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Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with her radio. Well, Hi,

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Speaker 1: just welcome to almost Famous. Oh geez, that's everybody that's

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Speaker 1: us know. How are my friend? How happy birthday? Happy?

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Speaker 1: Believe you? Thank you very I finally joined your club.

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Speaker 1: Good club. I've been here for a while and I've

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Speaker 1: just been kicking it by myself. I'm so thankful to

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Speaker 1: have somebody else here with me. Thank God. Oh I'm here,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. Um. I do have to say I have

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Speaker 1: not been feeling well. Um, so if my energy level

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Speaker 1: is a little low, that's why. But um, I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to talk to our guest today. I am too. You

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Speaker 1: know something about this guest and I want to tease

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Speaker 1: this a little because I don't know if anyone knows

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Speaker 1: who he is yet. He was my roommate actually on

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Speaker 1: the first season of The Bachelorette. We were we were

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Speaker 1: bunkmates in a giant mansion bedroom. Did you actually have

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Speaker 1: bunk beds or were there just mattresses on the floor.

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Speaker 1: They were all single beds, so like, I mean, they

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Speaker 1: probably were bunk beds. I would imagine what a set

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Speaker 1: of stacking them. I think they knew better, you know

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Speaker 1: now they stack them. But back then it was all

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Speaker 1: single beds, and Ryan and I were pretty close to

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, I just give it away. I just it's okay.

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Speaker 1: He's coming in literally a minute. So it's yes, one

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Speaker 1: of my one of my my favorite people from the show,

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Speaker 1: a very dear friend of mine, and you kind of

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Speaker 1: know him too, I guess. But today it's really about

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Speaker 1: he and I. I mean, it's really our connection. Ryan's

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Speaker 1: in the waiting room. Yeah, yes, um yeah, Ryan center,

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Speaker 1: come on in. I don't think he needs much introduction,

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Speaker 1: but he does not. I mean, if you are, if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna call you and I the o g s.

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Speaker 1: She is the only other uh, the only other guy

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Speaker 1: that's that's still in the in the Bachelor Bachelor Nation.

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Speaker 1: What do you call it? Zeitgeist? That's what the heck

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Speaker 1: is that word? Zeitgeist nists. This word we podcasters we

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Speaker 1: use areas. Hi, handsome, How are you, buddy? I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Can you guys hear me? Yes? Okay? Can't we even

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Speaker 1: hear you upstairs? I mean it's perfect technology like it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, I know? Yeah. I mean, as I said,

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Speaker 1: I haven't been feeling well, so we are in separate rooms.

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Speaker 1: Um we I'm trying to keep this guy healthy as

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Speaker 1: um as you know, Bob, he's been dealing with some

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Speaker 1: hell stuff. And one of the things, Babe, that I

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Speaker 1: wanted to have you come on and talk about today, Um,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like people always want to know whenever

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Speaker 1: I post anything is how you're feeling. So can you

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Speaker 1: tell everybody a little bit about what's going on lately,

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Speaker 1: how you're feeling. Sure? But before I do, I think

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Speaker 1: you guys should title this episode Ryan Interest to talk

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Speaker 1: about their separation. What do you mean was downstairs? Just

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Speaker 1: it was upstairs? What we didn't sit here like that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're doing that. Yes, And there's just a picture. It's

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Speaker 1: not any it's not any audio. We're just gonna say

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Speaker 1: Ryan in trist to talk about their separation on like

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Speaker 1: a caption. Yeah, totally but perfect. I I guess going

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Speaker 1: back to your original question, I'm just tired today, but

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Speaker 1: that's just because I've been working. Um, we're just going

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Speaker 1: if you want to start like right this moment, I'm

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Speaker 1: just a little bit tired. But lately I've been feeling

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Speaker 1: how far back you want to go, or what kind

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Speaker 1: of summer you want to be or including this. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the last few years, like everyone, really have

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Speaker 1: been sort of difficult, uh, you know, on a lot

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Speaker 1: of people's personal health and mind included UM and and

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Speaker 1: just sort of working my way through that and finding

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Speaker 1: UM finding and continuing to search for UM opportunities to

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Speaker 1: you're wanting to you're wanting to sort of do you

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Speaker 1: want your second half of your life to live up

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Speaker 1: turning forty eight. I don't really remember what that was like. Um,

