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Speaker 1: Ben Higgins and Ashley I bring you infamous.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes roses are red flags.

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Speaker 3: Hey everyone, it is Ashley and Ben. We're here with

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Speaker 3: some kind of breaking Bachelor news. HGTV has announced that

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Speaker 3: they're going to be renovating the Bachelor Mansion for a

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Speaker 3: new TV show. Ben, what are your initial thoughts?

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Speaker 4: It's about time?

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Speaker 1: Oh really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Stop? Oh I'm nostalgic to it.

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Speaker 5: It if you went to the mansion, well you did.

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Speaker 5: We were there with Almoston's podcast. When there's not the

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Speaker 5: pillows and the nice furniture and it's all painted, the

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Speaker 5: house is you know, old, it's beat up a little bit.

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Speaker 5: It needs some refreshing.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: I don't think I think the I think the question

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Speaker 5: is how much renovation because it does have a lot

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Speaker 5: of character it is, That's what I mean. Yeah, the

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Speaker 5: architecture in there is awesome. I'm not wanting them to

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Speaker 5: like modernize it. I think take away from everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: like the Spanish style kind of architecture is beautiful inside

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Speaker 5: and now it just needs some like love.

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Speaker 3: I would say, okay, yeah, because I don't want to

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Speaker 3: change the aesthetic. I like the Mediterranean vibe.

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Speaker 1: It's very ornate. I like that for this. I can't.

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Speaker 3: Could you imagine them filming the show and like some black,

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Speaker 3: gray and white millennial you know aesthetic.

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Speaker 1: No, that'd be so cold.

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Speaker 5: It would be cold, it wouldn't be unique, it wouldn't

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Speaker 5: be as as magical fantastical as it is today. But

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Speaker 5: I'm imagining the owners of this property don't want that

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Speaker 5: modern aesthetic that if they they enjoy what they've built

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Speaker 5: or what they own.

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Speaker 3: Because he's a builder, he is a contractor, like he

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Speaker 3: designed that house with his heart, soul and hands.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think this is more of like a

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Speaker 5: freshen up of it, and HGTV is seeing a great

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Speaker 5: opportunity to jump on on board with it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, everybody will want to watch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is actually a great show. I'm excited for

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Speaker 3: the show, if not excited for the actual aesthetic changing.

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Speaker 3: So this is the details that These are the details

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Speaker 3: we have. It's called Renovating the Bachelor Mansion. And Channing Dungee,

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Speaker 3: the chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers, which is also

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Speaker 3: you know, the production company of The Bachelor, announced the

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Speaker 3: series along with the hosts of other shows that he

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Speaker 3: had like a whole bunch of other shows that they

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Speaker 3: were announcing and it was at Discoveries upfront presentation on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: It's called Renovating the Bachelor Mansion. That is simply what

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Speaker 3: it's called. And it's going to It's gonna feature former

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Speaker 3: Bachelor and Bachelor at contestants who possess the expert renovation

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Speaker 3: skills to compete in.

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Speaker 1: A design challenge series.

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Speaker 3: Now that to me sounds that Jojo and Jordan will

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Speaker 3: be fronting, does it not?

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Speaker 5: So you have Chris Lambert who has a show on HDTV.

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Speaker 5: Tyler Cameron obviously has renovated homes consistent.

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Speaker 1: He had a show on it was It? Amazon?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, wasn't that dog Houses? Though? No, a doghouse show.

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Speaker 1: He may have appeared on a doghouse show.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So Jojo, Jordan, Tyler, Chris Lambert. I can't

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Speaker 5: think of any others that come to the top of them.

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Speaker 2: Oh what about isn't she like a designer?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So, like the question is are they going to be

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Speaker 5: able to get those people?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I feel like Jojo and Jordan have won

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Speaker 3: on as renovation show for quite some time, and I

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Speaker 3: know that, you know, broadcast media is a little bit

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Speaker 3: of the yesteryear. But Tyler probably HGTV is such a

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Speaker 3: huge name and they do so well with Discovery Plus,

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Speaker 3: and it'll obviously stream on there that I feel like

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Speaker 3: he's going to be excited about getting his show on

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Speaker 3: such a mar network and the winner gets a cash prize.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot going on here, and that's all we know.

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Speaker 5: It's time, Ashley, what we're gonna do. Because of the

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Speaker 5: mansion and because of the memories that have been made

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Speaker 5: at the mansion, we want to bring some people who

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Speaker 5: have lived at the mansion, including you and I, to

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Speaker 5: talk about what their favorite parts of the mansion are

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Speaker 5: currently what they hope doesn't change any secrets they have

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Speaker 5: of the mansion. So we have a list of what

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Speaker 5: we call all Star guests, including Susan Knowles and Rachel Rekia.

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Speaker 3: We have Charity and Dowton and Mike Johnson and Suzie

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Speaker 3: Evans coming on. All right, so let's get our first

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Speaker 3: caller on the line. We have Mike Johnson on the line. Now, Mike,

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Speaker 3: we're talking about favorite Bachelor Mansion memories and like crazy

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Speaker 3: things that you remember from the house itself, like do

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Speaker 3: you have like, okay, like a toilet clog or anything

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Speaker 3: broke while you were in there.

