Exclusive: Dotun & Charity, Happily Ever After — Part 1

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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Happy Out.

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Speaker 2: It's a very special episode. I'm here with my lovely co host and wife, Serena.

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Speaker 1: Hello, and the lovely couple themselves, Charity and Dotton.

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Speaker 2: What's up, guys.

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Speaker 1: How are you welcome to our This is our first live podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm honored. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be fully transparent with everyone. I am training for the marathon, so I've been I really haven't been drinking like I've probably had about five.

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Speaker 2: Drinks in the past two months. And last night.

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Speaker 1: We went out with our friend Wells and I had about seven old fashions and I am truly struggling today. But the question I want to ask is we have our wedding in two weeks, so should I start drinking a little more to prep for the web.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna stop you right there.

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Speaker 4: Joe has in the last sixty seconds not asked you one question about yourselves. Thank you so much for coming on our podcast. Now we're going to ask you what we should do with our lives, and Joe should do about drinking in the marathon.

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Speaker 2: I also thought.

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Speaker 1: About this morning, I'm going to probably start my own podcast and name it Joe and just talk random.

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Speaker 3: That's me.

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Speaker 4: I hear that live every single day, and I'm going to veto that option. But let's pivot back to the couple of the moment, Charity.

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Speaker 3: And is that okay with you?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I think But to answer your question, I think that you should so that you guys can have a full celebration and you're not.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: I think you're right.

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Speaker 5: I have to. I have to.

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Speaker 2: I have to build up my uh your tolerance.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So on that note, we should pop some champagne we have right here. Start building up Joe's tolerance right now. And Charity, would you like to be honors of cover professional?

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Speaker 3: Is at this point?

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Speaker 6: I am truly done this many of times.

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Speaker 7: There we go.

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Speaker 4: Your cut, Please, celebrations are in order, dott Would you like to make a toast?

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Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, I can do that. Just we don't have to act, we don't have to get there. Okay, Well, I'm gonna be here, guys and w y'all and some legends in the franchise and a toasted like love you know in all its forms, and how we get there and just excited for the future and what's to come for everybody, so chairs.

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Speaker 3: To chairs, chairs, We're very happy for you both.

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Speaker 1: I would have been like, Okay, so you guys are finally you're you're out in the open.

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Speaker 5: How does it feel?

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Speaker 6: It is actually, like I keep saying, every moment is a moment and I prayed for but really like this just being like out and like doing normal things.

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Speaker 3: It's like it's so refreshing.

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Speaker 6: But it's just like, I know, it feels so right because I'm like with my person, but finally we're just free.

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Speaker 3: So it feels good. It feels so good.

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Speaker 7: It's the moment that we've been talking about since we left Fiji, really just being like, you know, we're enjoying the in between and excited about it. But the more we got to know each other, the more we just wanted to be free and just wanted to do normal things and be normal.

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Speaker 5: And so we're gonna be.

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Speaker 7: There's like a bit of a grieving that we talked about, like of like this chapter it's been so unique and like hiding and like trying to be secretive. It's a little bit of excitement there, right, you guys know, but more than anything, we're so happy to like move forward. And like embrace all the good things that's gonna come. And the challenge is too, right, that's gonna come with it. But I feel like we're really equipped and we're so happy just to like be in this position and be like we made it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, one thing you can finally embrace is having charity as your screen saver shamelessly.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, listen, I'm not even going front I have She's on my screens. They like of time. Maybe I'm on the subway. I might change it real quicker or dim the screen.

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Speaker 5: That's all I've been doing.

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Speaker 7: But now I can turn that brightening s up and just let the world know.

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Speaker 4: So Don can barely see his phone because his brightness is so loud, so no one sees those charity literally.

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Speaker 1: So what was your first I love asking couples of this because I loved our first conversation, But what was your first conversation off camera after you got engaged?

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Speaker 5: What was that? What was that about? That's a great question.

