The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Almost Famous OG: Bachelorette NO MORE with Jillian Harris PART TWO

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter are hanging out with season 5 Bachelorette Jillian Harris! We get a full preview of her upcoming wedding that's been 8 years in the making! Jillian opens up about how much she enjoyed being single, but ultimately found someone she wanted to share her life with, which completely rewrote her rules on relationships. Plus, Jillian tells us why she and her fiancé co-wrote a children's book, and how her Jilly Box business became bigger than she could have ever dreamed!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So let's dive back in. Okay, so tell us about the wedding. You're getting married this year and it's going to be in Europe. We know you just had your Bachelorette party, beautiful pictures from that. Tell us about it or at least what you want to tell. Okay. It's actually not in Europe anymore. Oh, it's not in Europe anymore.

I know. I told people magazine it was in Europe because I really thought it was going to be. But we actually had booked everything in Italy. I was, we've literally planned the wedding four times. and we decided that we were going to do it in this summer because we love Italy and I really struggled with a guest list and I was like this is great

we'll do it in Italy, keep it small but my mom's health has not been great over the years my mom really struggles with bipolar she's been really, really good for the last year and a half or so so like thank the Lord but if she were ever to relapse then she wouldn't be able to come and then my dad wouldn't come

and I just could not risk that So last minute, I canceled that wedding again for like the third or fourth time. And now our wedding is here in Colonna. And actually, believe it or not, I was also convinced to make it, it's like a five-day wedding. So we're actually getting married at a church first, which if you see news reports of a church going down in flames on August 21st, it will be because of me. Oh, my gosh. Lots of candles.

No, you guys, okay, for anybody that knows me, you will be shocked. I spent the entire weekend going through and picking all of my prayers, picking all of my like read. I have like, I want to customize it. So like, no, I'm taking this very seriously. So we're getting married at on a, at our church. And it was the same church that Justin's parents got married at. So that's really beautiful.

And it's the same church of the kids. Our kids go to a Catholic school. This is a whole other thing. But it's the same church that they. go-to for their mass every Thursday. So anyways, that's happening. And then we're having a big Italian-themed rehearsal dinner here at the house afterwards.

I'm very excited about that just aesthetically. It's going to be really, really fun and not like everybody expects Julian Harris to have whites and pinks and whatnot. It's going to be like, like so much color, like your background, like so, so much color. Oh, love. And then. Love color. Yeah.

And then on the weekend, we're. getting married at our farm and it's just like it's a flower there's flowers everywhere lots of color bride space get to wear whatever they want um bouncy castle for the kids i don't know all the good stuff that's so awesome you deserve it jillian i'm so excited i'm excited thank you you and just have always been such a wonderful couple oh thank you so you waited this long and you're going to have two weddings not just one too And then we're having a party the next day. We're going to have a Ukrainian-themed party because I'm Ukrainian.

And it's going to be on our dock. And I hired this lady. She's a Ukrainian refugee. She came over right during the war. And she has this company. And she makes parogis in the mall. Like, you know, when you go to the mall and they make like cinnamon buns in front of you and you can have it's like this, but parogis.

So anyway, so we're doing like a big parogi bar and Caesars and everything like that. So, yeah, it's like a, it's a full-on, freaking, yeah. It's so awesome. I love it. You're getting all those security deposits back from all those years. Right. I don't know. I don't even, none of those vendors are even still in business.

Oh, my gosh. Really? Yeah. We had to start from scratch, but that's okay. Whatever. Yeah. You could have done it on your own even. I don't put that past you.

You could have done it on your own. But yeah, it's amazing. I cannot wait to see pictures and video and all. the things. Yes. How are the kids feeling about a big wedding or two? They're excited. I don't think they have any idea what's going on.

