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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: It's almost Famas podcast. Today we have one of my

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Speaker 2: favorites that have ever been on the Beach. I was

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Speaker 2: a big fan, and I was a big fan of

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Speaker 2: the storyline because it got a little messy a little bit,

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Speaker 2: which was fun. Mercedes, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Hi, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for being here. Mercedes Northrope. You guys know

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Speaker 4: her from Zach's season and two seasons ago A Bachelor

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Speaker 4: in Paradise. Well, I guess there wasn't a season last year,

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Speaker 4: so it was the last season about well, Mercedes, we

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Speaker 4: know that there is some sort of casting going on

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Speaker 4: for Bachelor and Paradise. Have they called you?

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Speaker 3: No, they haven't.

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Speaker 5: I talked to someone a while ago, but there hasn't

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Speaker 5: been anything else. But I know that there's like so

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Speaker 5: many girls, but because there's two seasons because they didn't

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Speaker 5: do last season, yeah, so there's a lot of girls

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Speaker 5: that they have to choose from, and.

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Speaker 3: So not having done the call, but I was kind

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Speaker 3: of bummed.

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Speaker 5: So I was kind of excited to like maybe do

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Speaker 5: it again, but who knows, there's still time.

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Speaker 3: You never know, So.

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Speaker 2: You'd say yes. If they called you tomorrow and said, hey,

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Speaker 2: we want you to come back, you would say yes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I would definitely be open for it because I'm like,

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Speaker 5: I'm twenty seven, I'm ready to like find someone, and

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Speaker 5: the dating scene in Nashville is not it, So I

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Speaker 5: would give the beach another try for sure.

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Speaker 4: How long have you been in Nashville for.

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Speaker 3: Almost six years? Which is crazy?

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Speaker 4: So I heard somebody say recently, like is it really

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Speaker 4: the city or is it just dating in general? What

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Speaker 4: do you what's your take?

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Speaker 5: I honestly think it's dating in general. I feel like

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Speaker 5: it's so hard, especially like at my age and this, Like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know, I feel like it's definitely just dating

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Speaker 5: in general because every person I have friends in like

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Speaker 5: so many cities and everyone says the same thing. They're like,

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Speaker 5: dating here is so awful because I'm like, should I move?

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Speaker 5: Like my husband's literally not here, should I move?

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Speaker 3: And They're like, no, it's awful here too. So I

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Speaker 3: don't know. I guess we're all screwed if we don't

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Speaker 3: have someone.

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Speaker 4: The Bats are honestly makes dating easy.

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Speaker 3: Literally, I know it really does.

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Speaker 2: They used to call Denver Menver now here. It's hard

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Speaker 2: to date in Denver, so it might be everywhere. It's

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Speaker 2: just a hard time to date, Mercedes, which brings us

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Speaker 2: to the next question, which might be a little obvious

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Speaker 2: based on our conversation so far. But you said you'd

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Speaker 2: be interested in Paradise because you want to settle down.

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Speaker 2: You're ready, You're in national ding's not going well, so

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Speaker 2: you're single. I mean you've been single. Have you like

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Speaker 2: dated at all? Kind of give us an update on

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Speaker 2: your romantic relationships.

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Speaker 5: I've actually been so single since The Bachelor, Like I

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Speaker 5: have well in Paradise.

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Speaker 3: Like I mean, I like talk to people here and there.

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Speaker 5: But I'm very much, like I said, I'm ready to

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Speaker 5: settle down, so like one red flag and I'm like, yeah, no,

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Speaker 5: like you're not, you know, I'm saying, like I'm not

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Speaker 5: just like dating today, like I'm actually looking for someone.

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Speaker 5: So I feel like that definitely makes it harder to

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Speaker 5: But yeah, very much single, very much single.

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Speaker 4: What was your last great date?

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Speaker 3: My last great date.

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Speaker 2: The beaches of Paradise.

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Speaker 3: I know that might have been the last one. I

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Speaker 3: mean I feel like, I don't know. It's hard because

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Speaker 3: I feel like the dates that I've.

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Speaker 5: Gone on is just like dinner and like drinks, which

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Speaker 5: is like no one does anything cool anymore or that

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Speaker 5: I'm talking to anyways, Like no romantic gestures or anything.

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Speaker 5: It's always just dinner and drinks.

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Speaker 4: Even in Nashville when there's so much live music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Literally, that's like another thing about Nashville too, is it's

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Speaker 5: so like party scene, so like you'll go to dinner

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Speaker 5: you just you know, party and drink, which is fun.

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Speaker 5: But I also like want a man that's like, hey,

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Speaker 5: I'm a husband. A husband's material like let's go do

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Speaker 5: something different, but all.