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Speaker 1: am glad to hear that you're feeling better, though, because

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a challenge for you. And you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of us that follow, you know, follow the

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, you never for me personally, even

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Speaker 1: a question and it wasn't you You too kind of

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Speaker 1: alluded to it, but it was. It wasn't until you

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Speaker 1: the alternative things that you've done to to get yourself

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Speaker 1: they're fascinating. They're able to communicate and lots of different

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Speaker 1: I was kind of like your guys mouth piece when

428
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: you weren't there, because people would always go, oh, come on, yeah, yeah,

429
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: but he was on the show, and I'm like, I'm like,

430
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: trust me, yes they do. And hello, you know, I

431
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 1: don't know, just said Ryan. And you know, especially once

432
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: you guys add Max and Blakesley too, that it was

433
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: like a totally different conversation because it's like, you know,

434
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: now they have children, guys, and now you know, now

435
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 1: they're at their twenty year innver. It's like, you know, hey,

436
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: how long are you gonna keep on? You know, thinking

437
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,439
Speaker 1: it doesn't work? This is proof positive it does. And

438
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: then we all you know, but yeah, I'm glad you're

439
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: feeling better, buddy. And I think that, um, you know,

440
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: when we got to hang out to a little bit

441
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: a little bit together a Tahoe, may you appreciate what

442
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: you've been going through because I really didn't know as much.

443
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: And and you know, you're such a gracious person. You

444
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: don't really talk about it too often. You don't talk

445
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: about yourself very often at all, So I think, um,

446
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of nice to actually hear about

447
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: it and fascinating to hear about the treatment, you know,

448
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you're feeling better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank

449
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: thanks for the opportunity. I don't I don't like to

450
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: talk much about anything, to be honest, I'm sort of

451
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: like my my son in that regard. But but this

452
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: is one thing, Um, this is one thing where that

453
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: that I feel like it's important to talk about because

454
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: one thing I found out is how many people are

455
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: going through similar situations, and how lost so many people are,

456
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: and desperate so many people are, and and um, just

457
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: the fact that there's this crazy like I'm doing this

458
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: vat of therapy. It may not be right for everybody,

459
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 1: but I never would have imagined myself using these as

460
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: a as a way to heal him and get better.

461
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: And so I just want to encourage people to have

462
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: an open mind, to to advocate for themselves, and to

463
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,239
Speaker 1: continue to have hope in in finding a solution that

464
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: fits who they are and what they need, because it's

465
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 1: almost certainly out there. It's just oftentimes you don't get

466
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: the best advice right out of the gate, and so

467
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: you have to just kind of, you know, keep plugging

468
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: away and and that's the reason why I like, I

469
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: don't like, but that I'm willing to talk about it

470
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: to some degree. UM, because I do want people to

471
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: to have some hope and not feel like it's the

472
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 1: end of the end of the world if if they're

473
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: coming down with these diagnosis is because I think there

474
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: are solutions out there if you're open minded and so

475
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: so thanks for having me on and for giving me

476
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: the opportunity to see my life for the first time.

477
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 1: And like a week so we have to bring people

478
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: together here at the UM, but you're not getting out

479
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: so quick. I, UM, I am going to take this

480
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to because we hopefully we'll have some people listening, hopefully. UM.

481
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: I want to take this opportunity to say thank you

482
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: to you, babe for um my surprise party. So Bob

483
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: he I have been wanting a surprise party since I

484
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: can remember, like since I was little, always always wanted one.

485
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: And like a week before my birthday, I was riding

486
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: in the car with Blake Slate and she's like, are

487
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: you so excited for your birthday? And like, I don't know,

488
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, I really just I would love to have

489
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: surprise party. You know, we were just talking about um celebrating.

490
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: And I think that's to my knowledge, babe, I think

491
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: I heard this correctly. That she came home and she's like, okay,

492
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: we need to have a surprise party. So I think

493
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: a week before, right, no no, no, no no no

494
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: no no okay, so never mind, So take that away. Anyway,

495
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,479
Speaker 1: even if it was like um, last minute or not.

496
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: He got so many of my friends and my family.

497
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: I haven't seen my dad and my step mom in

498
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: a year since well over a year since last summer.

