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

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Speaker 1: with i R Radio. The Almost Famous podcast is going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: We're here to stay for as long as you want

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Speaker 1: to keep listening. Hey Ashley, Hi Ben, what's up here?

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Speaker 1: You're going to Honduras in two days. I am. It's

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Speaker 1: a big deal. So I'm going through all the steps

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Speaker 1: get a COVID test. This will be my fifth COVID test,

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Speaker 1: and I your fifth COVID test for this no in

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Speaker 1: one anytime I travel, just because there'll be no worse

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Speaker 1: COVID test, which is never fun, not ideal. We're going

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Speaker 1: down to Honduras for the weekend, myself and just a

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Speaker 1: few others because, as you heard us talk about in

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty hard. I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Matt James season. Uh, the headlines haven't stopped. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: break down headlines. We're gonna break down uh, the latest episode,

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Speaker 1: to go do a rundown of the episode. It was

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Speaker 1: hometown week, and um, what was your initial thoughts? Ashley?

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Speaker 1: Thank you feel But I feel like a downer. So

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Speaker 1: I would much rather that, I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: She also he but he looks excited and very happy

427
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 1: to hear that from her. When Bree says it, he

428
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: just like kind of nods and doesn't smile and then

429
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 1: makes out with her. It's always it's always a good

430
00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: fall back plane when things get weird, just start kissing. Yeah, okay,

431
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: So they go four wheel in. Um. She says that

432
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,919
Speaker 1: she still feels bad about the fact that she wouldn't

433
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: be able to give Matt a conventional family, which is

434
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: really sad, but Matt says that doesn't that that doesn't

435
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: matter at all, and um they go in and meet

436
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: her best friend, her mom, and then the baby sister,

437
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 1: and of course it's very sweet to see Bree interact

438
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: with the baby sister, and he's like being like, oh man,

439
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: I can really start visualizing families with these women. And

440
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: then Bree's mom comes and she goes and chats with

441
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: her and she says that she feels like there's a

442
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 1: mutual connection. She says that she's falling in love with him,

443
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 1: and she's so scared, and her mom is like, I

444
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 1: want to protect you, um, because like the worst case is,

445
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: of course you know she's gonna have a broken heart,

446
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: but that they could mend that together and they'll survive

447
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: if that does happened. So we have this, we have

448
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,919
Speaker 1: this date. I'm with you. It does feel like the

449
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: one I still and I'll share my opinion here in

450
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: a second. I think Serena obviously, with how the show

451
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: plays out, she's like obviously the least in the mat

452
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: which I think at this point is pretty telling because

453
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: which week, so then we have Bree I think would

454
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: be next. This is a little side tangent watching this

455
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: episode though, even though yes, I don't think their connection

456
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: is as strong as Michelle or Rachel's. I think she

457
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: has Bachelor atte written all over. I think I think

458
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: with how bad uh she she wants to find a partner.

459
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: I think also with um just who she is and

460
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: and how she's been on the show. I think she

461
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: has Bachelor atte written all over I'd be shocked, Okay

462
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: really because I would say that Michelle would have a

463
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 1: hand up on her really interesting. Well, we'll watch. I mean,

464
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple some seasons. You and I are

465
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: sitting here at this point being like, yeah, then none

466
00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: of these people have Bachelor, Bachelor at you know, written

467
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: all over him, right. I mean, I think we said

468
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: that when Ari became the Bachelor, were like, who from

469
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: this season could be the Bachelor? Like nobody like that,

470
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense, and then he became the Bachelor.

471
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: I think with this season they have like four or

472
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: five names we could say, oh yeah that could work.

473
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that could work. I mean I just think

474
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 1: it goes down the list. Well, let's jump into Serena's

475
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 1: then date here. I mean, this is this is a

476
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: really important part of the episode. Um, especially now that

477
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: we know how it plays out, you know, watching their

478
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: first part of the date and putting into the perspective

479
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: of what we know at the end, I think, I mean,

480
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm not shocked, but I think this is gonna have

481
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: a traumatic, dramatic impact on Matt's uh next few weeks

482
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be worried about this thing happening again.

483
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,719
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, I keep jumping ahead, but what the

484
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: heck is it the scenes for the next episode. Yeah, well,

485
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: let's talk about that a little bit. Let's talk about

486
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: a little bit. Fine, fine, fine, alright, Yes, I loved

487
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: I think Serena is one of my favorite She's just

488
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: fun to hang out with. I love the fact that

489
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: she's set up that like Canadian getting to know Canada

490
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 1: Day That was fun, and then like the ice hockey

491
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: that was cute. She's just really relaxed, seeming on TV

492
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: like she seems like she's being very much herself. She's

493
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: not putting on a show, and you can tell because

494
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: she ends up, you know, being honest with her feelings

495
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: and not going forward with it. Um. Her family was Honestly,

496
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: I don't even like think I wasn't even thinking about

497
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: her family very much, because I think the most monumental

498
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: conversation during that family meeting part was the one between

499
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 1: her and her sister, in which her sister was like,

500
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: you don't seem smitten, and and then there was the

501
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: conversation with her mom about doubts because apparently she was

502
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: so rocked by her last um failed relationship. And I

503
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,719
Speaker 1: think I think the whole point of the whole theme

504
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: of that meeting was less about Matt and more about um,

505
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: just serena kind of realizing that she didn't have it

506
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: with that, and did you feel the same well? And

507
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: I wondered too, if this will be good for her? Right?

508
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you kind of need that, I know, if

509
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: you want to call it motivation, if you want to encouragement,

510
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 1: you know, when you get have a tough relationship, you

511
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: need that next step. And and not that she went

512
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: into this thinking this was the next step. She probably

513
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: went into this thinking I'm ready, but you realize that, Hey,

514
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. But now I at least see that

515
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm not ready and I can start to work on that.

