Blake Moynes is Here | Golden Hour

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Speaker 1: And we have a very very special and I might say hot guest today. Kathy, would you like to introduce him?

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Speaker 2: This is Blake Moynes, who I have to admit I have never met before today, but I'd like to know why I can't find a guy who looks like you and is my.

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Speaker 1: Age, because they don't look like that at our age anymore.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I got welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me, having me, and thank you for the compliments. I was not expecting that right off the hop.

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Speaker 1: Well we're good. We're good at it. You know, we're seasoned right right, and you can give them back to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, either give the either give the compliments back or give us your dad or grandfather's phone number. We're easy either.

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Speaker 4: Or you know, I don't think you want to go. There's not quite like me.

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Speaker 2: So okay, well we want you to tell us about your work and you know what you do as a wildlife conservationist. How you got into this. I mean, it's really.

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Speaker 1: Really rhinos rhinos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I took my granddall looking for turtles. But I don't think that's where we're going, so tell us, tell us.

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Speaker 3: But you know what's interesting is that's where it started for me. That's where it started the interest and just being at lakes up in Canada and at my cabin up north.

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Speaker 4: And then that just kind of swear in Canada, I'm it's so. I lived just outside of Toronto.

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Speaker 2: And my sister does where do you live?

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Speaker 4: Burlington, Hamilton?

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Speaker 1: I know it, yeah, right there Okay, so there's rhinos there, there's.

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Speaker 4: No rhinos there, there's turtles there. And after I started so, I.

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Speaker 3: You know, I grew up loving all the little amphibians and reptiles and those things up here in Canada. And then I've always had a passion for wildlife and was so intrigued by animals like rhinos and things through all the documentaries and yeah, I mean over the progression of years, it just kind of spiraled out control, and I continue just to follow that. And then now I'm doing what I'm doing now, which is such a long story as to how I got here, but I'm right in to think of it, I'd literally leave to South Africa and Kenya to go.

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Speaker 1: I have a billion questions, of course, But what do you say that Kathy and I joined you on one of these little adventures.

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Speaker 4: It would be a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: I really would have you ever done anything like it before you ever?

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of scared.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've searched for turtles, you know, in the pond in Austin, Texas. I've looked for a turtle.

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Speaker 1: But I is, I do definitely want to know what you do have coming up. But there's a quick question. I have to ask what happened in Africa? You were in the hospital. What what what happened?

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Speaker 4: So I.

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Speaker 3: Joined an anti poaching ranger program to be come certified as a wildlife ranger out in South Africa, and about three weeks into that, you have to sleep in your boots basically like you have to be ready to go at all times for poachers. So sleeping in your boot, living in Africa, in South Africa, the moisture, the environment, you're dirty, all of that blister said in essentially, and I didn't take care of them. I didn't want to starge just to know that I had an issue because I didn't want to have to leave the course because of my issue.

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Speaker 4: So I let fester and fester, and then sepsis cellu lighta set in and then I had to get surgery out there. It was, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was scared now, I mean, yes, do tell the truth. I would have been shipping myself well.

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Speaker 3: I mean the way that they did the surgery out, just like dicing me open and cutting it out with no it was.

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Speaker 4: It was awful.

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Speaker 2: I don't wish Susan, he's a man. Nothing bothers.

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Speaker 1: Rhinos of course, he was good.

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Speaker 2: Really, I have a question, Blake, seriously, how big is poaching? How big an issue?

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Speaker 4: Is that massive?

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Speaker 3: And I mean it's heavier for some species than others, but it's it happens globally.

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Speaker 4: But you have more iconic species that get more of the brunt of it, like rhinos. For the horns, that's so much value. So depending on what they're being posted for. But all animals have some type of value.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Wow, in the black.

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Speaker 2: Market here we are talking about there's so many jokes I could make about, you know, poaching women, poaching rhinos. Let's just stick with the cars.

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Speaker 4: Respective God.

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Speaker 2: So I want to know. There's different endangered species every year. Which one are you working on right now?

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Speaker 4: Oh? She's uh, last thing I think. So.

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Speaker 3: I've started a company called the Soso, which essentially helps many different nonprofits that specialize in different and different animals. For example, is down in Peru, We're working with jaguars and wildcats. And then I'm going out to South Africa in a week and working with global conservation forces.

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Speaker 4: We're doing a rhino procedure. It's all about the rangers.

