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I'm your host, Ben Higgins, and I'm excited today because I've been anticipating this conversation for a while now.

To recap, I sit Mercedes on a blind date to Jingle Ball, and I had my trusted spies,

Kathy and Deanna, keeping an eye on her. But today, I'm finally going to get to hear all about how the

date went from the other side. Please welcome back to the pod, Bryce. Or not bad. This is your first time here. We've talked about you though. Again, if you

haven't listened listeners to the episodes leading up to this date, you got to go back and

listen to those. It's incredible. But Bryce, to kick things off, you were highly recommended

from some mutual friends of mine. I personally think Mercedes is

incredible. And so I was very excited to find her somebody that if anything else was a good time,

a good date. And you definitely fell into that category. The night started, I was

getting pictures and getting some text. The night started, you guys basically wore the same

outfit. Yeah, yeah, both had like a silk dress on and a silk shirt on, all black. I think

we kind of matched up there pretty well, which is good. We both had like heels on too. These boots with like these like four inch heels on. I didn't know how tall she was. So I was like, let me just like show up like six, five and just be cool. You know? Yeah, it was fun. We look good together, I think. You look good together, at least from the pictures I got. You also, I was

excited for this date because Mercedes is originally from Iowa. I'm from Indiana, so I love the Midwest,

and you're from Kansas. And I think there's something uniquely different. I would say good,

but I'm biased, about a midwesterner. And so those things usually, I would always

attribute like kindness, being polite, you know, usually not being too showy to a midwesterner.

And I think that's an attractive, you know, trait to some. Were you excited about it because she was from the Midwest?

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