499
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: We went to St. Louis to visit them, and then

500
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: my mom flew intown and Bob, you know her Hayley

501
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: pretending or Platt is your married nick um even though

502
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: they aren't together anymore. But yes, she was Chris's um,

503
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: my brother in law's date to our wedding, and she um,

504
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: she flew in for it. And anyway, it was such

505
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: an incredible surprise, such an incredible night, like I did

506
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: not want it to end. I could not stop smiling.

507
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: So I just want to say thank you, babe, for

508
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: on this public platform, if you will, for putting that

509
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: together and making me feel special. Well, you're welcome. I

510
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: had a lot of help but yeah, right, we did it.

511
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: We did our best. It's either I'm very hard trying

512
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: it that's horrible, and I'm terrible at it, so especially

513
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: in today's day and age. So, Bob, I got a

514
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: a text message from one of the people who was

515
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 1: supposed to come to the party, like three hours before,

516
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: four hours before, and they texted, I haven't talked to

517
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: him in forever. I'm not going to name them, um,

518
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: but they texted me and they're like, hey, so it's

519
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: been so long, dada, UM, have so much fun tonight.

520
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: And I was like, we can't come, but have so

521
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: much fun tonight. And I said, oh, it's great to

522
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: hear from you about what is what's tonight. And then

523
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: we're driving, Um, we had to pick up Blakesley from dance.

524
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: We're driving from the dance studio to the location and um,

525
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: I was looking at my phone and I guess some

526
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: text messages had come in so on Ryan's truck like

527
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 1: he has like the system we're you can see your

528
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: text messages show up on the screen or whatever. Yeah,

529
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: And so Blakesley and one of my friends Jen, who

530
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: was planning the party, and Ryan and maybe somebody else

531
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: were on this group text, and they had texted and

532
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: Ryan like shoot that away off of the screen and

533
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: then detected dismiss. It's because blake So Blakesley's role was

534
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: to tell that we were on our way when we

535
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 1: picked up from dance, and so I had sent this

536
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: group text to say like, hey, Blakesley, here's Jen in

537
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: Atlanta's phone number. UM just texted when we leave and

538
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: so yeah, stupid vehicles these days are all like so

539
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 1: bluetooth connected. Blakes Blakesley does exactly what she was supposed

540
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: to do. She sends a text. She just replied to

541
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: my group text, which I was on, and my truck

542
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: was like, oh, text coming in from Blakesley. No, no doubt.

543
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 1: He literally was like no, no, no, And I was like,

544
00:29:55,160 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: what is happening? So we so yeah, so yeah that's

545
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: just good, Like like anything can ruin it. It's like

546
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: this whole and we had probably been planning it for

547
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: a month or so, and so for a month you're

548
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: just on pins and needles, walking on eggshells. I'm like

549
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: catch myself wanting to ask her, like what should we do?

550
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: What your parents are here? Kind of questions. Yeah, it's

551
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: just so hard, but but it ended up. It wasn't

552
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: as big of a surprise as I thought. But it

553
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: was a great party and it was a great celebration.

554
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: It was so my son's first birthday party. We you know,

555
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: it was it was pre COVID and we were all excited.

556
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: So we had this huge party. Every one of our

557
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: family members came over, close friends with kids and stuff,

558
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: and you know, it was awesome. And you know, if

559
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 1: you look back at the pictures, you can kind of

560
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: tell something's off with with Grace and my son. But

561
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: that day are nanny was supposed to come. Originally she

562
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,719
Speaker 1: was gonna come and work, and my wife called her

563
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: and she goes, hey, you know what, don't even worry

564
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: about it. We're gonna have so much family here. Just

565
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: take the day unless you know, we still love you

566
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: to come. And she was kind of like, kind of

567
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: like a little bit like, you know, no, thanks, I'm good.

568
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: I don't feel well anyway. I haven't felt very good

569
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: for the last week and I've been coming every day

570
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: and we're like, this is the first we've heard of it.

571
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: This is literally the day before the party. It's like

572
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: Friday and the party, so we're like, oh, why don't

573
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: you tell us, you were feeling well, I know it's

574
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: a big deal. So next day we have everyone over

575
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: parties doing great. As everyone's starting to leave, I am

576
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: the type of guy who I cannot go to bed into.

