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

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hello, everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we

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Speaker 2: are joined by Parisa Shifta. You may remember her as

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Speaker 2: the cat Lady of this season. She also she talked

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Speaker 2: about going home to her cat. She said it, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: She also made a PowerPoint presentation showing Grant the life

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Speaker 2: that they would live together if they were to get engaged.

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Speaker 3: Hello, and welcome to the pod. Parisa.

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Speaker 4: Hello, thank you for having me. And don't forget about

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Speaker 4: my rock collection too.

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Speaker 3: Oh the rock collection.

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Speaker 5: That's right, all right, all right, this is great. I'm

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Speaker 5: glad you said that. Let's start that out with this.

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Speaker 5: You knew you were going to bring some shock waves

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Speaker 5: with talking about a cat and your rock collection, right,

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Speaker 5: like this was going to be like something that people

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Speaker 5: spoke about afterwards.

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Speaker 4: I didn't think so much about my cat, Sonny, because

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Speaker 4: I feel like every year there's always someone who talks

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Speaker 4: about their pet can.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, which is why I said, you're this year's catie.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this year's But I don't recall there ever being

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Speaker 4: someone even like a guy. I don't recall anyone ever

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Speaker 4: having a rock collection or talking about the fact they

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Speaker 4: have a rock collection.

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Speaker 5: No, so why did you decide.

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Speaker 3: To I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I spoke a lot about because you know, not everything

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Speaker 4: gets shown, But I spoke a lot about just my

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Speaker 4: interest in general and rocks. That just happened to be

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Speaker 4: something that came up a lot because we were talking

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Speaker 4: about traveling, and like that is something that's huge with me.

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Speaker 4: When I travel, I love to like look up and

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Speaker 4: see what types of rocks and minerals crystals are like

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Speaker 4: really abundant in that country and or even like a state,

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Speaker 4: and then I that's like my souvenir that I go

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Speaker 4: So yeah, and I just I think they're just fun

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Speaker 4: and it's that's different. And yeah, so I just talked about.

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Speaker 6: That a lot.

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Speaker 2: What else did you talk about that didn't make air

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Speaker 2: any any conversation that stood out to you like five

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess a lot also about nature, animals and

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Speaker 4: sex lizards. I told Grant, like during our time, our

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Speaker 4: downtime at the mansion, there was just so many lizards,

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Speaker 4: so it would be so fun just like kind of

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Speaker 4: just trying to, like, I don't know, catch some lizards.

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Speaker 4: And there were a couple of girls that were down

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Speaker 4: to catch lizards with me. It's Chloe and Natalie, So

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Speaker 4: I knew I could always count on them.

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Speaker 6: To like go in a nice little walk.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we talked about that and he said he

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Speaker 4: was like, oh, that's cool, Like I used to catch

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Speaker 4: lizards when I was younger, and so we talked about that.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so so far we've established that you were open

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Speaker 5: with Grant about your interests. Yeah, we love your cat, Sonny.

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Speaker 5: We're big fans of rock collections. I have one. I

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Speaker 5: actually have a rock tumbler.

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Speaker 6: Oh does it work?

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Speaker 5: It still works? Oh yeah, big tumble.

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Speaker 2: No way, you have a tumbler dedicated to rocks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. It makes them real shiny and smooth and you

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Speaker 3: It's nice a tumbler.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's a water bottles like.

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Speaker 4: You can put in like the polish and then all

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Speaker 4: the raw rocks and it just like tumbles them and

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Speaker 4: it polishes them so it's smooth them out.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, So I just want to let you know

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Speaker 2: what I thought when you said that. I thought that

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Speaker 2: you had like a tumbler, like a website where you

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like after ten years or nine years of

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Speaker 5: doing this whatever you say, we've done it for you

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Speaker 5: just are now finding out that I blog about rocks exactly.

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Speaker 5: That's cool. And then you're into lizards. Okay, this isn't

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Speaker 5: exactly and I think it's very I think it's awesome.

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Speaker 5: What I love about the show is all the unique

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Speaker 5: stories that come out of this. But it's not exactly

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Speaker 5: how you lead off. Most people would lead off on dating, like,

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Speaker 5: it's not exactly what you reveal on the first couple

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Speaker 5: of dates. So what kind of guy are you looking

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Speaker 5: Like, would he have to have these similar interests? Do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's more like the guy that I'm

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Speaker 4: looking for, he obviously doesn't need a rock collection or

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Speaker 4: who's down for new experiences and down for adventure, because

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Speaker 4: that's how I am too, you know, anytime again, like

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Speaker 4: you know, your full day when you're on vacation because

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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you truly think that he was it like

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Speaker 4: He Actually, he seems pretty adventurous and he's he's just very.