516
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: And I think that's maybe where we're going here is

517
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is as much of a

518
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: thing to do with Matt, even though you know he

519
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: is the right one for her, but it is more

520
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: of a hey, I'm not ready for this commitment. I'm

521
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: still hurt. I need to go back and heal. I think, yes,

522
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: but know because I feel like that's kind of what

523
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: she wanted it to be, like, Oh, like, I just

524
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: need to get over the past in order to move

525
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: forward with him. But then when she sits down with

526
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: him and actually breaks up with him, she says, you're

527
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: not my person. And I think she really knew in

528
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: her gut that he wasn't And I can't believe that

529
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: they It's actually kind of funny that they made it

530
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 1: seem like she was totally dumping him. She walked him out,

531
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: he had to get in the suv. It's really sad.

532
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: I feel bad for him, but I also think like

533
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: he knew, and I mean, I'm just speaking for what

534
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: I'm seeing here. I think he was like, oh man,

535
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: I really like Serena. I don't think she was the one.

536
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: I think in his head he knows that Rachel's the one,

537
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: and um, I think now his fear is that it's

538
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: that Rachel's going to realize that her feelings aren't strong

539
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: enough for him and then she's going to leave. But

540
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the scenes for the next episode. Now

541
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I can talk about it. Ah, does she I think

542
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: she's the only person who could rock him the way

543
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: that he looks rocked. Yeah. No, I mean this is

544
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: two weeks by the way we're talking um, not the

545
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: this is uh next next week's women until all, Um,

546
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I mean there's always been this kind

547
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: of hint that like there's something to come right Rob

548
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: Mills has always been hinting at this season's finishes is

549
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: wild and it's worth tuning in for. And like, so far,

550
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, how things are going. It could be

551
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: beautiful and it could tell a love story, but I

552
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: don't know if there's like something gripping. Now we're seeing

553
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: hints that like this is gonna end and dramatic fashion.

554
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: Um and I and I agree with you. I think

555
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: Rachel right now feels like the only one that can

556
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: do that to him, But I have a feeling it's

557
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: not her. I think it's one of these other women

558
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: who leave as well. And then he's confusing and he's

559
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: starting to feel like is everybody going to go away?

560
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: There's no way that Michelle leaves on her own, no way.

561
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: She's very much preparing and excited for an engagement. And

562
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: then Bree also feels like she's there, even though I

563
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: don't think he's there with her. So I truly cannot

564
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: figure out what he could be so emotional over well.

565
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 1: But I'm excited. I'm actually really excited. Now, yeah, are

566
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: you excited for the woman? Tell why? I'm not a

567
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: huge fan of the tell alls. It's just rehashing old

568
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: drama um that usually doesn't really come to the best conclusion.

569
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see Victoria and see if

570
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: she takes any sort of accountability for her actions, because

571
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: it seems like in the scenes to the next episode

572
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: you see her like try to explain that it was

573
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: like her insecurities that got the best of her and

574
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: that's why she needs she hopes that bo will forgive her.

575
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I think it's hard

576
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: to say. I think this cast this year has been

577
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: criticized and celebrated all all at once. I think early

578
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: on people were probably pretty frustrated with the bowling, um

579
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: pretty disgusted maybe the better way to say it, with

580
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: the bullying. I think that as we've gone on, there's

581
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: been a couple of women really shine and go to

582
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 1: the top. So I'm excited to kind of see how

583
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: they're doing now and how they're processing it. Uh, But

584
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: I'm not like, this isn't until all that I'm gripped by.

585
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: In fact, now I am excited for the next couple

586
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: of weeks of the show though. I'm excited to get

587
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: back to these relationships and to see how it plays out. Well. Ashley, Uh,

588
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: just like we do every week. Ranked this episode A

589
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: to F please. I think for hometowns it was a C.

590
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: And I hate comparing everything that Tastious season and you

591
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: guys know that, like Tastiaus season was one of my

592
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: favorite seasons ever. Yea, but like I so much for

593
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: every hometown visit. Yeah, I felt like I really got

594
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: to know the guys better. I got a good grip

595
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: on how Tatia's relationship with the family would be in

596
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: the future. There was a lot of warmth and acceptance there,

597
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: and I just didn't get like the same uplifting vibes

598
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: with with this. Yeah, I'm gonna give it a sea

599
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: as well. I think for hometown, hometown is always one

600
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: of my favorites because there's always something cool from home

601
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: that comes in. Uh. You know, they get to me

602
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: to families, You get to see like their their lives

603
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: a little bit, get a picture into them. This just

604
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: didn't do it for me, But hey, who are we

605
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: were critics and uh, but typically we're not like typically

606
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: we're we're pretty pretty we're probably pretty favorable compared to

607
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: most on this show, and I don't know, maybe we're

608
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: completely off. Tell us if we are. Hey, actually, let's

609
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: take a break here and we come back. We're gonna

610
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: talk to Blake Hortzman, who was in Austin UH this

611
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: last week during the ice storm. UH and Ashley and

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Speaker 1: I also have kind of compiled a list of organizations

613
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: in places that you can support as listeners right now

614
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: that can help the people in Texas, and so we're

615
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: gonna read that list talk to Blake when we come

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be a quick trip, end up being

639
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: about almost a week. UM. I went down there to

640
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: play a DJ set um at a rooftop bar. They're

641
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: down called Summit Down and down in Austin, UM. And

642
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: we were warned, you know when we went down there.

