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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: It's almost famous podcast.

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Speaker 3: We are here today to break down the headlines happening

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Speaker 3: in Bachelor Nation. And there are some big ones, big ones.

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Speaker 4: Big ones. There's a huge one that was a huge one.

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Speaker 3: Let's kick it off with what I believe is the biggest. Actually,

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Speaker 3: I want to preface this was saying there is so

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Speaker 3: much I want to say on this issue, so much

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Speaker 3: that originally because I think of the confusion, the severity.

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Speaker 1: The.

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Speaker 3: How radically weird it was, I honestly didn't know how

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Speaker 3: to even like review it or analyze it here when

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Speaker 3: this first happened years ago, I think I never did.

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Speaker 3: I didn't do a good job personally of giving Clayton

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Speaker 3: Ecker the benefit of the doubt because I was like this,

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Speaker 3: there's no way this isn't true. This is so crazy,

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Speaker 3: there's no way something this crazy is happening.

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Speaker 5: Too crazy that you couldn't script it right.

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Speaker 3: You couldn't script it. And so now as we come

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Speaker 3: to a conclusion on the matter, there is still so

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Speaker 3: much I want to say in support of Clayton, but

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Speaker 3: also questions I want to raise and ask about this

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Speaker 3: situation because it still feels so crazy to me that

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Speaker 3: this is true.

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Speaker 5: So let's let's yeah, get let's get into it, and

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Speaker 5: then we're gonna have to have you explain what kind

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Speaker 5: of questions are.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I could even say him, because I

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Speaker 3: feel like I could give myself into trouble saying him.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm sitting here. Come, I don't know. Here

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Speaker 2: we go. Here's the headline. I'm gonna read a word

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Speaker 2: for a word.

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Speaker 3: Con artist Laura Owens charge with seven felonies for lying

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Speaker 3: about pregnancy with Clayton Eckerd. This is according to the

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Speaker 3: San Francisco Chronicle. Now listen to this con artist Laura Owens,

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Speaker 3: who's the daughter of radio legend Ron Owens, is charge

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Speaker 3: with seven felonies for lying about pregnancy with Clayton Eckerd.

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Speaker 2: Ashley. Please take it away before I get myself into trouble.

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Speaker 4: So I want to spread hearst here.

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Speaker 5: I read somewhere that she made up seven pregnancies. But

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Speaker 5: this is about Clayton's case. This is this this week,

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Speaker 5: this big headline was that Clayton is off, you know,

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Speaker 5: like that it's been proven by the court that she

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Speaker 5: was lying about the twin pregnancy that she said that

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Speaker 5: she had with Clayton, even though Clayton said that that

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Speaker 5: would have been impossible as they never had intercourse. There

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Speaker 5: was some oral stuff going on during their hook up,

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Speaker 5: but there was no intercourse. But she said that she

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Speaker 5: was pregnant with twins if you guys don't remember the story,

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Speaker 5: and that she later misscarried. But she was like asking

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Speaker 5: for she was asking for the what's it called? Like,

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Speaker 5: oh my god, how am I blanking on this? The

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Speaker 5: parental support, child support and stuff from him? This week

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Speaker 5: it came out the court ruled that she is a

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Speaker 5: big fat.

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Speaker 3: Liar, right, Okay, So we'll pause there to ask my

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Speaker 3: first question.

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Speaker 2: I know it is okay to ask.

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Speaker 3: At what point don't you have to have kids? Like

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Speaker 3: she would have had to have the children to then

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Speaker 3: get parental support?

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Speaker 2: Right? So yeah, how did.

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Speaker 3: She think this was going to play out? The confusing

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Speaker 3: part to me again, I'm going to filter my questions.

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Speaker 3: I know a lot of you out there going this

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Speaker 3: is crazy. How did this even happen? And your your

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Speaker 3: questions are valid. I just don't want to say in

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Speaker 3: court case is over, but there is a conclusion now

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Speaker 3: and hopefully everybody can move on. But my first thought is,

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Speaker 3: how did was this going to play out to where

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Speaker 3: she won this case? Because you're in the court, they

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Speaker 3: don't just say, hey, we'll take your word for it.

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Speaker 2: They investigate, are you pregnant? Are you not?

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Speaker 3: Is it Clayton's child? Is it not Clayton's child? Is

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Speaker 3: it Clayton's twins? Is it not Clayton's twins? Do these

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Speaker 3: to prove that all of this is true. Now, I

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Speaker 3: didn't hear seven. I heard three other cases.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well this was supposed to be twins. So maybe

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Speaker 5: she was always saying it's twins.

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Speaker 3: It's this is And so I think now's the appropriate

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Speaker 3: time because I'll be honest about me personally and about

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Speaker 3: Bachelor Nation in general. I think due to some very

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Speaker 3: wild circumstances that we just talked to Clayton about. You

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Speaker 3: right coming off the show and during the show, he

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Speaker 3: did get you know he was, as Nick Files said,

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Speaker 3: the human punching bag.

