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

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Speaker 2: It's the almost Famous podcast. We have some special breaking news.

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Speaker 3: Do Do Do Do Do?

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Speaker 4: Do?

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Speaker 3: Do You know how they do that?

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Speaker 2: It's a breaking news in Bachelor Nation, and we're here

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Speaker 2: to talk about it because we promise you to be

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Speaker 2: as quick and to as accessible as possible. The first

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Speaker 2: breaking news that we need to talk about today is

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Speaker 2: we have a new bachelor that's been announced at a

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Speaker 2: random time without a lot of publicity around it. I

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Speaker 2: think it's a great choice, but we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about it today because it just came out of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: There was no warning, there was no like, it was

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Speaker 2: just all of a sudden, Ashley, Our new Bachelor, Grant Ellis,

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Speaker 2: was announced after the episode last night.

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Speaker 3: Why would they do it like this?

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Speaker 4: Well, according to Rob Mills, you know, the big guy

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Speaker 4: over at ABC's reality division. He's saying that they announced

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Speaker 4: so early so that girls can still apply to be

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Speaker 4: on Grant season. Because normally by the time that the

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Speaker 4: Bachelor's announced, the whole cast has been chosen. There might

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Speaker 3: Few that slipped through the gates.

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Speaker 4: But maybe they're going to really cast around him, which

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Speaker 4: is a great idea and one that we really kind

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Speaker 4: of pushed for for a while because then you'll find

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Speaker 4: perhaps better compatibility.

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So, in all transparency, you you and I watched

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Speaker 2: the screener, so we don't watch it on broadcast television.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how they announced Was it during the episode?

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Speaker 2: Was it right afterwards? Like how did this all go down?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: No, it was on social media.

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Speaker 3: They didn't even do an interview. They didn't have good

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Speaker 4: I was reading some of the spoiler accounts and they

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Speaker 4: were saying that there was no plan to have any

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Speaker 4: to be on internet announcement. It's also weird that he

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Speaker 4: the morning, and instead they did it right after his

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Speaker 2: This just feels like a non event, and it should

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Speaker 2: be a massive event, like the announcement of a leader

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Speaker 2: should be like the thing. It should bring people together.

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Speaker 2: They should all be talking about it. Maybe I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: I would assume some of our listeners right now feel

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Speaker 2: like we're spoiling something for them, Like they're seeing this

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Speaker 2: come through and they're like, I had no idea that

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Speaker 2: Grant was announced as the bachelor.

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Speaker 4: He thinks. I feel like, if you're on social media

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Speaker 4: and you watch The Bachelor, it probably comes up with

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Speaker 4: your algorithm. But it's certainly the least celebrated announcement of

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Speaker 4: a bachelor in a very long time. Is it is

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Speaker 4: bizarre to me? I don't one percent believe Rob Mills's reasoning.

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Speaker 4: I think it is bizarre.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you a little bit about our

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Speaker 2: newest bachelor, just in case you don't know that he

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Speaker 2: is your bachelor, and he is. Grant Ellis is thirty

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Speaker 2: years old. His charm and good looks were definitely something

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Speaker 2: that Jen Tran was is into. He had a lot

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Speaker 2: and I's perspective, he's a great choice. I think initially

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Speaker 2: know him better. He is a self admitted Mama's Boy again.

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Speaker 2: He is a former professional basketball player who is now

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Speaker 2: When he's not immersed in the fast paced world of finance,

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Speaker 2: ABC is obviously very excited about this choice. He will

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Speaker 4: I haven't watched the last twenty minutes of this episode yet.

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Speaker 4: Was there any moment with Grant this episode that you said, ah,

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Speaker 4: Sometimes they pick a lead based on one moment. Can

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Speaker 4: we think of one moment? I could think of one

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Speaker 2: It was shocked, like the only thing about this last

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Speaker 2: episode that was memorable from Grant's perspective is that his elimination.

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Speaker 2: Elimination was shocking, there was not. I was shocked that

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Speaker 2: In fact, if you listen to the episode with Jason

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Speaker 2: of us yesterday before we knew who was the bachelor

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Speaker 2: said it's either going to be Jonathan or shockingly Spencer

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Speaker 2: felt like they didn't do a lot to get him

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Speaker 2: to that point. I don't think he did anything wrong.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the show showed him enough to get

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Speaker 4: Ben. The most memorable moment that I think Grant had

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Speaker 4: It It was just endearing.

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Speaker 2: I'm confused right now, not because he's the choice. I

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Speaker 2: feel like after his one on one date, after that

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Speaker 2: had an opportunity here to create a star, like, to

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Speaker 2: to be our bachelor. He's got to be a bachelor.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't think of anybody else except him to be

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Speaker 2: the Bachelor. He was made to be the Bachelor. I

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Speaker 2: don't think people are going to be upset with him

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Speaker 4: Question why would they if they had in their head

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Speaker 4: this guy could be Bachelor material, why wouldn't they extend

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Speaker 2: That's where I'm confused, because they obviously knew he was

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Speaker 2: actually finally cut. They don't final cut him until almost

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Speaker 2: they not start to build him up for like for

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Speaker 2: this moment, I don't know how to That's why I'm

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Speaker 2: now yeah, and why you know, and why then they

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Speaker 3: They're like hiding this guy. I don't get it.

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Speaker 4: I know, yeah, really weird. I want to also say that,

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Speaker 4: you know, reiterate the fact that we have liked Grant

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Speaker 4: I still hold that theory that Jen doesn't pick anyone,

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Speaker 4: as being the Bachelor. You and I probably don't see

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Speaker 4: Jeremy as being the Bachelor, but Jonathan love Jonathan. I've

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Speaker 4: already seen buzz about people wanting him to be the Bachelor,

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Speaker 4: and then well, Devin would be very interesting.

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Speaker 3: And then uh Marcus.

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Speaker 4: Marcus has also been huge spoken about as being Bachelor

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Speaker 4: a Bachelor contender. There are some tiktoks going around right

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Speaker 4: now that there might be some controversy around him, but

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Speaker 4: Marcus has been somebody that people regarded as like the

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Speaker 3: So it's not a bad choice. It's a good it's

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Speaker 4: But like, also, why we feel so much or we're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's again, it's very weird that they did not

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Speaker 2: He had every opportunity to be, He had every chance

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Speaker 2: why are you hiding this guy? He if you're so

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Speaker 3: In my face, like it make it as known to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just need to say that Jen left his

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd actually say I still didn't feel like I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We're excited. It'll be good. I hope they start to

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Speaker 2: He's very charming, he's very good looking. I think, in

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Speaker 3: He's hot. He's hot. He's so hot was her quote.

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Speaker 4: And that is great because they wanted another Joey, and

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Speaker 4: Joey is pretty universally hot. So now we have another

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Speaker 4: hot bachelor. And we did complain, well, no offense. The

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Speaker 2: To do all right for himself, I'm sure, or he's

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Speaker 2: gonna do just fine. Well, hey, that's the breaking news.

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Speaker 2: We have a new bachelor announced. Grant ellis thirty years old,

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Speaker 2: former professional basketball player now in finance day trader. I

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Speaker 2: think is the profession they said for him. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back with another episode of the Almost Famous podcast. We

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Speaker 2: actually have more breaking news this week that will be

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Speaker 2: sharing right away as soon as we record it.

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Speaker 3: But until next time, I've been Ben, I've been Ashley. Bye.

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