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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts bring you the ultimate Summer of love Tree.

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Speaker 1: This is famously available. Welcome back to Famously Available. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Ben Higgins, And recently we told you about

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Speaker 1: Mercedes and her mystery Boston man that she'd met. They

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Speaker 1: went on a date in Nashville when he was in town.

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Speaker 1: They had a great time, so he offered to fly

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Speaker 1: her out to Boston for a weekend. Mercedes, who I

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Speaker 1: would say is the most eligible bachelorette. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: she still is maybe in the US right now. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big proponent somebody dating Mercedes, somebody good. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see if this Boston man is a good man. Is

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Speaker 1: back from her trip. Now it's time for us all

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Speaker 1: to get the details on what happened, good or bad.

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Speaker 2: Mercedes, welcome back.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna call him Boston Man. Is that cool?

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Speaker 3: Boston Man? Yep?

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Does that seem respectful?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think so, Boston Man. I feel like Alex Cooper

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Speaker 4: when she had like all her like little like do

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Speaker 4: you remember she had all the little like side names

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Speaker 4: for herman.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. This is this is

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Speaker 1: fun that worked for her. It's gonna work for us. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna start with.

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Speaker 2: How it went. Let's dive into the details and we'll

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Speaker 2: kind of close and go from there on kind of

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Speaker 2: how it went.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we talked when you're here last about your Salem trip.

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Speaker 1: That seemed like a big trip. It was something that

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Speaker 1: we were both curious about. Tell us about Salem. How

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Speaker 1: is it visiting Salem?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it was fun because I was with him, but

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Speaker 4: I would never go back. It was so touristy. I

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Speaker 4: felt like in like a pack of sardines. It was

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Speaker 4: like shoulder to shoulder. And also, like all the museums

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Speaker 4: and stuff, they sell out really quick, so we couldn't

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Speaker 3: We did go to one museum.

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Speaker 4: And it was actually like the worst thing I've ever done.

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Speaker 4: It was just so like not but the other The

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Speaker 4: mannequins were like from like store mannequins and like the people.

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Speaker 4: It was actually funny though, Like I kind of loved

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Speaker 4: that we did it because the people just like.

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Speaker 3: Genuinely did not like their job. They were just like.

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Speaker 4: So here like so monotone and everyone that was like

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Speaker 4: on the tour, we were like looking at each other

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Speaker 4: like what the heck is going on? But no, it

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Speaker 4: was still so much fun, Like obviously I was with him,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm glad we went.

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Speaker 3: And I can say that I've been to Salem, but

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Speaker 3: I don't think I would go back.

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Speaker 2: Had he been before when he was younger.

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Speaker 3: He hadn't been since he was like.

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Speaker 1: Ten, So this was like a obviously, we know what

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Speaker 1: Salem is, this seems like a fun day date.

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Speaker 2: Let's go and explore it together. Good or bad.

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Speaker 1: Those are some of the best times, is when it's bad,

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Speaker 1: because you laugh and it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then we mentioned the other big event was dinner with

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Speaker 2: his cousin.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm uh, I'm so good. His cousin's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: Were you nervous, honestly know.

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Speaker 4: Which is so unlike me because usually I'm like, what

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Speaker 4: are we going to talk about? Are they going to

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Speaker 3: Like I'm always like in my head.

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Speaker 4: But no, I honestly wasn't nervous at all. Even like

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Speaker 4: walking in, I was just like, all right, we're gonna

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Speaker 4: do this. I don't know, we'll see how it goes.

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Speaker 4: And the cousin and his girlfriend, they were so so cool.

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Speaker 4: We just talked the whole time. I Mean they're like,

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Speaker 4: they're all yappers and I'm a yapper.

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Speaker 3: So it was great.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of yapping. Yeah they did they see

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Speaker 2: you on TV at all? Did they know who you were?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always interesting.

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Speaker 4: M hmm.

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Speaker 1: My wife's family, her mom had watched me, and so

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Speaker 1: that was like our first like first time we went

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Speaker 1: over there. Very nice about it. It was really not

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Speaker 1: brought up, just kind of in passing and then over time,

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Speaker 1: obviously questions were asked just out of curiosity. There was

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Speaker 1: really no judgment ever that I felt from them. What

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Speaker 3: Like, they were just like how, like how was it?

