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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 Manic Podcast. Like I've

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Speaker 2: been saying in the past couple episodes, today Ben's not

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Speaker 2: here because he's in Italy, but we have some amazing

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Speaker 2: people here to join us instead. It is Charity and Doten,

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Speaker 2: the Happy Couple. We are so so thrilled to have you. Charity.

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Speaker 2: I messaged you a couple of weeks ago just saying

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Speaker 2: that I was so enjoying watching your season and you

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Speaker 2: as the lead. You're just like You're just so enjoyable

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Speaker 2: and easy to watch. Like I don't know, I've related

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Speaker 2: to you more than many bachelorettes of recent past, and

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Speaker 2: it was just you were You conducted the show so

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Speaker 2: wonderfully and this love story was one that I feel like, oh,

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Speaker 2: we haven't seen so intensely one like this in a while.

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Speaker 2: And you, guys, I just like, congratulations, I'm so so

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Speaker 2: happy for you. It was a joy to watch it all.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, so much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so, like, where do we again? Where'd you leave again? Okay,

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Speaker 2: don how did you sign up for the show?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I didn't sign up, I did it. It

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Speaker 4: wasn't nominated, didn't do any that. Two weeks before filming

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Speaker 4: actually started, my roommate he was in like a text

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Speaker 4: thread with one of his old college buddies, and then

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Speaker 4: the college buddy was in the running. He dropped out

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Speaker 4: until the casting director told that guy. He said, if

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Speaker 4: you don't even want to fill your place, I know

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Speaker 4: it's the last minute. He put it in the group

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Speaker 4: text and my roommate was in and my roommate thought

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Speaker 4: of me, right dad, like a list of criteri, he

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Speaker 4: thought of me, and then he texted me. He's like,

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Speaker 4: send me pictures and I was like, for what, and

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Speaker 4: he's like, don't worry about it, and then he's like,

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Speaker 4: y'all want to put you on the black speasherrette. Eventually

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Speaker 4: I thought he was kidding, and then within an hour

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Speaker 4: I had the casting agent call me and then the

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Speaker 4: rest was history. So it was it was crunch time

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Speaker 4: doing six months where the stuff in two weeks was tough,

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Speaker 4: and I wasn't sure I was going to do it,

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Speaker 4: but I saw this pretty little lady.

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Speaker 2: Guys, You're entire story may not have existed if this

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Speaker 2: one guy didn't drop out, and down didn't feel it

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Speaker 2: like the urge to put it all together within two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Holy cow, It's.

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Speaker 3: Literally like it's actual fate.

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Speaker 5: And I always say, like Jackie around, I'm like, so,

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Speaker 5: what did the other guy like, Simmy, Like what.

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Speaker 3: Did he look like?

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Speaker 5: I want to know that would have been like his

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Speaker 5: like replacement if he never came. But it's like everything

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Speaker 5: truly did work out, And it's like crazy, how like

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Speaker 5: this show obviously, like the purpose of the show really

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Speaker 5: did bring us like together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we like broughout, we say fairy tale. Then that's

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Speaker 4: the reason why is because like eighty teaming goes beat

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Speaker 4: before his name is Sam, shout out, Sam, thank you.

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Speaker 4: But even before that, you know, it's like moving to

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Speaker 4: New York, finding rooming with these guys. The way that

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Speaker 4: everything worked out truly just felt like it kind of

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Speaker 4: led to her in this moment. And so as logical

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Speaker 4: as we are, it's hard to deny the circumstances that

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Speaker 4: led us together. So it's insane and we still don't

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Speaker 4: believe it to this day. But I'm just grateful for

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Speaker 4: this crazy life, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is seriously magical. All right, Well, Charity, he

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Speaker 2: didn't play the biggest role on the first couple episodes,

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Speaker 2: he definitely was a silent standout, okay ye, Like when

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Speaker 2: he got out of his little package, he got out

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Speaker 2: the limo, I was like, my eye was on him,

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Speaker 2: but he didn't become like a main character for a

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Speaker 2: top three or four?

