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Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hello mister Ginney, Well, hello Trista Sutter nay Wren, how

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 1: And welcome to almost Famous though.

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Speaker 3: Oh jees, yeah, but I think we're almost famous, just

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Speaker 3: almost famous, because we're filling into I think, right, we.

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Speaker 2: Are just almost famous today, and I think that that

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Speaker 2: is pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we're going like current time.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of current, Hi, Mercedes, how are you?

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Speaker 1: How are you great?

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Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited that we actually get to like poach

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Speaker 3: almost famous because we never get to talk to like current,

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Speaker 3: as we just said, And I just loved you on

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Speaker 3: Bachelor in Paradise and you Bachelor, but I love your

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Speaker 3: sparkly positive energy and just want to thank you for

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Speaker 3: coming on the show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: So I assume, Bob, I don't think that Bob watched.

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Speaker 3: Is this true? Bob?

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Speaker 2: It is true. I did not watch. However, I do

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Speaker 2: know who Mercedes is. There's some standouts right from every season,

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Speaker 2: and so right when I saw your face, I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 2: wait a second, I know who she is. So yes,

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Speaker 2: very you're a very refreshing person to see on the screen.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for joining us and thanks for being

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Speaker 2: on the show. So yeah, I'm excited to get to

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Speaker 2: interview you as well. So even though I didn't actually

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Speaker 2: get to see all the antics from the season, I

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Speaker 2: know some of the scow so I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: He's always in the know, he does his homework.

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Speaker 1: Producers do a bang up job, they sure do.

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Speaker 3: Actually, Okay, so how is life after Paradise? Are you in?

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Speaker 3: Are you in Nashville or Iowa? Or where are you now?

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Speaker 3: And how is life?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So I came back to nash Well, I've been in

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Speaker 5: Nashville for five years now. Yes, I absolutely love it here.

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Speaker 5: It's such a fun city. As a young adult, I

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Speaker 5: am kind of thinking about moving to San Diego. I

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Speaker 5: know a lot of people do that after they go

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Speaker 5: on the show, but I have a few friends that

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Speaker 5: are going out there. So that's kind of the plan

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Speaker 5: right now. Just job searching and trying to figure it out.

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Speaker 3: Amazing, Are you become the hot San Diego?

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Speaker 1: Become the hot spot? Is that where everyone goes after that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: That's interesting because you remember Trista back in the day.

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Speaker 2: I mean when we did the show, it was like

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Speaker 2: everybody you know, like just immediately took off to be

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Speaker 2: the new ben Affleck and Trista and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: We stayed.

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Speaker 2: We kept to our we stuck to our guns. We

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Speaker 2: stayed local. You know where you buy that. Well, I'm

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Speaker 2: back in Michigan, which is where I grew up, but

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Speaker 2: I ended up I went to Manhattan first and then

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Speaker 5: I love, yeah, and you know what a lot of

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Speaker 5: there's a lot of Bachelor Nation here and I feel

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Speaker 5: like a lot of people from California are moving here.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, there's so many California people here.

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Speaker 2: San Diego is awesome too, though. I love It's one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite areas of California.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's. And it's I feel like it's

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Speaker 3: close enough to La where you guys, you could be

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Speaker 3: it all or when. Yeah. Okay, so are you dating currently?

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Speaker 1: Nope?

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Speaker 5: Not dating, definitely keeping my options open. I went into

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Speaker 5: I'm just really doing like a lot of like self

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Speaker 4: So yeah, for me right now.

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Speaker 3: So I when I watched Bachelor in Paradise, the thing

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Speaker 3: And so I went back today and I just googled Mercedes, which,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, that's exactly what he said on

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Speaker 3: your first date. He said there was all these signs

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Speaker 3: and there were sparks, and then he's like breaking up

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Speaker 3: with you and saying he couldn't find a spark, Like,

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Speaker 3: how did you feel about that? Yeah, it definitely I

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Speaker 4: I felt like we were both we.

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Speaker 5: Liked each other, but it was neither one of us

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Speaker 5: Like we were just like almost comfortable, you know, Like

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Speaker 5: I feel like our first date, it was amazing and

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Speaker 4: But then I felt like after we had that high,

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Speaker 4: it just kind of like puts out, you know. So

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Speaker 5: Me for a surprise when he said no spark, I

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Speaker 5: was like, what do you mean those spark Like what, like,

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Speaker 5: that's like a relationship, you have to have a spark,

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Speaker 5: Like what are you talking about. Yes, So definitely when

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Speaker 5: he said that, I was like taken aback. But I

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Speaker 5: also think that at the end of the day, we

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Speaker 5: just weren't. We're better as friends, and I love Tyler.