But Annie's got a car. Her dress is the exact replica of mine, but baby blue. Oh, I love it. Yeah, so she's super excited about that. There's a woman in town. So the dress is all like locally made, Canadian owned, all that kind of stuff. and leos they've all got like several outfit changes and whatnot but there's a lot of kids like there's going to be i think like 40 kids at the wedding that's awesome it's going to be a bit chaotic

i'm a bit concerned like we have dedicated babysitters and all that kind of stuff but yeah it's going to be it's going to be crazy that is so unbelievable yeah wait so can i ask so have the kids ever been like do they even know that you weren't married legally oh yeah okay barely calls me mom she calls me jillian harris she does and everything around our house has like jilly box jillie like the jillia or like if we meet somebody she'll be like oh is that from the jillie are they from the jillie box or is that like our kids are really into our business like oh my gosh oh yeah and they're yeah they want to they really want me to change my last name which i said i would but not my stage name right you got to stage name functional yeah that's why canyon is

Canyon. She kept Canyon. That was her maiden name. I just call her Canyon. It's like she's Canyon Guinea to everybody. Yeah. I love that. But yeah, they know that we're not married. It's, it's discussed. It is discussed. So I need to tell you this, Jillian, because what you just said made me laugh so hard. My son, Grayson, who's six, his, he will be, and Trista's heard me tell this story a million times, but it happens. This kind of thing happens all the time. Like people will come over and he'll go, oh, is that one of your old girlfriends? And I'm like, what? No, that's your mom's friend.

Oh, sorry, Bachelor Bob. And literally, he'll say, we'll be a McDonald's at the Playland, and I'll order them like milkshakes and French fries. And a 14-year-old girl will be delivering the, and he'll go, yep, that's him. He'll yell you off on the Playland. Yeah, he'll take a picture with you. Oh, my God. That's awesome.

Go ahead, Bachelor, Bob. Take a picture with him. I'm like, she's 14, bro. she doesn't know why is you stop you stop you know it drives me crazy you know but it's like he does that all the time we need to get them together they need to hang out yeah no absolutely yeah the kids definitely um have no problem razz in me and us and they're like annie will be like oh actually and here is i'm the boss of everyone that's what you're like okay honey thank you That's right.

If you were a normal employee, you wouldn't get paid today, but I'm going to let you have the day. And there's seven and nine. Yeah, so Leo's turning nine August 5th and Annie then at the end of September. Oh, my God. I just feel like Grayson and Annie, Grace and Annie might be the same person. Yeah. Honestly. And if we do, we should do a bachelor reunion with everybody.

Kids welcome. And you can have a bouncy, and you can have a stouncy. castles, water slides. We could do challenges for the kids. Like we could be so wholesome, so much fun. That would be awesome. Do like a little basher pad. Max and Blake'sley can babysit. Max is turning 18 on Saturday. Oh my God. Wow. That's unbelievable, Trista. That's crazy. That's drinking age in Canada. Oh, gosh. Well, hopefully, well, good thing he's not in Canada. No, I'm just kidding. He, he, I don't think he's really interested in it you know i'm his mom so he probably hides yeah i don't know that he is he's really interested in like working out and taking care of his body so hopefully he's not

takes after his parents yeah yeah he does i don't know about me but thank you um meanwhile the guinea boys are doing yager bombs and beer churning it's got to be balanced all about balance that's right healthy balance that's so funny um okay i do have one question related to the wedding um i feel like in society there is definitely this like pressure to do things in a certain order in a certain way and before maybe you're 40 years old how do you feel about that societal pressure obviously it's not something that you worry too much about because you know you're you're doing things your own way which i think so many kudos to you but how how has that impacted the decision to wait and how do you feel about that society?

normal. Well, I always joke that you're going to have to, like, take me down to the aisle and depends. Like, I've waited for him. But, yeah, I mean, at this rate, I feel like Justin and I are kind of already married. Yeah. Like, to be honest, like, it's not that I didn't want to marry him. I love him. We're together. We're good partners. But I'm a little European that way that I also, because I'm an only child, I, I'm so independent. I was like, oh, I don't know if I want to, like, I like being my own person. Like, you know, read the things that they tell you in this book here. It's like, says, like, you become one flesh. And I'm like, I don't. Not sure how I feel about that. I literally, okay, I'm not, I'm not even kidding you.