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Speaker 3: Then I go from there at Kenya and it's about Elephants with Save the Elephants, So we really try to There's so many that need help, so how do you say no and focus on one? So we're really doing our best effort to help as much as possible.

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Speaker 4: With where we can. Is just you know, the funding and this and that, there's just so much that goes into it that I wish it could be doing more, But we're doing the best that we can.

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Speaker 1: Questions, I'm sorry, number one. I totally respect and admire what you do. Is this costing to you or money?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean the the issue is that and why people people want to work with animals, They want to work in conservation, but there's no money in it. And so for me, I had to find a way because I never take money from my nonprofit organizations. If I'm going to go out there and help and work with them, well I'm doing a disservice or going against the whole purpose.

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Speaker 4: Of me getting them funding for the.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, So I never take from the nonprofits, which means that I have to create expeditions with guests to have money come in in different ways through expeditions and guests on these impact conservation trips.

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Speaker 1: We could help raise a lot of.

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Speaker 2: The right But wait, wait, didn't you take a trip with fellow Bachelor Nation people. Didn't you do that?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've done I've done a few of those now. So essentially, I'm trying to use influencers and their networks, so influencing for impact in a sense, and trying to utilize them in their platform to get messages across to another large demographic of people and large audience.

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Speaker 1: And how does one date doing all this traveling? That's where's that coming?

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Speaker 4: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I'm a very very confident guy, but this is one avenue right now. I'm a little bit lost in trying to navigate because it is extremely difficult and I don't have the answer right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, maybe you've got to find somebody that likes doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: Definitely would help help. There's just very slim pickings.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe maybe Blake tell us wait, yeah, trust me, but maybe Blake. Right now, you're supposed to be focusing on what you're focusing on, and you know the women will come your way when it's time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the way I'm looking at it for the most part, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I want to know how serious have you ever gotten Have you ever gotten closed? Have you ever felt like this is the one.

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Speaker 4: With with any of them? From the actual show or outside of that.

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Speaker 2: I fell in the blank.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but before I went on the show, there was a a girl was with three three and a half years, and I at one point did think that that was going to be it.

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Speaker 1: Did you break up with her because you went on the show?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: Imagine, imagine that was one of those I'm smarter, I'm smarter than that.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 1: It came out on the tabloids.

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Speaker 3: Everywhere, But no, I mean I thought I did think I was close At one point. I just felt I've felt very settled in that relationship and things were good. It just didn't feel great. It felt hell back in ways, and so it wasn't out of a lack of love. It was just a lack of We weren't getting the most out of each other in life.

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Speaker 2: That takes a lot of courage, and it was so hard.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like But the thing is, the thing that I love about it the most is is now that I I see her doing the things that I kind of was resentful like she wasn't.

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Speaker 4: Now I'm seeing her living and like really becoming her own self. And I'm like, you know, as much as it would sucked in that moment, like you're doing all the things that are now you're living and.

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Speaker 3: So I see that now and it's like, you know, she might have felt like it was the wrong decision in that time, but now look at you and look what everything you're doing, and she needed to I think solo grab life a little.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she thanks you for that.

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Speaker 2: Right Basically she'll tell me that I wouldn't mean I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either. Wait, I have a question, though, so would you like is that a problem? Would you like? The woman that has her independence and does what she wants to do and you're doing what you want to do. And if that's the case, that's a tough balance. So what's your what's your take now that you've tried in a few different ways.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think there's two different scenarios there. I think there's the exact one that you mentioned where someone that has is very established, knows what they want, is independent, has a life that they're pursuing and passion about something. Because I now that I'm in that position, I know how much value I put into someone supporting me and let tell me a go live it, go do it.

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Speaker 3: So if I have someone that also has that, I respect it so much that I want to see like that growth like blossom, do it right because I get that. But on the flip side of somebody who's also wants to be a part of some of the stuff I'm doing and wants to take on that journey with.

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Speaker 4: Me too, come along like it's your good I just for sure.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's endless experiences that I have this whole this whole May Africa trip.

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Speaker 4: At the end of it, I know I'll be sitting there being like I wish like.

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Speaker 1: I had going it was somebody.

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Speaker 4: And that happens throughout the year on all these projects I'm working on. So it's like, but I know that time will come. It will come.

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Speaker 3: It's just like we're missing some great opportunities here to like make memories.

