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

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Speaker 2: It's the Almost Famous podcast. Today we're breaking down all

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Speaker 2: the headlines and we're gonna end this episode with an

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Speaker 2: incredible announcement about and from the Almost Famous podcast. So

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Speaker 2: stay tuned until the very end when we celebrate something

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Speaker 2: absolutely spectacular. Today, I have producer Heather with me breaking

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Speaker 2: down the headlines. Here's I always call Ashley our expert,

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Speaker 2: but I behind the scenes there is an expert on

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Speaker 2: top of an expert that didn't wasn't meant to sound weird.

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Speaker 3: You give me too much credit. I don't where is

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Speaker 3: this going? I don't know, but it sounds like a compliment.

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Speaker 2: Heather is here with us to talk about everything that

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Speaker 2: she's put in this rundown and everything she's researched, and

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be incredible. We're gonna do it the same

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Speaker 2: way as we always do, Heather. We're gonna start out

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Speaker 2: with this one. Joey g chose this Bachelor Nation star

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Speaker 2: to be as best man ahead of wedding.

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Speaker 3: So Joey and Kelsey's wedding. I feel like we've been

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Speaker 3: talking about it for months. Every single week. It's they're

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Speaker 3: working on their first dance or they've set the date,

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Speaker 3: but yes, now he has chosen his best man. The

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Speaker 3: former Bachelor revealed that he has chosen his best man,

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Speaker 3: Tanner Cortet. The pair both were on the Bachelorette and

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Speaker 3: since have remained friends. He shared a video of himself

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Speaker 3: offering Tanner the special wedding role on Tuesday, and in

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Speaker 3: the clip, Tanner has a drink, but upon further inspection,

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Speaker 3: he notices that the cup was engraved with a very

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Speaker 3: important question, which was will you be my best man?

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Speaker 3: That's very sweet. When you and Jess got married, did

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Speaker 3: you do this whole thing with like asking in a

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Speaker 3: special way or did you just literally be like, hey, man,

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Speaker 3: let me be my best man.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember.

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Speaker 3: It's not like then. You did not give him an engraved.

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Speaker 2: You know, my best man was my dad.

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Speaker 3: Wait, Ben, that's so sweet.

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Speaker 2: It was the best I mean, he is my best man,

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Speaker 2: and so it was awesome and it was really fun

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Speaker 2: having him as my best man. He was useless in

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Speaker 2: planning anything because he didn't come to the bachelor party

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Speaker 2: because he was sick at the time. But also I

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Speaker 2: don't know if I'd want him planning my bachelor party,

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Speaker 2: but he was so thankful and it was cool. He

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Speaker 2: obviously was my best man, so he walked down the

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Speaker 2: aisle with me, and then when the ceremony started, he

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Speaker 2: sat down next to my mom because I wanted the

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Speaker 2: visual of having the two of them sitting together in

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Speaker 2: the audience, like up front, up close when I was

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Speaker 2: getting married. So enough about me. I love this and

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Speaker 2: I obviously get to hang out with Joey quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: I know his close friendship with Tanner. They are so

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Speaker 2: tight and so close, Heather, we need to celebrate. I

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Speaker 2: think that this is a Bachelor Nation connection. They met

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Speaker 2: each other through the show and now he's his best man.

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Speaker 2: That's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: That is huge, and I feel like it's just another

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Speaker 3: success story in the recent years, right. Obviously we spend

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Speaker 3: a lot of time with Katie and Zach, and you know,

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Speaker 3: Charity and Dowton are still engaged but heading in that direction.

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Speaker 3: So I think this is, you know, great, It shows

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Speaker 3: that the show works.

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Speaker 2: It shows that shows it works for so many reasons.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the show not working, though, Rachel lindsay, we're

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Speaker 2: still talking about this and Heather, I'll be honest, I

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Speaker 2: especially as I get older. I don't like to celebrate

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Speaker 2: or become intrigued by other people's pains. However, for the

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Speaker 2: sake of the show, we do it often. And this

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Speaker 2: the announcement, because not that I'm really emotionally attached to

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Speaker 2: that I'm like, what is actually happening and where does

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Speaker 2: this spit itself out? Well, the headline reads this way,

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Speaker 2: Rachel Lindsay calls out x Brian over fertility claims during divorce.

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Speaker 2: I had no clue he made these claims. This is

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Speaker 2: taking her side on this too, but tell me why.

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Speaker 3: I will also say that this I think is equally

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Speaker 3: on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast this week and was

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Speaker 3: to kind of like rewind back. During Brian's twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: issues in their marriage stem from fertility problems. He said,

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Speaker 3: I wanted kids like anybody else, but other things were

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Speaker 3: say women have a different biological clock than us. It

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Speaker 3: was going to be me going along with the plan,

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Speaker 3: but I was under a hell of a lot of stress.

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Speaker 3: That was tough. That was so hard. It felt terrible

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Speaker 3: just watching her sadness. It broke my heart. It was

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Speaker 3: like I was failing expectations on all fronts. Woof, I

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Speaker 3: got to say that that is extremely personal. I think

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Speaker 3: to share on the behalf of your former partner that

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Speaker 3: you wanted kids and it was going to be difficult.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm reading between the lines, that they

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Speaker 3: were going to have to find alternative ways to have

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Speaker 2: That there are topics and goodness, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: haven't been through a divorce, and I know divorces can

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Speaker 2: get ugly, and obviously you're saying goodbye to somebody, so

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Speaker 2: it's painful. There are topics I feel like should just

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Speaker 2: be off limits. I agree, and this is one of them.