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Speaker 6: Nothing was broke except for the barbers that we had

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Speaker 6: come by. But I think my craziest memories was just.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't hear them. That's good. I like that. That

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Speaker 4: was nice, Mike, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, going on Ashal TV with your hair all the

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Speaker 6: outside look.

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Speaker 2: True story.

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Speaker 7: My mom said.

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Speaker 6: The first thing she said she saw the episode the

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Speaker 6: first episode was did you not have a barber? First thing.

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Speaker 5: I've shared this story like a few times, but I

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Speaker 5: was at the bachelor mansion probably like five hours before

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Speaker 5: the girls are going to show up, so like night one,

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Speaker 5: and I had been out there for probably like two

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Speaker 5: weeks doing like b roll and all that stuff, and

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Speaker 5: I said, hey, you know what it would really help

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Speaker 5: is if I could get a haircut to before tonight,

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Speaker 5: like it would make me look better. And I had

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Speaker 5: to do so much convincing and I was like, I

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Speaker 5: won't feel confident with that one. So they take me

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Speaker 5: to get a haircut. The guy, uh shaves my side

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Speaker 5: so tight that you could see like the white of

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Speaker 5: my hair to cover up from the white showing through.

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Speaker 5: On night one, they were all panicking which makes your

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Speaker 5: confidence go absolutely to a zero whenever it's like your

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Speaker 5: hair looks terrible and you're like, wait, I'm about to

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Speaker 4: It's very bad.

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Speaker 5: So, Mike, I have a question for you. At the

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Speaker 5: Bachelor Mansion was when I was on the Bachelor, and

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Speaker 5: I'm curious if they did the same thing to you.

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Speaker 5: They put up a sign in the bathroom that that said,

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Speaker 5: please stop like relieving yourself in the showers clogging the drains.

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Speaker 2: Did they do that for you guys?

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Speaker 6: Yes, forever.

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Speaker 1: Pardon me.

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Speaker 4: Theower?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. I pee in the shower are regularly

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you just admitted that, But that's not

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Speaker 5: what we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: What is going on.

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Speaker 5: Actually, let's explain this to you, all right, I'll start Mike. Actually, no,

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Speaker 5: you know, I'm gonna let Mike explain this to you

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Speaker 5: because he is in sexual education. Okay, yeah, you got there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to explain that.

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Speaker 4: There's a sign.

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Speaker 1: This is a great episode so far.

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Speaker 5: No, there's literally a sign. And so, Mike, are you

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Speaker 5: confirming that you all also had the same sign?

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Speaker 6: I am confirming that I did not witness I was

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Speaker 6: not any of that.

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Speaker 1: I don't hope in the middle of night and see it.

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Speaker 6: So I'm very happy about that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a sign that said please stop, you're

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Speaker 5: clogging the rains, and obviously that's a funny little thing

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Speaker 5: to think about. And then everybody shower. There's only I

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Speaker 5: don't know, you guys could tell me, what is there?

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Speaker 5: Two or three showers for everybody that showering?

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Speaker 6: Three I feel.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so like after night one, when everybody moves in,

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Speaker 5: you have twenty some people showering in two or three showers.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's it's a mess. It's not easy.

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Speaker 4: No, there's one downstairs too, there's one downstairs. Okay, there's

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Speaker 4: four showers that people can shower.

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Speaker 3: I would always use that shower because I felt it

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Speaker 3: was the most private because that way you could lock

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Speaker 3: the door, you could go poop and then you could shower.

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Speaker 3: No one would smell it, and you do all your

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Speaker 3: private things in a locked door.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no one smell.

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Speaker 5: That's a big deal for Ashley, very secretive about her functions.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: You guys must have just blown up the toilets with

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Speaker 3: like no candles. Well, probably within like four months of

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Speaker 3: us being together.

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Speaker 5: Couple, Yeah, Mike, any sorries from the mansion that come

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Speaker 5: to mind, Well, you know, we're talking about this because

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Speaker 5: HGTV just announced that they're doing a renovation show focus

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Speaker 5: on the Bachelor mansion.

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Speaker 4: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 5: Bachelor contestants are going to be a part of this show.

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Speaker 5: If you're surprised by it, obviously you're not on the show.

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 5: What I guess maybe this's a better question. What's one

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Speaker 5: thing you hope they don't change about the mansion?

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Speaker 6: You know, I loved my first and last time of

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Speaker 6: having myself and twenty guys an inch piece. It was fun.

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Speaker 7: It was fun.

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Speaker 4: I really liked it.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's a bunch of guys hanging out.

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Speaker 4: You know, so you went to pool Jacuzias day. I

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Speaker 4: mean we get a grotto.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like a really cool I'm definitely going to

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Speaker 6: mess it up. It's just what I know of Ggrato

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Speaker 6: is like a really cool pool with like a little

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Speaker 3: Shall I say, oh, like waterfalls and caves and stuff.