643
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: We got down there and people like, you know, there's

644
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: like a winter storm coming in. I was like, I'm fine,

645
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm from Colorado, Like it'll be fine, Like oh yeah,

646
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: big big storm coming into Texas. Alright. I was like,

647
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: I'll be fine. But I remember I woke we woke

648
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: up on Saturday, I supposed to play Saturday night. We

649
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: woke up on Saturday and my flight had already been

650
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: canceled for Sunday, and I was like, that's that's bizarre.

651
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: But it's fine. We'll like book another airline or something.

652
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be something else. It was weird

653
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: because it was it was cold. It was Texas cold.

654
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: There wasn't like you know, Colorado cold, Minnesota, Canada cold,

655
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: nothing like that. Uh So we did the gig and

656
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: it was outside and stuff and it was great. You know,

657
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: it was like you know, mass all that was worn it.

658
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: We ended up being really successful. Uh. We welcome the

659
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: next morning and everything was getting The whole city were

660
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: shut down. UM, and that's why I like, I like,

661
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people my damn through Like

662
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't even look that bad out blah

663
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: blah blah, but like Texas is not built for that

664
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: kind of cold and that kind of weather. And let's

665
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: let's pause here then, because there's a good note there.

666
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: You're right. I was. I was in Nashville, um, at

667
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: my future in law's house during this, and they shut

668
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: down two for a week and now they didn't lose

669
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: power and they didn't lose water. But when you say

670
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: not built, like in Colorado, you get a snowstorm and

671
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: the plows are out, the salt trucks that you know,

672
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: the beat juice, like everything's out on the roads. It's

673
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: taken care of overnight in your act going again. Um,

674
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: you know the planes have the d icing, uh you

675
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: know salvent like all that happens. Well in Texas they

676
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: don't have those things. Like why would you buy thirty

677
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: plows if you use it once every a hundred years

678
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, And even like yeah, Denver d I he

679
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: has some runways that were heated, you know what I mean,

680
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 1: so like they just weren't. Yeah, we woke up Sunday

681
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: and there was still no snow, but it was cool.

682
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: It was like twenty degrees or so. Um, Sunday night

683
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: is when I got really bad. I'm not gonnae like

684
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: it was even a decent amount. It was like a

685
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 1: good blizzard, Like they had seven inches in a couple

686
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: of hours and it was blowing really hard, some crazy

687
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: snow drifts. And that's when I was like, oh no,

688
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, because like you said, there's no plows and

689
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: there's no salt, so the roads were no joke, two

690
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: to three inches of ice. It was. It was scary.

691
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: It was really really bad. Like just walking across the

692
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: streets at seven eleven took me like fifteen minutes because

693
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: I was walking so slow and so gingerly. What about

694
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: the food situation, you were living off seven eleven food

695
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: because there's no room service, like you just couldn't eat

696
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: a real meal. Yeah, that applies to so many people

697
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: in Texas, so many right now. And it was that

698
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: was the scary pro That's when I got know, it

699
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: got real because so all ubers were shut down, all

700
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: like Uber Eats, Postmates, all those shut down. And then

701
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: the hotels were running out of food, and the trucks

702
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: couldn't get could not get in to uh to deliver

703
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: the you know the you know the packages of food

704
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: and stuff like that as shipments of food. So we

705
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: slowly started running out of food. Um, we got some

706
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: point where we're like, you know, whatever they had left

707
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: in the kitchen and like cam sandwiches and things like that,

708
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: they're making sandwiches for us, uh. And the other thing

709
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: about Texas, all their pipes are above ground, so none

710
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: of them are like below ground or anything so I

711
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: don't know a single hotel. Maybe there's like two or

712
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: three hotels in the city, but hotels and apartment buildings

713
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: that did not have a pipe burst Like everybody I knew,

714
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: pipes froze and burst and just spilled water. So they

715
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: were running out of water. There's no power, there was

716
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: no food. It was like the end of times down there.

717
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: It really really was. It was scary for a lot

718
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: of people. It was at And the thing is too

719
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: is to notice. If you could have eaten at seven

720
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: eleven every day, that would have been great, Like you

721
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: could have done it. But what happened was there was

722
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: no ability to get into the city or to replenish

723
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: this like nothing was doing so that food was running

724
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: out though, tell food is running out. Water was spilling

725
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: all over these hotels, like and then let's throw on

726
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: top of it something that you didn't mention. You know,

727
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: Texas a few years ago, UH change their power grid

728
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: and deregulated it and and privatized it um and it

729
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: shut down. I mean all power had shut down across

730
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: the whole state. They're doing these rolling blackouts. Tell me

731
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: about that. What what is if anybody isn't what is

732
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: a rolling blackout. I think the way it works is

733
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: they basically cut power on purpose in neighborhoods to lessen

734
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: the amount of power being used in the amount you know,

735
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: the amount of I guess overuse by this this system.

736
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: So I think it's just rolling blackouts. They purposely would

737
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: send you know, certain neighborhoods blocked out for a couple

738
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: of hours here there, um and that was honestly, Like,

739
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: my hotel didn't lose power. But I remember I was

740
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: standing in line to like, you know, forty minute wait

741
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: at the hotel lobby to get food. And I remember

742
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: standing in line, there was a couple ahead of me

743
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: with a newborn baby, and they were like, we had

744
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,959
Speaker 1: to come here. You know, we haven't had a power

745
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: in two days. And they were like, we can't. You know,

746
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: it's freezing cold in our house and we can't. We

747
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: don't have food and I have a newborn baby. So

748
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 1: they're like, we we come here to grab some food.

749
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: And they were able to finally get us a room,

750
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: but a lot of people were just hanging out in

751
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: the lobby because they wanted heat, you know. So it

752
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: was it was pretty wild and it was really scary.