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Speaker 3: Ocean said, So, that's what I want to say.

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Speaker 5: Week three the Barbie Day, Like he killed his performance.

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Speaker 3: It's like so good.

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Speaker 5: But it was really that conversation that night when I

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Speaker 3: My life in that moment.

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Speaker 5: Essentially that conversation what you guys saw, it was a

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Speaker 2: That's so beautiful. I remember that moment. It's it's a

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Speaker 2: good one. Yeah, Dot. And when did you feel like, oh,

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Probably the same moment obviously the chat in I mean,

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Speaker 4: I would say it started week two when I got

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Speaker 4: of like what am I doing here? Like that this

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Speaker 4: Jackasser coming here with that conversation after the barbecue for

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Speaker 4: the second Rose, before the second Row ceremony, And then

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Speaker 4: like for me, that was important, right because then I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: she's very serious about it and she connects on what

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Speaker 4: just that's where the foundation I feel like started being

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Speaker 4: and then following obviously got that one on one and

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Speaker 2: So truly, yeah, you got the one on one and

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Speaker 2: and that was big news. How did you fenangle that one?

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Speaker 3: I couldn't get enough. I love it. I know that question.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, it's so tricky to answer because obviously at that

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Speaker 5: But in specifics, like when it came to Dawton, I knew,

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Speaker 3: So it was really important to me.

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Speaker 5: But I was like, again, like I was coming off

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Another moment that I loved was hometownst

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Speaker 2: in your hometown blew us away, And it was after

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Speaker 2: like all the families. You know, we were a little

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Speaker 2: bit skeptical of Joey's uncle, but besides that, like great hometowns,

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Speaker 2: You were both surprised, right, you fully had no idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and your mom Dotton talking to Charity about like

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Speaker 3: It was we kind of bummed out that that didn't.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's the biggest one probably in the whole season,

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Speaker 4: really the biggest thing that probably wasn't shown. I would say, also,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, there was so much in that hometown. It

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Speaker 4: Death to build time.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well, you know, there's something about the show

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Speaker 2: that you'd say like out loud, and be as vulnerable

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Speaker 2: also just wanted to say they had to count out

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Speaker 2: the falling in love with you, because like that would

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Speaker 2: be a dead giveaway exactly, there would be no surprise

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Speaker 2: to me. There like already was no surprise in my heart,

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Speaker 2: but like I but I still like couldn't wait to

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Speaker 2: see the journey to get there. And if you had

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Speaker 2: seen that, it would have just been like That's what

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Speaker 2: we kind of like.

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Speaker 3: We told each other.

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Speaker 5: We're like, well, if that had been left in then

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Speaker 5: that people would go tune it out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, Well, don this is like super awkward when

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Speaker 2: I bring up Joey because but I'm sure you're used

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Speaker 2: to it by now. Okay, great, great, great, great charity

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Speaker 2: I was like, what do you mean you don't know?

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Speaker 3: I was actually losing my mind. I think I need

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Speaker 3: to say that.

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Speaker 4: That would.

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Speaker 3: But like my parents both gave their.

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Speaker 2: So Okay, well, you guys, I'm just so glad the

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's every stage has its fun and it's challenges.

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Speaker 4: It's like like no one knows, but yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, no one knows. But there was that

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Speaker 4: What happened there?

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Speaker 3: We just were in town at the same time. We

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Speaker 2: Total coincidence was somebody wearing wigs.

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Speaker 3: No, we actually weren't together.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to focus on that. But there was

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Speaker 4: Accident, how do you miss?

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Speaker 3: I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is not happening. This is literally

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Speaker 2: But no, I can't believe that that happened, and I

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Speaker 2: Flying past this. Yeah, okay, let's talk about present day now.

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Speaker 2: How are you okay? You're brought to prepare for Dancing

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Speaker 2: This has always been a critical challenge point for bachelor

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Speaker 5: I think if anything, we like gotten said, we have

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Speaker 5: So it's just prioritizing each other. And I know, obviously

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Speaker 3: He literally is like my biggest supporter and fan.