There's one excerpt. I got to bring this up. And it says literally, Lord is blessed. with the silent wife or something like this and I sent it to our wedding party. I'm like, do you guys see what I'm having to deal with right now? I don't really care about my age. I think when I started to care about my age is when I couldn't find that person. I started to discuss that it wasn't going to happen for me. And I just, even though being a parent and being in a relationship is the hardest thing in the whole world, it is so hard, I'm so happy that I'm in it. But at one point, right before I met Justin, I was really loving my, like, life. And I was like, I could actually get used to this.

Like, I was traveling all over the world. I dated whoever I wanted. I did whatever I wanted. I was fit. Like, I was like, you know what? I may not want to do this, like relationship kid thing. But having kids was so important to me. And so, yeah, I think I was really, really stressed about the timeline of things around the time

I met Justin, like I was wondering, like, I'm going to be 34, I think it was, so 32 or 34. And everybody was on their second marriages for Pete's sakes. Yeah. So, but now where I'm at right now, I just don't feel like I'm 45. Like, I don't feel that I'm old. I feel like, you're not. I feel. Well, 45 is not old.

I'm like, at least compared to us. I don't know. At least compared to me. I'm the old one. Trista, I only think she's even 50 yet. She keeps saying that she had her birthday. Stop it. I'm 52.

I like that. We are gorgeous for our age. You two are a couple of stars. No, Bob, you too. We're all like me. No, you too. No, I don't care. And also, like, I believe that people can get married, remarried.

They can go on to have five marriages. I think you can have a marriage. You can have babies on your own. You can get married. Like, I think. that there's no rules, I think it's the rules that get us into trouble mentally. I think that ultimately you need to be happy and do what makes you happy and sets you free. And that is so important. I think you still have to work in a relationship. I think there are still challenges

in a relationship. But life just doesn't always, who made up the rules that it had to go that way anyways. Right. Right. Yeah. Right. I think it was this. I think it might have been this. I think it might been this guy. Was it dude he wrote that? I think so maybe. I think so maybe. I just don't think it has to be that way. And our father,

Father Maurice, I've had quite a few conversations with him and he gets a kick out of me because we have to do this course, right? And then you have to do reflections in the course. And I'm like, how did you feel? I'm like, dude, I've been doing this for 13 years. Like they asked like, who's going to take care of the children?

Who's going to take out the trash? I'm like, Justin and I have already thought about this extensively. for the last 13 years, which is why after 13 years, we are now getting married because we've actually worked all this stuff out. Right, yeah, we got there. We got, we're good. We're good now.

I love it. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.

He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them.

I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend, really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, it's Daniel Fischel. Writer Strong.

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For more judgment-free money advice, listen to Brown Ambition on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I love seeing videos of Justin, like, you know, back there, like surfing with the kids on the water and doing all the fun stuff. And he's such a great athlete, man. he still do all that cool stuff, all the all the sponsored stuff he used to do? Well he so he his main job is still Instagram and he is has a pretty good going at that he's very lucrative um with with his partnerships and whatnot which is awesome and he loves it so his main things are like golf uh the farm anything to the yard travel and then the kids and he actually like quite a bit of stuff in the kitchen and whatnot in some fashion um so like don't

like totally lifestyle like dad dad lifestyle sure yeah but what keeps them mostly busy is our farm our farm is like a full-time job so we have 11 acres and right now it's a flower farm but we ordered 500 oak trees and when those go in next spring we'll be we'll have a truffle farm wow and then we i think are going to rent out our property for weddings but yes that we have kind of shocked you haven't done that already with the weddings well because we are fire here so our farm oh that's right I forgot about that yeah yeah the farm burnt down the barn burnt down and then it's taken us a long time to like rebuild and replant and all that kind of stuff so yeah yeah but because are you in l.A. Bob or no no I'm I'm in Michigan

so I moved back home to any trade area no no we got lucky from that perspective but yeah there's But we've often talked about, like, Canyon's dream is to have a farm and make it like a wedding farm. Because there was a couple in Seattle that we loved when we lived there. Yeah, yeah. So the farm keeps him super busy. It's a, it's a money taker from us, not really a money maker. But he loves his Instagram. He does these like sandwich reviews and like he just loves being on there.

