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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're here today with you

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Speaker 2: for another Franky Friday, where we break down all the

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Speaker 2: latest news and headlines going on with our soon to

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Speaker 2: be bachelorette, Taylor Frankie, Paul Ashley.

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Speaker 3: Wooooo, all right, we've been teasing these headlines for a while.

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Speaker 3: We're finally going to run them down. I'm excited to

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Speaker 3: do that. The girl has been giving us lots of

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Speaker 3: content because well, maybe it's not her, maybe it's ABC

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Speaker 3: is not hiding what she is doing out during this season.

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Speaker 3: We've seen her at a Cowboys game, We've seen her

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Speaker 3: out in Vegas, and they're allowing it and we are

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Speaker 3: down for it. We're seeing who she's moochin, who's already

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Speaker 3: that far in the process.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because she is our first lead that I

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Speaker 2: can remember that ABC is allowed to still have their

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Speaker 2: camera and access to their socials.

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Speaker 3: She probably has like a few a day. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I read an article where somebody said, well, of course

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Speaker 2: they have to let her have her socials, it's her job.

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Speaker 2: To my response being, wait, everybody else has to give

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Speaker 2: up their job to go on the show. Why doesn't

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Speaker 2: she Now, I'm glad she has her show.

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Speaker 3: It's like, thank you, good point. Good point. But Ben,

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Speaker 3: my guess is that they are taking most ninety five

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Speaker 3: percent of the footage they're creating combent and then they're

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Speaker 3: they're posting through her. But I don't think that she's

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Speaker 3: like on their hands on every day.

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Speaker 2: No, I would be shocked. I think it's smart for

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Speaker 2: them to let her have her socials, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's fine that they do. My point was not that

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Speaker 2: it's a bad thing that she has her social media.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying the argument cannot be of course, it's

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Speaker 2: her job. It's like, well, it's everybody's job. Everybody has

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Speaker 2: a job that goes on the show, and we all

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Speaker 2: leave them to go on the show, and she gets

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Speaker 2: to keep her social media, which is great because it's

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Speaker 2: picking up traction for this season that I think is

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Speaker 2: so necessary, so necessary for the future of the franchise,

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Speaker 2: and because she's had access to her socials.

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna.

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Speaker 2: Spoil anything here, but we're gonna do we do want

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Speaker 2: to break down. Well, we're not gonna no names, no names,

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Speaker 2: no names, No nobody wants a spoiler we can play.

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Speaker 3: The game this year like putting names in there. How

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Speaker 2: Said the last time we did that, it was a

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Speaker 2: massive fit. Nobody liked it, Okay, all right, nobody wanted spoilers.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fine, I'll just refer to them like this first

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Speaker 3: headline one about her kissing a suitor in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: That is the first headline, Taylor seeing kissing suitor in

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Speaker 3: Okay, he's one of the guys that we picked as

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Speaker 3: being a front runner. He's very cute and I can

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Speaker 3: just tell by the body language in these photos that

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Speaker 2: The next headline comes on November eighth, teenth, Taylor has

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Speaker 2: an NFL date. Now, if you listen to our Game

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Speaker 2: of Roses crossover show that we did here on Almost

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Speaker 2: Fame this podcast, it's very worth listening to. The Game

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Speaker 2: of Roses has a theory that The Bachelor is very

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Speaker 2: tied into the NFL, to which Ashley and myself responded with,

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Speaker 2: of course, yes, the show loves the NFL. Every year

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Speaker 2: they have an NFL date, they've had an NFL host,

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Speaker 3: We are used to public dates. For some reason, this

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Speaker 3: normally when there's a public date, it's a theater and

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Speaker 3: that called Jerry's world. Jerry's world.

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Speaker 3: So they are in a suite and the guy is

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Speaker 3: just like seeing actual interaction almost as if it's Taylor

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Speaker 2: They have not been hidden about this season, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of shocking to me, Ashley, because you would think

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Speaker 2: this season it does feel like they've been out and about,

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Speaker 2: including a date at Union Square Holiday Market in New

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Speaker 3: If I'm honest, we knew that was going to happen

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Speaker 2: Is it weird actually, as you think about it, for

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Speaker 2: them to be doing a Christmas theme date when this

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Speaker 3: So I don't think they care about looking like they're

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Speaker 2: What itirs, It's still going to be weird to watch

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a great season. One

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Speaker 2: are so excited that Taylor Frankie paul Is our bachelore

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Speaker 2: is Crocs. Crocs is going to absolutely blow up from

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Speaker 2: this season. They are going to get the absolute best

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Speaker 2: Paul loves her Crocs headlines this. Taylor's been posting cryptic

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that she has been posting videos

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Speaker 2: Familiar faces.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just fun to see a little bit

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Speaker 3: of the behind the scenes with them. Now onto things

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Speaker 3: that are about her exes. And I know that it's

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Speaker 3: rumored that her exes might be making a little appearance

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Speaker 2: Brooks Nader addresses Sean White and Dakota Mortensen dating roomors.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so brooks Natter, you know the model who is

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Speaker 3: with Dakota. Taylor's ex at the show's premiere on November eleventh.

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Speaker 3: At the Secret Wives and Mormon Wives premiere in New

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Speaker 3: things just spun out of control. She did say that

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Speaker 2: The final headline is also related to Dakota Mortenson Mormon Wives.

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Speaker 2: Dakota Mortensen throws major shade at our bachelorette and his

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Speaker 2: ex Taylor Frankie Paul's bachelorette stint.

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Speaker 3: Alrighty, so there is this controversial TikTok that Dakota put

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Speaker 3: and the fan reaction is not very good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of It's it's odd to me. I

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Speaker 2: be an interesting thing for us to follow. Is this

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be something to follow and

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Speaker 2: know we expected messiness, and I just hope it doesn't

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Speaker 2: distract from what it's happening on our screens and the

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Speaker 3: Dakota already has this taste of success and fame, a

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Speaker 3: like let it die. I see him kind of being

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Speaker 3: Scott Dissick. Has become very much like a beloved figure.

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Speaker 3: or just be like, what's up with this guy? Come on?

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Speaker 3: And hopefully she just finds someone who's less of a dick.

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Speaker 3: And am I wrong in saying that he comes across

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Speaker 3: kind of dickish. I've only watched the first like half

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Speaker 2: I know nothing about the guy. People love him though.

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Speaker 3: So people love him, but he's a problem. That's exactly

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Speaker 3: why I said he was Scott Dissick, because like everybody

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Speaker 3: relationship he was kind of a problem. I mean, don't

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Speaker 3: even get me started with Courtney these days. That's a

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Speaker 3: whole other topic. So it's interesting. I think people are

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Speaker 2: Him so much to look forward to. This has been

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Speaker 2: Frankie Friday. I'm telling you, we're going to do these

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Speaker 2: learn about her and her other show and her life

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the strategy here to do, Frankie Fridays

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Speaker 2: is all of us as listeners have to get educated.

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Speaker 2: We'll do the work in the back end, and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about it here on the front end, so that

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Speaker 2: all of us, as almost famous listeners and watchers of

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Speaker 2: the show can be prepared for the upcoming season of

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Speaker 2: The Bachelorette. But until next time, I've been Ben, I've

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Speaker 3: Yes,