligning here for this to be

1002
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 2: like the ultimate way for me to propose, and we're

1003
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: going to make it happen. And like you said you

1004
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: and Gary were friends, it didn't.

1005
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 3: It didn't.

1006
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 2: And actually I talked about this too. It didn't take

1007
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 2: away from the wedding at all, Like this was a

1008
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: whole It almost felt like a whole separate event that

1009
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 2: like hour and a half where we all were kind

1010
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: of hanging out. It's a whole separate event, very different

1011
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: than the wedding and the after wedding. But you know,

1012
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: this was your moment and eleven million people watched it.

1013
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: Now it kind of takes you then into the planning phase.

1014
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 2: So we are I don't even know how long we

1015
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 2: are removed from the golden wedding. It feels like a

1016
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: long time, but it's probably not that long.

1017
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 5: Not even been two months, in eighteen days something not counting.

1018
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: You would mention Christina as we kind of close up

1019
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: here that you at the beginning of the show even

1020
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: you were talking about how you are in the planning

1021
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: phase and talking about what a wedding can look like

1022
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 2: and how you both want it done. How far along

1023
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 2: are you? I mean if if urgency and being very

1024
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 2: very decisive in your decision making when it comes to

1025
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 2: your love story has been kind of the theme. I'm

1026
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 2: guessing you're pretty far along.

1027
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 4: But you tell me, well, so we okay, yes and

1028
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 4: no and maybe and all of the answer all of

1029
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 4: the above. The reason we're cracking up at that question.

1030
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 5: So you're already married.

1031
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 4: I've been married for years now. No, it's just been like,

1032
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 4: you know, thinking in San Diego, but there's no rush

1033
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 4: to like plan it. But then it's like, I, you know,

1034
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 4: I've been avent planning company. I you know, it was

1035
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 4: before COVID, I was really doing a lot of engagements

1036
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 4: and weddings and stuff, and I really haven't been pushed

1037
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 4: in that sense. I got a lot going on, but

1038
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 4: I mean I've done the weddings, like you know, and

1039
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 4: I'm just like, that's a lot, and like sometimes that's

1040
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 4: why I said it was so great that you said

1041
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 4: you and you know, look back at your wedding bend

1042
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 4: and with joy and it was a great memory and

1043
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 4: all that. But I'm like, really, there's so many people

1044
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 4: and I could just like run away and we can

1045
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 4: go get a you know, go to you know, we

1046
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 4: don't talk to Italy now because you know, pizza the Fieapple,

1047
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 4: but like let's go somewhere. But then it's like, okay,

1048
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 4: well we do our family there and Blakely wants to

1049
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 4: wear a mini version of my dress, she says, and

1050
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 4: she she wants to walk out after me. And I'm like,

1051
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 4: that's just not what's happening. But I don't know, I

1052
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 4: could see it. We just have such a big like, right,

1053
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 4: it would have to be huge, and that seems like

1054
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 4: a lot.

1055
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 3: We were sitting down, we started making a guest list,

1056
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: and like when we were making our guest list, I

1057
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 3: mean we had over two hundred people on our guest

1058
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 3: list that was.

1059
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 4: Like, you know that weren't even like plus ones or

1060
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 4: thinking like about but I really wanted to invite this person.

1061
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 4: These were like the have tos was like, and so

1062
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 4: I want there yet.

1063
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when we started doing that, we were sitting

1064
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 3: there were like, okay, well maybe not this. And so

1065
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 3: then we started looking at location weddings and we're thinking

1066
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 3: like maybe go and like get a spot and just

1067
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 3: get an airbnb with family and like you know, like

1068
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 3: twenty people and just get married there and have like

1069
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: a family trip and have that. And then it was funny.

1070
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 3: The reason why we were laughing, you know, is because

1071
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 3: last night I literally we fell right before we fell asleep.

1072
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 3: I'm like, let's just get married this month. Let's just

1073
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 3: let's just go.

1074
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: Let's just have some people come the talent now, you know,

1075
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 4: we won't send them this link to the We were like,

1076
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 4: you know, come to town.

1077
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 6: We want all coming out here just to visit. And

1078
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 6: I was like, when they come out here, there's birthday to' like, sorry,

1079
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 6: what's my birthday too? It is, but you know two

1080
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 6: days before what's for twenty birds? We'll be like we

1081
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 6: just have to take the attention away from someone else.

1082
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 5: You know, I think it'll clarify itself. I think you

1083
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 5: guys will figure it out. You have a lot of ideas.

1084
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 4: Going on, maybe this month, maybe two years.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's hard because it's like I didn't realize

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00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 3: how much really is involved in wedding planning, and I

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00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 3: can honestly say I don't think I want to do

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00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 3: the big thing, especially since I've been experienced the social

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00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 3: anxiety kind of thing recently. I don't think I would

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00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 3: actually be able to enjoy it all that much if

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00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 3: I had so many people there, because yeah, not on

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00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 3: the boat either. But I was like, so, I definitely

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00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 3: don't think I want to do that anymore. I want

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00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 3: it to be small. I just want like our main people,

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00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 3: like like the many people in our lives that do

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00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 3: every day with us, and then maybe just do a

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00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 3: big celebration like afterwards. But we want to get married

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Speaker 3: within this next year. I mean by spring twenty twenty five,

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00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 3: we plan on being married, and so that's kind of

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00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: where we're at.

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00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: So it could mean it could be next month, and

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00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 2: it could be. But you're saying there is there is

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00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 2: an urgency around the two of you getting married.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we don't want a ways. I mean

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00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 3: there's not really I didn't getage. We didn't get engaged

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00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 3: just to get engaged. You know, It's like we got

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00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 3: engaged because like I want to I mean, I want

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00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 3: to marry this girl. I want to marry this out

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00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 3: of this girl, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: So cute? Okay, I need to know your relationship with

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00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 5: it's Blake's Blakely. Yeah, so her daughter? How old is she?