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Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna take a second here with you. Then okay,

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Speaker 2: and there might this might not go anywhere, but it

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Speaker 2: could be the best thing to ever happened to you.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready?

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Speaker 2: So you said, like one red flag, you're out. You

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Speaker 2: said dating's hard. Obviously paradise inn't work.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Now, granted, so many people from this franchise especially kind

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Speaker 2: of go through that same list. What is it, Mercedes,

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Speaker 2: if you had to look introspectively into yourself that you're

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Speaker 2: looking for, that you're not finding, or that you are

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Speaker 2: desiring that maybe you just aren't seeing that's right in

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Speaker 2: I guess is the best way to ask that question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I definitely have really high expectations.

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Speaker 3: But I think that's.

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Speaker 5: It's like a good thing and a bad thing because

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Speaker 5: I don't give, Like I said, like one red flag

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Speaker 5: that I potentially see myself loving to a very high standard.

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Speaker 5: So I feel like I can I definitely like ease

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back then to some of the dates that

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Speaker 2: you've been on since the show. What are some examples

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Speaker 2: of things that stand out to you that have really

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Speaker 2: like given you was Ashley would say the ick. I

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Speaker 2: don't even know if that's still a thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I was thinking about ick too. I like to always

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Speaker 4: say he grossed me out. I said that before the

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Speaker 4: ick was even a thing. Yes, sometimes you don't really

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Speaker 4: know what those things are until you're experiencing them in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's also like it's so crazy because it'll

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Speaker 3: I'm not interested anymore. It's kind of crazy. I Like

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Speaker 3: my mom was.

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Speaker 5: Like, maybe, like you shouldn't be so you know, picky,

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, no, but be Picky's good.

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Speaker 3: They just have to be like you know whatever, I'll

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Speaker 4: So with Jared or I always said before meeting Jared,

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Speaker 4: I was like, I know I'll find my person when

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Speaker 4: like he doesn't gross me out, like no matter how

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Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, I've really never been picked out by Jared.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well I also feel like, yeah, once you find someone

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like you like you don't even notice it because

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Speaker 4: Much, Like I do notice him chewing like cereal and stuff,

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Speaker 4: but like it's all good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, literally, because I remember with my ex. I

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Speaker 5: dated my ex for like two years before the show,

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Speaker 5: once we broke up, I'm like, actually, yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 5: I was so in love where I'm like, no, I

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Speaker 2: We've had a group of contestants come through. Obviously you

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Speaker 2: were on the last season of Bachelor in Paradise, which

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming for you feels like forever ago, forever.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If they were to call you and producers from the

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Speaker 2: show listen to this, they do. I know it because

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Speaker 2: sometimes I get in trouble, so I know they listen

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Speaker 2: and they call you and they say, we want you

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Speaker 2: on the beach because you sound like somebody ready for love.

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Speaker 2: Who and you can't dodge this question. It's it's unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: but we are a show about content, and this is

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Speaker 2: a moment of content. Give us, like, if you can

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Speaker 2: give us five, great, if you give us three awesome,

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Speaker 2: if you give us two still good people that you

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Speaker 2: would love to see there, Okay, I.

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Speaker 3: Feel like me and Andrew Spencer would like vibe really well.

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Speaker 2: I see it, I see it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love him?

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Speaker 2: You ever met.

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Speaker 5: No, we haven't met, but like we like follow each

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Speaker 5: other and like we've like facetimed a couple of times

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Speaker 5: And who else I'm trying to think of, like the

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Speaker 3: That are newer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna go You're gonna just like twist your

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Speaker 2: What about like a justin Glade? Is he single? I

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Speaker 4: We don't know.

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Speaker 2: We don't know what's.

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Speaker 4: Going on with him and Susie.

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Speaker 2: He's a nice guy. I like him. I like Andrew

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Speaker 2: a lot. Gregg's great, like that group that was.

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Speaker 4: A good Katie season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good Katie season. So and that

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Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago Charity season had who like what

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Speaker 3: Like John?

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Speaker 5: So I was with a lot of guys on from

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Speaker 5: Charity season on my so like John, Henry Sean a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, because that's uh, that's Joey was the bachelor

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Speaker 2: following that, So those are the guy Sean, So we

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Speaker 2: can't really look into that, we'd have to pull back

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Speaker 2: from the past. I see an Andrew Spencer relationship popping.

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Speaker 4: It's cute. So we really don't have to cross this

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Speaker 4: off the list. This is a real potential moment.

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Speaker 2: Throw it out there now, good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's bringt katies guys for this season of Paradise. Okay,

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Speaker 4: you have so many girlfriends from the show that you

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Speaker 4: travel with often. You have these big girl get togethers.