So that's his thing. But sports wise, right at the beginning of COVID, we went to the island. island and he was showing teaching leo had a skateboard and he shattered his ankle and because it was covid they did a shitty job putting it back together yeah reoperated on twice and he has like chronic chronic pain like to the point that it's i can see that it's it's really affecting his his space as a person like yeah he's in such chronic pain and he's like he's all about like no gmos no Advil, no pills, no, like, no medicine. And so, like, he just, he just lives with this pain. But in November 4th, he's getting a full ankle replacement.

My brother-in-law just got that. What? Yeah, you'll have to reach out to Justin and let him know because he's nervous. I will. Yeah. You know what? I'll connect them and they can talk about it because my brother-in-law, J-D just did one and he's getting ready to do the other one next year. Why did he have to get his ankles replaced? Well, he, so he just had this kind of weird degenerative bone condition that started coming on. But he played sports in college and stuff and had blown out his ankle like 20 times. And then all of a sudden it became a thing where like we'd be playing golf and we'd look,

I'd look over at him. And it was like he had like a weird appendage where his foot should be. I'm like, what is going on with you? He couldn't climb out of bonkers. Like shooting pains. Like shoot. Yes. Like sometimes Justin will get out of bed and he's literally limping like he's been shot.

Like until his ankle gets warmed up. It's so sad. yeah that's that's what my brother-in-law went through too i broke my ankle during covid do you remember when we did that like the roses like we passed the roses and did that little video um and i was in a boot during then and had my ankle um worked on and i have this i don't i wouldn't call it chronic pain but you're right like when i get out of bed i i have to limp to the bathroom in the mornings um and it is and i still don't have feeling My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious.

Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate.

Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. It's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello, it's Daniel Official.

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This was Justin's idea. And how it actually started was we wanted to write a book. I think there should be a movie about Nacho. But anyways, we wanted to write a book about Nacho from like Rags to Riches, how he like came from Mexico and he just about died. And then he like, do you know that Nacho had his own like billboard in Times Square? where he was featured on the Ellen show. Like this dog went viral on Instagram all the time.

And so we wanted to write a book about him. But for some reason, our publishers didn't like that idea. I don't know why, but we're going to continue to hit them up for it. So then they were like, well, we do want to do a children's book with you though,

but not that. And I'm like, well, that was our idea. Like, I don't know. Right. So then Justin and I chatted and we're like,

you know, what would be interesting is like people look at our life. And like, yes, you know, we, I still acknowledge the amount of privilege that we have in our life. We're both mostly able-bodied. We live in such a safe place. Like, there are so many great, great things that we have to be grateful for. But even if you took somebody else, like exactly like us, people look at us and they're like, oh, they're so perfect. Their Instagram life and all this stuff.

But behind the scenes, it's show. Like on Friday, I just about called off the whole wedding because Justin put us, dirty tuna dish in with my clean dishes at six in the morning. We're trying to get, we're leaving this condo that we rented and I'm trying to leave it in decent shape. It's six in the morning. I'm trying to get out of there. I have wedding meetings back in Colonna.

I have like an hour and a half drive. There's a clearly a dirty side and a clean side. And he puts this fucking dirty tuna dish. So all I said was, all I said was, all I said was, okay. And I took the dirty tunters and he goes, you don't have to be so rude. And I'm like, I'm not being rude. but it's just don't put your dirty tune in or something. He's like, oh, well, you don't have to be accountable for anything.