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Speaker 6: Do you remember so I'm thinking like post proposal, Yeah, we were just in our feelings, like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were having a moment.

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Speaker 6: I don't like it was just like it was so I think we were just it was hitting us like it's like this actually just happened, and like he's just seriously such a sweetheart because the way he would just like I would just catch him just like in the corner and like sorry, I'm putting you on blast, but you would be like off in the corner, but like every now and then, like he would like look up and it was just like this like pure look of love and I was like, what's going on. I always like check in. It's like what are you like thinking about? And like we would just like recap like every single moment and like what we were feeling. It was just so like high intensified emotions obviously, so we were just honestly just we kept recapping like everything that led us to the end of proposal.

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Speaker 7: So I don't think there was a single like conversation that we can remember, but it was more just a feeling. They were like there was actually a lot of quiet and it's just because we were just like embracing it and being like this is so crazy, like we're here, we made it, and what a crazy love story. And so there was an energy that was definitely like just like like relief but like powerful.

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Speaker 5: Like you said and intense, and so we were just kind of basking in that.

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Speaker 7: So I don't think we had a conversation that was like like yo, this.

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Speaker 5: No, we didn't like do nothing like that.

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Speaker 7: But we were just really just embracing like this this journey, that part of the journey ending in the next one beginning, and I think a lot of great, great feelings for We're in the air that night.

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Speaker 1: You're a fairy tale. You kept you kept saying the whole season, your fairy tale. It almost got to the point where I was getting sickond.

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Speaker 3: But loves loves.

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Speaker 5: I actually love that. I actually loved it. That's why I like you, because if I watched it back to it, and I did, that's what it sounds like.

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Speaker 7: But like obviously they took it out like during recording, but like every single time I was gonna say, I would say, listen, I'm well aware that this sounds insane and I don't even believe in fairy tales, but like, that's what this is becoming, that's what this feeling like.

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Speaker 5: Like that's what my heart was saying.

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Speaker 7: And so you know, they pretty much every single time I maybe said it four times, and you see it four times, right, but every single time they caught it because obviously that's what they you know, but that's what it was. And I was completely aware that that was like again, like it sounds woo woo, and I'm very logic, and I know she is too, and so for both of us, we were well aware that like it was not it's a weird thing to say and like to pretend because it sounds like fake almost you're like, you're trying to pretend like this is what it is. But we're both the way like that's crazy, but that's just what it was. There's nothing wrong with it, and a relationship was literally flawless from you know, beginning to start to the end and even now. So truly that's so to set the record straight, I'm with you there if I hear that. When I hear it too, I'm like, but.

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Speaker 5: That's what it is.

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Speaker 4: I understood what you meant by it, because it's such a crazy experience that there's not really like a word to describe how you're feeling when you're falling in love in that environment. Like I struggled with it too at times of like really being able to put my feelings into words of like how magical it feels so like as much as fairy tale was like a cheesy word to use, it's like you're searching for something that can really encompass what you're feeling. And like, I do think fairy tale lines up with like you're falling in love so fast in the most like insane way.

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Speaker 3: Ever, it just feels like for lestly, it feels.

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Speaker 4: Like beyond real, Like it feels like a fairy tale.

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Speaker 5: Right, I was just jokeing you guys really took this to the extreme.

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Speaker 7: It was a joke that, right, But that's what it was because I was trying to find a word for so long to describe it, and I per it took on my hand, but I wanted to avoid it. I was like, that sounds so silly, like it sounds like TV stuff, you know. But then eventually I had to settle on it because that's exactly what it was. And yeah, so spot on with that analysis.

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Speaker 2: Did you dot did you have any.

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Speaker 5: Just like.

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Speaker 2: Did you think like should I get should I get.

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Speaker 5: Down on one knee?

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Speaker 2: Or were you one hundred per right?