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Speaker 5: So with that energy, I think we will be able

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Speaker 3: Right on through.

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Speaker 2: So you don't believe in the Dancing with the Stars curse.

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe in any of this nonsense.

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Speaker 4: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 3: But this is real deale right here?

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Speaker 4: it'll be fun.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

442
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 4: True.

443
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Speaker 2: So what's the living situation going to be like when

444
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Speaker 2: she's on Dancing with the Stars.

445
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 5: So he's gonna come out to LA with me while

446
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Speaker 5: I'm out there, so we'll be where I'm living at,

447
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 5: He'll be with living with me, and then after that

448
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,360
Speaker 5: we'll relocate to our permanent place, which will.

449
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Speaker 2: Be in New York. Nice. All right, So Dalton, you

450
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Speaker 2: are going back to your job in New York. I've

451
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Speaker 2: been working your dear back.

452
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 5: I love it.

453
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,960
Speaker 4: Live as normal life as possible since coming back. So yeah,

454
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Speaker 4: it's just going to be business as usual and just

455
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Speaker 4: continuing and taking a day by daily, by week kind

456
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Speaker 4: of thing. So yeah, and I work remote, so I

457
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Speaker 4: can do this anywhere.

458
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 2: So amazing, perfect, your work being remote will be very

459
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Speaker 2: helpful and especially the Dancing with the Stars chapter of

460
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Speaker 2: your life. Okay, so let's talk about like engagement marriage.

461
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Speaker 2: What's the timeline here? Because I feel like you guys

462
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,199
Speaker 2: are not going to be one of those bachelor couples

463
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Speaker 2: that wait a.

464
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Speaker 3: Bit and you're in.

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Speaker 5: You would be correct, Yeah, you would be very correct

466
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Speaker 5: in that assessment.

467
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,199
Speaker 3: We both talked about it.

468
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Speaker 5: We don't want like the whole like five year engagement,

469
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 5: Like I'm just not into that. Like, yeah, our whole

470
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,879
Speaker 5: purpose and point of coming on this was a fun

471
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 5: love we found it. We feel very confident. Obviously we're

472
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Speaker 5: going to take our time with it, not rush, but

473
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Speaker 5: like we are very excited about the idea and concept

474
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Speaker 5: of planning a wedding, getting married soon. So maybe a

475
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 5: year year and a half will be yeah, getting getting.

476
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Speaker 3: Wed, walking down the aisle. So we'll probably have two weddings.

477
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: You will probably have two weddings, just.

478
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Speaker 5: A small intimate one and then the big Nigerian one

479
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Speaker 5: that everyone's like rooting for and waiting for.

480
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Speaker 2: So yeah, my gosh, So it'll happen in Nigeria.

481
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the plan.

482
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So obviously things can change, but that'd be ideal.

483
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, so nice.

484
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 3: Absolutely, she says she's ready to whisk away.

485
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 2: But she's so freaking cute.

486
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 3: So cute.

487
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 2: Okay. I have a few fun questions for you guys,

488
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 2: But first, well, I guess to kick those fun questions off,

489
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 2: are you a vander pumb Rules fan? And like, do

490
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 2: you how do you feel about competing against Arianna Maddox.

491
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 5: I like absolutely love her and I stand her because

492
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 5: after that scandal, Like, my god, so I actually recently

493
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 5: just got into it because of that, which is crazy.

494
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 5: He has no reality, Like who is this? How do

495
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 5: I feel about competing against her? Yeah, I think it'll

496
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Speaker 5: be fun.

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Speaker 3: It's excited. I'm excited to really meet her and like

498
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Speaker 3: get to know her. But yeah, I don't really have

499
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 3: any thoughts besides the fact that I am a fan

500
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Speaker 3: of her. So that's gonna be interesting.

501
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's gonna be so much fun. You guys

502
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 2: have quite a height difference. Any like, any fun jokey

503
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 2: stories about that.