577
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: My house is spotless every night. I do the dishes

578
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: every night. I clean, I vacuum, I sweet, I do

579
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: all these things. Well, then you know everyone's gone and

580
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,719
Speaker 1: I'm doing the dishes, and all of a sudden, I'm

581
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: just like, you know what, I can't. I can't do

582
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: this tonight, And I leave everything in the sink and

583
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: I go upstairs and I lay down face first on

584
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: my bad much like Ryan probably members from our days

585
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: in the mansion together when we were when we were tested.

586
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: So I'm like, face first and this, and my wife thinks,

587
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: oh my god, he must have had too much to drink,

588
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: which I had not had a thing to drink all day,

589
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: And so she takes a picture of me and thinks

590
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: it's funny and sends it out as a text message

591
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: to a group of our friends like look who's overserved

592
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: at Grayson's birthday party? You know or whatever? Uh, needless

593
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: to saying, I had what I thought later was COVID,

594
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: Like I went and got the testing for it to

595
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: see if maybe it had been the strain of COVID

596
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: getting there kind of early. But it wasn't. It was

597
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: just a really bad flu. But how we knew how this,

598
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: how this transpired was everyone from our party got it

599
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: and they would literally call me and be like, well, hey,

600
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: thanks for the gift that keeps on giving. Uh, when

601
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: Grace's second birthday is coming around, to us a favor,

602
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: don't call us. Everybody got sick. Yeah, it is not fun.

603
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: I don't like being sick, and um, it's not easy

604
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: when you're um, when your kids have to be everywhere, um,

605
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: at different places at different times, and thankfully they're at school,

606
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: you know most of the day. Max had a late

607
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: start today but we had to wake up at five

608
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: to take him to hockey practice that starts at six

609
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning. Anyway, UM, yeah, it's not easy,

610
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: but yeah it was. It was so worth it. I

611
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: would do it a million times over, um if I

612
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: had to be sick and fed again, because it was

613
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: just so much fun to see all these people who

614
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: I know and love and be able to hug on

615
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: them and um and just feel the love. So hopefully

616
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: you feel really special to knowing that Ryan and Blakesley

617
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: and your friends put in such a effort to plan people. Yeah,

618
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: people got on a plane, people got in a car,

619
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: and people made an effort to be there. It's just

620
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: shows you all loved you are. You know, you put

621
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: out positivity and you get it back. So I think

622
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: it's wonderful. We actually had to change the location three

623
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: hours before the party because too many people came, and

624
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: so we had one restaurant booked and we showed up

625
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: with that gonna weak. That's fire code violation. We can't

626
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: have these people. I'm so sorry, Like what I were, like,

627
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: what did you get out your badge? And like, trust me,

628
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: we're gonna be fine. And you could tell, like I

629
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: have a video that my mom took, so my parents

630
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: were kind of hidden in this back room if you will,

631
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: or back section of the restaurant um and she took

632
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: a video of kind of people waiting for me to

633
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: get there. And there's this this woman having dinner with

634
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: probably her husband or whatever right next and you could

635
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: tell like she was just like why are these people here?

636
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: She was so frustrated because it was there were a

637
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 1: lot of people and it was they were, we were

638
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: all well, they were all pretty out before I got there.

639
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: And then of course, um, you know, surprise and everything. Yeah,

640
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: the people who came there for dinner that night were

641
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: not super happy that there was a surprise party that

642
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: they Yeah, they were just unhappy they weren't invited. That's

643
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: the only problem, all right. Anyway, it was great. I

644
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. Think so, guys, I

645
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: want to talk about something. I don't know if you

646
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: two know this story, but I think that, you know,

647
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: I think that I might kind of be responsible for

648
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: this union Trusted and Ryan and I. I don't know

649
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: that I've ever shared the story. I know I've told

650
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: you Trusted, but I don't think Ryan's ever heard this

651
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: story before. But m Ryan, so I'll never forget you

652
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: and I meet the first night at the mansion, and

653
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: I am uh we just you know, we were in

654
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: the same areas a lot, and we were always laughing

655
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: with each other and stuff, and and I used to

656
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: love telling the story of how you know. People would

657
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, Bob played college football, and

658
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: I'm like I was, I was a backup A and

659
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: me talked to Ryan he played professional football, and it

660
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: would try to be crazy because Ryan would never you know,

661
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: I love that you wouldn't talk about it because it's

662
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: just who you are. You just you're so humble and

663
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: I love it. But I'd always be like, and I

664
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: would say that's people. They'd be like, oh yeah, he's

665
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: a fireman and a poet. And I'm like, you guys

666
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: have no idea who this guy is. I'm like, do

667
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: you realize you know, everyone sit here and talks about

668
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, it's a this in high school college.

