Ben? Oh my God. This is such a treat. Ben! Like, I can't, you don't understand. I was such an Uber

fan. I truly think that before the 90 days, this past season, was one of the best seasons.

I mean, you just couldn't even predict what was going to happen next episode.

Right. It really was. And I think my own story, I think, was probably one of the least

popular, honestly. But at the same time, I did keep people guessing.

Well, okay, how did you feel about that, by the way? I mean, I was saying to you before we

started, I wish people to you before we started,

I wish people would first and foremost give you guys so much credit because you are opening up your lives, even though we really only see a third of who you really are, right? I mean,

the other two thirds we really don't get to see because it's edited for time sake. It's edited

for obviously the juicy stuff. But how did you feel about that?

Because your storyline wasn't very popular. And you were portrayed as a guy who was just, you know,

going after mahogany and going after mahogany and like, you know, people didn't like it.

So what was your take?

So I thought very naively that it was going to be the most beautiful love story that 90 days had ever seen.

Because it was such an uphill battle every step of the way from the language barrier to 4,000 miles away,

to me actually never video chatting with her.

And I knew for a fact that we were going to

overcome all those obstacles in front of America and people would just be like, wow, that's what

love is all about. That's how naive I was. Okay, wait. And I got to think back to some of the first

episodes, but had you ever done any reality show prior to this one? Or was this

your first time really on TV? Okay. So this is my very first time. However, and this is what gets

really confusing. And this is where all of the skepticism came in. So I gave an interview saying that

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