753
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: My my buddy, UM, one of my best friends since

754
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: I was a little He has uh three kids, all

755
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: under the age of six, and he lives in Austin.

756
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: And uh they lost power and obviously then they lost heat.

757
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: Their house Uh got down to forty degrees inside. Um,

758
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: so they went to a hotel. They drove like two

759
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: hours to a hotel. That hotel lost power. They drove

760
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: back to their house, found a generator and they were

761
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: heating one room. And this is what he told me.

762
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. He goes, Hey, I was driving and

763
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: it feels like in times, like there's cars parked everywhere. Uh,

764
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: there's cars abandoned. Uh, there's people you know. One of

765
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: the things that was on the news uh last evening

766
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: that I saw what and it's still happening where there

767
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: are people in the city park, like Austin was able

768
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: to get water running to the city park and there's

769
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: like a three hour line of people with buckets, um

770
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: filling up there, you know, filling up their buckets with

771
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: clean water just to take it back home. But one

772
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: of the things he told me was right before he

773
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: they this happened, it was Valentine's Day and his wife

774
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: had gone to the grocery and bought a bunch of

775
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: stuff to like do for Valentine's Day dinner on and

776
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: he goes that's the only reason that you know we

777
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: aren't in in dire need is because we just happened

778
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: to time it perfectly, not knowing the results. But like

779
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: grocery stores that ran out of food, I mean, this

780
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: is like, this is not like, this is not funny,

781
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: This is not like, this is something that it was

782
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: still affecting the lives of people in Texas. And that's

783
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: where I want to transition here for a second and

784
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: to we talk about your trip to UH to get

785
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,479
Speaker 1: back to Denver, which is I think super interesting. There's

786
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: some good resources out there, UM and please continue to

787
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: share them, maybe on our Instagram page comments some good

788
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: places you know. But the Salvation Army of Texas UH

789
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: go to give dot Salvation Army Texas dot org, American

790
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: Red Cross obviously we know about the Red Cross. They're

791
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: they're massive. The Red Cross dot org is their website,

792
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: not the with it's just red Cross dot org. And

793
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: then Austin Disaster re Leaf Network. You can go to

794
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: a d r N dot org to donate their UM

795
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: definitely something that still needs donations, definitely something still impacting

796
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 1: people in Texas. But Blake, you were able to get out.

797
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Yeah? So I think basically Tuesday night, Um,

798
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: we were like, you know what if our flight gets

799
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: canceled against tomorrow Wednesday, like, we gotta find a way

800
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: to get Dallas because flights are getting out of Dallas.

801
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: We're like, we gotta you know, we got And what

802
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 1: sucks is like we were holding up in a hotel

803
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: where maybe a family whose home is flooded and cold

804
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: needs it, you know. So we're like, if we can

805
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: get out, they can use and we even checked out

806
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: a one hotel early so that another family could come in,

807
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: you know, because I went through four hotels in like

808
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: four days. Um, so I was like, we we need

809
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: to get home, you know. Like so we get to

810
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: the airport as soon as you're going security. Wednesday morning,

811
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: of course, flight gets canceled, and they canceled. They went

812
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: over the intercom and said no, all flights are grounded

813
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: for the day. There's nothing get out of Austin. And

814
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: we're like, oh my god. So we're like okay, let's

815
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: go running, you know, get to the rental car we

816
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: got a rental car. Of course, there's a huge line.

817
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: Everybody got the same thing we did. So we get there,

818
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: there's no more rental cars available. I start calling other

819
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: rental places in town. Nobody has a car available. Uh.

820
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: So we're pretty desperate at this point because we didn't

821
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: have a hotel that night. You know, I didn't know

822
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: what we were gonna do, sleep in the you know,

823
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: the airport or what. So. Uh. I get on my

824
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: Instagram and I basically was like, you know what, uh,

825
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: please share this post us whatever you can. But if

826
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: is anybody going already going from Austin to Dallas, I

827
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: will hop on, you know, me and my buddy Eric

828
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: will hop in. We'll pay for snacks, will pay for gas,

829
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: like whatever we can do to hop in with you. Um.

830
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: And I got some inquiries. Um. But then there was

831
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: one girl and it was she was like, you know what,

832
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: my cousin just got one of the last rents of

833
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: cars in the city and she's driving to Dallas and

834
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: then to Oklahoma City. She's like, she's by herself, Like

835
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: we want you to go with her. That would be

836
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: great if you could go with her. So she gave

837
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: me your number and We end up talking and I

838
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, let's do it. She's like I'm leaving out.

839
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: It was like perfect with the airport were packed up,

840
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: like let's do it. Yeah. So it worked out and

841
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: she was great, you know, thankfully she was. She was

842
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: awesome girl, and like I said, like I'll be I'll

843
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: be completely honest. The first thirty miles from Austin took

844
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: about two and a half hours, and it was scary,

845
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: Like it was really really scary. The ice that was

846
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: on the interstate was so bad that even like a

847
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: percent of an incline, these inner these um semis were

848
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: rolling backwards on the inter state. It was terrifying. For

849
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: the first like thirty miles about two and a half hours,

850
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: we were I mean we were weaving in and out

851
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: of these semis that were going backwards. There was actually

852
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: literally tractors on the interstate trying to like pull these

853
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: semis up these tiny grades like ti the tiny grades,

854
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, like almost like an on ramp, like that's

855
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff they would get stuck on. Um

856
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: there were semis jack knives all over the road. Um.