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Speaker 4: So that's the one thing that I find on these trips.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, name the one you enjoyed the most, Paradise or Batchel, what one was more fun?

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Speaker 4: The experience Paradise certainly was more fun for sure.

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Speaker 1: Why because you make out and lay on the beach or.

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Speaker 2: No because he likes nowhere conditioning and.

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Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, I think I think well one, I think that, you know, being the third time doing the experience in general is super comfortable.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, in it been there, done that before where I didn't get overwhelmed and freaked out about the things everyone else was.

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Speaker 4: So it was fun kind of watching it all happened.

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Speaker 1: I remember, looking, I've been there.

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Speaker 4: I think the other ones just you.

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Speaker 3: Know, it's very stressful competing over one like it's just it's a lot more stressful of like for one.

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Speaker 1: Person, did we want stress?

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Speaker 2: We want stressed?

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Speaker 1: Comes with age?

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Speaker 2: A lot of things coming, like you have no idea, you have no idea? What comes with age? Wait? I have a question? Would you ever do another reality TV show?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean listen, I think yes, as long as it felt. It fell into the timing of I don't want to take away from the things that I'm doing, which.

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Speaker 1: Is like makes me not between safaris or.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like the thing is which like how do you decide going to Africa for a month and working with rhinos and elephants or like going on a reality show for a month.

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Speaker 4: It's like, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, people, you take the best and we'll have one done there in Africa.

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Speaker 4: That that would be an experience for sure. I mean that would make some TV.

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Speaker 1: Is there any place that you dream of that you'd like to go to that you have it yet?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I want. I'm all the extremes, So I think like going to like Antarctica or something where it's like I'm very out of my element and we're going all the way north.

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Speaker 2: And I was thinking, Canada offers a lot you can go, you know, exactly exactly the northwestern territories.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to go up there, like to none of it, see how they is indigenous and the culture is there, and really dive into that. I think that that type is like what you know feeds me that type of experience.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, do you want a life partner, a marriage of children? Do you want a family or no?

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Speaker 4: No question?

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Speaker 3: You know I battle that right now because all of my best friends here back home where I live, they're all engaged, they're all.

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Speaker 4: Married, all kids, second kids. I'm the only one.

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Speaker 1: What are you waiting for?

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Speaker 4: Men?

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Speaker 2: But he's living his life, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, trying.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to look at the benefit of what I am able to do right now and live like, think about the pause that you're doing.

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Speaker 4: These are our experiences you can't potentially do later.

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Speaker 3: Live in that. Soak them all in. What I say is the best is yet to come. With all that, I know that I'm still going to have kids. That is going to come and when it does is going to beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So my question for you that you know, we can be honest as far as your dating life now going forward, what's your ideal way of meeting someone?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: Given everything you've been through, you know, reality TV, everything else you've done, what's your ideal way of meeting someone? Sorry, yeah, I've closed for a while.

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Speaker 3: I had closed a door being like, hey, I just need to focus on things that I'm doing. But I realized that naturally, as as humans Homo sapens, we need connection, we need social we need to be touched with all these things.

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Speaker 4: Now, I never get to the touching point because it's just that's a dangerous, yes, But I keep the door open and I connect. I'll go on date.

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Speaker 2: It's like, you know, have you dated lately? Come on, spill you want to know?

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Speaker 3: Definitely, certainly, and I'm going to I'm going on a date next week, So I'm keeping that door open because a minute.

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Speaker 2: You're going on a date next week and say you're gonna meet the woman of your dreams and say, hey, i'll check you later. I'm on our way to South Africa. How does that work?

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Speaker 4: Well? That that's the listen, as long as you're transparent and Barry, can you tive about your situation right? Like? Then, you're not setting expectations. It's I laid out exactly like I'm of what I'm doing. So there's not a I connect.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know how how did you find this this woman that you're having a date with? How'd you find her?

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Speaker 1: She's do tell me?

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Speaker 2: Take five? Take five?

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Speaker 1: Okay, there listening, Listen to every word. He says, you could meet him too, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: He's we'll call it a friend of a friend in a different city. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, Susan, we know about that, dating people in different cities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to my next stuff on their way. So I do have one question. Do you have any questions for us?

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Speaker 2: None of this do I care about. What I really want to know is how are you going to plan a dream conservation trip with us? The Golden Ladies.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I.

