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

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Simois podcast, where we'll

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Speaker 2: be breaking down today the Golden Bachelor Episode two. Wowie zowie.

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Speaker 2: This episode was incredible. Anyone who watches this episode, in

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Speaker 2: my opinion, will be hooked and we'll be watching every

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Speaker 2: single week. Last week, I loved it, cute, but it

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Speaker 2: was night one for me, and now that we are

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Speaker 2: in this ugh I'm dying for more. Ben, I know

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Speaker 2: that you feel the exact same way.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm interested Ashley. I do feel the same way.

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Speaker 1: I am interested in your reaction because I can tell

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Speaker 1: there's a difference in your energy. I know, I know

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Speaker 1: you know the I think. Last week I came in hot,

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Speaker 1: fired up, Oh man, it's on TV. Finally, it's super exciting,

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Speaker 1: and you didn't hate it, but you I liked it.

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Speaker 2: Was like, okay, I liked it. I honestly didn't feel

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Speaker 2: a ton different from a regular night one. I just

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Speaker 2: loved it. This week we started to like see the

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Speaker 2: big differences in the age.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean by stories?

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Speaker 2: The histories?

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Speaker 1: The history, so the stories, the past experiences talking about

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Speaker 1: the past and the things that have happened, that is,

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Speaker 1: those are the moments that really pulled something out of you.

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Speaker 2: And the way that Gary was so receptive to them.

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Speaker 2: This man's kindness and warmth and act of listening just

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Speaker 2: this is where he got to shine. The way that

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Speaker 2: he uses the women's names, like he's like, oh, Nancy,

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Speaker 2: and like just relates to it and it's the most

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Speaker 2: wonderful ways. This was great And it was so freaking

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Speaker 2: fast the forty minutes, which it is with the commercials,

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Speaker 2: you're just dying for more and like my mom has

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Speaker 2: always said, leave people wanting more.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think it's a little fast. I think

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Speaker 1: that's my biggest complaint right now is I would say

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Speaker 1: it feels like there can be no story development. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of flies through. We get bits and pieces of

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Speaker 1: a few women each episode, but we don't get an

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Speaker 1: overarching We don't get like a secondary story. We get

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Speaker 1: the main stories of each women, but we don't get

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Speaker 1: the behind the scenes stories really like maybe we do

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Speaker 1: on the other shows.

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Speaker 2: Well, we only had a one one on one and

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Speaker 2: a group date. We didn't have the third date.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point that was missing. I think this

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Speaker 1: show's only going to get better. My point is not that, hey,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a bit massive mistake. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I leave people wanting more, you know. I think it's

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Speaker 1: good with Paradise obviously coming along for the ride now

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Speaker 1: of the Golden Bachelor, it's it's good to keep it short.

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Speaker 1: I just think now the episodes are going to get

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Speaker 1: better because there's going to be less people, and as

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Speaker 1: there's less they can really start to expand on some

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Speaker 1: of these storylines that maybe we haven't gotten full pictures

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Speaker 1: of yet. I do want to highlight before we break

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Speaker 1: down one section of before you kind of break down

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Speaker 1: the episode, there is one moment that really stood out

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Speaker 1: to me with Gary this episode like really blew me

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Speaker 1: up away. His reaction to when I don't know the

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Speaker 1: woman's name, but she gave him a compliment and he

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Speaker 1: looked up this guy He goes, oh my gosh, that

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Speaker 1: is such a nice thing to say about me. That

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Speaker 1: means so much. And it was with this like almost

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Speaker 1: cartoonish genuineness, meaning it was like and it felt like

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Speaker 1: a very big overreaction to something that was said, but

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Speaker 1: there was a genuiness that makes me go, this is

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Speaker 1: just who he is. He is appreciative.

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Speaker 2: Oh did they find this man? He is such a

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Speaker 2: freaking treasure. Okay, So I'm thinking, like, how frustrated do

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Speaker 2: you think that the whole like ABC team is that

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Speaker 2: this show is an hour and Bachelor of Paradise is

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Speaker 2: two hours?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they're I don't think they're. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're, like, goodness, gracious. I think this was

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Speaker 1: they knew going in this was either going to be

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Speaker 2: Could it have really been a massive failure?

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Speaker 1: I never thought so, but I know they.