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Speaker 1: Because it is it's of course I think at the end of the show, I think it's normal to be like I want to be with this person, but an engagement is actually a really big thing.

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Speaker 2: Am I really really ready for this?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: There's so many layers to that question, And you know the first one, am I ready? I knew I was ready, right like I wouldn't don't think I would have been barked in the journey if I wasn't ready. And looking for my person is just that it's going to be a hard thing to do to find that person. But then again, once I started to meet this special lady here, it all started to make sense. And by like week four or whatever, around that time where our connection it really took off, and I was like I really could see this her being my person, and it was stuff that I was seeing on camera but off camera too, write the little things, and I was like, that's that's the one right there. And so by the time that it came to Fiji, like I really was ready, of course there's always doubt, like not a psychopath, So of course you're like this is fucking weird, like this is not.

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Speaker 5: Ever how I imagined it.

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Speaker 7: And also you are probably understanding, like it's hard to be successful leaving this, you know, and and so then you think about that too. You can go like, man, like is this really worth like everything that's going to come with it?

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Speaker 5: But the answer was actually pretty easy.

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Speaker 7: And then especially on that last days, I was so sure and that's all I wanted and that you can get very emotional, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Charity, how about you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I think I talk about this a lot. I think initially starting all this, I was like so dead set on an engagement.

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Speaker 3: I was like, yes, like I want this like.

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Speaker 6: An engagement, like and it kind of sounds irrational a little bit of like I don't really care how it looks like. It's just like the engagement was kind of like my focus at a point. But then I was like no, no, no, let me take some steps back and like really like consider all factors here. And so obviously once I like not to the point of where I was at and around like hometowns, that obviously became so serious because at that point, like I had developed really really strong connections, but I was starting a waiver or going on the fence of like okay, like I could just leave in a relationship, and like an engagement is so serious and it's like how how will I know? Like that the person or if I get to the end, like I'm going to be so sure but obviously, like we just see like me and Dawton's love story from start to finish, and there was never like a doubt that I knew that this man was also going to choose me, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: So I felt so like reassured in that sense.

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Speaker 6: But also I was like, Okay, I do have the autonomy to be like I don't have to get engaged, but I knew like if I left here, and yes, we could have dated or we could have just like been in a relationship, but it felt so right, It felt so sure, and like I can't even like put into words of what that feeling was, Like it's just like you just know, like you really and that saying is so cliche, but you truly just know.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I guess that essentially, I.

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Speaker 6: Don't know if that makes sense, but like helped me get to the point of where I was able to just make that decision of like, yeah, like I can't fall through with this and be okay and confident my decision.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 4: Let's take it back to the episode. So starting from the top, we're going to do a little recap breakdown with you guys. So the one of the first things we see is the Rose ceremony. So first we see Joey walk in, then we see Dotton walk in, and then we see Aaron b walk in. I don't know how you and Joey Dotton just stood there and didn't look and be like, what is going on right now?

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Speaker 6: No, we talked about that actually so much because obviously, like I didn't have any time between that to like talk to them and like check in after the whole like Xavier situation.

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Speaker 3: So I think it was.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't until after proposal actually where we like I got to talk about that and bring it up. I was like, what was going through your mind when you saw air walk in and it wasn't the Savior?

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Speaker 3: And he was like please talk like you like, hey, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Like it was so calm because I think at that point he was just unbothered, but like all this ship that like you know, goes on behind.

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Speaker 4: And you do be kind of little when crazy things are always happening.

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Speaker 3: You're like, here's another whatever, right.

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Speaker 6: But I think obviously he was able to tell me because I wasn't. I hadn't walked in yet, but he was like I think Joey obviously had a little bit more of like what the fun?

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Speaker 4: He kept competing too, and Joey like looking over and over like he was like you could tell his eyes like am I like did I just black out?

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Speaker 3: Yes? But he was chill.

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Speaker 4: And Don's just looking straight ahead like hey man, what's up.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 7: I mean so this this started a while ago, I mean after the whole Braiden stuff happened, and see.