669
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, the dude played for the Ravens. Okay. So

670
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: I would always get myself so fired up about that.

671
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: I'm like, he doesn't talk about it. This is the guy,

672
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: trust me, this is your guy. You know. I'm like,

673
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm out there leading the Century Club and he's writing poetry.

674
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: The guy is amazing. But I used to always always

675
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: talk about that stuff. But one of the things, I

676
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever told you this story. So

677
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: we were at a group date and I don't know,

678
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: I don't think Ryan was on this date with us,

679
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: but there were five of us. Remember when we went

680
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: on the You and I have talked about the great

681
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: dates they planned for you that year, the wonderful, the

682
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: wonderful gold card date, which really made sense with what

683
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: was going on in your family. And then of course

684
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: the beach date would the shellfish good come right? So

685
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: so we're on a beach date and I'm you know,

686
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: we we go there and there, yeah, you were there,

687
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: and and I'll never forget I'm standing there, you know

688
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: and just sort of like, oh, I don't know, we

689
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: really wants next, you know, I'm just kind of hanging

690
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: out and Trista and I had already kind of struck

691
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: up this this really great friend vibe, and I could

692
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: tell that, you know, it was like we really like

693
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: each other, and it was like, but but we were

694
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: we were necessarily clicking romantically, right, and so but that

695
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: was okay because neither one of us care. I was like,

696
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: we're just having a great time. When we'd be in

697
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: the same room together and I was just like, I

698
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: love this check She's awesome. So we're not on the

699
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: beach and I'll never I think it was Carbone. I'm

700
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: not entirely sure, but I want to say that it was.

701
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, getting come here, I want to talk

702
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: to you. I'm like, yeah, hey, what's up in He's like,

703
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And I go, oh, I'm just

704
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: going to grab a beer there out of the cool

705
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: and he's like, listen, uh, man, you really gotta get

706
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: on this Tristo. Trista really wants to kiss you. And

707
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: I go what. He goes, oh yeah, she uh she said,

708
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: She's like, I really want to kiss this guy. Uh

709
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: And I go, I go hold on, I said, hold

710
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: on this thing. I go, you're so you're telling me

711
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: the Trisa came up to you, the producers, and was like,

712
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: oh man, I'll tell you what if this day could

713
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: be any more special for me, I'd make out with

714
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: that guy in front of four other dudes. That's what

715
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: I want to do. And he's like yeah yeah. So

716
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 1: she said, I go, that's what she said you because yeah,

717
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: I go. I go, here's what's not gonna happen. I'm

718
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: not gonna try to kiss her on a beach in

719
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: front of four other dudes. It's not happening. So good try,

720
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: thank you, but it's not happened today. So I walk

721
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: away and as I'm walking away, I started to think

722
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: about it, and I'm like, I hope the Trista doesn't

723
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: think I don't want to kiss her because I mean,

724
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, I mean she's lovely. Of course, I like

725
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: I've you know, I I liked it, you know, but

726
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: the whole time. So I'm like, you know, I don't know,

727
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna necessarily try to kiss her, but I

728
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: could I should have at least take the opportunity to

729
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: go and talk to her. So I come back and

730
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of beers. I'm coming back for

731
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: Jamie blythe I'm gonna give Jamie a beer. And you know,

732
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: Jamie's the most lovable mannequin. I'm a planet, right. The

733
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: guys just you wind him up and the circus. So

734
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: I drop walking back for a couple of beers and

735
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh. Car goes like hell, ho where going?

736
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go get a beer to Jamie and

737
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: he's like no, no, no, he's uh, he's he's in

738
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: the middle of something right now. Oh. I kind of

739
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: glanced around everybody and like I see Jamie on the

740
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: beach going in to try and kiss Triss and she's

741
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: like whoa, no, thank you, no thanks, And I'm like yes.