857
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: So it was really bad. And there was a moment

858
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: where we we got really lucky. We had two huge

859
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: decisions because we actually went to a seven eleven, and yeah,

860
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: we stucked up on food and water because we're like,

861
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna get stuck on the Interstate over the night,

862
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna have to sleep in his car. Um,

863
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: And we ended up pulling off the highway right at

864
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: the exactly the right time. We went on like a

865
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: dump road for a little while, for a good twenty minutes.

866
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: And then this is probably the sketchest thing I've ever done. Um,

867
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: We're getting on an on m keep back on the highway,

868
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: and then semis in front of us stopped instead of

869
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: rolling backwards, so we threw it in reverse and we

870
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: whipped it around and ended up going We ended up

871
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: going on and off ramp the wrong way and turn

872
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: onto the Inner States because there was no although semis

873
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: were stuck, so there was nobody on the on ramp.

874
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: All the semis were stuck behind it, and we ended

875
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: up getting back on the Interstate, and then we were

876
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: the only car for the next I don't know, a

877
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: hundred miles because every other car got stuck behind the semis.

878
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: So that was the one move that helped us get

879
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: through and then we took us another four hours after

880
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: that to get to Dallas. But once we once we

881
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: finally got there, was a good feeling. And then we

882
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: got out there that first thing the next morning, first

883
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: flat out. But it was scary, and I feel for

884
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,240
Speaker 1: Texas a lot. Like I said, a lot of people

885
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: think like, well, we're overreacting or whatever, but it's not.

886
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: It is. It is dire down there, and like like

887
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: Ben said, this isn't something that's gonna like overnight get better.

888
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 1: I mean people have lost homes, I mean the power.

889
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like a hurricane down there, Like

890
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: this is gonna take months for them to get back

891
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: on their feet. This might be a silly question, but

892
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: how did it feel driving in a car with somebody

893
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: you just met and like needing to trust their driving

894
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: skills in such conditions? Yeah, it was. It was funny.

895
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna have her my podcast at some point,

896
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: I think and talk about it because it was hard.

897
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lot because like I said, those first

898
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: thirty miles was and she was driving the first thirty

899
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: miles and uh, it was scary, especially too because of course,

900
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: you know, like her phone was blowing up because I

901
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: like tagged her in a story and her I was

902
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: blowing up and I was like, why don't just put

903
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: your phone down for a little while, let's go down

904
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: the road. But no, she it was we got really

905
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 1: lucky because she was awesome. She was a great driver.

906
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 1: She was she wasn't like a like she had driven

907
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: in stuff like this before, So that was that was

908
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: a plus. Like me and heard both driven in winter,

909
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: you know. So um, that helped a lot. But I

910
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: got lucky for sure. It could have been really bad

911
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: the so blake you were in Texas though, Just to

912
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 1: get a little shout out to your podcast with Eric,

913
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: which is your co host on Behind the Rose podcast,

914
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: which you guys do together. Uh, you're down there for

915
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: a gig. You make it back to Dallas your home now? Uh?

916
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: Is there any other ways? You know, we just mentioned

917
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: a few organization that people can donate and support. Is

918
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: there anything else you know of from being down there

919
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: and seeing into hearing about it that you would want

920
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: to tell people to focus on. Yeah? Actually, and I

921
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: have a story like one of those highlights in my

922
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: profile where I put the trip and then I also

923
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: put like a bunch of places you can donate or when, Um,

924
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: Austin mutual Aid is actually raising money for families who

925
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 1: are now maybe in a hotel for the next month

926
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: because their houses are completely the storied. So awesome. Mutual

927
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: Aid is a great spot. Um, there's a couple others. Um,

928
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: you know what was really sad was seeing you know, like,

929
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: like you said, Texas does not use this whether, Um,

930
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: a lot of the be homeless out there. Um, it

931
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: was bad. You know they were there. I knew I

932
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: met some girls who spent like a thousand bucks on blankets.

933
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: They were running around giving you know, homeless people these blankets.

934
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of places you can donate to

935
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: help out the homeless um out there in Austin and

936
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: Dallas and Houston. But yeah, in my story, there's, um,

937
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: there's a lot of resources. So okay, we'll go check

938
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: out blake story. In fact, Blake, I'm gonna do something

939
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: right now. I'm gonna steal that slide and I'm gonna

940
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: post it myself and then almost in this podcast can

941
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: probably post that or or you know, we can pass

942
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: it around. It's uh, thanks for sharing the story. What

943
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: a wild few days for you. Um, you know it

944
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: is a story you'll tell for a long time. But

945
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: it's also you know, let's let's spend this time hearing

946
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: from you and then focus on Texas because that's you know,

947
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I can't imagine, and it just

948
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: it crushes me to think that, like there's people without

949
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: homes out there, um, unprepared, you know, uh alone, isolated,

950
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: and there's people losing their homes now as well, and

951
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: like the cost to that this, you know that there's

952
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: just a lot, man, So thanks for sharing. Um yeah,

953
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: let's go out respond and uh man, anything right now

954
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: other than the Behind the Rose podcast that you want

955
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out to that's going on

956
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: in your life. Uh no, that's pretty much it. Check

957
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: out behind those podcast. Um, follow me a block a

958
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: dot h But that's pretty much. Appreciate you guys have

959
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: me on and like I said, yeah, well we'll share

960
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: as many resources and fundraising abilities as we can. So

961
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: thanks buddy. Hey you guys in Texas. Love you. The

962
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: biggest headline coming out of Bachelor Nation this week has

963
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: probably come out during this podcast recording. Matt James has

964
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: put out a formal statement regarding the Chris Harrison and

965
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: Rachel Lindsay extra interview. Now. He did discussed this briefly

966
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: on his Instagram story last week. He said in a story,

967
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: I am beyond grateful to have Rachel as a mentor

968
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: during this season. Your advocacy for the B I p

969
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: o C People in this franchise is invaluable. I stand

970
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: with you and the rest of the women advocating for

971
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: change and accountability. But just now, he put out, I'd

972
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: say a more formal statement on his Instagram feed, and

973
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: this is what it reads. The past few weeks have

974
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: been some of the most challenging of my life, and

975
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: while there are several episodes left of the season, it

976
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: is important that I take the time to address the

977
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 1: troubling information that has come to light since we wrap

978
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: it filming, including the incredibly disappointing photos of Rachel Kirconnell

979
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: and the interview between Rachel Lindsay and Chris Harrison. The

980
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: reality is I am learning about these situations in real time.