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Speaker 6: Open to new things.

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Speaker 4: Then he like when we would have conversations about traveling,

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Speaker 4: like that's incredible because I mean that's like not the

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Speaker 4: most fabulous vacation going, you know, to a safari with

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Speaker 4: all these bugs and dangerous animals that you know could

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean he really does seem like that type.

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Speaker 5: Well I appreciate about you is your interest in things

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Speaker 5: that not everybody else is interested in. I think that

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Speaker 5: is I could ask you a thousand questions about how

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Speaker 5: I think it's very very cool, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: something that somebody someday is going to say, Hey, let

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Speaker 5: me join in on this. It's a great quality, is

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Speaker 5: my point here. Speaking of great qualities, though, we do

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Speaker 5: have to dig into Grant a little bit, and so

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Speaker 5: here it's almost famous podcast. We love the franchise. We

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Speaker 5: feel like we haven't gotten to know Grant at all

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Speaker 5: watching this season. We feel like there's something missing, that

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Speaker 5: his whole story isn't either being told or he's not

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Speaker 5: communicating it effectively. So we're hoping you can fill some

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Speaker 5: gaps for us from your experience with Grant and the

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Speaker 5: time that you were there and the conversations that you had.

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Speaker 5: What do you know about Grant that maybe the audience

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Speaker 5: of him as a human.

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Speaker 4: Yes, good question, And you think, because I want to

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Speaker 5: Answer comes to mind, Like your first thoughts when you

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Speaker 5: And here's here's my first response to your hesitation. It's concerned.

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Speaker 5: It's well, you should know this, like you just got

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Speaker 5: a little hesitancy. So I want to know if that's

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Speaker 5: coming from your like you having a hard time answering

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Speaker 5: it where you're like, I don't really know how to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to phrase it perfectly. It seems like

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Speaker 4: he genuinely was looking for you know. Yes, he kept

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Speaker 4: saying a wife, but that was more defined as like

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Speaker 4: ask all the girls about all about themselves, like what

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Speaker 4: want to travel? Just to find those common similarities as

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Speaker 4: well as, you know, learning more about them and their

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Speaker 4: he wanted to find someone that he really connected with,

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Speaker 4: had both that emotional connection, physical connection, just his best

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Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of the conversations were always

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Speaker 4: around that of like where can we be in the

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Speaker 4: future together?

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Speaker 6: Like how do how do you see the future with me?

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Speaker 6: How do I see the future with you? So kind

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Speaker 6: of I feel like that's what he was looking for.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's great, that's on this show. But do you

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Speaker 5: feel like you got to know him through this problems?

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Speaker 6: Oh no, and he didn't really get to know me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we're down to Latia and Juliana. Now, did

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Speaker 2: when you guys were in a group setting.

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Speaker 6: I it's obvious.

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Speaker 4: We see like every episode Lati is always called first,

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Speaker 4: I would always tell the girls anytime, like I would

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Speaker 4: I love to watch how the girl's looking at him

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Speaker 4: I don't know then I like kind of you know,

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Speaker 4: like you just piece things together.

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Speaker 6: So that was something I would do. And I remember.

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Speaker 4: In Madrid, I like sneaked up on Juliana and Grant

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Speaker 4: and then I told Juliana. I was like, oh, like

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Speaker 4: that looked really good. And I just I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I see things and you can just I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I'm not I guess I can just say I'm not

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Speaker 5: It's always fun to have an upfront seat at during

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Speaker 5: the show. Jared Ashley's husband and myself used to watch

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Speaker 5: often and be like, this is crazy. Nobody's gonna believe

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Speaker 5: this is happening, and we're sitting here watching it. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it is fun. So now that you watch during the

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Speaker 5: of been your response as you see it on TV,

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Speaker 5: especially the weeks you aren't there, Is there anything shocking

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because even during my time there and then watching

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Speaker 4: those episodes, we never none of us knew what was

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Speaker 4: going on behind closed doors when you were having the

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Speaker 4: private one on one conversation with Grant, So that was

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Speaker 4: always always interesting to watch. It'd be like, oh, like,

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Speaker 4: that's what they were talking about, or that's what that was.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, now too with not being on any Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I I a lot of it.