I'm like, you're the one that's the working, don't it, I'm like, anyways. So then, then at this point, at this point, like, I'm talking like, like, fist, like, not fist, like, not physical, but we're like jab and this, jab and that. Leo comes downstairs. He's like, are you guys breaking up. I'm like, yes, we are. We're done. We're breaking up.

Justin's like, no, we're not breaking up. Jillian, you're going to scar this poor kid. Like, it's like, hey, no, we're not breaking up. I want to. But anyways, behind the scenes, like, it's chaotic. We just got a new kitty, got a new puppy. I'm the worst driver ever. Like, all of our seats, all of our bushes are all trash because I run over everything.

And so, like, our days are just absolute chaotic. And it isn't until bedtime that we're all like, oh, holy. Right, okay, let's do this. And every fucking day is the same. And so I just wanted to write a book Kind of about that for kids It's okay if it's a show Like as long as you have each other

Everything is going to be okay And so there's going to be a series Now we're working on just another perfect Christmas And then it'll be just another perfect vacation But this one is just like everyday life Like just another perfect day And just how like the day starts off perfect But then how it just like spirals out of control

I love it So I love it And I need I need that book because I'm listening right now to a show downstairs. Yeah, I love it. By your grace and just screaming, I'm like, what is going on at that? Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh.

That is so cute. Such a good idea. You know, I always wanted to write a children's book. And my literary agent was like, okay, what's your idea? I'm like, I don't have one. Like, tell me an idea. And then I'll write it. But I don't know.

That's a perfect idea. I wonder if you could write something about like, finding love or about the show, but that's good for kids. Yeah. I mean, for sure we could. That's chat GPT. Chat GPT will do some ideas. That's so true. Oh my gosh. Like chat GPT. So Max is obviously 18. He's going to be applying to colleges real soon. They open up like August 1st, which stresses me out to no end. But I literally put in chat, GBT. This is my son. This is who he is. This is his personality. This is his family life, blah, blah, blah. give me 10 college essay topics that he can write about. And it was like, I'm like, okay,

people pay tens of thousands of dollars for this. And literally, it was like, that's crazy. It is, you know, some of it scares me. But at first it really scared me. But then I was like, this is actually like for so long, I feel like we were doing things the hard way, so hard. And the way the world has gone with how hard families have to work in order to maintain their life, like at the cost of living and everything, make it easy for some of us. Make it easy for some of us. I'm good.

Yeah. Easy for somebody. Somebody helps each other out. Like, I think this could be maybe, yeah, take a little break. Yeah. I'm like you, Jillian. Like, I don't like, I don't like that Alexa listens in and I don't like Siri knowing

what's up. And Canyon, and Canyon, it'll be like, I was talking about how much I wanted a new pair of boots. And Siri said, these are the four, that my phone just recently popped up and told me these four boots are for sale. I'm like, What is going on? So is Siri going to pay for those boots?

No, I have no problem. It used to bug me. It used to bug me. But if somebody on the internet could be listening to everything I say and they can make my life easier because of it, listen. Like help me with my relationship, my kids, my puppy training, pee training. I don't know. My incontinence.

Like, I don't know. Give me. Why do I pee when I fart? Like, help me. Why is the time? oh my god that's so funny we got to do this more often jillian harris i mean for real um but before we go if if justin comes in awesome but i want you to tell everybody about the jillie box oh yes okay so um before in right like in 2016 when i first started on instagram um like a lot of other

influencers i would get sent all these all this gifting right from all different people and when i shared it my socials, let's say I got sent something from like Eve Saint Laurent or something. And I shared, like I got some new lipstick or perfume or whatever. You know, people are like, oh, cool, Jill's really lucky, like whatever. But like you think Eve Saint Laurent really gives a shit. I shouldn't use them as an example because they still send me stuff and I really like them. But anyways, but when I would get stuff gifted from small brands, women own brands, Canadian own brands, brands that have, you know, historically been marginalized. And I would share, they would lose their shit. They would be like, you change my life. And that feeling was so

