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

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Speaker 1: with IR Radio. I went to Canada this last week.

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Speaker 1: Um I did a little um Niagara Falls trip, met

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Speaker 1: you know, I had thought when I was up there,

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Speaker 1: there alone. I think like a hundred seventy people showed up. Wait,

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Speaker 1: you said, I don't have anyone to have dinner with.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to come and meet me? Well, not

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Speaker 1: meet me, just like come have dinner. Guess what people

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Speaker 1: showed up? I bet a hundred and sixty five. Those

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Speaker 1: people avid Almost Famous fans. I mean we had so

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Speaker 1: many cool compliments, so many people saying thank you for

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Speaker 1: sharing your life, thank you for walking with us for

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Speaker 1: two years. Thanks were talking about the Bachelor. It was

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Speaker 1: a really encouraging trip because people are listening. So hey,

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Speaker 1: everybody in Niagara Falls, thank you so much. Listening Almost

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Speaker 1: Famous podcast. I got a ton of questions about Ashley Kennettie.

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Speaker 1: One of those was just how is Ashley doing? And

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Speaker 1: I need to ask the same question, Ashley, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm good that's not what I want conversation.

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Speaker 1: We got three minutes we talked about it. But I

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Speaker 1: think like I don't really respond well to general questions

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Speaker 1: ask me specifically what you want to know, um, because

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Speaker 1: just being like, hey Ben, guess what happened this week? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Two questions that came up in Niagara that I think

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you directly. Thank so you gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about him? Um. But before I asked those questions,

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Speaker 1: I gotta let you all know that the podcast today

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Speaker 1: is maybe the best of the off season so far.

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Speaker 1: We have Rachel Lindsay that we're gonna call up talk

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Speaker 1: to her about life and all of her mini projects.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite people in the world. Then Andrew Firestone,

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Speaker 1: a former Bachelor and just great dude. Actually, two questions

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Speaker 1: before we call up Rachel lindsay, as you begin to

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Speaker 1: get married or as you're already engaged, do you feel

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Speaker 1: Do you still feel see do you foresee yourself being

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Speaker 1: a boy band, pop star, movie star fan into you know,

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Speaker 1: through your marriage because here and then I'm going to

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Speaker 1: leave to you because the fans like it, right, they

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Speaker 1: enjoy it, and I wanted the same thing. It was

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Speaker 1: a good question. Oh, that's a great question. It's a

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Speaker 1: is great because m Jared doesn't Jared likes boy bands too. Um,

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Speaker 1: We're going to Lance Pass's birthday party this week, which

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Speaker 1: is very exciting, and we are Jared will talk about

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Speaker 1: the Battary Boys for at length and then the only

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Speaker 1: thing he doesn't really like get is Jonas Brollers, which

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Speaker 1: like past relationships of mine, people have like celebrity crushes

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Speaker 1: in this world not completely uncommon for them too. Then

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of people who he says, are too

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Speaker 1: get annoyed at them, not donus though, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's cute and fun and it's fun and

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Speaker 1: relationships to have those. I do think now for you, Um,

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Speaker 1: gonna be with him at the birthday party this weekend. Um,

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Speaker 1: next thing is, and then we'll call up Rachel lindsay,

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Speaker 1: as you prepare for your wedding, Um, how are you

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Speaker 1: personally handling it? Do you feel like your identity is

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Speaker 1: I thought back, this is a moment that hit me

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Speaker 1: was I thought back the moment I first met Jared.

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Speaker 1: He was standing in a driveway introducing himself to Caitlin

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Speaker 1: very similar wavelength. And then for the last two years, actually,

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Speaker 1: that guys. Good to talk to you. Good to talk

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Speaker 1: my schedule, it's like in Denver three days, gone from

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Speaker 1: Denver a week and you know at that time of

429
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Speaker 1: stuff and it really isn't And from the bottom of

430
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Speaker 1: my heart, it's helpful to have a meal plan delivered

431
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Speaker 1: to my door so I can freeze one that I

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Speaker 1: night eating. I love prasing blue Apron exactly, or like

433
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Speaker 1: I did last night for the Game of Thrones. I

434
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Speaker 1: invited a bunch of friends over to watch it, and

435
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Speaker 1: I just threw a bunch of blue Apron and made

436
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: it all up and we all eat blue Apron. It

437
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Speaker 1: was awesome. It worked out really well, and it made

438
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Speaker 1: me look like an incredible half. My favorite meal and

439
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: make is sear chicken and goat cheese mashed potatoes. It

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00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: also has fig butter glazed carrots. That's bomb. To start

