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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 Vue podcast. Today we're

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Speaker 2: talking headlines and we're also answering some of your bachelor questions. Ben,

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Speaker 2: we have only baby headlines. There's so many baby headlines

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Speaker 2: all the time in bacheloration. Actually, speaking of how is

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Speaker 2: Jess doing. She was midway through, She's midway through.

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Speaker 3: She is midway, she has four months left.

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Speaker 4: We just had our twenty week ultrasound, that's the anatomy

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Speaker 4: scan to kind of check up over everything. As of today,

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Speaker 4: the baby is the size of a large banana.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good, it's pretty big. How did you feel during

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Speaker 2: the ultra side? Did you get emotional? To be quite honest,

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Speaker 2: I never really did.

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Speaker 4: Jes does she gets really emotional. I don't, mostly because

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Speaker 4: at one point I was like, oh, she's so cute,

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Speaker 4: and she's like that's her stomach, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 4: well then I'm out of this.

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Speaker 5: Like I have no clue what.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at. I have no idea what I'm looking at.

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Speaker 4: This is just a bunch of different things happening at once.

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Speaker 4: You know, I am full speed ahead right now on

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Speaker 4: I've done the nursery. So I've put up painted the nursery,

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Speaker 4: put up some wainscoat in the nursery. I'm redoing our bathroom.

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Speaker 4: Like right after this, I'm going to start working on

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Speaker 4: the bathroom.

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Speaker 5: You're nesting, yeah, early, so I.

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Speaker 4: Don't have to be rush at the end. I don't

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Speaker 4: want to be rush at the end. And so I

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Speaker 4: get emotional at times when I'm doing that because I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: my baby girl is going to sleep in this. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: one day. But for the most part, I'm not. I

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Speaker 4: haven't gotten very emotional at all yet. Just us, for sure,

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Speaker 4: she gets. She gets really every day. There's videos and

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Speaker 4: pictures and I don't know, it's crazy, it's so awesome.

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Speaker 4: It's such a fun season of life for us and

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Speaker 4: ess is. I don't know if this is like the

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Speaker 4: proper way to say it, but this is how she

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Speaker 4: She said her her bellies pop. They're like, sure, you

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Speaker 4: can definitely see that she's pregnant.

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Speaker 5: Now that's that's the the image.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the.

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Speaker 5: Verbiage, the verbage.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good. I don't ever know what's right and wrong

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Speaker 3: and what I can and can't say.

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Speaker 4: But you can say she's popped. Yeah, good, Yeah. So anyways,

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Speaker 4: really exciting times. We do have some baby headlines to

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Speaker 4: get to today, Bachelor Nation. It just feels like a

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Speaker 4: time for babies, doesn't.

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Speaker 5: It, Ashley, Yeah, it sure does.

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Speaker 4: First headline is this Bachelor Nations kindle long we just

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Speaker 4: had on the podcast actually is expecting her first baby.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So she was in her first trimester and we had

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Speaker 2: her on maybe towards the end, and she did not

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Speaker 2: reveal anything nor show any signs that she was pregnant.

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Speaker 2: But they are due and she is due February twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five. And I think this will probably align with

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Speaker 2: them coming back to the States because right now they're

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Speaker 2: living in Germany. And of course all of Bachelor Nation

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Speaker 2: came out in the comments section of her instagram. We

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Speaker 2: have comments from Sarah Herron and so everybody is really

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Speaker 4: Of course it's a big deal. Probably why she was

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Speaker 4: teasing that she didn't know how long they would be overseas,

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Speaker 4: this was probably already in the works. It's a weird

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Speaker 4: time when you know this big thing about your life

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Speaker 4: and you're not telling anybody because like you do an

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Speaker 4: interview and you don't know how to answer it because

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Speaker 4: you're so used to probably talking about your partner being like,

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Speaker 4: we're going to move back home right because you.

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Speaker 5: Know exactly exactly.

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Speaker 4: Sarah hare and share sweet newborn photos of her twin girls.