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Speaker 2: Did because thinking about like what the ratings of like

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Speaker 2: Zach and Charity season, How could how could this be

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Speaker 2: a failure? It would have matched, It would have absolutely

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Speaker 1: I know they they I mean, I know they've had shows, right,

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Speaker 1: They've had many of shows that they've created, actually they

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Speaker 1: but as we've mentioned, the show is crushing all of

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Speaker 1: network television. I actually believe people will look back on

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Speaker 1: The Golden Bachelor and be like, we design content based

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get these great, heartwarming shows that

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Speaker 1: The Golden Bachelor. I think it's that big a show.

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Speaker 2: It could change Hollywood because they always know actors and

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Speaker 2: actresses always complained that once they hit a certain age

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Speaker 2: they can't get roles anymore, and talk about maybe tapping

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Speaker 2: into some desire that people have to watch older romance movies,

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Speaker 2: romance movies with older you know leads. Sure, but let's

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Speaker 2: just tell you, guys, if you haven't listened to the

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Speaker 2: Headlines episode this week, we do dive deep into the

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Speaker 2: ratings of this series, and I think that the ratings

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Speaker 2: are going to go up even more because if you

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Speaker 2: had caught this this episode, and I know we don't

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Speaker 2: really like Channel Surf very much anymore, but if somebody

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Speaker 2: told you got to watch the Golden Bachelor, and you

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Speaker 2: end up watching episode two. I feel like you are

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Speaker 2: in for the whole ride.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not stopping Ashley before we get kicked off here,

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Speaker 1: and we do need to get kicked off and break

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Speaker 1: down episode. I do want to ask you a very inappropriate,

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you or my go to for all these questions

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Speaker 2: And then I tell like how much plastic surgery did

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Speaker 2: the ladies have? No, that's not my question yet, because,

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Speaker 2: like I said last week's episode, there's some filler in

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Speaker 1: Go for girls, go for it. You know. My question

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Speaker 1: is this. Gary is obviously a handsome man. He's very sweet,

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Speaker 1: he's very kind. Do you think people your age are

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Speaker 1: or is it more of a kind of a fatherly

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Speaker 1: Or is there or do you think the majority is like, goodness, gracious,

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Speaker 1: he could leave, you know, he could be around for

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Speaker 1: a while, Like I like this guy. I would actually

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Speaker 2: I have the perfect answer to this question. So I

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Speaker 2: was watching last night with my sister and my friend

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Speaker 2: she just could not stop talking about how attracted she

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Speaker 2: was to him, and like how she literally said that,

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Speaker 2: like he's the bachelor that she would most want to

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Speaker 1: I don't even take that offensively, Like I get it.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's I get it again, I get it,

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Speaker 2: but like I mean not for me, Like there's quite

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Speaker 2: and very attracted to Chris Soles, and there's so many

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Speaker 2: of my very attractive friends that you know, like personally,

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Speaker 2: I like to date more within my age range when

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Speaker 2: exact same way. She just thinks that he's so hot,

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Speaker 2: And I get it, I get it. But I'd also

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Speaker 2: personally would yeah, I like more matrix. But and then

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Speaker 2: just to like draw a full picture, we were at

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Speaker 2: They're like, you girls are so pretty. And the woman

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Speaker 2: didn't even know I was on the Bachelor, And for

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Speaker 2: some reason, the golden Bacheler comes up and she goes, Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Goodness, it's bringing out a side of people I've never

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Speaker 1: known or seen or heard people talk about. It is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's opening my eyes to a whole new world.

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Speaker 1: I just learned too much, so much. I wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to be surprised if you said that you thought your

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Speaker 1: I know my wife watches it and she has this

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Speaker 1: just like love for grandparents. Yeah she does because of

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Speaker 1: But my wife is also not you know, she isn't

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Speaker 1: But I wasn't going to be surprised that, you know,

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Speaker 1: college campuses that are now watching The Golden Bachelor at

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Speaker 1: watch parties are watching this and the girls are going,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Like I this is the first time

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Speaker 1: I felt like I've I watched this seventy year old

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Speaker 2: Or really funny, exactly like I have an appreciation for it.

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Speaker 2: Am I dress like, he's very handsome, he's so sweet,

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Speaker 2: Like I would love to have him as part of

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Speaker 2: within like ten years of my age? Okay then yeah,

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Speaker 2: but like even ten years seemed like a stretch to me.

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Speaker 2: I just like I am the personality that I feel

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Speaker 2: like we need to like generationally relate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hot uncle Gary. That's who he could be in

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Speaker 1: my family is hot uncle Gary. Okay, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break here, Ashley, before we start breaking down the

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Speaker 1: episode I do want to tease this. There is something

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Speaker 1: about Gary that gave Jessica and I the ick. What

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Speaker 1: really we're gonna talk about when we get back. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think breaking down the Golden Bachelor Ashley is best

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Speaker 1: done in kind of highlight because there it's a short

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Speaker 2: It's just like flashes.