742
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: So I was so glad that I didn't take the

743
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: bigger of course, you know, my dumb buddy does. So

744
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: we get the limo way after this whole shellfish thing,

745
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: and you know where it's just funny and and we're

746
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: in the limo and I and I go, hey, Tristy,

747
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, um, I just want to say, you know,

748
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: if my sister were on the show, because I was,

749
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: I was feeling like she I don't know, I felt

750
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: like I was supposed to protect you on these day.

751
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: I don't know why that was in my head, but

752
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, my sister on this show and

753
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: and you know, five dudes and on a beach, I'm like,

754
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: someone of them trying to make out with her. I

755
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: would I'm just gonna say it right now. I hope

756
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: you don't think that means we're not interested in getting

757
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: to know you better, because we are. We're just being respectful.

758
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: And I and Jamie's sitting like down at the end

759
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: of the limo and I'm down here at the other end,

760
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: and Jamie's going and I'm like, but if someone did

761
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: try to kiss you, that wouldn't mean that they're a pig.

762
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: It would just mean that they're you know, they're doing

763
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: something different than me. I guess I don't know. I

764
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 1: don't know what a j's like can throw me under

765
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: the bus man, I'm like, you're the dummy that listened

766
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: to Carbone. I tell you to do that. It's a

767
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: long but I feel like, you know. I guess I

768
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: should just say you guys are welcome. You know, yeah,

769
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks, thank you. I've always given you a

770
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: ton of credit actually, especially in the early sort of

771
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: the early group dates, where all of the pressure was

772
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: off of me too to be sort of something I

773
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: wasn't because I'm not super extroverted. But if you were there,

774
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: then it was always a good time because you that

775
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: was you, and you took that um you did. You

776
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: handled that very well, and you made it fun for

777
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: everybody involved. Not it wasn't. You was just focused on Trista.

778
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: That everybody sort of got to be a part of

779
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: a really good time when there was a group date

780
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: with you, Bob. And so I've I think I've told

781
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: Trista this many times. They that you you sort of

782
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: got me through those initial stages until it could be

783
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: more one on one and I could get to know

784
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: Trista just as a person and she could get me

785
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: as a person. But but yeah, I I didn't know

786
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:37,320
Speaker 1: that the extent of the yeah. But yeah, I've always

787
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: thought and I think we were super fortunate. And when

788
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: people ask me about the show, I always tell them, like, listen,

789
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: I liked every single guy that was on that, So there,

790
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: you know, we're not. I don't keep in touch with

791
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: them now, but I don't keep in touch with a

792
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: lot of people in my life now. For that period

793
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: in my life, I felt fortunate to have known all

794
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: of you guys, And um, it wasn't the kind of

795
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: show that was super dramatic, and there was not in

796
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: hiding between us. Like I told people initially, half the

797
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: time guys would were like, oh crap, I got a

798
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: date with Tris to like keep my beer like cold,

799
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: I'll be bad. Like there wasn't like amos like more

800
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: fun to be at the house sometimes than it was

801
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: to be outside of the house. So much fun. We

802
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: had a good time. We were we were fortunate to

803
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: have that experience, and I feel like I it was

804
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: especially especially fortunate to have it in the way that

805
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: it did for me. But but the path along the

806
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: way was certainly enjoyable, and that was in large part

807
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: because of you. So thank you for that, buddy. I

808
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. I I always say that

809
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: I was always like I felt like Ryan and I

810
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: were like the perfect man together. Like he was, you know,

811
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: just a stud, super sweet and kind, and I'm nice enough,

812
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: but you know, he's like he's sensitive and he's caring,

813
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: but he's also really funny and when you get to

814
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: know him, it's such a great time, you know, you know,

815
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: like and then I'm the one that just sort of

816
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: breaks the ice everywhere I go, and then you know,

817
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: you know, But it was one of those things where

818
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: I felt like, um, I agree with you. I mean,

819
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: I've often said it that I think interesting. I think,

820
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, it does start at the top, and I

821
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: think that from that perspective, it really didn't start with you.

822
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: We weren't There wasn't a bunch of drama with us.

823
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: We were genuinely friends. Like I remember when I came

824
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: off the show, and I remember I didn't know who won,

825
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: and um, who was the choice? I should say, it's

826
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: not gently a winner. I suppose you know, I know

827
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: how that works. But I I said the wrong word there.