981
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 1: It has been devastating and heartbreaking, to put it bluntly,

982
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: Chris's failure to receive and understand the emotional labor that

983
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: my friend Rachel Lindsay was taking on by graciously and

984
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: patiently explaining the racist history of the Antebellum South, a

985
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: painful history that every American should understand. Intimately was troubling

986
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: and painful to watch as black people and allies immediately

987
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: knew and understood. It was a clear reflection of a

988
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: much larger issue that the Bachelor franchise has fallen short

989
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: on addressing adequately for years. This moment has sparked critical

990
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: conversations and reporting whereas important questions and resulted in inspiring

991
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: displays of solidarity from Bachelor nation. It has also pushed

992
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: me to re evaluate and process what my experience on

993
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: The Bachelor represents, not just for me, but for all

994
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: the contestants of color, especially the black essence of this

995
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: season and season's past, and for you, the viewers at home.

996
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: I will continue to process this experience and you'll hear

997
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: more from me in the end. My greatest prayer is

998
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: that this is an inflection point that results in real

999
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: and institutional change for the better. Like Matt says, he

1000
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: has plenty more to say on this, and I'm assuming

1001
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: that we'll hear a lot about this topic during after

1002
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: the final rows um. He was not the only person

1003
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: to speak out about race in Bachelor Nation this week.

1004
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: As this conversation fortunately continues. Going from that then to

1005
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: this story, Trista center on her podcast that is called

1006
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: Better Etcetera. The headline reads, Chris Harrison will do the

1007
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: work that is necessary to learn from his mistakes amid

1008
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: Bachelor controversy. This according to US Weekly, She says on

1009
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: the podcast that she does not condone racism, nor participating

1010
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: or defending it. She says that she wants us to

1011
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: all do better. Of course, um, she wants to be

1012
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: better allies. She says that she thinks it's important to

1013
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 1: highlight racial inequalities in the world. Um. But she said

1014
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: it's also not okay for certain people within Bachelor Nation

1015
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: to shame other people within Bachelor Nation who are not

1016
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: directly involved with this controversy because they haven't spoken up.

1017
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: She said that that being said, she should um Harrison

1018
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: should be held accountable for his words and actions. Um.

1019
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: She said that Bachelor Nation feels like family to her.

1020
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: But just because um, your family, doesn't mean you have

1021
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: to agree with the other person's words or actions. Definitely

1022
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: not um. Well. Tasia Adamson says to chime in here,

1023
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison stepping aside from the Bachelor is a really

1024
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: good thing. This according to people. Yeah, She said that, Um,

1025
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to read this direct quote. She said, I

1026
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: think after reading his apology, there's a few things that

1027
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: stuff out to me. It hit my heart a little

1028
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: bit more to know that he actually meant what he

1029
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: was saying. He said by excusing historical racism, I defended it,

1030
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: which was absolutely the truth. And the fact that he

1031
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: called that out and owned up to that and he

1032
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: acknowledged that means a lot to me. She also said that, um,

1033
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: the fact that he said this is not just a moment,

1034
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,720
Speaker 1: but a commitment to a much greater a much greater

1035
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: understanding that will actively make each day that he that

1036
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: he will actively make each day also meant a lot

1037
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 1: to her. She said that, Um, this isn't just a moment,

1038
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: just like how Black Lives Matter isn't going to just

1039
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: be a trending topic on Instagram. Um, it's a thing

1040
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: that takes place every single day that we should be

1041
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: actively trying to partake in and better. She also said

1042
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: that his words affected a lot of people, herself included,

1043
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: and that she thinks that by him taking ownership and

1044
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: not just issuing an apology and then going back to

1045
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: work the next day like nothing happened. Speaks volumes on

1046
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: his behalf. She said that she that we have to

1047
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 1: allow people to prove us wrong, prove themselves. And she said,

1048
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,439
Speaker 1: direct quote, I've learned this in my relationship. I mean,

1049
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: Zachary used to be an addict and he's done a

1050
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: lot wrong in a time that I never even knew him,

1051
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: and he needed somebody to give him a second chance

1052
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: in order to prove himself. He wasn't gonna lie anymore. Um,

1053
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna lie anymore, that he wasn't going to

1054
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: do drugs anymore. That he was just going to do

1055
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 1: all these things that he used to and he made

1056
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: an insanely different path for himself and now is helping

1057
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people because of that second chance. It's

1058
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: interesting to hear that because obviously, with Chris Harrison's platform,

1059
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: uh and the years he's been doing the show and

1060
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: the massive following the show has, uh, there's a huge

1061
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: opportunity here uh to make really positive change. Like there's

1062
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: a big opportunity for that right now. You know, as

1063
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Speaker 1: as Tasia was kind of saying, which is something that

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Speaker 1: that will look for right. I mean, it's it's happening

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Speaker 1: hopefully behind the scenes. Uh. You know, Chris has came

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00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: out publicly and said he is working on stuff. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But if that is true, then he's gonna come out

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Speaker 1: and have a really positive impact because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people want to hear from him and listen to him.