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Speaker 1: It's flashes and and some of the things here is

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Speaker 1: the girls are waking up in the mansion, which is

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Speaker 1: is a lot. I don't know about your experience in

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Speaker 1: the mansion, but when I was on the Bachelor app

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Speaker 2: Just if there's an ease about him.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible, Actually, I asked the producer, serious yesterday I

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Speaker 2: We always have a trial run basically with the lead.

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Speaker 2: They were picked because they are comfortable with the camera,

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Speaker 1: They didn't give him any more training than they would

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Speaker 2: How do you think that the producers interacted with him

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Speaker 1: I've asked this question too to the people that would

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Speaker 1: there in that in that rhythm, like I don't want

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Speaker 1: ask for, right, he didn't know that he was going

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Speaker 1: he would he wanted them to stay away. They said

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Speaker 1: I think we're seeing that with Gary, where you're like,

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Speaker 1: There's other conversations going on that matter to him, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. All right, Well let's get into

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Speaker 2: pointing out the fact that their date was actually probably

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Speaker 1: Sure, I think it was. And I think Gary relating

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which they were petrified. I was like, guys, were

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Speaker 1: Ashually, this is the brilliance of the show coming out right.

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Speaker 1: There's no producers in that car. There's no producers in

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I land at this time, and she's like, well,

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Speaker 1: So this is such a real moment where we're like,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Oh sweet, this is stuff we didn't get.

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Speaker 1: Think I'm hot. Yeah, picture this picture this. I am

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Speaker 1: the Bachelor. I go on my first date with somebody.

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Speaker 1: We're driving a convertible, which we did. We just happened

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Speaker 2: stuff like this, it is quite beautiful and so sad.

436
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 1: Well, and we've seen this, right, This is not a

437
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: this is not a unique you know, situation for so

438
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: many of them at this point in their life. And

439
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for for for me, and I

440
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: sit there with my wife and I now get to

441
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: watch this. As I mentioned, I'm very just excited I

442
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: get to watch it with Jess and that we're both

443
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: so into it. And when these stories get presented like

444
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: it does bring up a different conversation for us of hey, like,

445
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: this is a reality for so many and this is

446
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 1: really hard and you know, life is you know life

447
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: is short and we got to take advantage of these

448
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 1: times like this is what comes from the show for

449
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: me is those like wow, hun, like this could be

450
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: you one day sitting there and like how would you

451
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: want to handle that next season of life for yourself?

452
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 1: And like, yes, it's not fun to talk about, and

453
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 1: yes it's weird to talk about, but it is what

454
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: brings out. These conversations come out of watching this because

455
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: when you're when you're engaged in the show, you are

456
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: obviously talking about the show at every turn and every moment,

457
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: and you're saying, oh my gosh, how sweet is it today?

458
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: We're so nervous to drive there, and then she brings

459
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: this up and you go, honey, like we've never talked

460
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: about what I dream for you if this were happened to.

461
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: Tell you want to say, what's your answer?

462
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: You know, I think at that point in time, like

463
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: I'm gone. You know, I want her to continue on

464
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: with the with the memory of me, which would be amazing,

465
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: like if she had such admiration, But I also don't

466
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: want her to be alone, like I would never want

467
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: her to be alone, and she she doesn't want to

468
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 1: be alone, but she can't even think about it, right,

469
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: she can't even get there.

470
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,960
Speaker 2: Seeing as you say this, I just think like, I

471
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 2: don't want to think about it at this point because

472
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 2: I don't know what I would be like at that age,

473
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 2: and I don't know what I would feel like at

474
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:58,360
Speaker 2: that age.

475
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: But if it happened now, oh god, Yeah, this is

476
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: the stuff that comes out of this. And yes, that

477
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: feels heavy and dark, But then the show brings us

478
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: back to really great moments, which is obviously then the

479
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: people dancing in the diner and the two of them

480
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 1: having fun and holding their hands across the table and

481
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: hands across the table.

482
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: It's like cemented in my mind now as one of

483
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 2: the most I don't know, there is something about that like.

484
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: An iconic scene.

485
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a core memory of the Golden Bachelor now,

486
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 2: just the holding hands so tightly, like in like we're

487
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 2: in solidarity, and not in like a romantic sense, but

488
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 2: more of like the I'm there for you sense that

489
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: you don't see on the regular show. And also there

490
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: is that moment where there's two here, we got a

491
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 2: quote here. It says a gentle touch and a few words,

492
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: and they are back to hopefulness in their future.