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Speaker 6: It's I guess it's it's.

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Speaker 4: Interesting to see now, like their relationships, how far they

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Speaker 4: have come since my time there.

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Speaker 2: Now, you guys don't have a bachelorette? Do you were

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Speaker 2: when you found out that news that there was no bachelorette?

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Speaker 2: Was there like an explosion in the group chat where

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Speaker 2: you guys were like, uh so sucks for us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were shocked, and I guess everyone was more

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Speaker 4: like concerned, like why why isn't there going to be

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Speaker 5: It's interesting you're bummed, Like everybody's pretty upset.

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Speaker 5: as far as we know at this point, would you

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Speaker 4: If the opportunity comes up, Yes, it would be really nice.

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Speaker 6: I mean that's not really interesting.

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Speaker 6: This guy's cute, or oh I kind of want to

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Speaker 3: So you don't want to say names? Yeah, no, come on,

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Speaker 5: Just one name. This is a good place to do it,

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Speaker 6: Like that's so scary to think about.

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Speaker 5: No, you're going on a dating show. This is the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me guess it's Greg Oh no, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just very adventurous and you know, love to travel.

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Speaker 6: I feel like we would get along very well. But again,

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Speaker 5: And it would be wild if he came back. Now

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying it won't happen. It very easily could happen.

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Speaker 5: He would be competing with Chrisky Bukowski as the most

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Speaker 2: No, no, you would have three, so he'd be tied

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Speaker 5: He's only done Paradise once.

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Speaker 4: Actually yeah, oh, he was only a Paradise ones.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So as we kind of wrap up, you're

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Speaker 5: The producers of the show are going to be listening.

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Speaker 5: You're interested in Paradise, you'd be open to relationship in Paradise,

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Speaker 5: You're doing great. That's awesome. As we close up, I

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Speaker 5: I think have had a mixed relationship with this season.

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Speaker 5: I believe for the final episode. It's always a big episode.

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Speaker 5: Why should they and why should they be rooting for

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Speaker 6: Not a great question, or.

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Speaker 5: that's fine too.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I like this stuff. But see I

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Speaker 6: Okay when you think about.

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Speaker 2: It, well, I will have another question that could be

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Speaker 6: I know, so I guess with that.

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Speaker 4: I like to be very specific with words and like

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Speaker 6: It's like fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 4: But I feel like it could mean so many other things,

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Speaker 4: Like it could mean I don't know. It can mean

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Speaker 6: Not I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying

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Speaker 5: But I feel like we mean it in the sense

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Speaker 4: And I think looking back to it other seasons, I

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Speaker 6: Will it make it? Like we'll make it, you know,

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Speaker 4: And so I feel like it's just the back and

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day, it is, it's just

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Speaker 6: And just you know, wish them the best.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it actually was.

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Speaker 4: It was a really great experience for me. It helped

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Speaker 5: Lean in to this new level of confidence. I wasn't

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Speaker 5: kidding when I said I think it's very interesting. I

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Speaker 5: think it makes you you.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 5: It is unique. It's unique, which is exactly what people

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Speaker 5: are attracted to, is uniqueness. And so lean into it

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Speaker 5: and have fun with this kind of new season of life.

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Speaker 5: I hope it brings you a ton of joy. I

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Speaker 3: You're perfect for it.

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Speaker 2: I can see picking up all the reptiles and all

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Speaker 2: the crabs.

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Speaker 5: Everything Ashley complained about. You're gonna be like it.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be like crabs in my bed. Heck, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I will.

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Speaker 4: I will help anyone who's scared. I will pick them up,

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Speaker 4: you know, gracefully and let them back, let.

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Speaker 6: Them go outside.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be great. Hey, thanks for coming on

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Speaker 5: the podcast. We appreciate having you here. Again. For anybody listening,

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Speaker 5: tune in pay attention to who's the cast is gonna

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Speaker 5: be for Paradise. You've gotten to hear from a few

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Speaker 5: people that were rooting for in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 5: Uh is one of those that were thrown in that bucket.

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Speaker 5: So until next time, I've been Ben.

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Speaker 3: I've been Ashley.

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