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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: It's time for a very special episode of the Almost

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Speaker 2: Famous Podcast. Of course, we promised you that in the

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Speaker 2: off season we are going to be interviewing and bringing

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Speaker 2: back guests who Bachelor Nation loves, and these two people

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Speaker 2: are definitely in that category. Ari and Lauren, thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank thank you so much us.

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Speaker 4: Hello all. Okay, so you guys have just returned home

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Speaker 4: from what our just told us was a month of

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Speaker 4: traveling with three kids under the age of five, and

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Speaker 4: holy crap, where did you go and how did you

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Speaker 4: do it?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: We started in Michigan because my family we went there

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Speaker 5: during the summer is when I was growing up and

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Speaker 5: we just wanted to go visit family there.

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Speaker 3: So we're there for a week.

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Speaker 5: And then Netherlands.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then we went to Holland to go see my family.

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Speaker 3: My grandma's their great grandma. She's ninety one, so amazing.

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Speaker 3: She hasn't met the twins yet, so that was really fun,

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Speaker 3: and we were there for a little It was a

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Speaker 3: little long because it rained every day. What was it

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Speaker 3: like two weeks almost yep. Yeah, And then we we

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Speaker 3: arrived early, so The next stop was a Aruba, which

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Speaker 3: is really cool. And yeah, we.

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Speaker 5: Decided to leave the Netherlands early because it just wouldn't

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Speaker 5: stop rating and there was nothing to do with three

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Speaker 5: kids in the rain after we'd exhausted all this, right,

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Speaker 5: the family visits, so we went to Ruba early and

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Speaker 5: stayed there for a week, a little over a week,

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Speaker 5: but it was beautiful.

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Speaker 4: What are your tips to traveling with children, especially in

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Speaker 4: like long term stays, like two weeks in the Netherlands

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Speaker 4: is hard, Like where did you stay?

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Speaker 5: We booked an airbnb. I think like that's the easiest

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Speaker 5: thing for us because we've got three kids now, and

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Speaker 5: we planned to have the twins in one room in

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Speaker 5: a Lessian one room, and then obviously us in our own.

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Speaker 5: But they liked sharing rooms there in a new place.

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Speaker 5: They just felt more comfortable altogether, so they We could

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Speaker 5: have probably stayed in a hotel anyway.

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Speaker 3: But well, I think it's clutch because you can cook,

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Speaker 3: you have kind of like a home base. It just

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Speaker 3: feels like a little bit more. I don't know, the

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Speaker 3: transition I think is easier. The hotel gets a little

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Speaker 3: tiring because like you are just eating out every meal,

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Speaker 3: so it's good, I think to have a air bandy.

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Speaker 2: The Midwest has a special place in my heart. Michigan

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Speaker 2: is a place obviously I went to from Indiana a

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Speaker 2: lot during the summer. We have a lot of friends

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Speaker 2: up there. I am shocked and Nashally and I were

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Speaker 2: just talking about this before you.

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Speaker 3: Guys jumped on.

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Speaker 2: It's something that I hope to do one day as

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Speaker 2: a father, is to be able to travel with my kids.

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Speaker 2: And so we do appreciate all the tips.

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Speaker 3: You have.

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Speaker 2: Question though, when you're flying from like Holland to arub

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Speaker 2: But how long a flight is that and how do

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Speaker 5: Well, it was ten hours and it was the longest

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Speaker 5: flight we've done with them so far. Yeah, and we

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Speaker 5: did a red eye actually, so we were hoping you

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Speaker 5: would sleep most of it, but they didn't really.

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Speaker 5: They have iPads like Amazon Fire for the twins because

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Speaker 5: they're very rough on electronics, less expensive. Lux is like

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Speaker 5: not really into watching TV that much. He's just like

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Speaker 5: So we kind of just like pass them back and forth.

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Speaker 3: But we don't. Yeah, we don't really give them screen

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Speaker 3: And then we bought like these like hammocks.

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Speaker 4: Hammocks are key, the ones that you wrap over the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they were much more comfortable that way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it made it kind of like it's first packing

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Speaker 5: A lot of stuff like they're sleeping because I feel

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Speaker 5: like as soon as you put their sleepsack on, they're like,

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Speaker 4: Go to sleep, so they just yeah, what about snacks though,

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Speaker 4: that's my key, He's able to eat whatever he wants

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, just keeping.

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Speaker 5: We had these like crazy boxes and they got tossed

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Speaker 5: into the aisle on the flank. They're not looking, They're

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Speaker 5: like sure, and it's just all over the floor. I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I know, the floor is so disgusting when we leave

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they all got sick obviously because they're crawling and

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Speaker 3: touching everything. You just have to go this sound.