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Speaker 4: We heard that Latilla was the odd one out or

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Speaker 4: maybe the new member of the crew at your most

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Speaker 4: recent trip. How we we kind of know how she

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Speaker 4: got there. She's friends with somebody, one of your one

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Speaker 4: of your girls. How did she melt in with the crew?

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Speaker 5: She honestly was like it was like she's been like

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Speaker 5: she was on our season. Like we like literally all

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Speaker 5: got so cold on that trip when we were in Montana.

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Speaker 3: It was cold. It was so freaking cold. We literally

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Speaker 4: Who do you want from that group to be with

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Speaker 3: Oh honestly, Jess.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like all the guys want dress too.

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Speaker 4: Like Jess is like the girl that just every guy

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Speaker 3: Yes no, literally me and just leaping each other out.

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Speaker 5: But honestly, I will say Jess is like feisty, like

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Speaker 2: makes sense. Yes, it's in there. Yeah, obviously you're like

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Speaker 5: I watched the first episode and then I you were just.

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Speaker 4: Like it didn't get you right because I was like,

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Speaker 2: We wanted to come back here Mercedes. And so my

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like.

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Speaker 5: For Paradise there because have you guys, you guys want

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Speaker 4: Was?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I feel like it was just very like you

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Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying. Like I feel like if there

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Speaker 4: Talking all the time every day is a little bit monotonous.

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Speaker 4: You're like, what are you gonna do together than just

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Speaker 4: talk all day? That's why everybody gets so excited for

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Speaker 4: dates in Paris. Yes, but yeah, you're right, if we

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Speaker 3: When I was there, we played what did we play?

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Speaker 5: One night we were just bored and we were like,

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Speaker 5: we're playing Truth or Dare? And we did it and

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Speaker 5: it was so much fun. I don't even think it aired,

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Speaker 5: to be honest, I don't think it did. But it

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Speaker 5: so I feel like them doing that would like really one,

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Speaker 5: it would stir the pot, two, which is good for

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Speaker 4: But what about the main show?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I feel like, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: It's kind of a mix between casting. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: you know, monotonous when we have all these other shows

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Speaker 2: I think it was done at a time that it

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Speaker 2: I think that for the show filled so much space,

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Speaker 2: it brought so much drama that now that it doesn't exist,

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Speaker 2: they have to find a way to keep everybody engaged.

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Speaker 2: And interested when there is that drink limit.

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Speaker 5: Yes, no, I agree. I will say though on Paradise,

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Speaker 3: We would drink white wine because you can have like

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Speaker 5: uh it was like a I think it was a cockroach.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, it was like I literally was holding it.

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Speaker 5: I was literally not actually didn't actually kiss it, but

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Speaker 5: I was like law and I'm like I watched that

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Speaker 2: Did that, Mercedes. This would be my first dating tip

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Speaker 2: That's like number one. If you take nothing away from this,

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Speaker 5: Oh, I literally because Rachel was holding it. Rachel was

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Speaker 4: They so I feel like I couldn't never get a

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Speaker 5: Yes. No, honestly though, like it was not that hot

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Speaker 3: But it was I don't know, it was just a time.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that was that was a unique summer. Then.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Mercedes that the listeners out there obviously

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Speaker 2: saw you on Paradise go through. If I remember right,

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Speaker 2: and tell me if I'm wrong, it was like will

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Speaker 3: Maybe Jordan yeah, he was at the end.

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Speaker 2: YEP, so you you kind of had this like love

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Speaker 2: Now as you think about it, did you do anything

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I yeah, I wish I would not have like

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Speaker 5: And I feel like I was like, so, you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't know with who, but like I don't know.

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Speaker 5: That's like my biggest regret honestly that I wish I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a final question for you. We just went through

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I like so I'm modeled during the week and

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Speaker 5: I'm really kind of all over the place. But I

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Speaker 2: Well, it's out in the world now, Mercedes, thanks for

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Speaker 2: jumping on. Of course, we appreciate it. We're gonna watch

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Speaker 2: you closely to see if Paradise gets announced. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: put short hard. We want you on that beach. We

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Speaker 2: want to watch you again again. I wasn't lying when

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Speaker 2: I said that. Just your energy and the excitement you

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed here because we talked about it a lot,

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Speaker 2: and so we want to see you back. We want

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Speaker 2: to see you there on the beach. Wherever in the

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Speaker 2: world they're going to be filming, rumors.

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Speaker 3: Swirling, hopefully, fingers crossed, We'll see.

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Speaker 4: Yeh right, hopefully.

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Speaker 2: This has been the Almost Famous podcast until next time.

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Speaker 4: I'ven't been, I've Been Ashley see Yah.

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