addictive, like to know that I could help other families and I can help other small businesses. I just love that so much. So that became something that I really love to do. But I couldn't monetize on that. And not to say you have to monetize on everything, but my platform is worth something and my time is worth something. And if I kept on doing that, I would just be like a billboard. So I was like, and a lot of these brands wanted to collaborate. They wanted me to do my own custom products. So I was like, what if we picked a handful of small brands and I either picked their favorite product or we designed an exclusive product and we curated a box and the box was a surprise

and we sold that to the customer? Well, what happened was we were like so excited about this project. We actually like leaked the whole idea. We shared the whole idea. We like brought our customer along that we. when the box launched, we had 5,000 boxes to sell, but we had a wait list of over 100,000 people, everything crashed, people waited online to get a box for like 12 hours, like people were crying, people finding my phone number, calling me like trying to give me money, like thousands of

dollars to get this box. I'm like, what the fuck? Like, I actually didn't realize like how good of an idea this was. So that was five years ago. We're well on to our, over our fifth year. Now we sell 20,000 boxes in one day. We do this. We do this four times a year. And we completely sell it in one day. And we have like donated well over a million dollars like back into the community. Oh, Jillian. That's awesome. And we try to partner with mostly small brands, women own brands like brands that like have a good give back component, be corporate certified, that kind of stuff. So that's kind of the thing. And now we're just expanding our marketplace. so that some of these brands can't do 20,000 units.

It's just too many units for a small brand. We're bringing their product into our marketplace. So people who want to shop with values, if they want to support a small brand or if they, like you can actually shop by your values. If you want like indigenous owned or black owned or vegan, you can actually shop by values. And so we're going to expand.

That's our big goal this year is to expand the marketplace. So that's my big baby. I'm super passionate about it because I don't get to just succeed. other people in my circle get to succeed. And, you know, right now with Amazon and Sheean and T-moon all that, like a lot of these small businesses are really, really hanging on

and by a thread. And these businesses are the backbone of our economy. They're the back. They're the ones donating to the hockey teams. They're the ones that are paying the taxes to clean up the streets. Like, it's so important to support these small businesses. So that's my baby. And that's

mostly what I do. But then I do Instagram stuff too. Yeah. Love it. I love it. I love that your passion turned into this thing that's actually helping so many people, too. I love it. It's so funny. That's awesome. Like curating the boxes and designing the items and the photo shoots and like, oh, it's so, so much fun. I love it. So fun. We love you, Jilly. We do. We love you. Me and my multiple personalities. I love you guys.

And you guys love, I don't even know what I'm saying. No, it is great, though. Isn't it nice? when we get to connect like this. And that's what's so great about the almost famous OG podcast. We bring back superstars like Jillian Harris. And you guys get to see that she's just as beautiful and lovely as you thought she would be. Right, Trista? So much for having me. Oh, my gosh.

Thank you so much for coming on, especially leading up to your wedding. I am so happy for you guys. And not that you needed the wedding to make me happy for you guys and make the rest of the world happy for you. I'm happy for us too. It's about, it's going to be. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you're going to have a great time.

Okay. Well, tell Justin we're sad. We didn't get to say hi, but it's all good. We're both putting up fires today, but we're good. He says hi and you guys can connect over Instagram. Yeah, let me know. If you, if you can, if I think if you still have my number, send me his number and I'll connect him with my brother-in-law for the ankle talk.

I will. Sounds good. Do that. All right. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Love you both. Love you, love you, my, ma-law, ma-bye.

Bye, guys. Thank you so much. That was amazing. That was great. Gosh, she's so dang funny. I mean, honestly, God. I know. So funny.

So. And she's going to put our editors to work. They're going to have a tough time with this one. There's some salty in there, which I love. Oh, gosh. No kidding. So true. I was like all the F bombs and the, yeah.

I love it. Yeah. Well, as always, so great seeing you, Trista. Awesome talking. Jillian Harris, one of my favorite people from the franchise. And like you said, definitely someone that we should all look up to. And, I mean, the fact that she's doing that jilly box and has taken care of so many people. I love it.

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