504
00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 3: When we're at the.

505
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Speaker 5: Club, I'm on I'm on the couch and he's on

506
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 5: the floor, so I'm always on something. I'm standing on

507
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 5: the bus.

508
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 4: Are always a good time.

509
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 3: Who said the best though?

510
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: Jus the hug jumps?

511
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Speaker 4: You know?

512
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yes, I'm sorry. People have told me that

513
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 2: I called a koala jump and then people corrected me

514
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 2: once I call it koala jump and they're like, they're who,

515
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 2: jus who you hug jumps?

516
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 5: Yeah?

517
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Speaker 4: I learned that too. Just go on the show with her?

518
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 5: Yeah?

519
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 3: Who? No, he does it?

520
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 5: So good because he just like it's like a smooth transition,

521
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 5: like yeah, glad into his arms.

522
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Speaker 4: Please?

523
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Speaker 2: Do you do who jus in the real world?

524
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Speaker 5: Sometimes yeah, yeah, when we're just like goofing off happy couples.

525
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Speaker 4: We haven't seen each other for pretty much did it

526
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 4: coming right through the hug jump, So yeah, now we

527
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 4: do it like a little bit more goofy here, but

528
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 4: still it's still there.

529
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Speaker 2: I love it. What's like something you guys bonded over

530
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 2: in haavy couples that you were like, Oh my gosh,

531
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Speaker 2: I didn't know we had this in common, like something

532
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: like pop culture.

533
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, so much like you have very sent like

534
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 4: comedy sense, like like our sense of humor is so similar.

535
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 4: Music tastes right for things that weren't discussed per se

536
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 4: on the show. But we figured out slowly but surely.

537
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 4: So it's hard to say, like we both like Gunna, I.

538
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 3: Went to see Beyonce together. Nice Beyonce. Fan love this.

539
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 4: It's fun.

540
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Speaker 2: You went to Vegas right after you were announced as

541
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Speaker 2: a couple. How was that like big debut?

542
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Speaker 3: That was? It was fun? I would say we had

543
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 3: like a really good time and went.

544
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Speaker 5: My pretty fast just because we were just like enjoying

545
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 5: each other and had some of his guy friends from

546
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,479
Speaker 5: the show come and they were there, so that was

547
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 5: interesting and.

548
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,719
Speaker 2: Fun because I saw that was weird.

549
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 5: So that was fun, like just being able to be

550
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 5: out and like obviously we did have people like.

551
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 3: Come up and recognize us.

552
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 5: I would I'd always check about and say, like, I

553
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 5: get recognized more with him just because of like the

554
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 5: height difference, so they spot him and then they're.

555
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: Like there she is, you know, yeah, yeah, but yeah.

556
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Speaker 3: No, it was.

557
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 5: It was such a good time and it was actually

558
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Speaker 5: I think necessary for us to just kind of have

559
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Speaker 5: that period right after to just like.

560
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 3: Bask and just celebration.

561
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Speaker 5: And his birthday was two days after AFR two, so

562
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Speaker 5: it was just a good week.

563
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Speaker 2: Amazing. Do you guys have any embarrassing things that happened,

564
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: either like in the press that you've done recently or

565
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: during the filming that never got on air embarrassing like

566
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: really like silly stupid stories.

567
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 3: Oh thanks, Then I've been on my best behavior on

568
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: this pressure.

569
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Speaker 2: You've done a great job. You have not slipped up

570
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: at all.

571
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 3: I really have been on that behavior.

572
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 4: Anything embarrassing I will say, I will admit, but did

573
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 4: the dodgeball day. I did get out one time, but

574
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 4: and I stayed in. I didn't leave, but that was

575
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 4: because those rules were garbage. Okay, those were not real

576
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: dodgeball rules. So it's like, I'm not gonna listen your rules,

577
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,479
Speaker 4: like if these aren't real rus So anyway, it's long

578
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 4: story short. That's probably like the only thing that I

579
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 4: can think of that like, oh no, Like it was

580
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 4: kind of like I was like a little shakyve out.