493
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 1: In the future, yeah, gentle touch and a few words,

494
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: they're back to hopefulness in the future. Yeah, I mean.

495
00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: And I think the the holding hands is symbolic in

496
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: a lot of ways actually, because neither of them want

497
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: to be where they're at right. Neither of them dreamed

498
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: of sitting across the table with somebody new. Nobody dreamed.

499
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: Neither of them really dreamed of being on this show.

500
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: This wasn't a plan, this wasn't a want for them,

501
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: But they find themselves in this moment. And so in

502
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: this moment, what are they gonna do. They're gonna make

503
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: the best of it, and they're gonna sit there and

504
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: be like I got you, Like I'm here no matter

505
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,719
Speaker 1: what this plays out, like, no matter if we end

506
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: up together or not, Like, I just want you to

507
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: know you're not alone, which is what we talk about

508
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: on this podcast so often, right, is the desire to

509
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: help people feel less alone. And I think this moment,

510
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: that holding the hands is symbolic of the Golden Bachelor

511
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways because it is showing you're

512
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: not alone, Like, I know this sucks. I know you

513
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: don't want to be here. I know this is you're

514
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: making the best of a really.

515
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 2: Terrible situation, the backup plan.

516
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not this is not what you would

517
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: have dreamed of. But we're here, So what are we

518
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: gonna do with this? Hold each other's hands. We're gonna

519
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun. We're gonna do this thing

520
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: as best we can, and then we're gonna see if

521
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 1: possibly maybe you and I can spend the rest of

522
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: our days together.

523
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: And then I'm gonna lean across the table and say,

524
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 2: I really like you. And it's so powerful, so good,

525
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 2: so horriful, and I wanted to I want to know this.

526
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: And I know this may sound really like naive and

527
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 2: like immature young of me, But when he says I

528
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 2: really like you, is he saying like, I really appreciate

529
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 2: you as a person and I love being in your company.

530
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 2: Or do you think he's like, you give me butterflies

531
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna think about you in bed tonight. I'm

532
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: not gonna think about you in bed like sexually, but

533
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: like I'm gonna like daydream of you when I'm about

534
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: to go to sleep.

535
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's mostly at this point.

536
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: I think he's just still in shock that he's even

537
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: sitting here and he's just like, I like everybody like

538
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: this is I've never had this much attention in my life.

539
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: I'm into you, and I'm into you, and I think

540
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: you're great, and I think you're great. And I would

541
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: like to assume, because I'm selfish, that Gary has a

542
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: similar thought process that I had, where it's like, you know,

543
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: no matter what, I just hope that all these women

544
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: here feel like they matter a little bit, a lot,

545
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: a bit. And then I'm really thankful they came all right.

546
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: Group date, we have a photo shoot with Franco, because

547
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 2: of course we do, and of course we have another

548
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 2: wedding dress date. And I am sitting here with my

549
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: friend Naz, who was a producer on the show, and

550
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 2: I go, oh my god, the wedding dress dirts girl.

551
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 2: And she's like, the reason they do it is because

552
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: it always pays off, because there's always some emotion in it.

553
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: And that's so now I'm like okay, and she's like,

554
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 2: here we are with Nancy. Nancy's getting emotional because the

555
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: last time she was in a wedding dress, of course,

556
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: was when she married her husband, who has now gone

557
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: for quite some time. And he just she he's just

558
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: the freaking cutest, the way that he came up to her,

559
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: just like, is it me? Is it the situation? I

560
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 2: was like, of course, it's not you, Gary. And then

561
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: when they shared the story about, you know, the wedding dress,

562
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: bringing back the memory of the best day of her life,

563
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: and then he was like, it hits you out of nowhere.

564
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 2: I had this moment where I was walking by a

565
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 2: batch of cinnamon cookies and it made me break down

566
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 2: because my wife used to make cinnamon balls, and their

567
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 2: bond over this was just perfect. Then he gives her

568
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 2: the group date rows, and I love the way a

569
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 2: women don't really get jealous over the group day rows.

570
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 2: They're just like, oh, good for her, you know, as

571
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 2: long as I'm here at the end of the day.

572
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 1: I think the one word was I love Nancy. She

573
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: deserves it. Yeah, so good. Yeah, I mean the photo shoot.

574
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: You know, you and I have talked about many seasons.