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Speaker 4: The quote is they were so small.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 5: I feel for her every day.

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Speaker 2: I'm so interested in her inse stories because we're basically

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Speaker 5: We both have kids. Are her girls.

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Speaker 2: And Hayden, I think are like two weeks apart, so,

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Speaker 2: same stuff. But she's doing it with two, and I

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Speaker 5: She seems to be doing so well.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, they were born at thirty two weeks and

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Speaker 3: How old is Hayden now?

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Speaker 5: Ten weeks?

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Speaker 2: Goodness, time is so flying. I'm like, oh, ten weeks

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Speaker 2: he's still like, oh a little lady bitty. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 2: he's two and a half months before you know, he's

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Speaker 2: he's gonna be a year.

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Speaker 4: Wild final headline before we get into some question and answers,

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Speaker 4: Colton Underwood announces birth of his son. Our world is

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Speaker 4: a million times better with you in it, he says, Yep.

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Speaker 2: The baby's name is Bishop Colton Brown Underwoods. They hyphenated

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Speaker 3: Does he have.

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Speaker 4: To fill that name out on everything?

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Speaker 2: Bishop, Well, his name is Bishop Colton Brown Underwood.

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Speaker 5: But I wonder.

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Speaker 2: Why they went with cult. That's interesting that it would

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Speaker 2: be Colton. I wonder if Bishop is from his husband's side,

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Speaker 2: They of course welcomed the baby via surrogate. Colton was

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Speaker 2: very open about how they went through this surrogate journey

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Speaker 2: and even before it was the baby was in the surrogate,

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Speaker 2: the fertility journey they went through because he had to

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Speaker 2: undergo sperm rehab to get his sperm count up in

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Speaker 2: order for them to conceive this baby. But yeah, we

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Speaker 2: are so happy for them as well. I can't wait

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Speaker 2: to see more fatherhood from them. We have some questions,

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Speaker 2: one of which is have you gotten any baby advice

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Speaker 2: from other bachelor parents?

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Speaker 3: I mean you've given me good advice. I think.

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Speaker 4: When we were at Elon's wedding. Obviously I was sitting

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Speaker 4: next to Nick and Natalie. You were there, Raven and

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Speaker 4: Adam were there, were I mean the conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's very much about kids. So I'm picking

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Speaker 4: not do. I do think there's been good advice on

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Speaker 4: stuff we should get for the house. I'm reading a

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Speaker 4: couple of books right now on Well, this is one

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Speaker 4: of them. It's called The Birth Partner.

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Speaker 5: What are you learning in the Birth Partner? I love

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Speaker 5: this chat. Let's do it what I.

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Speaker 4: Can do to be a good partner from like this

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Speaker 4: day forward, which the first chapter is about massages where

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Speaker 4: it feels good for me to massage and where it

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Speaker 4: doesn't a lot of foot massage techniques and then so

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Speaker 4: I think that might be why I just gave it

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Speaker 4: to me. Also, it leads into then like, hey, what

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Speaker 4: are the signs that we're getting close? What are some

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Speaker 4: ways like stretches and things that we can do together

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Speaker 4: things that like we can do stretch wise or like

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Speaker 4: exercise wise that can get just ready for that day

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Speaker 4: or help you know her corese stay strong. Jessica works

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Speaker 4: out still every day. Now it's definitely a workout that

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Speaker 4: is modeled for somebody who is pregnant. So she's not

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Speaker 4: she's doing it every day. She still wakes up at

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Speaker 4: you know, six am and cranks.

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Speaker 4: And so and then I lead up to different types

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Speaker 4: And that's where I'm kind of at them at chapter five.

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Speaker 4: There's I think ten chapters, so I'm halfway through learning

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Speaker 4: a lot, definitely preparing myself the best I can. But no,

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Speaker 4: nobody's like directly been like this is what you have

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Speaker 4: to do or not do. It's mostly me kind of

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Speaker 4: learning or hearing as I go, or watching and learning.

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Speaker 2: What's the product that people are recommending the most, not

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Speaker 2: just bachelor people, but overall goodness.