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Speaker 5: That whole debacle and that mess.

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Speaker 7: I was just like okay, like anything's possible, Like I just got over like that type of stuff happening, you know, like for me, this journey is kind of serious, not kind it is and like trying to you know, find love and and so I just was prepared for anything and everything.

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Speaker 5: They could have done anything. I'se just been like whatever.

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Speaker 7: And so I remember standing there with Joey and then all of a sudden like of course you're expecting Xavier. But then Aaron comes and I just looked at my laughs. I just pat him on the back. I said, good to see you by the guy to have here. Don't know what happened, but with you the best and and I think Joey did like a double take and then he was like he was like, I was tripping. But then when I saw you, I was like cares.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I was thinking about how I would have handled it.

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Speaker 6: If I was in their shoot, I would have definitely given like a Joey reaction times twenty.

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Speaker 7: Too.

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Speaker 4: Probably is anyone going to talk about the bad.

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Speaker 3: I miss someone.

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Speaker 7: I was like, it'll come out at some point, I'll learn about it, but right now I was just focused on getting.

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Speaker 3: His rosen Yeah. And then minutes later it was like.

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Speaker 8: Bye, good to see literally, I mean a quick turn around and well.

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Speaker 2: Did he did he stand the chance at coming back?

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Speaker 6: I'll be honest, I like to think that maybe something magical could have happened or something miraculous, but.

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Speaker 5: If he was more of a fairy tale guy.

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Speaker 6: First, perhaps, But I think it was like I gave myself like the hope of like, okay, giving that room for anything to happen, But in the back of my mind, no, if I can just be honest, like I part of me like also just wanted to respect the fact that he came back, like he came back, So I was like, Okay, let's see and like obviously I talked about it a lot of where I was like, I felt like if we had more time then I probably would have gotten there. So like that was the one thing I don't want to leave, like that situation with I'm wondering what if, like if we didn't have another conversation, or if we could have had like I don't know, a twenty minute or whatever.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted to give him that.

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Speaker 6: But then after like obviously we had like a little date, I just felt like, Okay, I did make the right decisions. So I did get that like confirmation that yes, no, he's not my person and he wasn't going to get to where I was at at that point with with thought in Joey.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, And I think that was obvious to an extent because when you first said goodbye to him after Hometowns, it was a very emotional breakup, whereas the second time there just felt like a lot more like peace in your heart about it and like certainty. And I think he like he must have been understanding of the fact that like he has you know, a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of catching up to do at this point.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So then we finished the Rose Sarah ceremony, and we move on to family time. Tell us how it was meeting the family. Yeah, and seeing your family for the first time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously seeing my my family for the first time, which Joey was the first one. Yes, it was just obviously so many emotions. I think I was definitely a lot like more bubbly that day, just because it's like it's the first time I'm seeing my parents again and it's been this much time, so I was like so excited, but also in the back of my head, I'm like extremely nervous. It's like I don't know like how it's gonna go. I don't know like what their their thoughts or perceptions are going to be of each of the guys at that point. But obviously, like my my family is very understanding and I think they know like me to my core well enough to be like, okay, like it makes sense why these are like the last two or the remaining guys here, But obviously, like it gets the point where we see, like I am overcome with so many emotions because if I can explain myself or make sense of where I was at, my headspace was at in that moment, it's obviously like we're a week out or a couple of days out, not even a couple of days out from proposal, and as you know, in just dispatch, the world or environment, anything can change in a matter of like a day or just like not even a day, like a couple of minutes, which is insane to say, but it's the truth. But for me, I think I let my emotions kind of take over, which I felt a little not in control as much as I would have liked to have been over my emotions. So that's where you see, like the intense conversations with my mom, I'm like, I don't know what I'm gonna do, and it's like I kind of am like having like an internal freak out. And then that's obviously referencing back to the conversation of like do you want to leave here?