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Speaker 3: See now that you think about now that I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: about the outside, Yeah, I can see them renovating the

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm saying, this just needs a little touch up,

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Speaker 5: a little love. Mike, thanks for thanks for jumping on

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Speaker 5: to talk to us about the Bachelor Mansion. We appreciate you,

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Speaker 5: thanks for giving us your insights, and I'm glad our

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Speaker 5: two seasons can relate at least on one thing, uh,

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Speaker 5: and that is that we're dangerous, dangerous in the locker room.

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Speaker 5: Mike Johnson, thanks for coming. Rachel, Hi, welcome back to

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Speaker 5: the United States.

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Speaker 1: Thank you from Africa, not from Paradise. Guys, too excited.

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Speaker 4: I could have left it as a cliffhanger.

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Speaker 7: I'm not so you, guys, Please, I can't handle it.

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Speaker 7: Another thing.

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Speaker 1: I know, we know, we know you're dating Blake. You

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Speaker 1: can't go there.

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Speaker 7: Every time Ast messaged me when I was there, I

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Speaker 7: told him, like I tell her every single time, not dating.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, can you just explain like the arm around

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Speaker 3: your leg situation.

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Speaker 7: Then we were sitting in a tire and I was

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Speaker 7: gonna fly out because he's bigger, so she was in

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Speaker 7: the whole tire. So I was on like the edge

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Speaker 5: There's nothing romantic about a sunset with animals and attire,

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Speaker 5: with a strong man protecting you from falling out or something.

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Speaker 7: No, he probably wouldn't even care if I did fall out, honestly.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're not together after that trip, then I

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Speaker 3: all right, So as your time as the Bachelor at

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Speaker 1: The pool in the kitchen.

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Speaker 3: The kitchen is just like a big hangout spot where

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Speaker 1: Their own meals, So there's got to be a story there, right.

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all about the kitchen, Me and Jill

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Speaker 7: So we wouldn't eat the food that was cooked, and

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Speaker 7: we weren't cooking. We were just living off of go

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Speaker 1: It's very intimidating to cook in that kitchen.

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Speaker 7: No, there was no way I was doing it. I

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Speaker 7: I was terrified of those girls at the time.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting, you know, you get to make a grocery

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Speaker 5: because if I was like, hey, I don't really want

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Speaker 5: I'm just down for like a turkey sandwich, it would

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Speaker 7: No, genuinely. And then it's like how much food do

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Speaker 7: like you said, very intimidating. On our season, it was

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I did not go in there, Ashley, what

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Speaker 3: I remember discovering avocados for the first time, like I

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Speaker 3: they're like ripe for maybe a day. They're always great

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like everyone has.

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Speaker 7: That one thing they just say every day just to

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Speaker 7: Ye, because then it's like who's watching dishes, who's not

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Speaker 1: It's a whole thing, exactly.

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Speaker 2: I have a few questions.

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Speaker 4: A couple of things I don't remember.

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Speaker 5: So I imagine myself being a guy who would have enjoyed

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Speaker 5: this was before like alcohol became like, you know, two

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Speaker 5: drink minimums. I don't remember where we maximums.

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Speaker 1: Minimums.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't remember where we had access.

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Speaker 2: Do you all remember this?

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Speaker 7: I remember exactly where it was, and I remember exactly

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Speaker 3: Okay, I was at that bar that was but you

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Speaker 7: Time every single day.

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Speaker 1: Where was our bar?

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Speaker 4: Where was arc bar?

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Speaker 1: I don't remember. I just remember there's always bottles of

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Speaker 7: The open bottle. But I had to live in a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can relax.

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Speaker 5: My next question is during the season I was on

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Speaker 2: Did you all work out at the mansion?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 1: No, I mean there were girls that did. Yes.

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Speaker 3: It was Jillian Anderson and Britt and they would do

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Speaker 1: And it's paved.

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Speaker 3: So they would do laps around the whole house, including

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Speaker 1: Be like, good for you guys.

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Speaker 2: It was a big deal. It wasn't really my thing.

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Speaker 5: If I hadn't had abs yet, I wasn't going to

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Speaker 5: get abs living in the Bachelor Mansion. But it was

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Speaker 5: a good way to kind of blow some steam. It's

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Speaker 5: not a big property. It's probably a half acre maybe

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Speaker 5: with a sandbag. It's a wild scene. It would have

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Speaker 5: been great video, Rachel as we close up here with you,

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Speaker 5: because we just wanted to do for a second, what's

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Speaker 5: your favorite memory at the Bachelor Mansion.

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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I have so many. I think my

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Speaker 7: favorite memory and me and Susie, I think have told

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Speaker 7: this story before we roomed together knee Teddies, Susie and

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Speaker 7: Serene and one night, well every night when the handlers

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Speaker 7: And one night Serene was standing up when the handler

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Speaker 7: bed and it was the funniest thing ever. And I'll

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Speaker 5: Uh, it's like a big sleepover every night. Yes, Rachel,

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Speaker 5: thanks for joining us, Thanks for giving us an update

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Speaker 5: on your love life. Yes, welcome back to the US.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're actually having so much fun talking about the

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Speaker 3: Bachelor mansion. We want to make this episode a two parter,

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Speaker 3: so stay tuned for more callers and more memories.

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