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Speaker 3: Think I think when you start is like, do you have do you have an animal that you've always dreamed of being close to work?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I have two geriatric cats. Yes, I have animals.

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Speaker 4: Like a dream animal. I don't know a lion? Or do you want to work with penguins? Do you want to?

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Speaker 1: I want ones that don't bite.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing I want one to let me pat them? Will a giraffe let me pat it?

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Speaker 4: A wild one? Likely not?

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Speaker 1: What about a bear? A nice bear, Cathy.

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Speaker 4: Certainly not. No, No, you don't want to be put that.

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Speaker 1: We don't ever want to as.

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Speaker 4: Though to do that. So you could go to Alaska with us?

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Speaker 2: I've been hold Okay, it's cold, it's a beautiful experience. You got to go before the glaciers are gone.

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Speaker 1: What about Europe? Do you go to Italy or France or have you been to any of those?

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Speaker 3: I'm saving that for when I do find my partner. I'm doing all the stuff I love to do now, so when she wants to go do these things.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's good. You just touched me right here a little bit. This is good. I went by myself a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sitting here thinking, who do we know we can fix them up with?

00:17:33
Speaker 1: I know my daughters?

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Speaker 4: Are you damn it?

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Speaker 2: So it's mine?

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Speaker 4: None come to mind. Huh.

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Speaker 1: So back to my question, Yes, what if anything, would you ask us about anything, whether it's dating, reality TV?

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Speaker 4: Well, can I use it? Can I use you like to my own benefit?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Sure, like seeing the situation that.

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Speaker 3: I'm in and having a decent understanding of the position that I am in. If you had advice and trying to maneuver through a career like mine and trying to find somebody, what are those pieces of advice and what really do I need to be more cognizant of or aware of, or like, what is the woman actually looking for?

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Speaker 4: You're the woman dating me right now, and you know, and I've just told you all these things from across the table. How how are you actually feeling? Because everyone tells me that they'd be okay with it.

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Speaker 1: That's bullshit, straight up bullshit. I disagree. I love the fact that you're open and honest when you meet somebody, But for me, I mean, like, get this out of your system, love, and that we could go play little little things on your safaris or your but you have to live you and get that out of your system before you want to nail down a big relationship because and I know that everybody's going to go with what you love.

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Speaker 2: And this is gonna be a great surprise that I disagree with, Susan. I think I love you though. I think like that if you do the things you love and where your passions are, the right people will come into your life. And that's always my advice. Do the things you love that bring your heart joy, that give you, that energize you, and the right people come into your lives.

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Speaker 1: What he is and that's what I'm saying, Well do that, but not begun ho and look for a serious relationship in Canada at home because you're leaving.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: See, I will say, there is a nice thing about what I am doing. Okay, in a sense, say for three weeks, I come back and I don't have to be I can work from there. I can go and be with her for a.

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Speaker 1: Couple of weeks works okay.

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Speaker 4: You know, like I'm not always Abra. I always come back.

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Speaker 1: And then offer to take her with you once or twice. If you do that, then yes, a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit, yeah, for sure, I understand what the things would need to happen if I were to get in that position.

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Speaker 2: You seem like a guy with a big heart, and it's going to happen for you. It's going to happen for you. It's just it's just not your time yet.

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Speaker 1: And you know, start that vision board thing they up there to the universe. You know, the universe I learned does not understand English. It's a vibe that we give. So you have to truly believe it all the way down to your two's.

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Speaker 2: And I think the animals that you are helping will send the right people your way. I mean that I really believe that good.

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Speaker 1: You don't sound like a really good guy.

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Speaker 4: You know, this is what I this is what I vow. Right. It's like all I know, all the good that I am doing, and keep be doing the funding, awareness, all the stuff, all the possitive and when I care about animals as much as I do, knowing how much, and when you start working with animals closely like that, and you see the impact and the positive that you can do. For me to now take massive steps back to make sure I can just find my partner.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I think it's a disservice to to everybody and.

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Speaker 4: Animals when it's it.

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Speaker 3: And I have this unique ability to do what I'm doing, so I think that it's important that I keep doing that right.

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Speaker 4: A person will absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Mend into and I'm trying to continuously believe in that.

00:21:29
Speaker 2: How do you feel about seventy year olds? Blake? I'm not that.