575
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: It's not something that like fires us up, but I

576
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: do think you touched on the most important part is

577
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: that Nancy's emotions came out. I think once again we

578
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: saw Nancy or this situation and become very real. I

579
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: will say that I don't think Nancy is gonna be

580
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: around for a while, not because she gets sent home,

581
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: but I do think I could see it in her

582
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: eyes as a fan without knowing anything, that it just

583
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: gets overwhelming for her, that this becomes too much, and

584
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, as much as she's ready for it, that

585
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: this whole thing, it felt like she was sitting there

586
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: being like, I don't know, like I wasn't ready or

587
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm not ready, or maybe this isn't for me. Yeah,

588
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: but she does get the group day Rose. The final

589
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: scene of the episode is that Gary has a birthday

590
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: party thrown for him. Everybody's celebrating him. It's really fun

591
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: to see. I hope it was a lot of fun.

592
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes those parties at the mansion are so awkward and weird,

593
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: but this doesn't feel that weird.

594
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: And uncomfortable cocktail party and it was, Yeah.

595
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: It was the cocktail party, so it replaced it. We

596
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: did have a massive character and person I really liked.

597
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: I didn't know if they were best for Gary, but

598
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: I really liked her Natasha.

599
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: She was hilarious, really sad. Episode. One of the greatest.

600
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 2: So yes, she gets eliminated at the row ceremony, but

601
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 2: one of the greatest moments of franchise history is at

602
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: the end when she's just like, why don't we have stools?

603
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 2: We need stools. We are sixties and seventies and we

604
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: can't stand in a row, And her passionate about it

605
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: was like every every girl who's ever been on the

606
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 2: show was like, yes, Natasha, not just you guys, you

607
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 2: especially should have stools, but maybe all of us should

608
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: have stools because those things last way too long to

609
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: be standing still in heels.

610
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: I love that she said it, and I think it

611
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: would have been a great ad for this show. I

612
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: think it'd been hilarious for all of them to be

613
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: sitting down like.

614
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: I think it'd be in the next row ceremony. Could

615
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: you imagine the next row ceremony they all have stools,

616
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: which the stools is gonna look classy. Get some velvet stools.

617
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: I think it would be a great idea. I really

618
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: like Natasha. In fact, halfway through this episode, I told

619
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: Jess she is my favorite because I just love when

620
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: she comes on television. She's always having a good time,

621
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: she's always making good jokes. She's always there to like

622
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: to brighten up whatever is going on, and so I

623
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: am sad that she's gone, but the ones that are

624
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: left are April, Leslie Joe.

625
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: Let's just quick quick mention about Leslie because he does

626
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: corner her and say, how does it feel to present

627
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: yourself in such a sexy way?

628
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: Oh?

629
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: I know, I mean I was like, ohh, he's got

630
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: the He actually see he likes her, so he's got

631
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: the hots for her.

632
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wants to make out. Leslie's on his mind. Joan, Edith, Ellen, Sandra, Susan, Christina, Faith, Nancy, April, Kathy,

633
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: and obviously Teresa are left going into next week. In

634
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: the next week's preview, we got a hot air balloon date.

635
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: We do see Kathy getting emotional. Women are starting to

636
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: get jealous, which I did not think we would see eventually.

637
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: Eventually I imagined it.

638
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that when emotions get high

639
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: and attraction runs deep, then obviously people start to get

640
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: more invested and jealousy comes out.

641
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 2: Well. Ben and I are done with recapping the episode,

642
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 2: but we still want more thoughts, and we want the

643
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 2: thoughts from somebody of the age group, ish of the cast,

644
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: and to this week we have one of our producers, Kendall.

645
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: Her grandmother has agreed to give us her thoughts. Big

646
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: fan of the whole franchise. She's an eighty seven year

647
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: old and we cannot wait to hear from her. Let's

648
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 2: get her on.

649
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we have a very special guest today.

650
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: As we mentioned, we have one of our producers, grandmother's

651
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: on lovingly name. Can we call you Mamy?

652
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 4: Absolutely?

653
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: All right, Mamie, let's get star. You were just sharing

654
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,959
Speaker 1: with Ashley and I that you keep a scoreboard every episode.

655
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 2: Every episode of the Bachelor, right, and now you've added

656
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: a scoreboard to your viewing of.

657
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 4: The Golden Bachelorret that's correct.

658
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: Okay, great? So what does the scoreboard mean?

659
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 4: It means who I think couldn't get cut? What little

660
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 4: notes about them? So?

661
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: Who was on your list initially on this episode?

662
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 4: Everybody?

663
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: Oh, everybody was on the chopping blox.