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Speaker 4: Seven going on fifteen?

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00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 5: So where did the relationship Like how was it like

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00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 5: integrating Brandain into your lives?

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00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 4: So I the last boyfriend, like officially boyfriend that I had,

1116
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 4: I was seventeen, So she hasn't like really dealt with,

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00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 4: you know, mom having like definitely someone moving in the

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00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 4: house or anything like that. So I knew it was

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00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 4: gonna be a little bit obviously an adjustment period because

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Speaker 4: you know, we're that's us all the time, you know,

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00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 4: if she's not at school or I might work, like

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00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 4: it's us all the time, all all days. Like we

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00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 4: snuggle and she's like I have to share you snuggling

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00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 4: and you know, just thinking about those things. But I

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00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 4: think like so they met in October for my birthday.

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00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 4: We went out to Sandy. That's the first time they

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00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 4: met in person. But like before that, like you were

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00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 4: obviously talking all day long and FaceTime and all that,

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00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 4: and so she had met him and talked with them

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00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 4: and like would take the phone and then like be

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00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 4: drawing and coloring with them, and they were hitting it off.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, as you can imagine, like you know,

1133
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 4: we're like kids too, so I mean we just get along.

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00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 4: But I think, what's so, you know, not that I

1135
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 4: doubted it at all, but like seeing how we work

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00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 4: together and like as a team, like parenting with her,

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00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 4: it's been like a really cool at United Front because

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00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 4: I'm like, look, here's the thing, Like I do feel

1139
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 4: like we have the same kind of you know, I

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00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 4: thought maybe we'd get there differently, but like as far

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00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 4: as like what kids like limits and rules and you know,

1142
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 4: we we want the same outcome, so let's just be

1143
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 4: on the same team. Let's not do the whole like

1144
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 4: having her having to play sides. And so that's been

1145
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 4: really cool. And she's you know, so as far as

1146
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 4: how does she look at him, it's like, you know,

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00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 4: I would say the same, and she's calling him Ray

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00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 4: dad now.

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00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 5: So we ray dad dad Dad cute.

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00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 3: But no, it's awesome. I mean it's day.

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00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 5: We had a big day.

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00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 4: We went to the park roller skating and then he

1153
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 4: like was like, can we please go to Barnes and

1154
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 4: Noble and like had went and bought her some books

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00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 4: and then it was.

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Speaker 3: Just yeah, you know, he's not read like every night

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00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 3: to go to bed. I mean at first she hated

1158
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 3: it because she liked to plan like watch iPad before

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00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 3: she went to bed. And it's like, no, we're reading

1160
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 3: before we go to bed now And she's like, what,

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00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 3: I don't want to read and I'm like, no, that's

1162
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 3: what we're doing. And so now I'll read her story

1163
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 3: is now act. Yeah, but like I mean there were

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00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 3: some growing pains when I first moved in because it

1165
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 3: was like, okay, we're gonna like, you know, I wanted to,

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00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 3: you know, encourage the reading. I think that's the big thing.

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00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 3: And so but it was cool at the other like

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00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 3: I don't. I just see the little winds and they're

1169
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 3: starting to accumulate to be bigger winds. And I mean

1170
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 3: she comes home, like when I get home from work,

1171
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 3: she'll come and give me a big hug, like she

1172
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 3: tells me she loves me, and it's like, I mean,

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00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 3: those are things that are huge for me, and it

1174
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 3: feels really good. I mean to have have a little

1175
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 3: person that loves you and so, uh, it's pretty awesome

1176
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 3: and I love it. She's awesome.

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Speaker 2: The uh to close out here, Brayden, there's there's a

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00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: familiar I don't know if you've heard this. It could

1179
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 2: be offensive to you, but I'm gonna say it anyways

1180
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: because it's being said behind your back. The there's a

1181
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: familiar your term used to describe you from the people

1182
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 2: that have known you from the Bachelorette to Paradise Producers,

1183
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 2: and none of them have been together. When they've explained

1184
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 2: you to me, they call you a golden retriever, that

1185
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: you that you are just like a golden retriever, that

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00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: you're loyal.

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00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 5: Dean that too.

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00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you have a lot of similarities to Dean,

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00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: that you're loyal.

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00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 5: Two them are like very like. The vibe is so

1192
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 5: similar it's weird, like they could be brothers. He seems

1193
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 5: more like Dean than his than Dean's brothers.

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00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree.

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00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 4: Knowing that they were gonna meet at the wedding, I

1196
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 4: was like, look, you're gonna like this guy, you know,

1197
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 4: because again fan of the show. I'm like, no, trust

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00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 4: like go talk you got And then the right away

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00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 4: they were like, oh, you guys were about to go

1200
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 4: like Lathena and I we you know, everything was happening.

1201
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 4: This is before the proposal and like you know all

1202
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 4: of the Shenanigans and dance floor, but you guys were

1203
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 4: gonna go play smash Brothers or something in the book.

1204
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 5: You can't go do that right now.

1205
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: Just a Gordon Retriever.

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00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 4: Nose or something. They are unstoppable together, that would be It's.

1207
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: A dangerously loving combination of people. I love Dean very much.

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Speaker 2: Braden Christina, Uh, we're very very excited that you came

1209
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 2: on the show. Thank you for telling us your story

1210
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 2: as a couple and then your stories as individuals, and

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Speaker 2: we wish you nothing but the best. Please keep us

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00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 2: updated on the wedding plans. Uh, keep us in the

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Speaker 2: loop because we want to check back in. But until

1214
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 2: that time, we are very thankful you came on the show.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us.

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