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Speaker 2: I mean, here's the deal. I'm not a parent. It's

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Speaker 2: hard for me to put vacation and what you're telling

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Speaker 2: me in the same.

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Speaker 4: Sentence, Jara doesn't really believe in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see. I don't see how this works. Also,

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Speaker 2: I am curious. Obviously the two of you are very busy.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the duo app here.

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Speaker 3: Lauren.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you're a business owner, you design fashion, you have

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Speaker 2: a great presence on social media and ari uh. You

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Speaker 2: obviously are working with the app as well. But we've

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Speaker 2: also seen you on some reality television recently, like The

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Speaker 2: Traders on peacock. How give us a picture of how

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Speaker 2: you do navigate life with all of this stuff happening

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. How do we navigate it? We

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Speaker 3: just prioritize, you know. I think in the morning, like

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Speaker 3: it's been really rewarding to see couples having a good

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, And then for me, I guess I'm working

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Speaker 5: on the app too, but I do different things for

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Speaker 5: and like managing people like, that's more my specialty.

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Speaker 3: She's really great at managing people. I cannot fire anyone,

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Speaker 3: I cannot give good feedback. I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 3: but she's great. I'm just too nice and I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: More go talk to them. Either you're awesome, Lauren going there, but.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do that. And then this year, I feel

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Speaker 5: because I'm realizing, like Alessie's going to be with us

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Speaker 5: that and then obviously the app and then social media

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Speaker 4: Can you remind people why the app is different than

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Speaker 4: say Bumble or Riya.

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Speaker 5: So our app is for couples that are already together

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Speaker 5: duo and we would plan a surprise date for you.

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Speaker 5: So it kind of just like takes the pressure and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so cool inspiration on there. So it's more

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Speaker 4: You say the price range too, so it's not like

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Speaker 4: you're going to go on some massively expensive bachelor themed

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Speaker 3: Correct. Yeah, you said the budget could literally be zero.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you could say zero and we could just plan

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Speaker 3: like something either at home. Did you creative ideas on

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Speaker 3: I mean. So it's always like this extravagant thing. It

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Speaker 4: Really, that's such a good idea.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about the duo app when you

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Speaker 5: In your life, well as everyone on this podcast probably knows.

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Speaker 5: We met on The Bachelor and we were sent on

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Speaker 5: surprise dates and we both showed up and were like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: So we were like, this is a cool experience. We

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Speaker 5: want to continue this throughout our relationship. So Ari and

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Speaker 5: I've always been really intentional about planning fun and like

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Speaker 5: to get really creative and I started surprising Ari with

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Speaker 5: getting asked a lot about like how you come up

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Speaker 5: with these ideas, and you know, like what kind of

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Speaker 5: ideas can you share with other couples? And we're like,

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Speaker 5: you know what, maybe maybe we need to build a

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Speaker 5: this with other couples, because I feel like it really

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Speaker 5: strengthened our relationship and we wanted to help other couples

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Speaker 5: strengthen their relationship and keep things exciting too.

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Speaker 4: I love I love the idea of the app. It's

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Speaker 4: so such a good idea. Now we have in our

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Speaker 4: notes to hear something that I don't know about you

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Speaker 4: guys from your on social media because I follow you

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Speaker 4: pretty well. You guys sleep in separate beds, No, no,

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Speaker 5: a while. Yeah, yeah, but it was just for survival.

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Speaker 3: Mode, yes exactly, we just switch off like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone dressed in white. You know. The weather obviously

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Speaker 4: So you guys didn't like exchange vows that you wrote,

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's always beautiful to tell your partner

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Speaker 2: Okay, So a lot of questions kind of underneath this umbrella,

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Speaker 3: Our neighborhood not?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 5: We lived up in upcountry and there were fires behind

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Speaker 5: So people in the community where we live, yes, they

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're did you do you know? I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: Where do we have what?

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Speaker 3: One of our neighbors. Dan he was one of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I went back there to check on the

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Speaker 3: no fire damage. You went there, Yeah, so I just

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Speaker 4: It's gonna say, can you elaborate on your emotions, like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's obviously super devastating. When we

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Speaker 2: So do you have plans? I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 5: A few times a year. We go there, usually during

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Speaker 2: So do you have plans then to to go back soon?

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Speaker 4: Did you go to your actual house while you were there, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yes, actual house. The community around that area was just

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Speaker 4: That's so nice, that's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So obviously you've been down there, you've seen it. I'm

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Speaker 3: That's actually so tough because I feel like there's been

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Speaker 3: to a lot of different charities, and I think right now,

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Speaker 3: like the help is would be better used to directly

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Speaker 3: page and also like a huge Google doc with verified

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Speaker 3: families that have lost everything. And that's kind of where

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Speaker 3: I've put my attention to, just because the big organizations

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Speaker 3: like Maui Food Bank or Red Cross Salvation Army, they've

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Speaker 3: seen just a huge influx of donations. But really, I

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Speaker 3: directly affected. So I think that's probably the best route.