441
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Speaker 1: making delicious, braggworthy meals at home without the hassle, try

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Speaker 1: Blue Apron. Check out this week's menu and get a

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Speaker 1: sixty off when you visit blue Apron dot com slash

444
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Speaker 1: almost famous. That's a blue Apron dot com slash almost famous. Hey,

445
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: ash blue Apron. It's a better way to cook. That

446
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 1: was good. I wonder in twenty years, hopefully this podcast

447
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: is still going. But let's say it's not. Okay. I

448
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: wonder if I'm gonna be at home and all of

449
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm gonna have like a reaction be like

450
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: blue Apron a better way to cook, or like backslash

451
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Speaker 1: almost famous. Like I just feel like they're so ingrained

452
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Speaker 1: into my my head now that I'll never get out

453
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Speaker 1: of it. When you're fifty years old and it'll still

454
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: be going through your head. I think you're right, they

455
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Speaker 1: might still be. Hey, I don't think you're ever gonna

456
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Speaker 1: hear blue Apron without thinking. If Blue Apron it's also

457
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: still run, then I hope it is. There's some hot

458
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: topics in Bachelor Nation. Actually, yes, Ben, what do you

459
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: like talking about? First? Um, let's say true. It says

460
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelor condestants often gain weight on the show.

461
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: There's no gym, and there's a lot of sitting around,

462
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: and a lot of Bachelor contestants put on a few

463
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: pounds during filming. I put on four during Crystal season,

464
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: so it's four pounds in three weeks. So in my case,

465
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Speaker 1: this is true. What about you, I mean we knew

466
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Speaker 1: you had a tape worm. Yeah, I mean I was

467
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: gonna say we've talked about any times I lost twenty

468
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: five pounds, but that's just because I couldn't keep anything

469
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: in my body. I mean literally, I we've said it

470
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: before in the podcast, but I was like, it's a

471
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: funny story and people still are shocked by it that

472
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: we literally canceled a cocktail party because I was so

473
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: sick in the bedroom that I couldn't have a student.

474
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: I'd start sweating and so I'd throw a suit on,

475
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: go out and pass out some roses. Run back there,

476
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: stripped back down, like do what I had to do,

477
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: go back out into the living. It was a brutal time.

478
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: Life pounds later, I was still on the show. But

479
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: it is true. But most people are like me, And

480
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: there's an we're talking about this because there's an article

481
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: floating around the internet about it, and uh yeah, Basically,

482
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: you look forward to your next meal, you know, on

483
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: off days, on days or not on a date, there's

484
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: not much to look forward to other than your next meal.

485
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: And damn are those meals big things are great. All

486
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: you can eat next on the agenda, Joe and Kendall

487
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: have moved in together in It's a big deal. Yeah,

488
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: I didn't know they weren't living together. Honestly, well, they

489
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: coul kind of have been, because she went on tour

490
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: with Dancing with the Stars with him, and she was

491
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: like sleeping on a bunk on the tour bus. So

492
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: like they've been pretty much living together, but they haven't

493
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: signed a lease together until now. Okay, so they're doing well. Yeah,

494
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: I feel like these have we had any Bachelor in

495
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: Paradise couples break up since this last season? Kevin Astrid,

496
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: Joe and Kendall, Jordan and Jenna, Chris and Crystal. That's

497
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: those are the four and the only one Jordan's and

498
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: Jenna Jna. How crazy? Hey, um, as we have for

499
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: Caroline to get done with the Apple store. Uh, one

500
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: of my buddies is calling today. This is a true

501
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: friend of mine. Uh. He might be one of the

502
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: most interesting men in the world. He has an amazingly

503
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: beautiful family. I think we can all agree to that.

504
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: It's so cute, it's so awesome. This guy radiates. Have

505
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: you ever met Andrew Firestone? Actually I haven't, but we had.

506
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: We did have him on the podcast about six months ago,

507
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: and he was great. Just like he's like a Bob Guinea.

508
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: He just kind of radiates. Joy. Um, Andrew, thanks for

509
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: coming back. Well, you know, I've missed you since our

510
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: airport encounter in Nashville, and so it was good too. Uh,

511
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: it's good to death. They're in in Terminal three in Nashville.