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Speaker 2: He got hit on.

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Speaker 3: All sides, and it felt like this was a very

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Speaker 3: him the benefit of the doubt. I don't think Bachelor

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Speaker 3: Nation came in wild support of him, because I do

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Speaker 3: think this was one of those situations to give the

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Speaker 3: excuse here where it was so ridiculously outrageously crazy that

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Speaker 3: we're like, there's no way this has no threat of

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Speaker 3: truth to it, because what human would make up these

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Speaker 3: I am pregnant with twins, so that's and so I

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Speaker 3: think at least me personally said there's no way this

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Speaker 3: I am sorry, Clayton.

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Speaker 2: I am sorry to I am very.

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Speaker 3: Sorry because I did jump to conclusions based on the circumstances,

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Speaker 3: and again, one of many times in my life, I

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Speaker 3: happened from an outside perspective with somebody with limited knowledge

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Speaker 3: who probably shouldn't have shared an opinion in j or

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Speaker 3: all on this, but that's kind of my job here,

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Speaker 3: is to read the headlines and share an opinion. And

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Speaker 3: again I think, as I look back, I shared the

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Speaker 3: opinion I did because this seems so crazy, and now

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Speaker 3: that it has proven to be this crazy, in this

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Speaker 3: script that he'll probably make millions upon millions of dollars

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Speaker 3: some because somebody's going to pick this up for entertainment.

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Speaker 5: This is a lifetime story, a lifetime original movie.

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Speaker 3: And he should make millions on it. I was wrong,

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Speaker 3: and I am sorry, and I want to come public

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Speaker 3: I want to share that I feel. I feel bad

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Speaker 5: Okay, but Ben, you are making yourself sound way worse

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Speaker 5: than it was. Like we've believed him for quite some

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Speaker 5: We were never in full belief.

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Speaker 5: We were STiMi thought that there was maybe some truth

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Speaker 3: Had to be some truth to it. This can't be

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Speaker 5: I think like you and I were like, but was

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Speaker 5: it really just I mean, sorry, sorry, I know this

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Speaker 5: is trying to be a PG program usually, but like,

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Speaker 5: was was it really just oral?

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Speaker 4: She's going to pretend that she got pregnant on oral?

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Speaker 2: That was some of the questions we asked.

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Speaker 3: And I thought at the time we were going down

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Speaker 3: a path that was helping this thing make sense. And yes,

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Speaker 3: I would say I was more skeptical. I was never

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Speaker 3: sitting here with you privately or publicly being like there, Clayton, gosh,

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Speaker 2: Why would he do this?

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Speaker 3: No, we were like what more skeptical, But I think

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Speaker 3: our skepticism came off of wanting to believe her, for one,

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Speaker 3: because who would take this to court unless there was

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Speaker 3: I would say this is one of the wildest stories

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Speaker 3: In the last nine and a half years of doing this,

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Speaker 3: this has to go down as like one of the

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Speaker 5: I agree, it probably is the longest lasting crazy headline

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Speaker 5: we've had.

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Speaker 3: All right, next headline is this F one fans slam

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Speaker 3: Bachelor star for flashing drivers at race. This is how

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Speaker 3: you cause Arek is the quote that I'm going to say.

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Speaker 2: That's come for me. It's going to wreck.

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Speaker 3: You flash somebody going about two hundred miles an hour.

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Speaker 5: You're right, that's extremely dangerous. That's not a laughing matter.

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Speaker 2: No, it's crazy anybody. Yeah, goodness, please don't do that

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Speaker 5: Ever, this headline is so overdone. When I read it,

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Speaker 5: just as they intended when they wrote it, I was like,

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Speaker 5: how disgusting, Maria. That's awful. There are children there. That

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Speaker 5: is extremely distracting. It's just kind of piggy, right, Well,

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Speaker 5: it really wasn't that bad. When I went to go

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Speaker 5: And when you watch the TikTok you can tell she

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Speaker 4: how crazy they were at the F one.

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Speaker 2: So she didn't really flash him as what we're.

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Speaker 4: I believe her on this one.

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Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, here we go.

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Speaker 3: Next headline is this The Bachelor's Madison pruit Trout. Madison

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Speaker 3: Preuit Trout has a new book coming The cover is

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Speaker 3: now released. It's all Dare to Be True.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking. I think the article says that she's had

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Speaker 5: Come out, and I'm like, this is her second, but

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Speaker 5: I'm like, no, this is their third, her third, It

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Speaker 4: It's crazy.

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Speaker 5: She's only twenty eight years old. I feel like Maddie

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Speaker 5: is so beyond her years. She had made for this moment,

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Speaker 5: come out in twenty twenty one, The Love Everybody Wants

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, and this year she will have

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Speaker 5: Dare to Be True come out. People had the exclusive

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Speaker 5: first look on it, and she says that she knows

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Speaker 5: how it feels to be stuck, bound by bound by lies,

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Speaker 5: burdened by past mistakes and shame, confused by the noise

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Speaker 5: in the world around me. Before I wrote my first book.