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Speaker 3: Engaged? Like I started to contemplate all of that and be like, is this actually something I really want?

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Speaker 6: But it's like no, I knew in my heart of hearts like what I wanted to do and probably at that point honestly like who it was going to be. But it was also just coming to terms with like I'm going to also have to like say goodbye to someone. So all those things were going through my head and I was just really like hoping to get that, like I guess peace from my family or just like that help to like help me kind of get to that point.

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Speaker 3: But my mom is just a very firm, firm woman. Yeah, she's a firm woman. She's like, you know what you do, get in there and do it. I'm like, yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 4: So it makes sense because to make that final decision, it's like there's got to be some relief with like, Okay, I am not contemplating anymore. I've made the decision, but you have to accept that when you make that decision, you're accepting both like finding the greatest joy and also okay, I've made the decision that I'm also now going to have to accept I'm going to have this pain and that is official.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 4: Do you, looking back, wish that your mom had answered your question of who do you think I should end up with or been more specific?

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Speaker 3: Are you glad?

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Speaker 5: I think what she did that was the right one.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: I think I in that moment of where I was at with my emotions, I think I would have been too easily like suaded or just been like because I was so caught up like anything that would have just like given me something to do exactly, And then if had I done that and not, like, granted I don't know what her answer would have been, but like if she had said, you know, the opposite of whom I'm here with now, like and not saying that that's one of what led me to choose the other person. But it's like, I don't think I think I would have held resentment had I like not actually worked all the way through that one my own, rather than just like becoming super dependent on like my family's like choice or answer for whatever reasons.

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Speaker 4: No matter who you picked, you might have always wondered like did I make.

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Speaker 3: This decision on my own or was it influencing your way? Correct?

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Speaker 6: So I'm I mean love my parents, love my sister who they were all there and they all gave their opinions. But I am so glad that I did actually just like and I respect my mom so much for that because she didn't have to. She could have been like, yeah, pick this one or pick you know, pick that, but she did. She was like, no, you know, yes, as.

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Speaker 4: Someone who actually as someone who's very I'm quite indecisive and I struggle with it.

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Speaker 3: And I'm very close with my mom.

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Speaker 4: I have had that exact conversation and many times in my life with my mom were.

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Speaker 8: Like, please just tell me what to do.

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Speaker 4: I'm so tired of not knowing what to do. And she's like, you're gonna feel better once you make a decision. You know what decision you have to make, and just because it's hard to do it for you exactly. So I yeah, I was like this, I'm having day.

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Speaker 3: This whole situation.

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Speaker 4: Feels so familiar to me as an indecisive girl with a mom who would respond exactly.

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Speaker 5: Where.

00:21:10
Speaker 2: I think our listeners probably want to know this.

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Speaker 5: Where was your brother?

00:21:15
Speaker 2: I was waiting for him to be.

00:21:19
Speaker 3: So obviously we know he has two daytime jobs.

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Speaker 6: I guess so he's a pediatric insist but does theater on the side. So this man decided to just take on a show in the middle of, like me, filming, and I was like, I don't know if this is going to be smart, because you might have a show time towards the end. He was like, no, no, no, I'll be fine. I'll be fine lo the hood. It was the actual last show and I was like, can like the understudy to step in.

00:21:46
Speaker 3: From the last like finale? I don't know, so you.

00:21:48
Speaker 6: Could be in Fiji and he just couldn't make it. So he had a show during that time, so that's why he wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: But did you have any interactions dotten with me a Maya when he was under ever night one?

00:22:01
Speaker 5: I think I was one of the people who had the most interaction.

00:22:04
Speaker 7: No, people kid tell me they kept a drink outside for whatever reason, and obviously I didn't know, but I talked to him a lot, right, But obviously I didn't know anything. I just thought it was like it was clear there was a disguise. Some of the guys were like, didn't even know it was a fake mustache. I was like, y'all need help. But it was clear was the disguise, but he just.