512
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: We actually, Andrew, I was in Nashville's airport. I was

513
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Speaker 1: just getting gouty done see in Jazz. It was one

514
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Speaker 1: of my is my second visit to see her in

515
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: her family. I'm walking through the airport. I'm probably skipping,

516
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: I would imagine. So I'm so excited, so joy filled,

517
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: and out of a Mexican restaurant. Um comes Andrew Firestone,

518
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: wrapping me up with a big old hug. And he's

519
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: one of the odds of two bachelors are just going

520
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: to run into each other and listen. And and so

521
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: this girl, probably I don't know, Andrew, like fifteen years old,

522
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: comes up and shows can I get a picture with

523
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: both of you? Oh? That's awesome. Made that made my day.

524
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: I figured she was in a hand me the camera

525
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: and make it you and I was gonna purposely put

526
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Speaker 1: it blurry. But thank yes for having for having me on.

527
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you guys are doing well. We're

528
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 1: doing fantastic, um, and thank you for coming on the podcast. Andrew.

529
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: One of my my favorite things about you is you

530
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: are a family man through and through and you have

531
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: a beautiful family. Uh as actually I was saying, we

532
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: were just looking at here, Um what has may And

533
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a little bit outside the backstor realm.

534
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: What makes up your kind of ethos as a family? Like,

535
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: what is your do you have a strategy as a father? Uh?

536
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: What kind of things do you want to like invest into?

537
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: What makes your family click? Yeah, survive in advance with

538
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: three three children ten, eight and five years old, and uh,

539
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: you know it's uh, it is a total adventure every

540
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: single day. And you know, the funnest part about being

541
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: a dad, I think is just kind of watching these

542
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: little people turn into their own human beings with their

543
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: own personalities and loves and likes and dislikes and uh

544
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: and you kind of get to be on the front

545
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: row watching this happen, and you know, you do your

546
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: best to try and influence or or be part of,

547
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: you know, you know, directing them, but really, you know,

548
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: you're just a spectator. And it's an amazing, amazing adventure.

549
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody thought Andrew Firestone must just be

550
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: working in the family business, Firestone Tires. Everybody knew you

551
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: for that, but actually you told us last time that

552
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: you've been working in the hotel business and you actually

553
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: have a new hotel in St. Luci Bispo. This it's

554
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: opening this weekend. Tell us about that. Yeah, yeah, So,

555
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: you know, one of the tough things about being a

556
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: Firestone is obviously the name is name is so big

557
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: and famous for all these things, you know, whether it's

558
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: tires or my brothers built an amazing beer business and

559
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: my father built an amazing wine business. So trying to

560
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: go and cut my own swaths and and and kind

561
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: of create my own path was something that I really

562
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: wanted to do and not kind of living and living

563
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: a shadow of that somebody else has done. So um,

564
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: I in in college, I actually started off in hospitality

565
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: and working a front desk of a hotel and cleaning

566
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: rooms and folding into all sorts of things. And you know,

567
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: twenty years later, and actually was about eighteen years later,

568
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: I have built built our first hotel and and now

569
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: this is our number fives that that we're opening in

570
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: San Louis Obispo. So I'm really excited to finally go

571
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: from you know, from the planning stages to construction to

572
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: finally getting it open. So really really excited and just

573
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: to get real for a second, if you don't mind,

574
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: if you don't want to answer, you to um, you

575
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: obviously do. I mean, the Firestone name does obviously carry

576
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: a lot of weight. A lot of people know it.

577
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: You probably get asked about it all the time, and

578
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: it has become one of your I mean, it is

579
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: your identity, is your last name. But and you come

580
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: from a great family, um, and one that a lot

581
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: of things have been offered to you. And I always

582
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: like to stick by the saying, you know, when much

583
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: as given, uh much as expected, or you could say

584
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: vice versa. There's a lot of responsibility to those who

585
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: have given much. How has your upbringing and then how

586
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: you want to raise your kids because they're listeners out there,

587
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: a lot of moms, a lot of dads, UM, and

588
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: a lot of kids. How how have you helped kind

589
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: of facilitate the fact that they're never going to expect

590
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: anything because I've met your family and they don't. But

591
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna work for things, and they're gonna be appreciative

592
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: for all that they're given. Coming from a family that

593
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, you do have a lot. So it's it's

594
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a weird dichotomy because of course,

595
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: you know, I've been blessed to have the advantage of

596
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: an amazing education and you know parents that were hard

597
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: working and were successful, so there was you know, there

598
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: were certainly opportunities there. So it's both an opportunity, but

599
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: then it's also you know, at what point do you

600
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: set the bar? Is it? You know, can you set

601
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: the bar too high for yourself? And not? You know,

602
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: I mean, am I ever going to recreate firestone tires? No,

603
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. But you know what is

604
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: it is my own expectations for success and how do

605
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: I how do I measure that? And I think that's