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Speaker 2: It is a very it is a very emotional experience.

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Speaker 2: It's a very stressful experience. I don't know how much

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Speaker 2: of the man is stressing here. I mean, let's be honest,

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Speaker 2: the women carry the load and the way when it

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Speaker 2: comes to that experience. The men have a very simple

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Speaker 2: job point and shoot. But I don't think it should

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Speaker 2: be talked about publicly. I don't and especially when you

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Speaker 2: have maybe outside of everything else, here's my point. When

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Speaker 2: not be talked about publicly. When Lauren and I broke

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Speaker 2: unspoken agreement of hey, let's not push this thing too

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Speaker 2: far publicly, because it just gets out there, it gets

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Speaker 2: think that's how most Bachelor Nation couples have broken up.

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Speaker 2: Is like maybe a social media post and it's gone forever.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the respectful way to do it when

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Speaker 3: I agree, but I will say that I commend Rachel

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Speaker 3: to share her side of that situation.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I just wish she would have done it here.

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Speaker 2: I'm almost famous podcast, But what do you of.

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Speaker 3: Course, but we love everybody at the Bachelor Happy Hour.

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Speaker 2: They're nice people. Yeah, they're nice people. Bachelor's Mattie Prude

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Speaker 2: explains how she remained pure while dating husband Grant Trout.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's another day it's another Maddie Prue

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Speaker 3: It headline, But this definitely caught my attention. You know,

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Speaker 3: Maddie has been pretty open about the temptation that she

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Speaker 3: has faced throughout different points in her life. But she

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Speaker 3: shared Grant and I made the rule were not allowed

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Speaker 3: to lay on the couch. It even got to the

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Speaker 3: point where it was like, I don't even think we

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Speaker 3: can be alone past nine pm, she said. When she

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Speaker 3: was on Candice Cameron's podcast, This week. You just have

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Speaker 2: Here's my question, Heather, why is this a headline though

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Speaker 2: it's been out there all week? I've seen it pop

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Speaker 3: I think that people talk about remaining virgins until marriage,

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Speaker 3: and I think that that's a widely accepted kind of

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Speaker 3: topic that's not really headline making, but acknowledging avoiding temptations

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Speaker 3: actually don't hear from a lot of people. I think

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Speaker 3: we do hear about it a lot from Maddie, but

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Speaker 3: I think on the norm, people don't really tend to

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Speaker 3: that's probably why it grabs a lot of attention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, because it is there is like a

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Speaker 2: communication style or a vulnerability that Maddie communicates that I

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Speaker 2: think people are shocked by enough to where it becomes

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Speaker 2: a headline. But in like my life, this would not

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Speaker 2: be a headline. It'd be like, hey, that is you

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Speaker 2: know a thousand other people that I knows experience. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you're right, I do think the details are you

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Speaker 2: don't hear the details. You don't hear the choices being made.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever heard this, but I

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Speaker 2: used to go to like a Christian like summer camp

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Speaker 2: and there would always be like flings and interests in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well and tell me this. I feel like because

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Speaker 3: I think when we hear something that's completely on the

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Speaker 3: and I think that's why it grabs attention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually makes sense. So many people are consuming

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Speaker 2: take ten steps back and go, oh wow, that's still happening,

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Speaker 2: which it is. It is still happening. That's not like.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying, I'm not shocked by this, but

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Speaker 2: I think it is uncommon for us to consume in

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Speaker 2: our daily lives information that would relate more to this

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Speaker 2: than it would. You know, you open up your social

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Speaker 2: I get that. That makes sense. And Maddie shared this

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Speaker 2: on the Candace Cameron podcast and not her own, which

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Speaker 2: is still going on. Actually, I think my episode just aired.

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Speaker 2: You should go listen to it, Heather.

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Speaker 3: You're your episode on Maddie's podcast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Stay True podcast?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and Jess was on as well. Right, was

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Speaker 3: it same episode or different episode?

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Speaker 2: Same episode? That wasn't expected, but it happened and it

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Speaker 2: was great. I don't get to sit down and get

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Speaker 3: She looked very confident and comfortable in the clip that

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Speaker 2: She is confident and comfortable. She's my better half for sure.

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Speaker 2: The Bachelor in Paradise stars Alana and Chris Conrad expecting first

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Speaker 5: Congratulations to us. That's pretty cool. That is a big,

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Speaker 4: And maybe my Housewives thing will give us a little jump.

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Speaker 4: But Ben, right back at.

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Speaker 2: You, I need to do something to help out. What

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Speaker 5: You got to get on Traders or Special Forces or something.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine how dangerous we would be We would

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Speaker 4: We can we can talk to each other through our eyes.

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Speaker 2: So let's put it on the world as I I

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Speaker 2: And here soon. Here's my concern. You're gonna go on

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Speaker 2: my life anymore.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: If anything, I just hope that Housewives continues to let

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Speaker 5: me live the life that I've been living for the

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Speaker 5: past eleven years a little bit longer, and that includes

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Speaker 5: being with you here multiple times.

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Speaker 2: A week until next time. One hundred million downloads later,

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Speaker 2: I've been Been I've.

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Speaker 4: Been Ashley Tulu.

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