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

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today we

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Speaker 2: have a special guest. It's Kendall Long and she is

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Speaker 2: telling us about this secrets that she has been holding

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Speaker 2: on to for years. Kendall, welcome to the podcast, and

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Speaker 2: it's a it's been a year and a half long secret.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been around a year and a half, so

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Speaker 3: it's been quite a bit. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So what's the secret? Tell people who didn't hear the headline,

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Speaker 2: so yes, So for those.

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Speaker 3: Who do not know, I've been married to my husband

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Speaker 3: Mitch for a little over a year and a half now.

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Speaker 3: Literally right before we left to Germany, we eloped to

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Speaker 3: Santa Barbara and then we the next day we hopped

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Speaker 3: on a flight and moved to Germany.

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Speaker 4: So good, all right, Well there's a lot to break

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Speaker 4: down here. First off, congratulations, thank you Kingarrats. Why was

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Speaker 4: it kept a secret? So obviously this was an intentional choice.

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Speaker 4: I'm assuming that it wasn't just like something you didn't

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Speaker 4: think of. Why did you to keep it a secret

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Speaker 4: for the first year and a half?

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Speaker 3: Well, we kept it a secret because our plan was

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Speaker 3: to get married, have the official wedding abroad in Germany,

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Speaker 3: and so we wanted to get married, and it made

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Speaker 3: it a lot easier to move to Germany as a

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Speaker 3: married couple because of Mitch's job. So you were going

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Speaker 3: to get married anyway. So we're like, we'll do this

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Speaker 3: and then we'll have the wedding when we're in Germany.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of things kind of transpired and changed

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Speaker 3: and our family, like, not all of our family could

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Speaker 3: go out to Germany to have a wedding or can

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Speaker 3: go abroad.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 3: That plan didn't happen, and time went on and I

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Speaker 3: was like, you know, I feel like I just want

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Speaker 3: to celebrate this now and to tell people.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, what's his job that made it easier for

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Speaker 2: you guys to be married.

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Speaker 3: So he's an aerospace engineer, so he works on a

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Speaker 3: military base here in Stutgart, Germany. So it made it

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Speaker 3: so I was able to stay in Germany and we'd

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Speaker 3: be able to be together. And we were pretty confident

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Speaker 3: that we wanted to get married anyway, so and we

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Speaker 3: had just gotten engaged, so we just expedited the process

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Speaker 2: You guys had been together for a little over I

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Speaker 2: want to say six months at the point where you

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Speaker 2: got married eight months maybe, okay that point yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so well I think it maybe after announcing

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Speaker 3: it had been around six months. But yeah, so we

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Speaker 3: moved abroad like in less than a year.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hate interviewed to you guys when you'd only

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Speaker 2: been together for like two or three months. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: it was very evident that you would be getting married

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Speaker 2: all things, based on your answers and is your behavior together,

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Speaker 2: oh things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like we knew pretty early on that

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Speaker 4: So remind all of our listeners and me, because I forget,

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Speaker 4: how did two of you actually meet.

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Speaker 3: We met through a mutual friend, So we went to

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Speaker 3: a friend's party and we just saw each other there.

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Speaker 3: So it kind of the old fashioned way.

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Speaker 2: What was the elopement, Like, was it romantic or was

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Speaker 2: it because you went to Santa Barbara for it? So

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Speaker 2: I'm imagining there was like some sort of scene it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we kind of made it so. I didn't

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Speaker 4: What has the reaction been, because I'm assuming not all

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Speaker 3: I'm not really that good at keeping secrets, so my

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Speaker 3: And another part of the reason why we wanted to

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Speaker 3: in America as well. So yeah, that's another reason why

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Speaker 2: How has the distance thing been from your family, because

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Speaker 2: we knew that, you know, on Bachelor in Paradise and

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Speaker 2: with Joe, the whole I'm not moving thing play at

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Speaker 2: a big factor in that relationship, and you didn't want

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Speaker 2: to be away from your sister, which I totally get.

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Speaker 2: So now you're half a world away. How has it been.

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Speaker 3: It's been really really hard. But Mitch and I knew

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Speaker 3: going to be a temporary thing. So yeah, that's comforting

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Speaker 3: that we were going to be here for two years

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Speaker 3: having amazing adventure traveling and being able to experience a

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Speaker 3: a lot in our relationship. I've just one hundred percent

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Speaker 3: just like depended on him for so much. It's been

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Speaker 3: it's been there's been days where it's been really really hard. Like,

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Speaker 3: we've had to depend a lot on each other through that.

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Speaker 2: You see originally from the LA area as well.

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Speaker 3: He's originally from well, from Virginia and then moved to

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Speaker 4: From there, so I mean you just kind of touched

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Speaker 4: now for I mean, how long have you been over there?

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Speaker 3: I think probably well, yeah, like a year and a half,

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Speaker 4: Half, year and a half. So how has it, I mean,

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Speaker 4: has it done for your relationship and your marriage, you know,

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Speaker 4: getting married, traveling abroad and just having each other good parts,

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Speaker 4: bad parts, all parts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you have to completely change your life

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Speaker 3: You don't really have any friends initially starting off. And

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Speaker 3: and I usually would hang out with my sister every

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Speaker 3: it's been really important. But Yeah, I mean it's just

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Speaker 3: a it's a lot, it's a lot to change, and

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Speaker 3: But even like small mundane tasks like making doctor's appointments

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Speaker 3: and there's you know, those are kind of funny things

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Speaker 2: And would you would you say that like, because you're

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, in a weird way, like it's felt

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm not even worried about it at all.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's my advice, and I don't have

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Speaker 4: think would be hard, would be, you know, you left

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Speaker 4: your life look like in Germany? And do you have

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Speaker 3: Well, in a weird way, I feel like it's actually

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Speaker 3: The only difference is really I just don't go to events.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. We're so happy for you. I guess we

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Speaker 4: So it's healthy. I'm assuming it's very healthy to to

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Speaker 4: It kind of helps you reset, which yeah, would be

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: In closing here, you've mentioned that your plans are to

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Speaker 3: He'll be in the same career but probably staying within

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Speaker 2: Can I just say that it's just so perfect for

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Speaker 3: Right, That's like how we really connected in the beginning.

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Speaker 2: That is so cool. All right, Well, my last question

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Speaker 2: Are you going to have any sort of celebration.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, we're definitely going to. I think that doing

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Speaker 3: just to make sure that all of our family can

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Speaker 4: You deserve to be celebrated, Kendall, and so does Mitch.

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Speaker 4: The two of you have you know, accomplished a lot, uh,

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Speaker 4: and we're really thankful that you came on and shared

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Speaker 3: No, of course, I'm happy to catch up.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you, Kendall. Thank you so much

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