606
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: one of the tough things for kids today is that

607
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: there are so many measurables out there because social media

608
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: of of you know, people always throwing up these images

609
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: of their life and what they're doing and what they're

610
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: traveling to and all of a sudden, I mean even

611
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: I can see my kids at a young age where

612
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: they're getting impacted and seeing this stuff and saying, Okay,

613
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: what is what should be their their measurement of their

614
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: own success and and whether it's in sports or in

615
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: school or whatever that they do as a parent, I

616
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: think you're always trying to go and create a reasonable

617
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: expectation where if they if they don't reach it, it's

618
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: not a fair in yere. But if they achieve it,

619
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: it's a success. And it's it's a tough balancing act.

620
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: And uh and and so you know, for me, you know,

621
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: I I went through the same thing. And you know

622
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: with the you know, when I was on The Bachelor,

623
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, of course everybody made a big deal about

624
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: the fact that I was a Firestone. And it was

625
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: around the same time, believe it or not, when Joe

626
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: Millionaire came out and here they had Eric seriously and

627
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: there was this character that was a fake millionaire and

628
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: it turns out that it wasn't true. And then here

629
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: it comes to Andrew Firestone. You know, what is the

630
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: expectation there? So it kind of for me, you know,

631
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: I had to kind of recalibrate and say, wait, wait,

632
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: this is and this is you know People magazine or

633
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: US magazine, you know, and this is you know, this

634
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: is the story that they're telling. You know, this isn't mine.

635
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: You know, this is necessarily my reality. So um and

636
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: even now as my children are are growing up and

637
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: and you know, my son and my daughter is there.

638
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're noticing Firestone tires and they're putting

639
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Speaker 1: those things together. They you know, my brother's beer eight

640
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Speaker 1: oh five or Firestone Walker Burrowing Company. It's a really

641
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: big beer company until they see their name on that,

642
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: and it's kind of thing. You know, that's your name

643
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: and that's you know, your history. But you know that's

644
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta work for whatever it

645
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: is that you that you do, whether your expectation is

646
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: to be that, you know, a general manager of a

647
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: grocery store, or it's going to be president United States,

648
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: whatever that is. You know, there are they're all kinds

649
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: of ways to be successful, and you cannot you know,

650
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: measure yourself against someone else and what their impression is.

651
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: Do you believe that you work cast as a bachelor

652
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: because your name in your background? I think that I

653
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: hope it was because of my you know, my looking like.

654
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: I think I think that there's I think it was

655
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: that that certainly had a lot to do with it.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I mean there's there's kind of a built

657
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Speaker 1: in storyline there. I think that people probably thought was interesting. Um,

658
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: but you know, again, you know, if if I would

659
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: have just showed up and smiled for you know, for

660
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: eight weeks or ten weeks, whatever it was, and I

661
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: had no personality or didn't you know, didn't you know,

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00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: participate and be part of that kind of that whole

663
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: journey as we like to call, I think that it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been the experience that I had. So um, yeah,

665
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: but I do definitely think that there's that's part of it.

666
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: I think having a having a story, and there was

667
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: a big part of it. Before we let you go,

668
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: we know that you're not just a businessman. You also

669
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: hold a specific charity very close to your heart. It's

670
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: the Gwendoline Strong Foundation. And why is it so important

671
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: to you? Well, so here they take a step back.

672
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: My my eight year old daughter has been I loved

673
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: music since she was about four years I saw this

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Speaker 1: man this real quick fan. I just gotta pause. I

675
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: watch this and this is so sweet, so continue, but

676
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Speaker 1: I I do you know where you're going with this?

677
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: And it is awesome? Yeah. Mysel my daughter, uh, you know,

678
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: fall in love with to our first Taylor Swift concert

679
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: when she was like five with and just absolutely loved

680
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Speaker 1: singing and performing and she's really lucky to go to

681
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: to a great public elementary school that has a very

682
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Speaker 1: inclusive program and they have kids with all sorts of

683
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Speaker 1: levels of abilities and disabilit these in class and and um,

684
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: and she has befriended, uh you know a number of

685
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Speaker 1: kids that have different abilities. And she wrote a song

686
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Speaker 1: called where We Belong and she ordered alongside her music teacher,

687
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: a local group here called Musicology here in Santa Barbara

688
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: and her teacher, Earland and her put together a song

689
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: and they recorded it and like you know, did the

690
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: whole thing. We produced it and it's all about inclusion

691
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: and you know, saying that every everybody has a place

692
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 1: to be and even though it may not, you know,

