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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
with her radio. Is that what they do when it's
breaking news? Well, this is an almost famous podcast breaking news.
Was that good? That was so good? That was so good? Alright, guys,
special episode here many episode because Blake Moin's from Tatia

(00:25):
season has been spotted filming for Katie Thurston season of
The Bachelorrette. So a lot of you were speculating, because
of his silence on social media over the past week
or so that perhaps he joined the season. Well, we
here exclusively at the almost Famous podcast, have got the
pictures to prove it. This is us, guys, We did it.

(00:48):
We've confirmed it. Actually crawled underneath the gate, walked through
the resort, grabbed a couple of iPhone photos, and came
back to the studio just to give us this update.
It's very special. Thank you. Actually, yes, yes, okay. So
if you guys are like, who is Blake, Well, Blake

(01:14):
is the guy from Tasia's last Claire season. He was
the one that remember he reached out to Claire in
the off in the off season and um showed concern
about her mom, and he learned up about Alzheimer's and Um,
it was probably Claire's like second in line attraction, you know,

(01:37):
like she kissed him night one. Yeah. Yeah, and then
Blake like continued to actually be like be pretty prominent
of a cast member, getting through to Tasia's I think
top five or top six. Mmmm. Now he's like, you know,
dark hair, had a little spiky, big, old strong guy.

(02:02):
You can look up as pictures. You'll find out who
he is. But Ashley, to cover this whole thing, let's
start at the beginning. So you just covered who Blake is.
I didn't realize that people were even wondering if he
went on the season or not. So you're telling me
that people on on Reddit or whatever, these bear people
talk these days, they're starting to whisper about a week
ago that maybe he went on this season. Yes, and

(02:24):
now we got pictures and we're posting the pictures from
the set of The Bachelorette on our Instagram almost Underscore
Famous podcast on Instagram. That's where we've posted the exclusive
pictures of Blake on set of The Bachelorette. Yeah, so
just a little more background of Blake. He's a wildlife manager.
He's very, very passionate about supporting wildlife organizations he talked

(02:48):
about in a season he volunteers with a bunch of
different endangered species every year. Uh. You know, we did
get to know him. As Ashley just mentioned about his
love life, Tatia said, and if you remember that one
of the big things coming out of this because he
was very declare Claire was into him. But if you
remember Tatia said, uh that he's a very good kisser.

(03:10):
Remember that. I do remember that. I don't know if
you guys remember we did get to know him a
little bit better on our podcast episode. We had him
on the I think the day after he got eliminated.
So you can go back and listen to that desire
to Yeah, hey, Ashu, let's say a break here. When
we come back, let's continue to break down where they're
at in filming, maybe why Blake is there? Is there

(03:31):
anything more behind the scenes? Uh, and then dive into this, uh,
this very interesting topic a little bit more alright, Ashley, Uh,
little context? Where exactly are they in the timeline of

(03:54):
Katie season? So like one of the headlines that I
saw was just Blake the new Heather Martin of the season. Obviously,
Heather came in very late to the season. I think
it was one of the reasons why it was such
a big deal for the women. How many weeks in
are they on filming? What kind of what do you
think this is inappropriate? Do you see this working? What's
your opinion? My opinion is that he's probably actually just

(04:18):
started Night one. So Night one filmed last Monday, So
let me look at the calendar. It was Monday. The
twenty two was Night one. So if he's just been
spotted now, if he's entering late, he's not entering too late,
I'm assuming, okay, so then thee to be an off day.

(04:41):
Then they probably had a road ceremony on. Then if
he's just entering today, okay, he's probably entering um after
who he could be entering after the third row ceremony
because it goes really quick, you guys, Night one obviously
first rose ceremony and then you have like three days

(05:02):
rose ceremony, and then like another three days rose ceremony.
But it's not inappropriate, and I wouldn't say it's inappropriate
if he adds adds himself in now, But why wouldn't
he just go in Night one? I mean, learn the
lessons of the people in the past and go in
night one. Becky Tilly with your season, she didn't have
like that much of a target on her back her
aunt amber because the night and one, you know. Um,

(05:26):
but then with Nick he had a big target. With Heather,
she got a huge target. It just goes over better
if you enter yourself at night one. Yeah, I mean
I think that would be smart. He might have. It's
interesting to see these photos, Like Ashley said, we're going
to post these photos. They're very like secretive right there,
like taken from like it looks like even like a

(05:48):
one of those like guard boosts, kind of looking down
onto the resort. Blake's walking around having no clue at
picture being taken of him. I just want to know
who got these pictures where they stay the resort? Were
they really sneaking over the wall, Like if so, I mean,
good job, kudos to you. So my thought is, I mean,
if I'm to over analyze these photos, yeah, I would

(06:12):
say ahead and do that. That's what we do best.
I would say, this looks like he's going on to
a one on one or he's just entering and there's
a whole bunch of hubbub around him entering light do
you do you think there's like people standing there on
the outside of the resort right now, just waiting for
people to leave. Does that happen? I think these photos

(06:35):
look like they were taken on set from somebody who
works on set. These are not like some came some
reality like some reality Steve type stuff, like how did
the world you get this kind of photos type stuff.
So he also has a mask on in one of
these pictures, which leads me to believe that possibly he's
not out of quarantine yet. That's arrived later than everybody

(06:57):
else because as cast, just like from Ben and I
making appearances over the past two seasons, once you're quarantine
fully as a cast member, you don't have to wear
the mask anymore. Interestingly, the production team always wears a
mask even though they've been cleared. Yeah, huh, it's super interesting.