664
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: Everybody makes the list, Ashley, everybody needs a point and then.

665
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 2: You okay, okay, okay, okay. So what I mean I

666
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 2: guess is like, think throughout the episode, who were you like?

667
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: All right, she's probably a goner.

668
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 4: Oh well, you know with the Bachelor, they always keep

669
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 4: somebody that's a little rough around the edges.

670
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, So.

671
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 4: I I'm not a fan of pathy. Okay, I think

672
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 4: she's a little rough, and I don't think that's first

673
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 4: of all, he's wonderful mm hmm. But I think she's

674
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 4: a little rough.

675
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: And Ellen, you don't like Alan, No, she's entitled to

676
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: her own opinions. Here, Ashley, what's the note that you

677
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: have for each of those women?

678
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 4: Kathy, I have a little rough around the edges, and

679
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 4: Allan comes on too strong, So Ashley, Susan is a

680
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 4: nice lady, but not for him.

681
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 2: I probably agree.

682
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 4: She's a little rough around the edges.

683
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 2: She's very Jersey.

684
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but she's kind. She fixes her hair and stuff,

685
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: but she's very kind.

686
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 2: Oh the way that she did Teresa's hair was so

687
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: sweet and then ruined the car.

688
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 4: That would be me funny. My favorite is Nancy.

689
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: Nancy I understand.

690
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 4: I understand the wedding dress thing. I understand that. I

691
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 4: think she's very sweet. I don't know how long she's

692
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 4: going to last, but I like her.

693
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: Are you still married?

694
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 4: No, I've been a uh for twenty four years.

695
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 2: Twenty four years. I'm so sorry. That's a long time.

696
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 4: It's a long time. But it's funny. When she did

697
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 4: the wedding dress because I was telling my daughter that

698
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: it did it for me with a heath candy bar.

699
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 4: Isn't that funny?

700
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 2: It's Gary said it was cinnamon.

701
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was his favorite. And I went to a

702
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 4: vending machine instead of bringing what I want, a heath

703
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 4: candy bar came out and I cried so much and hyperventilated,

704
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 4: and I was on a big, busy highway and I

705
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 4: didn't know if I could get home, but I made it.

706
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 2: That was your husband. That was a sign from him,

707
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: for sure.

708
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, he leaves pennies for enough about me.

709
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 2: I like talking about you too.

710
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 4: Oh, he leaves pennies. Did you ever hear that?

711
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard about them leaving coins.

712
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you wonder he didn't leave a coin. So

713
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 4: I guess it's okay for me to do this.

714
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: You know, maybe this, uh, this is going into such

715
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: this this conversation here is going into such an interesting

716
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: part of this show. You know, I imagine or based

717
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: on what you're telling us earlier. You've been a fan

718
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: of the Bachelor franchise for a while. You've watched most

719
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: of the seasons. Have you been relating with the Golden

720
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Bachelor in a way that maybe was unexpected or did

721
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 1: you believe that you were going to watch this show

722
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: and be like, No, these are moments that I can

723
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: I've definitely felt, and I can feel for them.

724
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 4: No, it's hard to say. I was anxious to see

725
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 4: what he was like, and I was very pleasantly surprised.

726
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 4: He's a good guy. I can see that. And the

727
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 4: women were very, very nice. So as I said, I

728
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 4: didn't knock anyone out the first my scorge sheep. But

729
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,760
Speaker 4: I don't know if I would relate to them. I laughed,

730
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 4: because the bunk beds. That was the dumbest thing in

731
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 4: the world. Plus year old girls going to climb up

732
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 4: into a bunk bed when we get down off of

733
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 4: it in the middle of the night, at least once

734
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 4: or twice.

735
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: There's no way to fit everybody in the house otherwise though,

736
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 2: I know.

737
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 4: But now they've eliminated people, so hopefully that's true. But

738
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 4: the ladies all seem very nice. I hope they're all

739
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,959
Speaker 4: right there for the right reason and not just because

740
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 4: they want to sell something.

741
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean I think they are.

742
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: I think I would have a hard time picking out

743
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: anybody that feels like they're not there for the right reasons, Ashley,

744
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: I am curious you had mentioned when Mamie said that

745
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: she wasn't a fan of Ellen that you said you were.

746
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: Why are you a fan of Ellen? And do you

747
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: agree maybe she is a little too forward.

748
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 2: I think she's adored. I think she's adorable. I don't know.

749
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: She seems warm and she's player. She likes pickleball. Sure,

750
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 2: I do agree with you made me though on Kathy,

751
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 2: she's a little intense, she's extra.