00:22:27
Speaker 6: Didn't pick up on the fact that it was for me.

00:22:32
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding. Let your voice.

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Speaker 7: But no, he was also like just had great energy and there was something familiar about him. But let rich was now revealed, like because I'd seen him on the show, but there was yeah before that, I was just totally totally like, like, this.

00:22:48
Speaker 3: Is the chattiest part.

00:22:51
Speaker 5: But it's l A.

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Speaker 7: So I'm thinking you just want to be actor like that's yeah, that's what I thought was to make it the best. He was actually a cool dude and like he was like really smiley, and I was I just wanted to hang out. I know the guys very well, but Bartender's always you can always confide in them.

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Speaker 5: So I talked to him a lot that night, and you'll see us like, no, nothing, I mean.

00:23:17
Speaker 8: There is a right answer and no, no.

00:23:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously probably about you to some extent, But then I hadn't talk.

00:23:28
Speaker 3: To you that I asked you anything. I'm sorry, I'm like taking me actually, I mean we talked about it a little bit, but I.

00:23:34
Speaker 6: Don't think yeah, not a lot did he ask you anything that kind of threw you off.

00:23:38
Speaker 3: Like that where you felt like he was like, you know, prying.

00:23:40
Speaker 6: To see that he was like a good guy.

00:23:42
Speaker 7: You did a good job of like keeping it feel natural and like like I said, just like an l A guy just trying to make it and just like having conversations, happy to be there.

00:23:51
Speaker 5: That's why that's what I felt.

00:23:52
Speaker 1: So and you also you you don't know what's going on, like you're in this house for the first day experience all this and you're just.

00:23:57
Speaker 8: Like, what, Yeah, you're not going to be like this guy's obviously a plan.

00:24:01
Speaker 3: I never even crossed my mind.

00:24:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I just watched some episodes like in the hotel right before right and before we started filming, and so that was it. That's all I had to go off of. And so I had no idea what to expect. So I just thought it was a normal bartender. But the conversations were we're great, and we're we're kind of around her, and I was just like, Addison, I haven't talked to her, but she seems great, and you know, I hope you know, so I told him kind of like the events that led me there.

00:24:29
Speaker 5: I think that's where I think they'd talk about.

00:24:30
Speaker 7: Was like, somehow life led me here, and I'm hoping that she's great, and so it's a you know, think about that conversation.

00:24:36
Speaker 5: It's like full circle in the sense, you know.

00:24:38
Speaker 4: So you got to meet your future brother in law before meeting Charity. You're chatting with Charity like.

00:24:45
Speaker 5: I knew him way more Charity probably for like a good two three weeks.

00:24:51
Speaker 3: He's like, Charity is great, Like, where's.

00:25:00
Speaker 4: I didn't walk us through how it was meaning the rest of Charity's family then.

00:25:05
Speaker 7: Couldn't have been a better family, Like reminded me so much of my own family.

00:25:09
Speaker 2: Were you nervous going into that, going into that.

00:25:11
Speaker 7: Or were you yeah, like they always of course there's a bit of nerve, like out of respect for meeting someone's family, right that you should probably have. I'd be concerned if I didn't, But I also felt so strong about her that I wasn't.

00:25:23
Speaker 5: I was like, y'all just going to see him.

00:25:24
Speaker 7: Feel how I feel about her, like regardless, and so like they didn't go anywhere, like there's no game plan, It's just go there. I'm just going to confess like what she means to me, an, express to her, to them, what I've expressed to her throughout that experience. So a little bit of nerves in terms of like meaning parents and you hope that, but I was like, I'm just gonna put my heart out and I know I care about their daughter and sister.

00:25:45
Speaker 5: So hopefully they see it.

00:25:46
Speaker 10: Yeah.

00:25:46
Speaker 4: No, you guys both have incredible family. Is how has it been like now, have you guys like hung out with the family.