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Speaker 5: I think he's great. I'm really happy for him. He's

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Speaker 5: in a relationship and everything. Wish absolutely nothing but the

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Speaker 5: we just knew that we were better off friends, and

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Speaker 5: unfortunately you know, we were in front of cameras and

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Speaker 5: so I feel like we were trying to make it work,

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Speaker 5: when in reality we kind of both knew that it like,

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Speaker 3: Know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great outlook and a

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Speaker 3: great way to look at things. You know, all relationship

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Speaker 3: ships are not going to work out, and I think

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Speaker 3: if you have that kind of attitude, then you're going

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Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like when someone's using the same words.

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Speaker 2: I feel like when someone's using the same words like

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Speaker 2: spark too much, that that's a producer in their air going,

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Speaker 2: you know, because he obviously didn't realize that. He said,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, I feel such a spark, right, and

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Speaker 2: then to be like, I'm just not feeling sparks.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, no one uses that.

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Speaker 4: I know they did, like in the show and they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to age. Well, you know, that's

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Speaker 2: It's like, I feel such great chemistry and then at

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Speaker 2: the end you're like, I don't feel any chemistry.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, this is not going to age.

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Speaker 3: Should be I should be more in the know and

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Speaker 3: realize that there probably is a producer behind all that.

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Speaker 3: But I was like, dude, you literally told her that

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Speaker 3: there were sparks on your first date, and then you

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Speaker 4: I don't know that it was great.

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Speaker 3: So I know that you've got your girl gang from

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Speaker 3: Bachelor of Paradise, So tell me about the trip, like,

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Speaker 3: and I love that you guys are still getting together,

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Speaker 3: especially like I know, Bob, you probably still are mad

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Speaker 3: about not being able to go to the Cold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little I'm a little hurt. A little

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Speaker 4: Too, a mean on that call.

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Speaker 6: I don't know either, I know, so I have I

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Speaker 6: you know, between that, between that and being left off

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Speaker 6: the shortlist for the Easties, I'm just so ass chapped

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So so I've told Bennett and

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Speaker 3: other producers and execs like we need to have a

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Speaker 3: what I've I used to explain it as like a

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Speaker 3: and guys where we're like we're like family, but you know,

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Speaker 3: So I love that you have found your crew.

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Speaker 1: Who did you walk.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, your tribe? Who did you walk away with the

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Speaker 3: closest relationships, I would.

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Speaker 5: Say out of Bachelor, I was definitely closest with Katie

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Speaker 5: we were roommates, so awesome. Yeah, And so when you travel,

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Speaker 5: So definitely, out of Bachelor, I was definitely closest to

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Speaker 5: But I'm really close with like Jess, kat Kylie, obviously Katie, Gabby,

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Speaker 3: I love that. I know you're super close with Kylie.

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Speaker 3: As you just said, how is she doing with the breakup.

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Speaker 5: I think she's doing the best that she can, obviously,

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Speaker 5: like that news is horrible to receive on both ends,

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Speaker 5: Like it's just it was horrible, and so I think

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Speaker 5: working on healing herself. And I know she just went

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Speaker 5: on like Nick Biel too. So I know you guys

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Speaker 5: will hear her from her soon about her side, which

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Speaker 5: I'm really excited for her to put out and just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and for Bob, I he cheated on her, right,

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Speaker 3: she found out that he cheated on her. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: never never good.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a bummer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty simple.

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Speaker 2: I feel like in circumstances, it's like break up first,

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Speaker 2: if that's what you feel like doing, right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: honest to god, I used to always say it. I'd

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Speaker 2: be like, give me a favor, like don't in a relationship,

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Speaker 2: like don't just.

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Speaker 1: Don't let the joke be on me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna do it, you can call it

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Speaker 2: and be like, hey, we're done, and then do whatever

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Speaker 2: we'll do. At least then I'll be like, oh, you

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Speaker 2: know what they did me the service, you know. I

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Speaker 2: mean I might not have saw the text. I might

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Speaker 2: not have seen it, but you know, yeah, that sucks.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that.

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Speaker 3: Especially in the public eye. You know, that's what I was.

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Speaker 2: I mean I still have people approach me and be

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Speaker 4: They seemed so happy and like, yeah, I just want

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Speaker 3: Were you watching live?