752
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like Faith.

753
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, something's happening with Faith. You see in the scenes

754
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 2: for the next episodes the teaser it says it looks

755
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: like Faith leaves on her own. Oh, I think she

756
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: can't handle the pressure.

757
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: I think of two, ash I think it's like one

758
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: of those moments where worries.

759
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 4: Me about Nancy.

760
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like we have more people here that

761
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: probably are just like, Oh, I've lost before in a

762
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 2: big way, and I don't I don't need to put

763
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,439
Speaker 2: myself in a losing situation again.

764
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 4: Yeah.

765
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, the emotions feel like they're just going to get

766
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: higher and higher, you know, for this show. Like I

767
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: actually think that's probably a concern of the producer's part

768
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: when they put the show together. Is that by the

769
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: end of the season, like our emotions just going to

770
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: be like so on edge because everybody's so in it

771
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: and you already get to see it. Maybe I am,

772
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: you know, for all the listeners out there, because they

773
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: won't be able to watch this. What categories are you

774
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: scoring each contestant on on your scorecard? What it? I

775
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: know you have notes, and I know you have all

776
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: the names, but is it walk us through how you

777
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: do this scorecard in case somebody at home wants to

778
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: recreate it.

779
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 4: Created. I put down all their names, some of them

780
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 4: might forget, and then I have dad who they are

781
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 4: because I thought they got acts if they didn't, and

782
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 4: then I make comments about them like pretty girl with

783
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 4: long long hair, nice smile, or you know, so I'm

784
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 4: just cheat or something like that. That's my scorecard. Mostly

785
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 4: it's came on strong and did a good job of

786
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 4: selling herself. Do you know who that is?

787
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 2: Leslie? Leslie? No, no, selling herself, Teresa.

788
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 4: As soon as I sat down in that booth, she started,

789
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: mm hmmm, my friends. I don't think any of my

790
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 4: friends would ever act like that.

791
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 2: What do you mean by selling herself? What did she say?

792
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 4: She said that I love you so much. I think

793
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 4: you're wonderful. I think we'd be wonderful to get.

794
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, she makes a strong push, like immediately, Yes,

795
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: my dear, Yes, yes I do.

796
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 2: I do think that that's some thing that a woman

797
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 2: in her sixties can get away with. By if a

798
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: girl in her twenties or thirties on The Bachelor said

799
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 2: that it would it would come off differently. Yeah, that's

800
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 2: what we'd be like, little girl, hold on, you know,

801
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 2: I love you.

802
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm ready to move. I kind of hear that in Paradise.

803
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I was going to say that, Oh,

804
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 5: it's funny because most of my friends are very widows

805
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 5: because I live in a fifty five and over active community,

806
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 5: and they're absolutely not interested in finding another man at all.

807
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 4: But my mother in law, on the other case, when

808
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 4: her she was veryed three times four times anyway, cut

809
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 4: lost kind on her as soon as she put one

810
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 4: in the grave. She was out buying a new convertible.

811
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 4: Had to have a man. And there are women like that,

812
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 4: and I think these women are like that.

813
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you think about Gary? You mentioned that

814
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: you really liked him earlier. I was saying yesterday during

815
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 2: the episode, Holy moly, there's no way we will be

816
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 2: able to find another man to be the second, or

817
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 2: the third, or the fourth Golden Bachelor that's going to

818
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: compare to him. You're always going to compare people now

819
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: to the wonderfulness that is Gary.

820
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 4: I think you're right. We had to say, and I said,

821
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 4: he could put his shoes under my bed anytime.

822
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: You've got yourself a permanent spot here on almost have

823
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: his podcast.

824
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 4: Recaptured McConaughey, but it might be him.

825
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: Now we go from Matthew McConaughey to Gary. You know,

826
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: I was, as we close up with you here, maybe

827
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: I was watching Ashley and I wanted to tell you this.

828
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: I was watching last night's episode, and you know, obviously

829
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: seven point seven million viewers, we're going to get into that.

830
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: We already have gotten into that. Maybe where so many

831
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: people are watching this show right now? And Gary is

832
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: you know seventy one. I don't know if he turned

833
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: seventy one on the show. He was seventy two.

834
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 4: He had a birthday celebration.

835
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: I think it might be of turning seventy two.

836
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't seventy two. He I've you know, I've

837
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: been able to speak with him on the phone twice now,

838
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: and each time this was kind of before the season started,

839
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: and he was very naive to the the the exposure

840
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 1: and kind of the faming attention he was going to get.