00:25:53
Speaker 6: It's like obviously like no, like we've like facetimed and like has like there and we're all like obviously on different coast of the United States, but we FaceTime, but obviously, like we were just anticipating like that moment of where like we're just all together and just think.

00:26:11
Speaker 7: Is really like my family, Like they just may be cutting up and like joking and roasting and it's it's but there's a lot of love there and like it's it's beautiful. So like we've both just been waiting, like I love her brother. She's like, give me away, give me away. It's a perfect dynamic and where I think everything's gonna balance out pretty well.

00:26:31
Speaker 4: I was dying charity because, like I said, your mom reminds me of my mom in a way, but your dad also reminded me so much of my dad when he was like, you know, as long as you can talk about sports, like we can definitely get along.

00:26:42
Speaker 6: And I was like, I really hope gotten the sports guys saying, because I'm like when I asked my dad, I'm my dad, He's just like be serious and he's like, no, I am, I'm sports And I'm like that is not like like can we get a deeper, like determine whether or not, like this is gonna work sports.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: Like that's my top per charity. I know, I warned him.

00:27:04
Speaker 9: I literally wanted, like Mermaid exactly what my dad did, Like they are just so predictable and I love them, but I was like, my dad's probably gonna talk about sports or just ask you like they'm an athlete or something.

00:27:15
Speaker 3: And it's just a typical dad thing. But it's very bad of him. Are you a sports guyton, honestly?

00:27:20
Speaker 5: You know, like I played sports red Flag for the dad. No, I don't.

00:27:28
Speaker 7: Honestly, I don't really watch sports like I love to play them. I'll go out on the field and be a part of it. Watching it I used to. I just died down to busneys these days. But I'll watch it like, you know, if there's any bank going on, that kind of thing.

00:27:44
Speaker 5: Her dad did not disappoint though. I love that guy.

00:27:48
Speaker 4: So we loved watching you meet Charity's family, Dotton, But we also loved watching Charity meet your family and your grandmother specifically stole the show.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: So we have to ask, how is she doing? How's the fan?

00:28:02
Speaker 5: All the famous went to her head and she's become a monster.

00:28:07
Speaker 7: Grandma, Grandma tam T is doing great. She's she's happy. She's just happy about this more than anything. And so yeah, she's doing great. You know, she's just excited and like she was already a Bachelor fan.

00:28:22
Speaker 5: I didn't know.

00:28:24
Speaker 6: Please tell her about what she thought when she used to get like bachelorette notifications on her phone.

00:28:31
Speaker 3: Please tell your sister was telling me that. Okay, so she's like a super fan.

00:28:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, she would get like notifica, but she would think that it was like me texting her what do you mean?

00:28:44
Speaker 3: Like it was so.

00:28:45
Speaker 6: Cy and I was about to follow her when she said, I was like, there's no way. But like she would get I guess it was either message on Facebook. I have no idea what it was. But like when she would get like, I guess she has it set for like just anything that's Bachelorette related. She would like interpret the vacation as like a message from Yeah, it was like.

00:29:04
Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, so grandma thinks your best friend, Yes, that is so cute, and then any more.

00:29:14
Speaker 4: Gifts from mom come in your way.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: She has some sort I'm sure.

00:29:20
Speaker 7: I'm sure too, like always comes to gifts and they're always a mix of amazing and embarrassing.

00:29:28
Speaker 5: I love it. It's entertainment. I look forward to whatever.

00:29:34
Speaker 8: I can't wait to hear what the engagement gift is.

00:29:39
Speaker 5: That was that was great, that's great.

00:29:42
Speaker 1: Uh yes, okay, we're gonna get we want to get more into your engagement and just how's life now. But we're going to end this part of the episode right here, so hopefully you guys come back and tune in because we will release second part on Thursday. Thank you for listening, and bye bye

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Speaker 7: M