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Speaker 5: Before even The Bachelor, I chased a version of myself

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Speaker 5: that I believed would lead to a happier, freear me. Instead,

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Speaker 5: it led me into deeper confusion. So that's why she

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Speaker 5: wanted to write the book. She wrote it for the

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Speaker 5: woman who was tired of proteid performing, who is exhausted

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Speaker 5: at trying to be someone that she's not.

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Speaker 3: Whoa sounds like every Bachelor contestant, male and female. We

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Speaker 3: could all read that and benefit from it, can Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Speaking of books, Golden Bachelor lum Gary Turner has a

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Speaker 3: juicy wow. It's always good when they add that in.

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Speaker 3: There a juicy new book coming. The cover was also released.

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Speaker 3: It's called Golden Years.

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Speaker 3: This subtitle is what I've learned from love, loss and

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Speaker 5: Who the heck doesn't have a book? Gary is going

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Speaker 4: I don't have a book. It's too much focus.

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Speaker 5: You know, I get so overwhelmed because I just I

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Speaker 3: I know nothing about this guy, but the subtitle to

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Speaker 3: the headline is this are Rachel Kirconnell and Zane Hijazzi date.

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Speaker 5: They were just sharing things. Like, neither has posted anything

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Speaker 5: Then the two swapped one of their shoes, his her swap, okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't know nothing. You know nothing about this guy.

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Speaker 4: So let me look at this guy.

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Speaker 2: Now take a second.

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Speaker 5: Oh good, Oh okay, So he has two point eight

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, Like he has to be the best dude

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Speaker 5: You have your own opinion on mail influencers. I know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what he's known for, like what his

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Speaker 5: He does have a podcast called Unfiltered.

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Speaker 4: His face is very familiar.

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Speaker 5: To me, but I don't know much about him, and

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Speaker 3: He talks about being roasted for breaking up with Becca

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Speaker 5: He's looking back on Becca and saying, Wow, what a

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Speaker 5: It does feel like a lifetime ago. But look at

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Speaker 5: He said, he knew that we were gonna be roasted,

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Speaker 4: And here we are. It's just like seven years later,

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Speaker 5: More of a it's more of the their low, their low,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that went down in a

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Speaker 2: And now they're very supported by Bachelor Nation.

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Speaker 3: They definitely turned the corner there. Speaking of support for

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Speaker 2: Would be a good idea.

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Speaker 3: They're hilarious, they're wacky, they're weird, and it helps us

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Speaker 2: But they're dropping Ashley to us more.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So Bachelor Nation is kind of like the overarching

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Speaker 5: To talk about that on another date, but right now,

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Speaker 5: starting on May fourteenth on their YouTube series. It's gonna

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Speaker 5: They have them from Joey Hannah. They're gonna be starting

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Speaker 5: they've they've really forgotten our generation. It's all good. I mean, like,

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Speaker 4: What about you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't think of it that way.

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is weird that all these

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Speaker 4: Because they're gonna rip it from my Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because yours is so good. It is iconic, Like

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Speaker 4: Good, you're very sweet.

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Speaker 5: It's iconic. But it never really been seen. No, I

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Speaker 5: in the podcast. So, guys, this was me getting out

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Speaker 4: It was actually my sister with a plate on her face.

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Speaker 5: I talk about really cringey stuff about how I'm a virgin,

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Speaker 4: So and here cute Amadia.

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Speaker 6: Ooh, here I'm Ashley Conneddi. I'm twenty five, I go

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Speaker 3: I love football, food.

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Speaker 6: Cooking, pop music, especially boy bands, and I can't wait

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Speaker 5: I'll see you inside. I love everything about pop culture.

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Speaker 6: I love storytelling, and I know this is not something

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Speaker 6: are always like do you want to hang out? Instead

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Speaker 6: I just feel like I should be treated like a princess.

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Speaker 6: I know it's cliche, but I just really want that

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Speaker 6: This is great Falls Park. I usually like coming here and.

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Speaker 4: I think that's the perfect date.

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Speaker 6: Well. As much as I'd love to spend the night

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Speaker 6: please accept this Rose. Yes, I'm a pretty good writer,

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Speaker 5: I'm hoping you'll help me write the first chapter. And

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Speaker 4: As becka Couperin would say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yours is great, it's worth watching. It's you know,

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Speaker 3: I want to apologize for that, but we'll continue to

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Speaker 3: bring you headlines the good, the bad, the ugly, the tough,

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Speaker 3: the difficult, the weird, the chaotic, because that's what Bachelor

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Speaker 3: Nation does. So until next time, I've been Ben, I've

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Speaker 3: Been Ashley.

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