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Speaker 3: What was your experience? Like?

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Speaker 4: So his cousin was actually on a Bravo show called

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Speaker 4: Below Deck Ah, so he like kind of understands the whatever,

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Speaker 4: but he was just asking me, like how it was,

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Speaker 4: how filming was just like the normal questions that people ask,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it wasn't like because you know how sometimes people.

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Speaker 4: Talk about it and then they don't stop talking about

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Speaker 4: it and it's like all right, let's go to the

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Speaker 4: next thing, like you know, but it was very brief

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Speaker 4: and very like chill. There's maybe like a five minute conversation,

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Speaker 4: and then we moved on and talked and then never

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Speaker 4: talked about it again.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting. I think there's it's hard to not

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Speaker 1: know someone who's been on reality television. I think there's

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Speaker 1: been so many and so many shows and so many

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Speaker 1: seasons of shows that it. But I do think it's

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Speaker 1: helpful when somebody can relate Blow Deck. Definitely, you could

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Speaker 1: relate with the cameras in your face. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: blow Deck is a lot crazier. I actually like that show.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very intriguing.

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Speaker 3: I've never watched it, but I want to watch it.

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Speaker 1: Oh you have to. It's great, it's super fun. I

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Speaker 1: mostly watch it and dream of being on a yacht

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Speaker 1: one day. That's kind of what I think. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think that's why everybody watches it.

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Speaker 2: Literally, did you meet any other family members that weekend?

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Speaker 4: We did go to so after dinner on Friday, we

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Speaker 4: went to a little bar and his cousin was bartending.

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Speaker 3: So I met him too, different cousin.

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Speaker 4: He has like so much family, Like he was like,

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Speaker 4: I hope you know, like in this city, I can't

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Speaker 4: escape my family, like no matter where we go. Because

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Speaker 4: both of his parents have a ton of siblings and

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Speaker 4: they like all the cousins and everything still live in

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Speaker 4: Boston and around Boston. So he's like, yeah, we can't

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Speaker 4: really escape them. I'm like, I don't care. I'm like,

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Speaker 4: let's come in him.

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Speaker 3: I don't care.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna start getting in the meat of the weekend. Here.

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Speaker 1: One of the best things about first date or dating

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Speaker 1: in general. So my wife and I have a question

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Speaker 1: that we ask each other every night at dinner, and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you the same question. The question

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Speaker 1: is what it was your highlight and what was your

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Speaker 1: low light? We asked it for the day, but I'm

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Speaker 1: going to ask you for the weekend. What was the

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Speaker 1: highlight and what was the low light from the weekend?

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Speaker 4: Okay, highlight is we randomly went to like this improv

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Speaker 4: show and it was in the basement of a CVS

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Speaker 4: and it was just like the funniest thing ever and

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Speaker 4: we were just laughing the whole time and it was

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Speaker 4: just a really cool show and it was super random.

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Speaker 4: It was like the show was at like nine thirteen,

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Speaker 4: I think at nine fifteen. We bought the tickets and

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Speaker 4: got an ubern and went there. So it's very like

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Speaker 4: spontaneous and like, I don't know, it's just fun seeing

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Speaker 4: like what he laughed at while I laughed at, like

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Speaker 4: say that was definitely a highlight or a yeah, and

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Speaker 4: then helloe. I felt well, I don't know if there's

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Speaker 4: like one specific thing, but like I feel like something

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Speaker 4: that I like wish was different about the trip was

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Speaker 4: I wish I was there like one more day.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it was really quick. I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: You're kind of hinting at where we're going with this.

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Speaker 1: Will you be seeing this guy again?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Which is so crazy. I'm like, what's happening?

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Speaker 2: This is so good. Did he listen to the show

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Speaker 2: before you went on the date with him?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Okay, we got to get him to do that. This

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Speaker 1: is going to be good. I still want to bring

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Speaker 1: him on. Did you talk ever about past relationships? Like

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Speaker 1: I guess instead of that question kind of what topics

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Speaker 1: stood out to you on this date you've obviously dated.

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Speaker 1: You had mentioned that a lot of dates don't click

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Speaker 1: for you. I think one of the consensus there was

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Speaker 1: that it felt like the men you were dating, maybe

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Speaker 1: weren't as intentional about getting to know you. They were

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Speaker 1: maybe flaky whatever this I mean, if you want to

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Speaker 2: So what did he do differently?