(07:21):
There's a lot going on here. I don't know how
to I don't know how to consume it all, but
I mean it's definitely intriguing. Um Ashley, before we head
out of here, I do want to hear your opinion
when it comes to somebody coming on the show who's
been on this show before. The common phrase from the
people in the cast is going to be you've already
had your shot, You've already tried it and didn't work.

(07:43):
Give somebody else a shot. What do you think of
that phrase? Do you find this endearing? Do you think
this could work well? Blake just seems to me like
that guy right now, like with the with this move,
it's like kind of came over the top in the
sense that he reached out to Claire in the off season,
and now he may have reached out to Katie in

(08:07):
the off season, and if he didn't, then he's saying like,
oh I felt something. Like he just seems to be
that guy that like maybe feels something for everyone, because
then he also was the guy who once Claire left,
he was like, oh, I'm all in Protasia. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I was like really in declare, But now like that's over,
I'm all Indotasia. Okay, all right, You're just I think

(08:29):
like you just have a thing for all bachelorettes. I'm
not like a huge fan of the cast saying, um,
you know, you've had your shot because like you had
your shot with somebody you're totally incompatible with. So like,
I have no problem with people if they feel a
real inclination to go on the next season, like you
have the end like as mine as we'll use it,
you know, risk all the things for love. Um, you know,

(08:52):
if you as long as you don't go overboard, I
think I think you're fine. And as long as you're
not like directly eliminating somebody else, I think you're fine too.
It's like the end of the day, if the if
the lead had more of a connection with you than
they did with this person, like you weren't gonna win anyway,
you know what I mean, Like he does if he
does in some way eliminate someone, it's like, well that

(09:14):
person wasn't going far anyway. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm I'm
kind of like in favor of maybe that makes me weird.
I get to like if you do it four or
five times, it could get a little awkward, maybe a
little much, but overall, it's like, you know, if you're
out in the real world and you're single and you
want to find somebody, the advice we would give would

(09:35):
be just keep dating, Like just keep trying it, get
out there, put yourself out there, see if it works.
If it doesn't work. Um, you know, if you're on
the show. Obviously you've had a little bit of background
on each lead, and so maybe you're interested. It's hard
not to be interested in a lead. It's kind of
the whole setup for the whole thing. But I'm not
against it. Um. I think at times it's sweet. It's

(09:57):
a huge risk, you know, Like with Becka Tilly, it
was like, hey, I'm glad you give this shot. I
know you've been here before, I know you know what
this is. I know you didn't even love it the
first time, but at least I'm glad you give it
a shot. And uh, I'm hoping this is the same way. Well, actually,
this is a big story. We'll see where it ends.
We'll even see if it's anything right, Like, at this point,

(10:18):
we know he's on set, but we don't know if
he's there just to host a date. We don't know
if he's there to like, you know, do you love
the way that we've gone this far without even making
that a possible Uh? Okay, Well, I can debunk that
theory right now by saying that he wouldn't be off
social media if he wasn't a cast member trying to

(10:41):
vie for Katie's heart, Because we know that you're able
to keep your phone as just guest hosts. Yeah. Actually
there's so many different options here, right, Like some of
this is a guy shows up to a show like
a couple of weeks in and he makes it like
Keather Martin did like eight hours on the show and
like he's gone, Like, you don't know where this goes.
It will be interesting to watch. There's no spoilers even

(11:04):
involved because we're just speculating on everything. But we do
have photos. Go to our Instagram page once again, it's
almost underscore famous podcast to see these photos of Blake
on set for Katie's season. Well, that's been our special
breaking news episode, Ashley. We're gonna still be back right
Monday with the whole episode one thousand percent. And before

(11:26):
we leave, I just have one last question for you, Ben.
How would you how would you see Ben and Katie
together as a couple? Do you see him getting far
on this? Well you just asked how I would see
Ben and Katie together as a couple. I don't see
Ben and Katie working out, but Blake and Katie, Oh
my god. But yeah, so I don't know. You know,

(11:47):
here's the thing about Katie. I feel like they know
more about Blake than I do about Katie. Well, actually,
I feel like we probably know them just about equally
because they both got as far as they did on
There's each other's on the respective seasons, and um, they
both played about equal levels of storyline. Yeah. So I

(12:09):
mean that's my my honest thing, And people might argue
with me about that. I'm actually kind of excited for
the chance. Like I know Michelle, even though she was
there the same amount of time as Katie, she was
just there at the end and Katie was at the beginning. Um,
better than I know Katie. I don't know Katie really
at all. We don't know a lot about her yet,
and so this is all news. So I can't even

(12:29):
say that. All I can say is it seemed like
both Claire and Tasha were into Blake, which makes me
think that, like he's a good catch, and you know,
there's always a shot with a guy good looking who
seems sweet. He's a hopeless romantic. Um I here here's
the funniest part, and I'll leave on this state make
some kind of just like rambling now, I Blake seemed

(12:50):
like the guy that was perfect for Paradise. In my
mind and so like, if this doesn't work, then do
we seem in paradise? And well he literally pulled the
hand around and be on television for like seven months
in a row. Oh my gosh, this is the I
went so gonna paradise too. I think he's great. I
think you'd be great at it. But uh, well, hey,
we'll follow his story along. We'll be back Monday with

(13:12):
a full episode of the Almost Foost podcast. Again, we
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