693
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: they may have different different ways they express themselves in

694
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Speaker 1: different physical abilities, everybody has a place where they belonged,

695
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Speaker 1: which is the song where they Belong. And that ended

696
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: up striking a chord with another friend of ours, Victorian

697
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Speaker 1: Bill Strong, who had a daughter named uh Gwendoline who

698
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Speaker 1: passed away of spinal muscular atrophy s m A as

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Speaker 1: it's called, and her legacy lives on in this G

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Speaker 1: SFU Foundation, the Guendlan Strong Foundation, and what the Strong

701
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: family are doing now. They're building, um all, an inclusive

702
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: playground where kids of all different abilities are going to

703
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: be able to play together. You know there it's going

704
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,959
Speaker 1: to be you know, this kind of groundbreaking. I think

705
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Speaker 1: wave a place for kids with abilities or disabilities to

706
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Speaker 1: you know, to play together. It's even playing ground. And

707
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 1: so my my daughter Ums has kind of teamed up

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Speaker 1: with the Gwendoline Strong Foundation to help raise money and

709
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Speaker 1: awareness for this playground that's uh, that's going to be

710
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: hopefully built very very soon here in Santa Barbara. So

711
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: she uh, she recorded the song and it's it's on

712
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: iTunes and its like just I mean literally I bust

713
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: out in tears every time I hear it because the

714
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: words are powerful and the where you know, where it's

715
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Speaker 1: coming from, this little a little eight year old person

716
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Speaker 1: that lives in my house that is my daughter. It

717
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: just blows me away. And uh and I take, let

718
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: me tell you, I take, you know, very little credit

719
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: for for the sort of the young girl that she's become.

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Speaker 1: She's got a great school, great friends, great teachers, and

721
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Speaker 1: uh and and it's just opened her heart in the

722
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: way that's she expresses, you know, her feelings about that

723
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: is pretty awesome. Um. But when you hear it, man,

724
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: you should be a proud dad. UM. And that comes

725
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: from me. Look, you know it really does. You're a

726
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: good man, your great father. UM. Please tell your beautiful

727
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: wife hello and from almost all of us at the

728
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast, wrap your your daughter and the other

729
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: kids up tonight and just say you're doing all right.

730
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Andrew appreciate it. Thank you, guys. We'll

731
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: see up to stay alist both soon and it check

732
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,959
Speaker 1: out as a little uh song on iTunes called Where

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Speaker 1: We Belonged. Thanks buddy, Thank you guys. Andrew Firestone is

734
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Speaker 1: always gonna be one of my favorites. His family is

735
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Speaker 1: incredibly special. I know we talked a lot about his

736
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Speaker 1: as well. Please make sure to check out everything Andrew

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Speaker 1: talked about earlier, one that's shocked the airways, one that

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Speaker 1: is surprising to me and I cannot wait to get

769
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Speaker 1: my good friend, actually Connette's opinion on it. We've seen

770
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: this man on Dance with the Stars, We've heard about

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Speaker 1: him from Nashville Country, We've known that top uh Tanya

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773
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: Um absolutely loved this man and could he be the

774
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: next Bachelor? Would Bobby Bones be the next Bachelor? And

775
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: why would be the next Batchelor? Actually, what do you think? Obviously,

776
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: Bobby Bones has a relationship with ABC now Dancing with

777
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: the Stars season winner, and he's now mentoring American Idol contestants,

778
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: which is you know now an ABC. Well, a couple

779
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: of days ago, Bobby posted an Instagram and the captain

780
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: was promo shoot at ABC network and then just a rose.

781
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: So it got people buzzing talking about whether Bobby Bones

782
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: could possibly be the next Bachelor. Of course, it's way

783
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: too early for a decision on that to be made,

784
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: But I guess people are just trying to speculate what

785
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: these shots could be for. Here Ben, you can see

786
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: this as against a green screen, and he's got a

787
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: rose in his mouth. I think, Um, I mean, obviously,

788
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: I don't think he's he's the Bachelor. In order, I

789
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: think he should be the Bachelor. We should keep it

790
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: style than it is right now. You know some about

791
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,959
Speaker 1: a fan favorite from the past season, but uh, I

792
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe he has an appearance on hand in season. No,

793
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: We've seen it before. I think it happens every year.