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Speaker 1: What conversations did you guys have together that felt that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. We just taught like the way

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Speaker 4: There's just like chemistry and I feel like I can

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Speaker 3: This is another thing that I said.

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Speaker 4: I feel like when I've dated people in the past,

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Speaker 4: I'm very like not try to be the woman that

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Speaker 4: I think that they would want, But I always am like,

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Speaker 4: oh are they gonna like I don't know, But with him,

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Speaker 3: And I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Our conversations, I mean, we've talked about faith, we've talked

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Speaker 4: we're both just like very open and I feel like

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Speaker 4: we're both being open books with each other and I've

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm always like egg like walking on

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Speaker 4: Little bit, just because I'm nervous and don't want to

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

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Speaker 4: The conversations have been really really great, and we've really

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Speaker 4: talked about a lot.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, obviously, if you talked about a lot,

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Speaker 1: there were things uncovered that he learned about you and

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Speaker 1: that you learned about him. Is there anything you learned

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Speaker 1: about him that you're willing to share with us that

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Speaker 1: maybe it was just new information, maybe excited you or

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Speaker 1: maybe made you take a step back.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they're I don't know if I

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Speaker 4: want to like share. Let's see. I feel like his faith.

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize that he grew up Catholic and I

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Speaker 4: knew that, but I feel like this past weekend, I

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Speaker 4: really like saw that he genuinely like loves faith and

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Speaker 3: So that was something that I was like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 3: green check.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, after year's marriage, it is so important,

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Speaker 1: I think to see the world in a similar lane,

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Speaker 1: not the necessarily always the same lane. But to have

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Speaker 4: I'm just really really excited to see where things go.

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: I actually told my friends I was like, he wakes

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Speaker 2: I don't want you doing this. We let's have the

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Speaker 3: Then, yeah, don't don't have my days.

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Speaker 4: This was literally, you guys. I'm not kidding when I

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Speaker 1: It's great, Mercedes, we're entering into an exciting stage for you,

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Speaker 1: and goodness gracious, I would feel weird setting you up

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Speaker 1: I said, I really want to get to know him.

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Speaker 1: I want to get to know where your relationship blossoms too.

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Speaker 1: And then at some point, you know, we have to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's that's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's great, Like, yeah, and you know what I'm going

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Speaker 1: say that our first success story. We pushed her at

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Speaker 2: We pushed her, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, no, truly you did, though, because I was like okay,

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Did you end this weekend in a kiss?

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Speaker 3: Yes? The best.

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Speaker 2: That's a good thing too.

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Speaker 1: Be bad if you're like, we did not a great kisser,

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Speaker 2: But you're saying it's the best.

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Speaker 3: It's good you are.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today, thank you for giving

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Speaker 1: us the recap. Is there anything we missed about your

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Speaker 1: about that you want him to hear when he listens

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, No, no, I think we hit everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you deserve it. I'm glad you're excited. Well, hey,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you do too.

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Speaker 1: I remember I remember dating and Jess and I would

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Speaker 1: I can't even.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that season anymore. I'm like, goodness, gracious, I love

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Speaker 1: I could never FaceTime her for hours any longer. So

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Speaker 1: enjoy that like little season where it's like not even

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Speaker 1: But I think one day you look back and be

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Speaker 1: like that was wild we talked about yeah again, Mercedes,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. This has been famously available

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Speaker 1: and Mercedes and Boston Man are still staying strong. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep up to date with their dates when they're

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Speaker 1: gonna see each other next Austin. Also the conversations they

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Speaker 1: start to have when they start to have these conversations,

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Speaker 1: exclusivity being one of those that I think probably will

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Speaker 1: happen soon. And then also stay tuned. We can potentially

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Speaker 1: get him on at some point when Mercedes feels like

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Speaker 1: it's the right conversation to have. We won't scare him away.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hype her up. He's gonna leave that conversation probably.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm guessing he's already young Cloud nine, but

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Speaker 1: he's going to be skipping out of that room being like,

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Speaker 1: I've got the best girl in the world. That's my goal,

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Speaker 1: That's what I want to do.

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Speaker 3: Amazing.

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Speaker 2: I love it. Mercedes. Thanks for joining us, of course,

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Speaker 2: thank you