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Speaker 4: You would be the one to ask me that I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna explain it to you and you'll know exactly what

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay.

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Speaker 4: It's a like really light packable stroller, so it's it's

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Speaker 4: like a transformer looking thing where the car sat and

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Speaker 4: the stroller are kind of attached.

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Speaker 5: Yes, multiple brands do that, but it is the.

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Speaker 2: I forget the I forget the name of the one

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Speaker 2: that's classic for that. Mine does that though, too, and

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Speaker 2: I have an Uppa baby. Both brands are great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know what brand it is.

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Speaker 4: This is not part of We do have a registry

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Speaker 4: other big one is kind of like the pack and play.

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Speaker 3: Like we have. I think we have a pack and

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Speaker 5: I don't really know, actually, Okay.

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Speaker 2: My advice is the snow for sure for the first

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Speaker 2: five months. The unfortunate thing is that they do grow

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Speaker 2: out of that around vir or six months and last night.

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Speaker 2: It may not be solely because of it, but it

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Speaker 2: definitely plays a role we got six straight hours.

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Speaker 3: That's a big deal.

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Speaker 5: It's a big, big deal. Yeah. So this new is

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Speaker 5: like a moving bascinette.

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Speaker 2: And then we moved with Dawson to the cradle wise,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I feel like Justin and I have a very nice home.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how in the world we're going to

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Speaker 4: find space for all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, welcome to my life now. That is my

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Speaker 2: I know it's super crazy, but I'm it affects me.

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Speaker 2: It really affects me to see like so much clutter

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Speaker 2: all the time, so much kid stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's not easy on me right now.

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Speaker 4: I told Jess, Okay, yeah, I have issues because I

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Speaker 4: walk through this house right now and I see a

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Speaker 4: stroller in one corner and boxes in another and clothes here,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, hey, like we got it.

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Speaker 3: We got to figure this out quickly.

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Speaker 5: See.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you said that, because I feel like

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Speaker 2: I can't focus on work. I can't focus on lots

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Speaker 2: of things when my house is just feels taken over

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Speaker 2: and there's just no function to it. So I feel

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Speaker 2: like whenever I get a free moment. I'm always trying

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Speaker 2: to find more function in the house.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how how to get more function in the house.

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Speaker 3: I'm in it. I'm in it right now, Ashley. Okay.

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Speaker 5: Well, that would be tu, it would be to me.

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Speaker 4: But come on, I don't think there's ever been a

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Speaker 3: Everybody leaves.

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Speaker 5: You guys left, Yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Leave, you walk in the park or you walk.

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Speaker 2: Not You and Lauren went without any sort of camouflage.

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Speaker 2: You would just sort of you were you were very risky, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think they're doing like relationship checks, where are you

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Speaker 3: In person, that sounds yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was just going to ask you, like, do you

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think they help. I do think they help. I

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Speaker 5: Meant for each This is the beginning of the end.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is the beginning of the end. So

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Speaker 4: that's what a happy couple is. There's no thrills to it,

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Speaker 4: there's no secrets to it. It's an airbnb somewhere around

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Speaker 5: That's it, all right?

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Speaker 2: Well, Ben, I'm going to rack my brain for other

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Speaker 3: You can ask me anything. Ashley anytime.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fine, I have one on the top of my

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Speaker 2: It's during the first few weeks. Do you give the

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Speaker 2: Okay, good answer, answer, good answer, Yeah for sure. All right, Well,

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Speaker 2: Almost podcast on Instagram, Email Ben and Ashley at iHeartMedia

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Speaker 2: dot com and we'll hopefully answer your Bachelor questions. They

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Speaker 2: can be current or they could be you know, evergreens

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always a good one, Hey, Ashley. We'll be

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Speaker 4: back next week with more content, more exciting things. Obviously,

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Speaker 4: the Golden Bachelorette is going to be continuing. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot of things happening in that show that I'm intrigued

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Speaker 4: the Almost Famous Podcast.

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

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