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Speaker 1: And just like you know the cast here, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot like Tasia huge following, Rachel Lindsay a huge following.

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Speaker 1: You know, their words right now are mattering a ton

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Speaker 1: too to how we go forward. It's it's something that

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Speaker 1: the almost Famous podcast listeners have always done, right. They've

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00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: always rallied around just like the Texas example, Right, They've

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00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: always rallied around, Uh, the idea that people matter and

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Speaker 1: that people should feel love and be loved because they

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Speaker 1: deserve to be loved. They're humans. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Almost famous podcast here uh and and many others Embattulation

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Speaker 1: are saying, Okay, this is a good opportunity to hold

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Speaker 1: each other accountable to to learning it better so that

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Speaker 1: people out there can feel loved and be loved. Well, Uh,

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00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: this headline is weird to me how it reads. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I need you to break it down because the article. Uh,

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00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: in the following of it doesn't at all go with

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00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: what the headline reads. But I'm gonna say the headline

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00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: and if you're listening, don't just stop here, listen to

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00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,760
Speaker 1: how this explained, because we're gonna read the exact quote.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Lindsay says, on whether Chris Harrison should be fired,

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Speaker 1: let's see what happens. Now, that's not at all what

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Speaker 1: she says. She She's a lot more clear in her response.

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Speaker 1: Actually what does she say? Yes, she says that, um,

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Speaker 1: he needs to take time to get educated on a

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Speaker 1: profound and productive level. She says, I think you have

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00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: to see what happens dot dot dot. I think I

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00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 1: don't want to play into things too quick to judge someone, right.

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Speaker 1: Am I disappointed? Absolutely? Do I agree with what happened

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00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: in that interview? No, But at the same time, he

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Speaker 1: has taken steps to not issue one, but two apologies.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens from there. Yeah. So the lines

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00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,919
Speaker 1: a little misleading, just like headlines typically are. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's saying, Hey, he's issued two apologies, let's see what

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00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: happens and um, and we're going to continue to follow

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Speaker 1: that story as well. It's not just a story, it's

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00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: it's something that's happening in this world right now, right

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Speaker 1: This is an action that a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: needing to take. And then obviously it just kind of

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Speaker 1: came to the public eye. Uh during this interview with

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Speaker 1: Rachel and Chris Well. Actually this headline reads, and it's shocking.

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Speaker 1: I mean shocking to me. I had I did not

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Speaker 1: see it coming. Maybe you did, But the Bachelorettes Claire

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Speaker 1: Crawley and Dale Moss reunite in Florida just one month

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Speaker 1: after split. It could not be more shocking to me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I was. I did not feel like this was on

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Speaker 1: the horizon. I wasn't sure that Claire would even be

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Speaker 1: open to talking to Dale. I didn't know that Dale

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Speaker 1: was going to have any interest in talking to Claire.

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Speaker 1: The two of them were spotted in Florida last Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: one month after news broke that they were going to separate,

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Speaker 1: that they were separated. Um, they were seen at No

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Speaker 1: No Como's Sunset Hut. So not only are they seen

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Speaker 1: in Florida together last week, but she just posted on

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Speaker 1: Sunday a picture of her hand with seashells in them,

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Speaker 1: so possibly probably still in Florida with a ring on

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Speaker 1: her left finger and somebody's foot who looks like Dale's

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Speaker 1: according to the flutors um is in the background of

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Speaker 1: this photo. The caption reads collecting Memories. So wow, um, okay,

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Speaker 1: Ashley Bizarro to me, I don't understand how this isn't

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Speaker 1: like a massive story. I mean, maybe it is imbasgination.

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Speaker 1: I'm just a little out of touch with what people

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00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: are talking about. Like clear Crawley and Dale Moss reunite.

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Speaker 1: We've seen nothing from them in like except like, oh,

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00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean, quite honestly, like a lot of tears, a

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Speaker 1: lot of rumors. Now, hey, if they find themselves back

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Speaker 1: together again, I think everybody would would celebrate that, as

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Speaker 1: long as it's healthy and it's good for both of them. Wait, Ben,

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00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: this gets crazier. Okay, So there's that post that she

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Speaker 1: posted yesterday, and we have confirmation that she's still in Florida.

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Speaker 1: She's in at the Ritz Carlton at in Sarasota, um

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Speaker 1: and there's a picture of them, Claire and Dale holding

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Speaker 1: hands at the pool. And then wait, and then onlookers

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Speaker 1: said they were very affectionate holding hands. A lot one

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Speaker 1: percent seems like they're back together. They looked like they

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Speaker 1: were having a great time. Dale carried her on the beach. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so they're not even trying to hide it, because if

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Speaker 1: you like, there's not manything like I've never carried carried

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Speaker 1: Jessica on the beach, um and so like you don't

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00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: that's like that definitely, Like at this point, it's just

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00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: out there like they're definitely something going on. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what it is, but they're not even trying to

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Speaker 1: keep it from us. I mean I would go as

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Speaker 1: far right now as to say, yes, it's confirmed that

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Speaker 1: they're together in Florida. I mean there's pictures there at

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Speaker 1: a hotel. Who knows what's going on? Ashley. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the second question for you. Where are you finding all

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Speaker 1: of this? Like who's out there tracking clear in Dale down? Uh?

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Speaker 1: These bachelor's saluts. It seems like something that would if

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Speaker 1: I start reading those blogs, my I would have I

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Speaker 1: would be in a corner in the fetal position, just bawling,

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Speaker 1: so sad because I'm sure they're there, they know everything,

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00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: or like Scoop, it's an Instagram account posted the photos. Okay,

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00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: I follow that one. That one sometimes fun because I

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00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: can keep tracking my friends and what they're up to. Uh, well,

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00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: the story's wide, we'll keep track of it. I'm sure

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00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: we'll have more to talk about next week. Maybe they'll

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Speaker 1: post a picture together and just really started. Well I'm wait.