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Speaker 4: Much older, but you know, I never I never say.

00:21:39
Speaker 2: Never, never say never.

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Speaker 1: So here's a good question. And I've asked a lot of men this. Men sometimes will say they want an independent woman, but do they really.

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Speaker 4: Or do you really?

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Speaker 3: The the confident ones that don't have an ego and want to see the woman succeed, like the man almost wants to get that Domitt, there's like it. There's like a how do you call It's like a power dynamic where they need to be the ones.

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Speaker 4: No, I think it's so sexy to see a woman like like doing her thing and grabbing life.

00:22:25
Speaker 1: No, it's the so you like strong women, Kathy c. There's men that like.

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Speaker 2: Wrong, here we are, here, we are again counting? He is thirty? What and you're how old? Let's start counting?

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Speaker 1: You didn't make my cut off just saying, wait, I telling the woman of your dreams. I really do, just like I hope I find my guys some day. You are I know, I am. I look at things differently now than I did at your age of will. And let me ask you this, after coming off the show, do you look at dating differently or what you want in a person differently than you did?

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say the show is hasn't necessarily made me. I mean, there's a lot that I worry about and think about during the vening process, for sure, But I don't necessarily think about things different. The core values and what I actually want are still there. As I've matured, they've changed a little bit slightly.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and they will dramatically when you're sick.

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Speaker 2: So wait, wait a minute, I have a question. All the things you're talking about are really high principle, you know, really important things that matter when you pick your life partner. But come on, Blake, when you see that woman, is that the chemistry?

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Speaker 1: Is that the look that gets your first Yeah, what's your first?

00:23:56
Speaker 2: Come on?

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's usually it's you usually an and nerd. It's like it's an.

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Speaker 1: Energy energy, Yeah, which is chemistry. Yeah, yes, yes, but your first look, like say you're online or on a dating app and you know how you have to swipe the pictures. It's got to be a visual thing first, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I yes, Like I think that naturally grabs the I first, no question, right, like what is there's the next piece you're looking for? Like are they are?

00:24:29
Speaker 2: What is like?

00:24:29
Speaker 4: Are they with their animals and their dogs? Are they? Is it too curated? Is it too like how natural? And like raw? Are you? Is it too? Yeah? I want like a cool calm, like really down to earth.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: Normal listen, like we just met. You have a ton of energy, so and I love that and we love that. But that means that if you want a calm woman, she might not have the same kind of energy.

00:24:56
Speaker 4: I'm not to say like this is where I could work in a vocabulary, so is not? Its like I need like a calm like like very to themselves. No, but I'm collected, collected.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: Collected, collect. Okay, well we're gonna collect. We're collected. Now we're gonna we want to play a game with you. Are you ready? All right? I want to know, okay, Apple or Android is green texted deal breaker? Do you care, no, glad to hear it.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: Okay, a date night in or a date night out.

00:25:32
Speaker 4: It depends how far along I am with them, but in once I know them.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: Oh all right, what about your phone? God knows we're all attached to our phones. Do you bring your phone to bed or do you leave it in the other room? Really?

00:25:49
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:25:49
Speaker 2: Wait a second. You know I'm gonna ask this. You're hot and heaving your phone beeps, You're gonna pick up on it?

00:25:55
Speaker 1: Not saying alone? He lives alone right now?

00:26:00
Speaker 2: Season he's not a priest.

00:26:02
Speaker 4: We never I never get there. So you know, hot and heavy isn't a thing?

00:26:06
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so I know for me, I know the answer to this one. Are you friends with the X? Or do you cut it off completely?

00:26:14
Speaker 4: Right?

00:26:15
Speaker 3: I think there's so many people that go against this, but I don't care, and I'll stand by it.

00:26:21
Speaker 1: I'm always if I always friends.

00:26:23
Speaker 3: If I can maintain a relationship is sure if you respect the person?

00:26:27
Speaker 1: Yes to that one?

00:26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all high five and you're there. Yes, yes, Okay, So I agree. This is one near and dear to me because I'm seventy going on twenty nine. Would you date someone older? Than you, or date someone younger than you, and we're both and how old will you go? Because I'm personally interested.

00:26:50
Speaker 3: I've I've dated, I'm dating, I have been dating both. There isn't me cut offs?