794
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Seacrest and Chris Harrison did one last

795
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: year for American Idol where we saw like a joint

796
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Speaker 1: commercial promoting the Bachelorette because the larious I'm sure that's

797
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Have you ever seen a more strategic

798
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: move on ABC's part to slowly work Bobby Bones into

799
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: the system of the ABC machine by saying he's a

800
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: mentor on American Idol. Mean, Ryan Seacrest carries that show, right,

801
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: he is. He's the main host. He has been since

802
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: the beginning. It's like the Chris Harrison of the Bachelor,

803
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: like you have to have him, but Ryan gets busier

804
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: and busier times get you know, tough. Are you trying

805
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: to say that, Like, I'm not saying that. I'm not

806
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: saying that. I don't think that's the path. I think

807
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: what ABC is testing is is their market for Bobby

808
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: Bones to take over something else, another big show, something

809
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: music American that could be. I mean, we've seen Bobby

810
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: worked in now for a while. They're pushing him, and

811
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: he's obviously popular with the people. He's he's really charismatic. Uh.

812
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: He was terrific on dancing starts because he was a

813
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: terrible dancer and he's still one because of his personality

814
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: and his engagement with the fans. Um, it's very obvious

815
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: what ABC is doing. I would like to hear if

816
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: our listeners. It seems like the fan feedback well isn't

817
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: super positive at least this is what the articles referring to.

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00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: They think they did some searching on Reddit and people

819
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: didn't like it. But again, what does Reddit really like? UM,

820
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: So maybe we can have our listeners experience. Our listeners

821
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Speaker 1: can go and email us at Ashley and Ben Ben

822
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Speaker 1: and Ashley at I heeart media dot com and let

823
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: us know what you think about Bobby Bones being a

824
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Speaker 1: possible bachelor, and not only that, which which um, famous

825
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: man would you like to see as the bachelor? I

826
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Speaker 1: know it's going to be. It's always a country artist, right,

827
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Speaker 1: that would work? Like what's his name? Who? Does everybody

828
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Speaker 1: love the tall guy? His dog? Yes? Bredge, Yes, Brett Eldredge.

829
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Speaker 1: That's it. But I actually think like a lot of

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Speaker 1: America would be on board with him. I think so too.

831
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Speaker 1: People love him like a ton, They love him a

832
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Speaker 1: ton of him. Do you think at all? Um? It

833
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Speaker 1: has to do with taking pictures with his dog. Yes,

834
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Speaker 1: it has a lot to do with the dog. I'm

835
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Speaker 1: gonna post a picture with a dog tomorrow and see

836
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Speaker 1: what it does. Maybe tonight, show you tonight and see

837
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Speaker 1: how it does. I have to say that my pictures,

838
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Speaker 1: my dogs don't do exceptionally well. But a man with

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Speaker 1: the dog, girls will here. Let me show you a picture.

840
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna post it tonight, um and everybody out there listening. Uh,

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00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: you don't have to go like it, that's that's what. No, No,

842
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: you do have to go on like you think that picture,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is not only just like that's

844
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Speaker 1: a great picture and then there's a dog involved and

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Speaker 1: the dog has blue eyes. Yes, that's going up, that's

846
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: going up. Um. I just found it on my phoneos

847
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Speaker 1: from this weekend. I went skiing up in a rapho

848
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Speaker 1: base and they're still snow in Colorado, by the way,

849
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Speaker 1: which is wild. Hey with that, Ashley Ben, one more

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Speaker 1: Bachelors top we're gonna talk about and then let's talk

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Speaker 1: about what is coming up in Batchel their nation. Ari

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Speaker 1: and Lauren celebrated their baby shower. Here's a question I

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00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: have for it, though, because a baby showers a baby shower,

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00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: we don't talk about it. I'm sorry, guys. Is it

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Speaker 1: a thing? And Market Easton feel free to chime in here?

856
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Speaker 1: Is it a thing for men to be invited to

857
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Speaker 1: baby showers? Because I feel like, quite honestly, I never

858
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Speaker 1: want to be invited to one. Ever, I don't I

859
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Speaker 1: think it's not traditional for a man to be invited.

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Speaker 1: I think like as time goes on, guys are making

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Speaker 1: more and more appearances, and I think it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like during the last half an hour baby shower, the

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Speaker 1: dad might show up, which is fine. I like to

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Speaker 1: think of baby showers and bridle showers. It's just for girls,

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Speaker 1: I think. So I was invited to one of them,

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Speaker 1: the family one I was invited to, and the friends

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Speaker 1: one I was not invited to. Oh I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: There's now too, I say. I. I say, I'm all

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Speaker 1: for having multiple. They sound like a good time, but

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Speaker 1: a good time that I don't want to be at. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a very fun game where they put

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Speaker 1: mushed up chocolate in a diaper and you have to

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Speaker 1: smell it and figure out what chocolate bar it was.