828
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: But I mean, I I was sitting I'm never forgetting

829
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: saying if she doesn't choose Brian, I will lose my

830
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: mind and everyone'll be like, A mean, I'm like, I

831
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: go I was choosing Ryan. I was like, Okay, how

832
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: do I keep Brian in my life? What do I

833
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: gotta do here? I gotta do I have any roses? Like,

834
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: how the hell do I do this? You know, because

835
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: it was like we'd be in our little bonk beds,

836
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: which were you know, like the single twin beds in

837
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: this big room, and it was like, you know, we

838
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 1: just all bonded and it was never i mean agreed,

839
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: like it was never one of those things where I'd

840
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: run into someone years later and be like, oh, there's

841
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: that guy. It was I was like, hey, you know,

842
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm so we didn't have any of that stuff. You know,

843
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: it was so good. But I do think that starts

844
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: with you, Trista, because you sort you had to set

845
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: the pace for that and because of your experience, you know,

846
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: you made it so that it was drama free for us,

847
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: because you knew how that went right. I mean, it

848
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: was a little bit of Yeah, I don't know if

849
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: I had much to deal with it. I think you

850
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: guys were just awesome. It was just such a good

851
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: group of guys. And and at that point in time,

852
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: because it was so I knew, uh you know so

853
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: o g um, people weren't as into and maybe the

854
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: producers weren't as into kind of inciting the drama and like,

855
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, getting people to to uh focus on in

856
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: fighting when it was just so I kind of wish

857
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: for that again. I wish there was just this great

858
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: group of guys or girls that just have such a

859
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: great time together. And and although I do kind of

860
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: like the drama watching, but at the same time, I

861
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: I loved my guys. I love you. Yeah, yeah, you

862
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: didn't have some great ones. I mean there was, I mean,

863
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: you know, to a number. I mean I keep in

864
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: touch with I still keep actually Jennie Blythe and Jack French,

865
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: you know, and of course the two of you, which

866
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: is nice and um, you know, and that's why I

867
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, when I look at the season,

868
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: I mean I always kind of come back to that.

869
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: And then I told the story recently on the air, Rhine.

870
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you got to hear about it,

871
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: but I ran into the guy, the first guy I

872
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: met in the mansion after Green trist I walk inside

873
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: and there's a guy standing there and he was just

874
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: this great looking guy and he's just standing there and

875
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: he was just very like perfect posture and he's like,

876
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, how are you. I'm like good, you know,

877
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: and talking to him and he's like, you know, I

878
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: won't go back to the rabbit hole the whole story,

879
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: but I remember going, you know, so what do you do?

880
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: And he's like, I studied the martial arts. And I'm like, ah,

881
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: I too, studied the martial arts. And he's like you do.

882
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: I said yes. He's like what discipline? And I said tibo.

883
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: And Jamie Blyth of course is with me, and he's like,

884
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: are you going to feel like the funniest guy a

885
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: live I'm like yeah, zer and guys like that's not

886
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: a martial art brother, and I'm like, oh, tell Billy

887
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: blank Stath, you know, because that guy is making a fortune.

888
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: And I ran into him at the Kentucky Turkey like

889
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: two years ago, and I'm like, oh, I know this guy.

890
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: And he's like I was with you in trist this season.

891
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, and he that story, so

892
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, even to this day, you know,

893
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: we can feel good running into each other because it's

894
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: always going to be pretty pleasant. Well, thank you so

895
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: much for coming um and walking down memory Lane with

896
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: me and Bob and chatting about how you're feeling. Um,

897
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: We've been talking about having you on for a really

898
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: long time, so thanks you. You've got to have the

899
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: original O G S on. You know what I mean,

900
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: this is this is the real deal. This makes me

901
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: so happy. And Ryan, I mean you, I love and

902
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: respect you man, and I just I'm so happy that

903
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: you would come on and share, you know, share a

904
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: lot of what you've been going on through too. I

905
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: think I think it is gonna help a lot of

906
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: people because whether it's you know, whether it is line disease,

907
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: or whether it's something else that they're dealing with. Like

908
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: you said, you have an open mind and be willing

909
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: to try some different things and not just go down

910
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: the conventional path of over medicating yourself. Not that so

911
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure some people can do that too.

912
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: But I think that's a pretty uh wise wise bit

913
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: of information to dispense today. So thanks for doing that

914
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, No, this was fun. It was fun.