581
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 3: But other than that, Now you cheated, Okay, I.

582
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: Mean, is it cheating if there's no rules? There were

583
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 4: no rules. There's rules, but it's not I'm realizing that.

584
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: I like you guys realizing things on there eight rules.

585
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's not super exciting, but that's all I

586
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 4: got it. It was pretty straightforward, nothing too embarrassing, just

587
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 4: cracking jokes and being idiots with the boys and connecting with it.

588
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: I like creating fun, playful tension with couples on the show.

589
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you a question now that

590
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 2: will wrap up this podcast with that you guys will

591
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 2: be able to like really converse about later in the day.

592
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: Great when you think about living together because you've been

593
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 2: in hotel rooms and such together over the past few weeks.

594
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 2: What worries you about the move in about each other?

595
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: Like does he you know, just like does he like

596
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: always leave his toothbrush in a certain spot, or like

597
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: does he leave the cabinets open? You know, something dumb

598
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 2: like that? One done has a lot.

599
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

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Speaker 2: You docuse bring it up now. It'd be more fun

601
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: to bring it up on a podcast than it would

602
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: be to like actually say, hey, that's really annoying when

603
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 2: you do that.

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Speaker 5: I will say he's fairly clean and organized, which I love.

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Speaker 3: Thank god. Oh man. The biggest thing.

606
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Speaker 5: I feel like, the biggest debate for us is going

607
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 5: to be like a debate.

608
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: It is a debate. Well, we're not talking about the

609
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: snoring thing, Okay, it's the temperature.

610
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 5: Like I feel like that's normal for every couple. It's

611
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 5: like what I am I typically run cold and he's

612
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 5: more hot, right, And yeah, that's a nice way to

613
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 5: put it. It's just ridiculous, Like, what do you mean

614
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 5: the nice way to put it?

615
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: That's on a ridiculous temperature. It's like sixty And I'm like,

616
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 4: She said, Now I'll put it on like sixty seven

618
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 4: and sixty.

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Speaker 2: Six still too cold for Ray for sure, under right.

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Speaker 4: But then she'd be like, I'm cold, and it'll get

621
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Speaker 4: to like sixty eight and she'd be like, I'm sweating bullets.

622
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 5: So it's just like, okay, now you're kind of you're

623
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 5: really putting me under the Thank you, Ashley, this is

624
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 5: what you're doing.

625
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: Well, I successfully did it, and Charity, I'm with you.

626
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 2: If it's even seventy, I'm cold. It has to be

627
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 2: seventy two for me to be comfortable.

628
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 5: I feel I'm like like seven above seventy always.

629
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 3: Like you gotta get with it.

630
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a woman thing. And like if

631
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Speaker 2: I'm doing chores around the house that I'm moving a lot,

632
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: then seventy is fine. But if I'm just chilling on

633
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: the couch, I'm gonna be cold at seventy exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's actually so.

635
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: Wid Oh, this is gonna be a little bit of

636
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Speaker 2: a problem. She's gonna have to wear sweatshirts in the summer,

637
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: and that's not fun in summer. I want to wear

638
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 2: skimpy things exactly.

639
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 5: I want to like not have to put on layers.

640
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, like dot do you want to see her full figure,

641
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 2: you know, in like a cute little workout outfit, or

642
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: do you want to see sweatshirts and sweatpants?

643
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 4: I do, but I don't want to see you on sweating.

644
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: So so wow.

645
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 4: I'm saying like, it's it's yin and yang you're doing.

646
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: He has, you know, a six foot seven body that

647
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Speaker 2: I'm sure emits a ton of heat and I can't

648
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Speaker 2: relate insulated. All right, guys, you are such a joy

649
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 2: to you and thank you so much for coming on,

650
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: spending your time, and for sharing your love story with us.

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00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,719
Speaker 2: We cannot wait to watch the next chapters. Thank you

652
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: so much, Ashley. Until then we said hi, very will

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Speaker 2: see yah hye bye bye.

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