841
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: And I was watching this in Asai. I don't think

842
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: this show's going anywhere. I think Gary is going to

843
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: be kind of the like standard now for every Golden

844
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: Bachelor season from here on out. This dude's life more

845
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: we know, yes, but this dude's life has drastically changed

846
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: at seventy two years old, Like he went from fishing

847
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: and playing golf in northern Indiana to being a legit celebrity.

848
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: I think I think he's going to come after this

849
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: and people are going to want to follow Gary's story

850
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: for ever.

851
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 4: I agree with you as I said, I think he's

852
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 4: a very special person. He really is.

853
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 2: They hit the gold mine finding him.

854
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: What would it feel like, maybe if you were seventy

855
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: two years old and you, you know, had lived the

856
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: life you lived up to that point, and then all

857
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden you find yourself on the side of

858
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 1: billboards and the side of buildings and on talk shows

859
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: like just give us a perspective, what you think that

860
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: would feel like at seventy two?

861
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 4: It would be funny and it would be funny and

862
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 4: thrilling for about the first couple of weeks maybe, and

863
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 4: then it was this is too much. You know, that's

864
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 4: the end of that.

865
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: And my last question to you is how would you

866
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 2: feel if your grandchildren are watching you kiss on TV?

867
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 4: I think they lived gross. I don't even want to

868
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 4: see them.

869
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: Kiss even the best. Thank you so much, and your

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Speaker 2: granddaughter laughs in our in our group chat, here's.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you got a great family. They're all awesome.

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Speaker 4: So I ask you one final question when you said

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Speaker 4: how many people watch? Is it only elderly or is

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Speaker 4: it the young people are watching?

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Speaker 2: To thank everyone? That's what's special about this season is

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Speaker 2: like they have the full range of a demographic terricly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think the metrics that usually get

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Speaker 1: measured by like eighteen to forty five, I think this

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Speaker 1: show is blowing, Like is making the metrics go into

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Speaker 1: chaos because it's like eighteen to you know, we don't

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Speaker 1: need ninety. Yeah, we don't know how to figure this one?

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Speaker 1: Ads doing it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know everybody, it's fun. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: Sure is well, you're fun, You're great. Thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: We hope to have you again. Mami. I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bye bye bye.

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Speaker 1: Was freaking what was that? You can keep the shoes? Now?

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Speaker 1: What's the saying I want to start using?

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Speaker 2: Put his shoes under my bed?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love you like Twains, whose boots? Who's been have

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Speaker 2: your boots been under?

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Speaker 1: I love his boots under my bed Ashley. Two weeks

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Speaker 1: in a row with two incredible guests breaking down the

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Speaker 1: Golden Bachelor. Obviously, their perspective is going to be unique different.

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Speaker 1: I love that maybe can come to us with like

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Speaker 1: the relatability saying, hey, I know what it's like to

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Speaker 1: have that random moment right whereas you smell cinnamon, you

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Speaker 1: put on a wedding dress, you have a heath bar,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, and it really brings up emotions. I

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Speaker 1: also just love I was interested in what you know,

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Speaker 1: watching last night and asking Maymi today, like what would

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Speaker 1: it be like to be really famous right away at

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Speaker 1: seventy two? And I think she's right to be really

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Speaker 1: fun for a few weeks, but then I could see

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Speaker 1: it being like no, like I've got all the money

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Speaker 1: I want. I don't want anybody else breathing down my

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Speaker 1: neck thinking about my life. Like I'm good, Stop stop

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Speaker 1: asking me questions. But I have a feeling Gary's life

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Speaker 1: is forever going to be changed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably, I mean hopefully. You know, he does live

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Speaker 2: in a space like he lives in you know, rural

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Speaker 2: ish Indiana that like he can always like escape whim

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Speaker 2: why if he wants. But he's gonna be called back

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Speaker 2: from the show like all the time now, you know,

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Speaker 2: like he's gonna be taking more LA trips than he's

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Speaker 2: ever imagined.

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Speaker 1: Poor guy. Well, hey, this has been another episode of

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Speaker 1: all the Almost Famous podcasts breaking down episode two of

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Speaker 1: The Golden Bachelor. As Ashley mentioned earlier, and as I agree,

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Speaker 1: this show is good. It's really good. We're loving it.

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Speaker 1: So hey, we'll be back next time again a full

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Speaker 1: slate of content coming your way. But until next time,

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Speaker 1: I've been Ben, I've been Ashley.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. Bye. Follow the Ben and Ashley

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