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

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Speaker 1: with our radio. It's a big day for the Almost

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Speaker 1: for his podcast. We have our very first contestants from

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Speaker 1: this season of The Bachelor on and they just happened

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Speaker 1: to be the twins, Joey and Justin. What's going on, guys?

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Speaker 1: I was happy to be here. It's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's so much to break down now. Uh, we had

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Speaker 1: a lot of anticipation. Uh, for I think officially you

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Speaker 1: probably know better me the first two twins that are

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Speaker 1: brothers on the franchise. Is this true? Yeah, first friends,

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Speaker 1: first one's ever. Yeah, it's exciting. It's exciting for us

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Speaker 1: that you can be a part and be able to

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Speaker 1: do that. So, you know, they before the season started,

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Speaker 1: we kind of broke down all the guys, we know

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Speaker 1: nothing about any of you until the first episode airs. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we did have a sneak peek into your life because

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Speaker 1: you do have a pretty large social media presence, so

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Speaker 1: we thought, hey, we're gonna get to like we thought

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Speaker 1: you two were gonna be characters who were on the

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Speaker 1: show for a while. We didn't really get to know

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Speaker 1: you though. You a home a night one. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think that happened. Um, I mean there's multiple factors.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of great guys in the show. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's the this season two has the most men ever,

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Speaker 1: so I think just um, you know, as Twins is

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Speaker 1: a little bit different. It's a little hard to I guess,

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Speaker 1: connect with Gabby and Rachel with the way while we

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Speaker 1: approach things, but you know, you're taken instrude and Joey's

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Speaker 1: want to add to that as well. Yeah, definitely, So

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like, I guess our initial approach

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Speaker 1: going and was kind of to be to approach them separately,

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Speaker 1: but you know how Night one works then it's really

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Speaker 1: hectic that time. We just wanted to get our time

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Speaker 1: with them as soon as we could, So, um, the

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Speaker 1: double approach is kind of what we wanted to do,

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Speaker 1: and um it just didn't work for us with Gabby

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Speaker 1: and Ray too. But um, so there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: factors that involved it, but which didn't get to build

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Speaker 1: a strong connection with them and right from the geta. Now,

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Speaker 1: looking back, if you could redo Night one, would you

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Speaker 1: have gone with the same approach or not? Looking back

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Speaker 1: on that one, probably definitely not, probably because we definitely

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Speaker 1: would have just tried to take them separately, take a

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Speaker 1: Gabby separately, Rachel separate, and not through the double approach

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Speaker 1: because we think it to have guess the comma really

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Speaker 1: wanted to have the kind of personal comments between each other,

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Speaker 1: So definitely going back probably would have switching things up.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with that justin Yeah? I do. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think too. In in the real world, in itself,

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Speaker 1: we don't really approach it that way either. We kind

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Speaker 1: of if we do see two girls that we do

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Speaker 1: maybe friends that we do like, we would approach them,

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Speaker 1: but we like to take them separate to kind of

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Speaker 1: let them understand who we are as individuals. And I

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Speaker 1: think that didn't really come across and that way became

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Speaker 1: more of a friendly vibe and that's not how we are.

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Speaker 1: So it was for us to a new experience and

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Speaker 1: going forward, if I could change it, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what I would do. Take him to the side, Gavine

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Speaker 1: and Rachel do it. Yeah, let's talk about that. I'm

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Speaker 1: really interested how life looks outside the show for you,

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Speaker 1: because this is no matter what, it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: weird way to date. Uh, it's a fantastic opportunity when

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Speaker 1: it goes well, and it also sometimes doesn't go well

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Speaker 1: in the real world. In a more traditional sense, do

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Speaker 1: YouTube date together? Do you go out together? When you do,

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Speaker 1: do you got out of tension between the two of you, Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you date in the real world when the

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Speaker 1: two of you are standing side by side? Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we're out. We don't. Well, we go out together a

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Speaker 1: lot obviously where we have the same I'll have similar

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Speaker 1: both of us. But when in dating perspective, we don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't look for best friends. It's best friends or

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Speaker 1: two girls that seem to like us both. We kind

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Speaker 1: same thing. So we don't really need our tandem to

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Speaker 1: well for sure. That was that was my question my

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Speaker 1: All the time? Yeah? That it's got to happen at

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Speaker 1: least I don't know. Yell, we probably what and and

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Speaker 1: times to day. I mean we are out together, we

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't really see a lot of twins

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Speaker 1: they do separate too, and we are separate at times

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Speaker 1: and I enjoy it. But at times, you know, you

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Speaker 1: when the opportunity even came about. How did it happen

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Speaker 1: I personally. Actually, I think Justin more so than me

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Speaker 1: because um, I saw my dating life before this kind

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Speaker 1: And honestly it felt good though, because we're always with

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Speaker 1: It means a lot to us. I appreciate it. Ben,

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