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This is famously available.

Hey, everybody, it's famously available.

I have two famously available ladies co-hosting with me today.

They're amazing.

They're fantastic.

That's why they're famously available and doing this podcast with me.

We're here today because they were some of the spies during Mercedes and Bryce's date at Jingleball.

Now, I have already talked to Bryce.

I really don't know any behind the scenes of this date. And so today I'm bringing Deanna and Kathy here on to really tell me about the date from their perspective, what they saw, what they know, what went good, what went bad, catch us up. And here's the fun part about this show, I think. We get Mercedes perspective.

We get Bryce's perspective. We also get spies' perspectives. And so somewhere in the middle is going

to be the truth, but everybody's truth counts. So, all right, ladies, let's kick this off. Deanna, I'm going to start with you.

Tell us kind of, I guess, before I kind of talk about what Bryce talked about, I would love to hear your conversations with Bryce and Mercedes before the date started. What were you excited about?

What were you thinking could happen? Kind of that pre-interview that you did that we can all

listen to. Okay. I've actually been really looking forward to this. I joked with Bryce that he

thought he was just going on a date with Mercedes,

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