915
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 1: It's kind of fun to think back on those those

916
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: days so long ago with the especially Jamie. I just

917
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: remember like dog food, stuff, anxiety attacks and all sorts

918
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: of stuff, and it's just kind of fun to read it.

919
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the same with you, but

920
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,479
Speaker 1: it feels like a totally different time or I feel

921
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: like a lifetime ago, so to think about it, it's

922
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: kind of fun. So thanks for having me on and

923
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: allowing me to to partake in some of that and

924
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: to share my story. And uh, you know where to

925
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: find me if you if you ever want to talk again.

926
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm downstairs. Okay, your trial separation there

927
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: in the in the downstairs level. I love that good.

928
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: I know you hit gold on the show. You know

929
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: that you genuinely sure did. I am a lucky girl

930
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 1: that you really are. I said, also, you know that

931
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: if Ryan wasn't there, I don't know that anyone else

932
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: would have worked, just because I just feel like he

933
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: was meant to be my person. So I did too.

934
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: I honestly thought that I thought that while I was

935
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: still on the show, which is kind of crazy. I

936
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: remember being somewhere and thinking to myself, like, I don't

937
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: feel like I'm ready for this, you know, and we weren't.

938
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 1: We weren't like we didn't even never have an individual take,

939
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We were always on great

940
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: case together. But I remember thinking to myself, like, if

941
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, because I you know, I cared about

942
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: you and I like you so much so quickly, and

943
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: I was like, if I'm being honest about this, who's

944
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: the right person for her here? You know? And and

945
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, I'm like, it's gotta be riot,

946
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: It's gotta be like there's you know. And back then,

947
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: as you recall, the show was always edited to make

948
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: the second or third uh Evisually I was left in

949
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: the mix that person looked like hands down and they

950
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: had to be the person. And this is no not Charlie,

951
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: because I loved Charlie too, but it was like, you know,

952
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: there was it was always gonna be that was the

953
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: person of the crowd thought, oh, this is it. And

954
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: then then the person who would come in in the

955
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: end and be the one that got the proposal or

956
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: was the one that actually proposed and it was the

957
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: proposal was accepted. They were the ones that, you know,

958
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: I feel a lot of footage was probably left to

959
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: the cutting room floor of them, because they really were

960
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: kind of stacking the deck so that people would be surprised.

961
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: And um, and I mean that's that's not a secret.

962
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: That was something that I think, you know, was pretty

963
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: out after like the first five or six seasons and

964
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: that's when they started switching up the formats of the

965
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: show and stuff. But I just remember that day that

966
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, like, it's time. It's time

967
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: for me to get out of the way here because

968
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: I I don't want to be a distraction and and

969
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: um and you know, and you obviously were thinking the

970
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: same thing as me, because that's when you let me go.

971
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: But it was like one of those things. I was

972
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: kind of like, I remember thinking how much I wanted

973
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: you to meet my family and everything, but also how

974
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not ready if we were to

975
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: go to the next level, would I be able to

976
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: pull the trigger and do the right thing? And I

977
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. But if I look at this room

978
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: of guys, who is ready? Who is and who's ready

979
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: for this person? Specifically? That was Ryan? That was Ryan

980
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: all day long. It I can say, honestly, you know,

981
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: remembering back then, he wouldn't have been the way that

982
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: he was with you, which is anybody you know that

983
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: wasn't That wasn't Ryan Sutter style, you know what I mean.

984
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: He was that way with you because you were you

985
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: and that was what he wanted, and it was I mean,

986
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: it was genuine from the jump. And I remember thinking myself, like, God,

987
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: that's that's the one, you know. So it's always nice

988
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: to to be associated with with that era of this show.

989
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: And you were there. We were there the golden years.

990
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: As we say, yeah, yeah, I can say it too.

991
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: We are, I guess in our golden era as fifty

992
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: year old or fifty plus year old whatever we are.

993
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: Plus he's just a baby's little babe. I love you.

994
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: I hope you feel better. I know you're not feeling

995
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: great today, but I hope you are still reveling in

996
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: the good feelings from your birthday bash. Yes, it was

997
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: so fun. Thank you, Thank you for the chat. I'm

998
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 1: glad we got to chat again today, And as always,

999
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: tune in to the next almost famous O. G.