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Speaker 1: I'm smiling because I'm happy for her. This is great.

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Speaker 1: You're You're happy, exciting and so unexpected. That's good. That's nice. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this headline is wild. I saw it scrolling through Instagram

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01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: one day. I had to scroll back and I was like,

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01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: what in the heck is going on? This is just crazy.

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Speaker 1: So the headline reads, Hannah Brown's brother Patrick hangs out

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Speaker 1: with Jed Wyatt's ex Hailey Stevens. This according to US Weekly, Ashley,

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Speaker 1: what is going on? This is so wild? Guys. Okay. So,

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Speaker 1: Hailey Stevens is the girl that Jed was allegedly seeing

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Speaker 1: when he went on Hannah's season. This is the girl

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Speaker 1: that he apparently called at the airport and said like, bye,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing the show. And now Hannah Brown's brother has

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Speaker 1: posted a picture of her on Instagram and the the

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Speaker 1: lyrics that he posted along with the picture go to

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01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: the song up. It goes to the song by Ashley McBride,

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01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: which is called American scandal, but in the quotes that

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Speaker 1: he uses, don't tell me the world couldn't handle a

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Speaker 1: good old fashioned American scandal. Hold me baby, Oh no,

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Speaker 1: can you believe? It seems dangerous. There's like kiss faces, yeah,

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Speaker 1: kissing and winking emojis, and this seems dangerous. This seems

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Speaker 1: like it doesn't end well. I don't know how it ends,

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Speaker 1: but it just doesn't end well. So we don't know

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Speaker 1: if they're actually dating. We haven't had that confirmation yet.

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Speaker 1: We do know they hung out, but that's as far

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Speaker 1: as we know at this point, right, yeah, okay, well, hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll follow that story too. Oh man, Well, final story

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Speaker 1: of the day. Hannah Brown's boyfriend Adam Willard proposes to

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Speaker 1: her and Jordan Davis new music video. So this music

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Speaker 1: video comes out and she's kind of like playing the

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Speaker 1: girl who it's like going through a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: different love scenes trying to find her true love, and

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Speaker 1: at one point in the storyline of this music video,

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Speaker 1: her now real life boyfriend proposes to her. I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: if this is where they met, but we don't have confirmation.

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Speaker 1: On good point, I was like, how did they do

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Speaker 1: this so quickly? Because it has that would make sense

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Speaker 1: if they didn't, Like if they met on set of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he's a model and he's you know, models are

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Speaker 1: often in music videos. And I say, like, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is it. This is definitely how they met. Yeah. Well

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Speaker 1: you can watch that music video. I watched it. It's cute,

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Speaker 1: it's good. Um dance around there. Uh and uh has

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, it's kind of like her story

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Speaker 1: of dating. But Jordan Davis's new song almost Maybe's uh

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Speaker 1: is a music video with now with Hannah Brown and

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Speaker 1: her committed boyfriend. I think they're public now, right, can

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Speaker 1: I can we say that it's public? Okay, it's public.

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Speaker 1: Hey Sleeve, that's our podcast and it's been a good one. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But again, I want to finish it with two things.

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Speaker 1: One is more of a shameless plug. Uh for the

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Speaker 1: almost Famous merch You can go to my fan threads

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Speaker 1: We've created it. Uh and uh, I know the hats

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Speaker 1: are really popular, the hats and long sleeve, So go

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Speaker 1: check out that. Again. That's my fan threads dot com

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Speaker 1: slash almost Famous. Also I have to give a shout

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Speaker 1: out to uh to your book that you and Jerry did.

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Speaker 1: It's a great book. Then you're so sweet. Just tell

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Speaker 1: everybody about it. It's a children's book about making friends

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Speaker 1: and getting out of your comfort zone. How do you

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Speaker 1: find it? Called Lucy and Clark a story of popular love,

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's so sweet. Bad But seriously, when returning

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Speaker 1: the favor, go get Ben's book alone and play inside

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Speaker 1: anywhere books are sold. Yeah, it's out there now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we're a little bit over a week and a

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Speaker 1: half into the launch alone in plain site. It's been

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Speaker 1: really fun to hear the story, So go read it,

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Speaker 1: review it. Almost famous family, You've been with us for

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Speaker 1: so long. It would just mean a lot to me

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Speaker 1: if if I could hear from you on on this book,

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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of it is stuff you

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Speaker 1: would know just based on listen to the podcast, but

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Speaker 1: also stuff that you might not know. Uh. And I

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Speaker 1: would love to share it with you all. Uh. Finally uh,

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Speaker 1: to end this whole podcast today, we mentioned some organizations

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Speaker 1: and Blake mentioned some organizations to support Texas. Please get

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Speaker 1: out there and support Texas. Uh, there are neighbors. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we love them. There's a lot of struggle and hurt

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Speaker 1: right now. Uh down there, go out and support Texas.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the right thing to do, it's a good

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Speaker 1: thing to do. And uh and we'll post. I'll definitely

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Speaker 1: post on my Instagram the link that yeah, that he

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Speaker 1: he shared all the screenshot his stuff. Uh and we'll

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Speaker 1: throw it up there. Well, actually we'll be we'll be

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Speaker 1: back next week. I'm gonna go to Honduras this weekend

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Speaker 1: and check out the damage done down there, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll be back with another episode of the almost famous

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Speaker 1: podcast I've Been Been, I've Been Ashley. Bye, guys Later.

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