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Speaker 1: It's really fun that I'm down that sounds like something

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Speaker 1: you can swipe it and lick it. Yeah, you guys

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Speaker 1: are something really good. Eight and then then we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get that here. I did an event um a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago with Capital one, and I was wearing

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Speaker 1: a hoodie and I get a comment or text from

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Speaker 1: Easton and says, oh my gosh, I want that hoodie.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, you're you're being funny, right He was,

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Speaker 1: no, No No, I really would like that that hoodie. And

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Speaker 1: so I got him one. I didn't bring it, but

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Speaker 1: but he has one. So he's he's a card holder.

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Speaker 1: He's a carrier um Capital one, Capital one to the

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Gardner card hilarious. Just the Eastern the Eastern magic

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Speaker 1: continues to two years, just compel me into who he

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Speaker 1: is as a person. Death with Eastern and Mark one

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Speaker 1: be amazing. I would love that that would be something great. Hey,

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Speaker 1: everybody out there listening. I mean, the off season has

891
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: flown by uh for US times, the shortest off season

892
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: of all time, though I'm sure it was still a

893
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. We're not wrapping it up right now.

894
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: Next week we have the Bachelor at reunion. Who's watching

895
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: next week? Who was watchings for the that is that

896
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Speaker 1: is on next week? Ashley? I mean, you don't even

897
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: know about it, but I know you're a big fan

898
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 1: of all these bachelorettes. Are you gonna be watching? Yes,

899
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. It's gonna be on ABC. We're super

900
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: pumped for Here on the podcast, we're gonna be breaking

901
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: down talking about it. The ABC is don a great job.

902
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: That Bachelor has done great jobs that kind of um

903
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Speaker 1: releasing small little bits from the episode in that show.

904
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be incredible. It's gonna be fun to see

905
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 1: some of these familiar faces again, and then the week

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Speaker 1: after that, the Beast is back. I feels so bad.

907
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to call her the beast. I'm done

908
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: with the hand. I'm done with it. Jared does it

909
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: all the time, had a beast and I'm like, okay, no,

910
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm just like Tanna. Now. Can no, let's color this

911
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: on this podcast. Can we set a standard. It's Hannah

912
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: the Beautiful. That's that's the reaction I needed. Um, Hannah

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Speaker 1: the Beautiful is back on ABC. Is Our Bachelorette. The

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Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast has endorsed Hannah b since the beginning.

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Speaker 1: I actually want to say and again, actually Connettie has

916
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Speaker 1: endorsed Hannah By as a bachelor. Just for the sake

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Speaker 1: of everybody out there listening in to a reminder, can

918
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Speaker 1: you give us like a thirty second little just speech

919
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Speaker 1: on why you believe? Give us a monologue, E stand

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00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: up tall and proud and speak from your heart on

921
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: why you think Hannah By is gonna be the next

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Speaker 1: best bachelorette. I just feel like Hannah is the girl

923
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: that's not so polished, that is super relatable. She's that

924
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: girl who never like had all the guy I feel

925
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Speaker 1: like guys didn't come and stay easy for her like

926
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Speaker 1: so many girls experience out there. She was like kind

927
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: of the Taylor Swift, like she maybe like get the

928
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: guy for a while, but like could she have him stick?

929
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: She felt like she's so awesome and she's such a

930
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: girl's girl. But I feel like we just haven't. I

931
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Speaker 1: don't know, then I'm not the monologue. Here's the thing.

932
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,240
Speaker 1: What actually I've talked about the phone with your text

933
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: off and on. Is Hannah By is going to be

934
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Speaker 1: the most relatable, relatable? I can't, can't most authentic, most genuine.

935
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Speaker 1: Well we're gonna see in Hanna By this year is

936
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: the bachelorette? Is Hannah By is going to invest into dating?

937
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Speaker 1: You know why I don't like saying that stuff because

938
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say that pass bachelorettes haven't been

939
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: relatable or that they haven't been authentic. They have, They've

940
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Speaker 1: just been more polished. And I think there's like a

941
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Speaker 1: lot of girls out there who are a little bit

942
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Speaker 1: more awkward. It's just like a little bit less smooth,

943
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Speaker 1: a little bit more quirky, and they haven't necessarily been

944
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Speaker 1: represented on this Here's the best part of it, Hannaby

945
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: to me, when we saw her announced as the bachelorette.