00:26:55
Speaker 1: Geez, is there a calmer like? I'm here fourteen years? Okay, we'll call it.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: Like, we'll call it. We'll call it seventy, well, seventy. I want to feel it make you feel included.

00:27:06
Speaker 1: Oh you're going to date a seventy year old. That's more than double. That's what we don't believe.

00:27:16
Speaker 2: Now you're greater. Now this is a girl who can't count. Now, all of a sudden, she's got multiplication. Now I love that.

00:27:25
Speaker 3: I said I want collected knows what they want and you both clearly have that right.

00:27:30
Speaker 1: So yes, And it took us time to get here, it really did. We were done the baby making days. You need that energy.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: I mean, we have grandchildren. Now we have grand Wait, can I just tell you that? I mean you're not there yet, but grandchildren. You know why we love our grandchildren so much? Blake, you know why you're gonna love your children, and then you're gonna love your grandchildren so much. I'm just putting the cart before the horse. Here because your grandchildren and will remind you of the children you had. It's like holding your children all over again.

00:28:07
Speaker 1: Your grandchildren. You get to say yes to everything and don't have to deal with the bradyness.

00:28:14
Speaker 4: Right right?

00:28:16
Speaker 1: My daughter gets mad at me all the time. Why just because they ask? I go there my grain kids?

00:28:22
Speaker 4: All right?

00:28:22
Speaker 2: Wait, I have one more question, Yes, Blake, m you want a bachelorette or do you wantchildren? Paradise?

00:28:34
Speaker 1: Paradise? Hello, Blake, the girl next door?

00:28:40
Speaker 4: What what do you mean by exactly by that question? Do I want paradise again?

00:28:48
Speaker 2: He said? He said, with his eyes popping out of his head.

00:28:51
Speaker 4: Neither neither.

00:28:53
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter right, Just as long as she's.

00:28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Susan, it's it's getting better for you and me. He's not interested in either of those.

00:29:02
Speaker 1: Blake, Can I just tell you I hope we get to actually meet in person and go have a cocktail or a wait to eat. I really love to pick your brain even further, but I think that's all the time we have for today.

00:29:13
Speaker 4: No, that would be a lot of fun. We should probably were you both? Were you both?

00:29:17
Speaker 2: I live in Austin, Texas and I'm in Philadelphia, but we're coming to Canada.

00:29:23
Speaker 1: We'll have to check his dates.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: My sister lives in Ottawa, okay, and she did live in Toronto, just moved to Ottawa, so I'll be there this summer. And you know, if you're there.

00:29:35
Speaker 1: A hook up, you'll have to send me your number.

00:29:37
Speaker 2: That's if you don't say hook up suits And that doesn't mean you get me.

00:29:41
Speaker 1: So so much for being and playing with us today. We really enjoyed you and you are just so easy on the eye. I have to tell you.

00:29:49
Speaker 2: And I want to. I seriously want to wish you all the best on your trip to South Africa. I hope it's everything you want it to be.

00:29:55
Speaker 1: And we'll pray for no infections this time.

00:29:57
Speaker 4: Okay, No, no, I've learned my life. No, thanks very much. It was a lot of fun.

00:30:02
Speaker 3: It's it's interesting, right like when I I haven't podcasted with mature individuals with a different Yeah, you guys just bring in different energy and confidence and what you talk about in comparison to other podcasts, So it's it's yeah, it's.

00:30:17
Speaker 4: A nice.

00:30:19
Speaker 2: I think he's interested. I think we did good. Katy's interested.

00:30:23
Speaker 4: You know.

00:30:23
Speaker 3: My mom always says, you know, like there's there's people that have the cool gene.

00:30:27
Speaker 4: You both have the cool geen.

00:30:29
Speaker 3: You're so old, she's fifty eight.

00:30:35
Speaker 1: We're older than his mom.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: How old your grandmother?

00:30:40
Speaker 4: Wait? Yeah, I should know that, but I don't. Yeah.

00:30:46
Speaker 1: And you're blessed that you still have them all. Yeah, and cherish them.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: And you know what, enjoy every minute with them too, because family is only family for a short time.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: Thank you again, sweetheart, We really enjoyed you. And that does it for to day's episode of Bachelor Happy Hours Golden Hour.

00:31:04
Speaker 2: Listen to Bachelor Happy Hours Golden Hour on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Have a great week. We'll see you next time.

00:31:14
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00:31:31
Speaker 2: Take care