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Speaker 4: What about Baby to Baby, I feel like you guys

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Speaker 4: are working with them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Baby and the Baby is a good one, I

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Speaker 3: would say as far as the you know, that obviously

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Speaker 3: hits home close, you know, close to home, all the

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Speaker 3: all the parents out there with kids that are staying

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Speaker 3: in either the shelter or the hotels. They provide all

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Speaker 3: the necessary things like baby equipment, formula, diapers, which was

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Speaker 3: a really big need as a couple of days a

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Speaker 3: couple of days ago. So that is a great organization

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Speaker 3: of support.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, well that uh, that list is important right now.

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Speaker 2: And our thoughts here are with the people in Maui

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Speaker 2: and Ari. It's great that you went down there. Now

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Speaker 2: we're gonna completely switch gears. Here, we're gonna finish this

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Speaker 2: conversation with the two of you talking about The Bachelor.

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Speaker 2: Do you still watch it or have you not tuned

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Speaker 2: into this last season?

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Speaker 5: We have not watched very long time.

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Speaker 4: You guys. I know I know this about you, but

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Speaker 4: let me tell you, go watch this past season in

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Speaker 4: a binge form because it was amazing, which yeah, which.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 2: It felt like a throwback season. It felt like one

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Speaker 2: that would have existed years ago, lacking drama, putting pestals.

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Speaker 2: It was really really great. So you don't watch it,

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Speaker 2: you're not tuning in, so most of your world is

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Speaker 2: existing around working with this app. Then, so as we close,

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Speaker 2: tell us about your dreams for for duo, what you

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Speaker 2: hope to do in the future with this app. Kind

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Speaker 2: of where do you see this going?

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Speaker 3: I feel like our dreams are, you know, just to

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Speaker 3: improve relationships, you know. I think that's kind of the

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Speaker 3: number one thing. So many, so many married couples and

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Speaker 3: in mores, So I think a lot of that is

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Speaker 3: due to just not putting each other first. So I

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Speaker 3: think our app does that, and I think it puts

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Speaker 3: a priority on dating, which I think is important. So

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Speaker 3: our dreams and goals are just make the app obviously

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Speaker 3: as big as they can get to help a lot

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Speaker 3: of relationships. And I think that's that is the goal.

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Speaker 4: That's a great goal. That's beautiful. I love it, and

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Speaker 4: we will.

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Speaker 3: Be tuning into Golden Bachelors.

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Speaker 4: See people coming. All right, guys, it's been so good

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Speaker 4: talking to you. Thank you so much for coming on

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Speaker 4: and for doing what you're doing in Hawaii. We'll see soon.

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Speaker 3: Thanks all bye.

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Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Almost Famous podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Ari and Lauren for coming on the show. As mentioned, uh,

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Speaker 2: there there is some complexity in the donations to Hawaii. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: all those organizations that were mentioned, like Salvation, Army, Convoy

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Speaker 2: of Hope, United Way, Red Cross, like they do have

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Speaker 2: influence and your gifts to them and your donations of

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Speaker 2: the matter. But also there's a lot of individual families

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Speaker 2: out there that are hurting, that have and displaced and

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Speaker 2: need support also, and so Baby to Baby there is

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Speaker 2: another great organization. So maybe that list helps, Maybe it

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Speaker 2: helps guide if you're looking to support in some way,

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Speaker 2: and maybe if that list doesn't help, then we encourage

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Speaker 2: you to dig in deep and find ways to support people.

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Speaker 2: Either financially or with time or with encouragement who have

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Speaker 2: been a part of this devastating event in one of

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Speaker 2: the most beautiful places in the world. Ari and Lauren

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Speaker 2: obviously are working really hard ash on this duo app.

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Speaker 2: It came out in March. They came on the podcast

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Speaker 2: then to kind of announce it, and it sounds like it's.

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Speaker 4: Going really well, really smart idea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds really cute.

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Speaker 2: I've seen some of my friends on Instagram, Chris Harrison

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Speaker 2: kind of stands out to me who used this app

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Speaker 2: with Lauren at some point. They're doing some great promotion

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Speaker 2: and so you can go check out the duo app

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Speaker 2: if you're looking That's duo if you're looking for great

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Speaker 2: date night ideas. But as ashlen I mentioned earlier in

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Speaker 2: this week, we're going to continue to bring on past

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Speaker 2: Bachelor Nation contestants and catch up in their lives and

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Speaker 2: interview them and kind of figure out where they're at

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Speaker 2: in life. Where are they now, I guess is the

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Speaker 2: question that we'll be digging into. But until next time,

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Speaker 2: I've been Ben, I've been actually bye.

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