946
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Speaker 1: She flopped miserably. I mean it was. It was a

947
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: miserable It was cute, but it's a miserable flop. So

948
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: the initial reaction, which most of the time is humans,

949
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: is incorrect. Our initial reaction, as fans were, Oh, no,

950
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: this is gonna be brutal. Then give it a couple

951
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: of days, give it a week, give it a month, whatever,

952
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be saying, just like we did with Colton, Oh,

953
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: this is gonna be really good. Hey, you guys saw

954
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: the preview. You know the preview was magical. From Miss Alabama,

955
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: USA to Hannah by Hannah, the Beautiful Hannah is ready

956
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: to shed her perfect paget persona and keep it real.

957
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: She begins her new quest to find her forever love

958
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: on the momentous fifteenth season of The Bachelor at premiering

959
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: Monday May thirteenth on ABC. An episode one, Hannah returns

960
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: to find her soul mate from an impressive stands for

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Speaker 1: the fifteen season. The first episode, by the way, an

962
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: impressive impressive group of thirty hopeful bachelors who are willing

963
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 1: to jump the fins and bring Hannah's angels Demi Burnett

964
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: and Katie Morton from the twenty third season of The

965
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: Bachelor are keeping an eye out on the men from

966
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: the surveillance van. Part by the Batchelor mentioned this is

967
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: a new thing this year. I don't like it. I'm

968
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna fight you and say I do not

969
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: like the surveillance fan. I feel like it's it's there

970
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: is a level of prestige tonight one, and it almost

971
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: feels like the the exclusive party and the only people

972
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: invited in, or the Bachelor at the Bachelor and the contestants.

973
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: It feels like bringing other people into raylans Can. Then

974
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that they're just getting more reactions from the

975
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: guys in the limo. No no, no no. Demi Burton

976
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: Burnett and Katie Morton are going to be sitting in

977
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: a band watching and responding to who the men are. Oh,

978
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like that. I don't like

979
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: it either. For the first time in Bachelor history of

980
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: this we happening. We'll have to wait and see. We've

981
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: been proven wrong many times, but let's just say the

982
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: almost famous podcast is going to start out by saying

983
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: we don't love this idea. Please email us and tell

984
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: us if you love though, because how many times have

985
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: we said, just here on this podcast that we are

986
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: tired of night one being the same. They're gonna mix

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00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: it up, but in Ashley I hurt me dot com.

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00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: Please emails and let us know your responses. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the night, twenty two Lucky Batchels remained to

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Speaker 1: toast the Bachelor that with hearts overflowing romantic ventures yet

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Speaker 1: to come. I'm telling you team, this year's Bacherette is

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Speaker 1: going to be one to remember. Tune in check it

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00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: out on May Hey daw. Season almost over, and here

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Speaker 1: is my last little ben bitches. What happened to X

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Speaker 1: body spray? Why don't we use anything? Somebody bring it back?

996
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: Bring it back. I mean we could load up a

997
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Speaker 1: car full of ax body spray with four dudes all

998
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Speaker 1: smell just as good as we possibly could, and walk

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Speaker 1: out for under five bucks. Easton, you're an ex body

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Speaker 1: spray sprayer. I'm not an ex body spray sprayer. No.

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Speaker 1: I can see your eyes. You are you. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Nothing turned me on more in high school than a

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Speaker 1: guy wearing ax, and it brings me back the nostalgia

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Speaker 1: of it. I'm going to buy Jared a bottle. Yeah good,

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Speaker 1: and that's when your home your hormones are their peak. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: get fired up, fired up. That's I'm just mad about

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Speaker 1: because I saw him the story of their day and

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Speaker 1: I realized, as a thirty old man, I can't wear um. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much to those for listening. Please. Emails

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Speaker 1: was an amazing episode. I wish we could talk more

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Speaker 1: just check it out. My buddy. One last story before

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Speaker 1: we close out here. My buddy comes over last night.

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Speaker 1: I cook dinner for everybody from Blue Apron. He has

1041
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: never watched a show in his life, but he's like, Hey,

1042
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: I want to just spend some time with friends. All

1043
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: the friends are getting together. When to come watch it?

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00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: He watches the first ten minutes goes, oh, this is

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Speaker 1: show I'd like to get into. Obviously, we know how

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Speaker 1: seasons or whatever seasons of Game of Thrones by coming tonight.

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Speaker 1: But hey, anyways, you still check it out. I stopped

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Speaker 1: watching when klosy and drug while he died. That was

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Speaker 1: season one. Hey, ash I love you dearly. It's good

1051
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: to see you. Wishing the best to you and Jared.

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Speaker 1: With that, I've been been, I've been Ashley later. Okaya.

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