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Speaker 4: Something was wrong. I didn't even think it was the show,

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Speaker 4: That, blah blah blah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's not a normal wedding. It was like a live

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Speaker 5: She's like literally when people are like, what's like Christina,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a great way to describe her. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: People, Hey, one thing that I've learned, one thing that

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Speaker 4: Matter what happens.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, someone's gonna have something to say about something. And

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Speaker 4: Me so well.

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Speaker 1: And if there's no drama, you're two vanilla. So it's like.

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Speaker 5: A little They're like, oh, Mercedes has no personality, she's boring.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, why because I don't want to give into

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Speaker 1: Don't don't bite.

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Speaker 3: Don't bite, Yeah, don't take the bait.

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Speaker 2: Doing great, you're doing great. It's much better to hat.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, yes.

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 3: So what's next for you besides maybe moving to San Diego?

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm just honestly flying by this student. How

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Speaker 3: Pants?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Seen in my pants. I'm just like rolling up doing

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Speaker 5: whatever comes my way. I told God, like, whatever doors

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Speaker 5: I'm going to say yes to everything. I'm going to

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Speaker 5: I'm job searching right now, trying to finally start my career.

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Speaker 5: No clue what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Before right, Yeah, you have to know what they want

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Speaker 5: I feel like I originally before I went on the show,

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Speaker 5: and I loved that, but I also like kind of

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Speaker 2: Like a for profit, Like I really want to be

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's funny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Just trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you have great opportunities. I'm sure your lovely

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Speaker 1: So we're excited for you. Keep us posting how it goes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I definitely will for sure.

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Speaker 3: And last question, are you moving to San Diego with

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Speaker 5: Yes? So, Kylie and Jess are actually moving I think

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Speaker 4: So just figuring it out. Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: I love it is carlsbad that, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure Tenley lives out there, and and she's about to

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's what I'm doing right now.

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Speaker 5: I literally had to change his mind because my I

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Speaker 4: Like, we're going to go to Punta Kata. Can you

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 3: Wait, you didn't get to.

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Speaker 1: Are you? Yeah? She is not close to Carl's Bad.

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Speaker 1: I can promise you that, yeah, no.

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Speaker 5: And I I grew up in Iowa, so I know

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Speaker 2: Oh you definitely do you Definitely we're getting crushed with

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Speaker 1: It's brutal, but so it is Denver right, so it's donever.

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Speaker 1: You guys got a lot to Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: We're better like we were in the forties.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, but.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it was like negative ten. I think, like literally

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Speaker 5: Iowa, Iowa has like my hometown has like twenty inches

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Speaker 1: I hate it so brutal. Yeah, you wonder then I'm like,

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Speaker 3: I know it all right? Awesome, Thank you Mercedes for

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Speaker 3: Just love watching you. I'll be following along.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me today. It was

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Speaker 4: nice meeting you guys.

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Speaker 1: Nice meeting you too. Thanks for joining almost famous.

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Speaker 3: How a great day you too, See you Bye bye.

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Speaker 3: She is so lovely she is, And you know what,

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering if she had any idea who we.

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Speaker 1: Were guarantee she did not.

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Speaker 2: She's like, why is this old married dude giving me

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Speaker 1: An Eastie, who is this loser?

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Speaker 3: I don't get that hurt anymore. I'm fifty one years

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Speaker 3: old and I just can't care anymore.

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Speaker 1: When I was fifty one, I didn't care either.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's the turning point in life, it really is. You

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Speaker 2: know what, though, she's so cute, she's so nice. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 2: I think she's got a great attitude of about things.

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Speaker 2: And man, how great would it be? Oh, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what I'm gonna doing. On job hunting,

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Speaker 2: I loved it. You're like, so job hunting for what?

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Speaker 2: I you know, I'm not really sure hunting for jobs

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Speaker 3: Job do you just put in like job search like

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Speaker 1: Job job go. Yeah, okay, I know what do you want?

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Speaker 1: What do you want to do? I'm not entirely sure.

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Speaker 1: Just too, I think it's awesome.

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Speaker 3: I mean, why not when you're young just have the

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it too. I'd do it if I could. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for I wishould have best. Well, that was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sading. He's for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We loved it. Thanks for coming on Almost Famous.

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Speaker 2: I hope that your interview with US today finds you

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Speaker 2: your new career in a for profit.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Mercedes, and thanks everybody for listening.

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