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The podcast, if you didn't get love right, the first time, that's okay, because we're here to help you get it right the next time around. I am one of your celebrity mentors, Bob Guinea, and, you know me from The Bachelor, of course, and my podcast I co-host with Trista Sutter, Neyren, almost famous OGs, the favorite one on your dial, Find it everywhere you can find a podcast. And today I am joined by Returncast that I know, I love, and I know you know, and you love from the Golden Bachelorette. And this season now of Bachelor in Paradise, which we're going to talk about today, my man, Gary Levingston. Gary! Hey, what's going on, Bob? One of my fastest friends from this whole franchise. You know that? Great to see you too. Really? Oh, I love it. I'm humbled. I'm honored. Thank you. You're very welcome, buddy. Such kind words. Now, you know, I think the first time we got to hang out was in, uh, at the golf tournament. Yes. And, um, Pubble Beach. And, uh, man, we just hit it off right away. You were so much fun. Such an easy guy to talk to. I also loved how you sort of wrangled all the goldens, right? The mansion men. You were, uh, you were kind of, uh, the voice of reason for a lot of those guys, I think. Uh, a nice sounding board, like you all get along so great.

It really does remind me,

and I told Joan this as well, of course, a beautiful Joan, The Bachelorette, but I told the Golden Bachelorette, I told her that it reminded me so much of Trista's season. So you know, Trista, I feel like really set the bar so high for this whole franchise and how she did it was encouraging us to be friends.

Like the guys were friends.

And granted, that was a lot of us behind the scenes too.

Like, I just refuse, I can't not be friends with everyone. It breaks my, I can't do it. And so I remember being on the show and thinking, you know, well, there's, I'm not competing with these guys. Like, she's going to like who she likes. These guys are going to be my buddies. And to this day,

you know, I'm still great friends with Ryan, of course, with Charlie Maher, who was the runner up for Trista's season. All the final four guys were all good buddies, you know, but I was actually number five or six on that show. Jamie Blythe, who we've had on the show. I mean, just so many guys. and I feel like you guys kind of had that same type of season.

Your crew still gets together.

I mean, it's night.

Was that? Blythe, who we've had on the show. I mean, just so many guys. And I feel like you guys kind of had that same type of season. Your crew still gets together. I mean, it's not, was that a conscious

decision or is this just happen with age? It just, I think, I don't know if it's age or whatever.

I think it was just a combination of things where we all just felt safe with each other

because we were isolated.

Right.

But it took us back to a day and time

when we were growing up,

when we didn't have technology.

Right, yeah, because you can't have your phones.

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